🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

Ever since the municipal elections last month I haven’t been involved with my party, or with organizing or protesting as a whole. I was planning on leaving my party, but thought that it was hard to leave my comrades behind. Although I was not that close with them so it doesn’t matter and will probably leave the party in the coming weeks

I have a feeling that this topic is not going to receive many upvotes. The slice-of-life tone may be a nice break from the other content but it is too plain to impress anybody. I was scrambling to find something intriguing to share today and that was the best that I could find. I think that it would have been better off as bonus material in another topic. Oh well.

Hate when you have a special interest and it’s all stuff you just made up. oh yeah my most cherished thing that keeps me going is socialist realist star wars rewrite that’s completely different from any canon but you have to know the canon somewhat to understand it yeah i mean well. it’s just some bullshit innit. I rely on this to get through my days without dying you know (words dreamed up by the utterly deranged)

I’ve had a discussion with my parents, who are pretty left leaning, but still vote for a bourgeois party, and they told me that they are seeing a certain push to the left in said party. Now, they could be wrong, but this got me thinking of what’s to come.

It could be possible that, as China cements itself as the greatest country in the world (in terms of military, economy, international relations, R&D etc.), their ideology will have an influence on not just the world proletariat, but also on the world petit-bourgeoisie and even bourgeoisie, following that the ruling ideology always ends up being that of the ruling class. As a result, a literal red wave might be coming.

It could just be rambling, but this does put me in a good mood.

Finally swapped my desktop over to Linux! Found out Hyprland dev is shit, so trying to figure out if I want Sway, Niri, or just Plasma. CachyOS is cool but I also feel the pull of Arch… Decisions decisions decisions.

Mainly a gaming PC but I also want to use it for basic productivity, libreoffice and the like + relearning to program, primarily interested in Rust and Clojure based on the buzz I see around them. Not serious dev work, just messing around on the side.

I feel like I’m experiencing nature on a more intense level lately. Whenever I stand on my balcony, everything just feels so real all of a sudden. The sun in my face. The cold tiles at my feet. The wind going through the trees behind our appartment block. It gives me a real sense of belonging. Some days ago I was walking to my gym and it was getting dark and I heard some lone birds still chirping in the trees and I got so emotional and nearly felt like crying.

It could be an imminent mental breakdown because my life has been turned upside down. I quit my job and will soon leave on a several months long hike before I return and migrate back to my own country. But at least the hike will be in nature so maybe I will find some sense of peace lol.

Also, living with anxiety sucks. Sure, I took some really big decisions on the past couple of weeks, but I have a plan. Still there is this ever present voice in my head doubting every single thing I do, saying I’m in some sort of danger all the time. And like I said I have a plan, I have support from people around me and frankly I have the financial safety to do this. Worst case scenario I’ll spend all my money over the course of four months but I doubt it. And even then I will very likely not… die? I don’t even know what I’m afraid of really. It’s not dying. It’s not going broke. It’s… idk? Your brain can work in mysterious ways.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Slight vent post (to be clear ahead of time, not a post about people here - in practice, it seems to be a thing that comes most out of western “free thinker” arrogant types): Some people have a tendency to obsess over phrasing semantics. This in itself does not bother me because I believe some people’s minds process differently than others and for some, precise phrasing means more to them. And in fact, when a person is mature about this, it can be an important correction and a tempered, reasonable discussion that can lead to more precise and thereby helpful use of language. Then on the other side of the coin, you have the person who thinks like this, is generally immature, with western arrogance, and makes it a key part of their identity to thoughtlessly correct everything they see that they think is out of place. These people can be supremely annoying because they don’t even understand the world very well to begin with and then on top of that, not only do they correct obsessively (sometimes inaccurately) over trivial things, they can’t handle it when it’s done to them. It would be one thing if they tended to correct and could take correction, but this type of person is the definition of “can dish it out but can’t take it” and it makes for an extremely annoying person to be around.

It’s sorta like if sealioning was a whole personality.

Can someone explain why LEGO? How did this become the ultimate war propaganda AI Video theme?

Unscheduled GrainEater appreciation comment thread.

I had this thought during the brief nuclear threat moment some time ago and I thought to myself that if nukes really fell I still was expected to work the next day and it made me angry lmao. We are a strange species.

Ive gotten an idea recently related to central planning, with modern computers we could use A.I. (not generative) that is directly handled by workers that helps plan the economy and the allocation of labour, maybe im too crazy tho

An awful lot of people coming out to say the whole Artemis thing is fake. Like hundreds of people on a single Dutch meme account and theyre all serious.