Please no romancing
Contempt of congress (by missing the deadline, and then not even releasing 1% of the files) is just another wee federal crime. Truly puzzling, with only 1% implicating so many things already and creatures in power & wealth, why they would fight so hard to keep it away from the light.
Fuck yeah!
~ we live on front porches and swing life away ~
Hah, I don’t like to indulge in Schadenfreude, but I can’t help my reaction.
I’m sorry what you had to go through too, I can imagine as it’s very similar to my experience.
And yeah, every documentary I see of people so heavily involved in this super unethical crime, it backfires in one way or another. They have so many things to worry about, so many things that can bite them in the ass. Things fall apart, and their appetite is never fulfilled. I mean look at the richest people, they don’t seem nearly as happy as some of the poorest I know. It’s a meaningless ego life without real connections or authenticity. Oh so many words can be said. I honestly rather suffer than live their vapid life. :)
Suicide trolling is murder.
I’ve survived by dumb luck, many don’t.
I remember my yoga person during one session trying to focus me on important things, saying “So imagine you’d die tomorrow.”
me swooning
“Ok, it’s good not to be afraid of death, but it’s also not good to yearn it.”
It’s wisdom for me. Of course the ideation comes closer at times. But then again, it’s ridiculous through how much shit you can go and then have moments where none of it matters, and how things can change. Personally, the worst moments of my life also played a significant part in making me a better person, having a clearer path, seeing life/reality clearer and with better access to come back to it. And from what I can tell this happens to quite a few people, not to minimize the injustice and suffering.
As I’m currently reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, I literally can’t help myself but post some excerpt. It’s only 105 pages btw.
One professor uses the book in conjunction with an experiment she calls an “e-media fast.” For twenty-four hours, each
student must refrain from electronic media. When she announces the assignment, she told me, 90 percent of the students
shrug, thinking it’s no big deal. But when they realize all the things they must give up for a whole day—cell phone, computer,
Internet, TV, car radio, etc.—“they start to moan and groan.” She tells them they can still read books. She acknowledges it will
be a tough day, though for roughly eight of the twenty-four hours they’ll be asleep. She says if they break the fast—if they
answer the phone, say, or simply have to check e-mail—they must begin from scratch.
“The papers I get back are amazing,” says the professor. “They have titles like ‘The Worst Day of My Life’ or ‘The Best
Experience I Ever Had,’ always extreme. ‘I thought I was going to die,’ they’ll write. ‘I went to turn on the TV but if I did I
realized, my God, I’d have to start all over again.’ Each student has his or her own weakness—for some it’s TV, some the cell
phone, some the Internet or their PDA. But no matter how much they hate abstaining, or how hard it is to hear the phone ring
and not answer it, they take time to do things they haven’t done in years. They actually walk down the street to visit their
friend. They have extended conversations. One wrote, ‘I thought to do things I hadn’t thought to do ever.’ The experience
changes them. Some are so affected that they determine to fast on their own, one day a month. In that course I take them
through the classics—from Plato and Aristotle through today—and years later, when former students write or call to say hello,the thing they remember is the media fast.”
Thank you. Though cinnamon is a lot heavier than xfce oob.
Thanks, useful info!
Looks cool. But it also doesn’t look like it’s very low on resource usage, compared to xfce. Efficient maybe for what it does, but if I think of putting this on a 15-year old low-quality office laptop, I have doubts.
Thank you. Will try :)
Thanks for sharing! However:
It is not clear yet which Xfce release will target a complete Xfce Wayland transition (or if such a transition will happen at all).
Thanks! I don’t remember why I ditched LXQT some years ago, but as an xfce user, I quite liked it generally. Will try again!
FWIW
I stopped reading the first time after this sentence. Which is a shame, because what you write otherwise seems well-balanced and reasonable for what you’re focusing on.
He also claims that the handlers (a term used for spy agent conspiracy theories)
Sorry, this statement seems meaningless, or even misinfo, because the term is used in credible reports.
For illegals, in-person meetings with their KGB handlers were rare, and usually took place in third countries…
According to court documents, Angwang told his handler he wanted to get promoted within the police force so that he could bring “glory to China”.
I’ve been trying to get that to work before posting but failed. I get it now. Thank you! :)
Not everyone watches or remembers that. This is an excellent write-up. Thank you!
For what you’re describing in your edit:
!politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world
and maybe
Just searching across instances for the most general keywords of what you want to post. In this case: “military”, “politic”, “relations” and reading the rules/description of the communities.
Also, I’d say it’s pretty healthy for lemmy to post in communities without much/any activity yet. You’d be one of the first/few to breath life into them to grow.
My math says ~1 Rise Against song per day and we should be able to post their entire discography within this year!
Also haven’t listened to this one in a while. Really digging it!
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He’s a Russian asset and race horse for international tyrants, oligarch and so on.
You’ve heard of climate science being hijacked by Big Oil, etc.
If you have serious money and can’t find your soul, you invest it in judges, politicians, shadow networks, academics, journalists, influencers, papers, even artists to push all those institutions and their effect in your favor. Divide & Conquer, psychotic narratives. etc. to keep people from anything but joining together and doing what’s actually in their interest. Hijack existing conflicts, keep people afraid or blind by pleasure, with algorithms that your bought politicians and judges just let slip.
Things like that. Republicans are just the worse breed. And it’s all reaching a tipping point. I’ve heard an expert say that if 3.5% of the population non-violently protest this shit basically shuts down. Others say it’s gonna get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I guess it’s in the stars.
Here are the main reasons (I think) people do their dirty work.
Useful Idiots
Ideology
Money
Blackmail
“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber