It’s cool that you’re making this thread as a way to help people. I feel like any community would be lucky to have you.
Some recent books:
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson Butter by Asako Yuzuki The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
I inherently distrust anything with crypto mixed in
Community with people, whether they’re friends or just acquaintances from hobby groups. Making art. Reading good fiction. A better physical state from exercise, etc.
All of the above. The mental game, especially in martial arts, is a big part of the match. Also it creates buzz and is effective marketing.
Nice design! I kinda feel like dove in lock in shield is a bit much. Maybe try making them the same size and putting them side by side?
I hate these, but acknowledge that the battle is lost
All have a rich culture, all have kind people (though there will be jerks and how you act will matter), all have some level of govt corruption. Plan your trip around things you want to do or see. Festivals, places, etc.
The only ethical investment is in your community organizations. The return will not be monetary.
Seafile is a good option
The point is that it’s marketing for ai companies in general and they can sell them to Hollywood
Life doesn’t come with a meaning, you are free to find one that speaks to you
Yeah. It’s the same playbook everywhere. The only way to hold it back is to refuse to accept it by refusing to allow business as usual to continue, which the French are certainly better than Americans at doing. The lack of investment is also helping the right wing to rise in power.
Faut relançer led manifs
Things happen and we may say someone “deserved” it, but I don’t believe in any supernatural force making it happen. We have no evidence for that
Why do you think her appearance is meant to attract sex partners or to fool ppl about her age?
Read books, do light stretching, journal with pen and paper, meditate, any quiet activity like that without a screen.
yeah, same. I think being tired of capitalist pandering is totally fine.
I am generally skeptical of anyone who considers themself “anti-woke” or who complains about “wokeness” as wanting to have a sincere conversation about these things. I imagine in 99% of cases, it’ll be more likely that they complain about corporate wokeness because they simply don’t want to see representations of happy, successful lgbtqia+ people and people of color in mainstream culture, even if it’s just marketing. Maybe test the waters by making a similar point about the companies that market themselves based on pandering to the right and see how enthusiastically they agree about how bad corporate cooptation of culture is. At least then, you can say “and the same goes for corporations pandering to the left!”
Still, the fact that seeing a bunch of rainbow logos actually bothers these people for reasons other than being sick of capitalist cooptation of liberatory movements would not give me much hope that that line of argument will be meaningful to them.
https://thedigradio.com/archive/ - “politics, history, and economics everywhere” [one of the absolute best analysis podcasts out there, IMO]
https://rustyquill.com/show/the-silt-verses “The Silt Verses is a full-cast audio drama that lurks in the grey area between horror and contemporary fantasy. Carpenter and Faulkner, worshippers of an outlawed god, are travelling up the length of their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations amongst the reeds and the wetlands. In these forgotten rural territories, new and strange gods of have flourished and Carpenter and Faulker must navigate this world of ritual, hidden language, and sacrifice. As they find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, the question remains: just how deep does their faith run?” [So, so well written and so, so amazingly acted]
Holding out for The Dispossessed