Commet and cinny are already discord-like ui’s for matrix.

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

“Gonna need to see a source from a white country before I’ll believe anything positive about China, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba. If it ain’t white, it ain’t right.”

• Average anglophone media enjoyer

Redditors have no concept of what the democrats are: a controlled opposition party in a one-party capitalist empire.

Both pro-war candidates. Sanders voted to bomb like 8 countries, and AOC has supported israel many times with her votes also, like the iron dome.

Go for a walk (outside) every day. I used to try different posture exercises, running, sprinting interval training, but as you get older, nothing is healthier and easier on your body than just daily walks.

We kinda are walking machines anyway:

Bonus points for mental health if you walk in nature, without any headphones or entertainments.

Also do strength training (you can get hand barbells very cheap if you don’t have a gym close by), starting very light at first, and working up to whatever feels comfortable.

Agree, siwe is probably closer.

mi sona e toki pona, taso tenpo mute la mi toki ala e ni.

i know it, but haven’t spoken it for a long time.

Sewe, lawi

The long term is typically what happens to empires like Rome or Britain: a slow, whiny, unstable decline into obscurity until everyone eventually leaves.

Rome had so many civil wars, imperial overextension, political instability, famines, and an inability to cope with disasters, that by the time it fell, it hollowed out to like < 1% of its peak population.

/end doomposting

Highly recommend everyone read yasha levine’s surveillance valley for a lot of the specifics on this, looking at the internet in particular.

True. I have a decent hand-one for $50, but they can get pretty expensive.

You must buy $1600 iphone to support failing US economy.

Please don’t look at all the alternatives that are 3 years ahead in tech and 1/3rd of the cost.

The smart ones know how to avoid the shit now. I’m not testing that out tho lol.

You can find these old / used / open box pretty cheap now.

I got a 2+ year old model that originally sold for like $1500 USD, for ~200.

The best pourover kits in existence cost like $25 USD max too. There’s no reason to not learn how to do it right.

Streaming subscriptions. I swear the average nowadays seems to be like 4 per person because ppl don’t know how to torrent anymore

Got memory-holed by google, not much we can do about that (apologies for the orwellism)

@Cowbee has a great reading list here that goes over many of these. Any anti-imperialist historical account is going to give you a better view

Here’s a few documentaries about different leaders:

• Fidel - The untold story (Cuban Revolution)
• Malcolm X - Make it Plain
• The Upright Man (Thomas Sankara)
• Grenada - Future coming Towards Us
• Paul Robeson - Here I Stand
• Lenin - old British Documentary
• The Murder of Fred Hampton
• The Revolution will not be televised (Chavez and Venezuela)
• A place called Chiapas (EZLN)
• Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (서울의 평양 시민들)
• The Haircut - A North Korean Adventure

And I keep a study guide here.

lib.reviews seems to be just a five-star rating and a text box. We desperately need an open source review platform, but it needs to be simple, just a like/dislike, a question and answer tips box, ands taggable categories like foursquare had.

I really miss foursquare, and am convinced google and yelp killed it. I could go to any city in the western hemisphere, filter by vegetarian/vegan friendly, and always get incredible recommendations. Google and yelp by comparison are entirely gamed.

At least in western cinema, only sci-fi can get away with anti-imperialism. Star wars (the rebellion = vietnamese communists), lots of Star trek episodes especially in DS9, Dune (the book first, then the film), and pry a lot more I can’t think of right now.