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I humbly request that Mao’s quote “everything under the heaven is in utter chaos, the situation is perfect.” gets added to lemmygrad
I need a “office job simulator” game where all you do is engage in office drama through email chains.
One of the achievements is spending no time at your desk and doing no work for a whole week. Sitting in on meetings that have nothing to do with you is fine.
Per my last email, …
I just want to take a moment to thank those I’ve encountered here and elsewhere who set a good example for taking the time to talk through things in detail, with patience, in spite of knowing it won’t always go well or have a desired outcome. We all have limits on our patience and some of us more than others have stricter limits on our time, but when possible to take that time, it can have benefits and I appreciate the time others have taken with myself and others over the years, and the lesson from that.
Just downloaded Ublock Origin so I could filter out the Reddit search bar. When I procrastinate I type in stuff on Reddit a lot, so I’m happy I could find a solution for this.
Have you used uBlock Origin before?
It’s indispensable to me!
Honestly, I really like extensions for browsers in the modern age.
I hadn’t used it before! It was through asking Deepseek that I found a solution for my problem. And yeah I like extensions as well. They make browsing the web fun again.
Absolutely, it’s a godsend, kinda a life-changer.
I just went to my first union meeting. It was on a thursday morning so there were a lot of retirees. But there were some younger people. I was very nervous since it was my first time and I didn’t know anybody. But eventually I could connect to some people.
Did you like what was discussed? I have no idea of the ideological framework of FNV and I always wondered how radical things are over there.
IWW? Independent union? AFL-CIO union?
FNV. The Dutch federation of unions
I’d like to express how astoundingly great this platform is. Especially if one compares it to Reddit (since that’s where I had heard about this platform).
Like, I was already on board with the whole idea of having federated groups and not be reliant on one massive corporation that, among other things, can treat its users and communities however it deems fit. But also, just the quality of conversations here is on a completely different level.
Just to give an example, after being helped so much with a question I had here, I made the mistake of trying to ask a different question I was curious about over at Reddit.
While here I received truly helpful replies, comments and resources that actually helped me with my question (in addition to giving me food for thought to challenge my own ideas), over there I was belittled for not knowing enough about the very topic I was asking questions about lol.
Y’all are some seriously smart folks and I wanted to appreciate you and this platform for all the precious knowledge you’re willing to share! <3
Yeah, people here have real talent and it shows!
I visited the Royal Palace today since they have opened their greenhouse for the public for a few days. My love for plants transcends my hate for the monarchy so I had to have a look.
It is absolutely obscene the area their palace occupies. Like, you could walk a 5km round through their gardens and still not see half of it. Paired with a ginormous palace. And not a single piece of grass is cut in the wrong way.
The most ironic moment I had there was when I overheard some guy talking about refugees being privileged, while walking around the palace gardens of a literal nepo baby.
We should 100% make this a public ground in the middle of a 2 million people city.
Where was this?
Brussels, Belgium
Did you snag any cuttings?
I would have loved to but it was so busy. At some point there was an actual line to get in the next room. And so much security. Unbelievably grotesque display of wealth, funded by taxpayers of course.
I’m not chauvinistic about The Netherlands at all and I like living in Belgium but I just can’t stop making fun of it lmao white people infighting
The Netherlands is a myth; it has to be fake.
Sometimes I wonder if anybody would tip me for my research. I doubt it, though.
I wonder if you could get it in front of a “true crime” demographic in a more mainstream space. That might be a way to both broaden audience and make it easier to find people who would tip. A potential issue in a place like this is people may be more money poor, even if they’d like to be able to tip (though couldn’t hurt to try anyway).
Currently I don’t have any disposable income, but if I manage to get my shit together this year I probably would contribute a little bit. I find your posts really useful, and I hope they keep coming and are properly archived for future reference.
Someone apparently compiled the addresses of Elbit execs 🤷🏽♂️
My gf needs chemicals for her work so every once in a while a box of chemicals gets delivered to my address and I wonder how long it takes before the alarms go off about a communist getting chemicals delivered.
Where dis?
Paradise
A far right politician in Belgium had a liver failure because of being a gluttonous pig and eventually he got saved by a doctor with a migration backgroup. Can’t make this shit up.
lol gives me the anime Monster vibes where a neurosurgeon works his ass off and goes out of his way to save a child and he ends up being a psychopath murderer.
Remember the post I made a couple of days ago about wanting to leave my party? Well now they want to hold an event about authoritarian leftism
Dont leave yet! Go down swinging! get them to kick you out and make them all look like authoritarians!
Don’t worry, I plan on unleashing a discussion about it, where I will make my stance clear. Apparently there was also a vote at the last national meetings to denounce stalinism and maoism and to allow checking if future resolutions aren’t due to authoritarian influences. A lot of people in the party that I vibe with approved the vote.
I feel like the party has more important things to worry about then Stalin and Mao
I wholeheartely agree. They are near irrelevant but they don’t even want to work together with organisations they deem to be authoritarian.
Left wing parties as soon as their member count goes from one to two:
Also on the topic of “maoism” since 1911 China had been in a constant state of civil war and faced a foreign invasion that seeked the subjegate and exterminate the entire country maybe the “Authoritarianism” in a result of that constant state of terror
