Every wall I’ve seen from you has been very informative. Sometimes additional context is needed for a complex topic/point to make sense and as concise as you may try to be, the question deserves a longer answer. Besides walls of text are a meme at this point and we must stick with tradition!

Confirmed, Cowbee is an AI but with good takes!

Fr though, are you really a leftist if you don’t respond with a wall of text occasionally?

They should invoice the oil and gas industry for everything as a “cost of doing business.” It would be a much better fundraising campaign and better publicity. Shine the light on some of the true culprits.

Seconded on Smart Tube TV. Frankly, it works better than ublock on Firefox most days as YT doesn’t go out of its way to slow it down.

There are good filtering systems you can get to add to your sink or water supply. At most you’re looking at a couple hundred for something that will last years. The water in plastic bottles is not immune to leeching things from the bottles as well, but I guess it’s a matter of weighing which you prefer.

OP, if you don’t already know the cause and commonly have abnormally cold hands/fingers, you may want to look into getting checked for hypothyroidism. It’s a common cause for this and there will be other signs.

I had a similar thing happen with an ex when we were dating as teenagers. She had one of her friends call and leave a voicemail pretending to be a nurse telling me my SO had died as the result of an accident while visiting friends in another town. They left me believing this for days.

These types of people are best to cut from your life and avoid at all costs. This is only the beginning of their torturous acts.

Not to mention the glare from reflecting off an icy/wet road. This would truly be a nice feature.

Nearly half of my workplace is on H1B and it is consistently used as a tool to delay and prevent salary increases and promotion. Some people have worked for us for years at the same rate merely because they are on a work visa.

We need a MF union.

The NIH is doing similar with scientific groups. Essentially, “stop working with this material because the new politician in charge doesn’t like it and this could threaten your funding even though this work was specifically written into the grant.” These decisions are not based upon scientific evidence, but politics.

It could also be taken as “stop reporting that you are working with this material…”

I imagine it would be similar to the authoritarian practice of forcing teenagers to attend school: it really depends upon how it is organized and executed with additional variations in response based upon the individual.

What is this, academia?

For real, it doesn’t take much reading to dispell many of the myths and I frankly think most people wouldn’t be content to stop there. Once you begin reading, you hunger for more.

I appreciate the extra effort you made to use profile pics.

This may help clear up much of where you are butting heads with MLs in your comments.

it’s non-Marxists that paint Marxism as dogmatic and inflexible.

Yeah, it’s such a tired trope that it’s almost become a meme.

Never in my life have I seen someone call Star Wars prophetic before this moment.

Don’t turn it into Harry Potter. SW has seen enough pain as it is.

I would only suspect anti-Stalin leftists of ignorance as I have yet to find an instance where someone talks about Stalin in this way and it isn’t from a place of ignorance. Never seen it from someone who was informed and purposely pushing anti-Stalin Cold War propaganda…except fucking Trots.

Not that ignorance is a good excuse for their actions, but the amount of damage propaganda has done to the history surrounding Stalin is very difficult to break through and shouldn’t be overlooked. If someone didn’t grow up in a Western country, it seems they have a serious advantage in overcoming the challenge of looking at Stalin with a critical eye because they aren’t constantly exposed to an overwhelming amount of trash heaped on his grave. Not only can it be difficult to find information that isn’t Red Scare propaganda on your own, but you’ll be ostracized when trying to speak to anyone about the subject from anything but an anti-comminist perspective. It makes having discussions on the subject difficult and I can’t say I would have ever broken through this without the Internet.

Maybe I’m going too easy on them because overall I agree with you. I also want to give people the benefit of the doubt because I was once where they were and my anti-Soviet, anti-Stalin, and anti-China stances all came from a place of ignorance (and miseducation) that I only overcame once I began looking at the topics with a critical eye and put effort into learning about them from a different (and materialist) perspective.

A friend sent me this. Doesn’t work on most phones now, just older androids I think. It’s meant to teach you not to scan unknown QR codes by causing androids to restart on scanning.

On one hand: work long hours with little to no recognition, put up with the bullshit politics of academia, constantly worrying about job security due to grant-based funding, and all while struggling to make ends meet.

On the other hand: don’t struggle to make ends meet, deal with a lot less bullshit, job security.

I’d ask you how you don’t understand, but you thought someone else bringing up capitalism was unrelated, so it’s obviously a sad waste of my expensive fucks-to-give to try to educate you. Misplaced priorities? Sounds more like you have no clue what you are talking about.