Yeah, there’s definitely professionals in the mix sometimes though.

Also the constant dedication to downvoting seems like the behaviour of someone who is paid to do it. Otherwise why would you do that, normal people would get bored right? I don’t go and actively seek out online communities I disagree with to downvote their posts. That would be such a pathetic way to spend my time

It could be US government actors. They would only need to have a handful of people on the job doing fedposting and they would be very visible on Lemmy compared to other platforms because of the small userbase

Something I’m aware of but try not to think about

Yes it is. You’re just conditioned to think politics is this inconsequential mental game that has no impact on people’s lives.

Atm big on experimental music, electro acoustic improv, onkyokei (somewhat a historically specific term but just this aesthetic generally). At other times I like various electronic and dance musics, classic jungle, UK garage, breakcore (both classic and sewerslvt core), free jazz, yeah. Fair bit

So Spanish is not white but Italian is. And also Lebanese?? How the designers of these questions think they can get any meaningful data whatsoever from these questions is mind boggling.

I have found it really useful for helping resolve interpersonal conflict, such as with partners or friends or so on. Also I think it would be useful to help with internal conflicts as well. Dialectical behavioural therapy is a type of psychotherapy for example that is supposedly very effective for personality vulnerabilities, although this might not be materialist specifically. I’m not knowledgeable on the topic but it’s quite interesting.

Jesus that’s the slogan?? That sounds extremely fascist.

Is it possible to do the well paid job for a while and grind it out to save some money then switch to the lower paid one after a few years?

I don’t know if you’re just being cheeky but this is not a useful approach at all.

I preordered this physical book on release and was really excited to read it but I could never finish it unfortunately. Got bored somewhere in the middle.

Funnily enough this is actually comforting

Started reading Fanon’s ‘Wretched of the Earth’. So far just reading the preface by Jean Paul Sartre which is already very good, I imagine this was ground breaking and very exciting when it was released, during the time of great optimism in the “third world”, the Bandung conference etc. For fiction I’m reading The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin. I really struggle with fiction generally. I usually find it very hard to pursue fiction for some reason.

Give us your report when you do. I’d be happy to hear an alternative perspective from a comrade

Wechat is good for vegging out. I find it’s far more international than Western social media. I routinely see shorts from all over the world, Central Asia, Europe, Africa, East Asia .

Yeah, what I originally thought was quite a petty decision, after seeing the film I’m glad they block this brainrot garbage. Even if the reason quoted is kinda dumb.

Small daily steps is a good idea but I don’t think learning character by character is a good way to go about it. If it’s fun for you then that’s fine but just know you won’t make much progress understanding the meaning.

This sounds like a rather inefficient way of learning the language.

Would the friendly downvoters like to share their views on what they disagree with?