Good news everyone! There’s actually been a massive helium reserve that has been discovered!

I don’t use Xitter so all I can see is the single tweet and it’s just an image, no attribution.

Found an article but it doesn’t link to the source either.

https://zeteo.com/p/poll-harris-democrats-gaza-ceasefire-arms-embargo

Also, I wonder if we should be considering the move to organizing on secure channels instead of in the open in places like here on Lemmy? Like Matrix has end-to-end encryption out of the box and its at least similar to Discord.

https://www.mutualaidhub.org/

It’s an okay place to start, but it really starts by building community locally. If you don’t have enough decent people locally to work with to build a mutual aid group, then… that’s a tougher situation. When you’re stuck in largely Republican areas, it can be quite difficult to find others who want to build such groups, but not impossible.

As a Washington state resident, it seems like sane people are well represented here, by our voting numbers. So if you can get out here, not the worst place to ride out this storm.

More people in Washington should be willing to open their doors for people who need to get away, honestly. I’m really trying to push my extended family to get more active, because there’s going to be a lot of people who need help, a lot.

I think an underrated piece of theory that the right-wing seems to understand and utilize more than the left is Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. They seem to be very good at recuperating our theory and twisting it to their own ends, while we on the left struggle to détourne their words and ideas in a way that promotes leftist thought.

I think media theory in general is a big aspect where the left is losing.

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Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others.

Also, one of the best ways to survive a fight is to escape it. If getting armed isn’t practical, a high-powered flashlight that can temporarily prevent an assailant from seeing you clearly enough to attack and approach is a good move. A group with laser pointers can work, too. Can be quicker and more accurate than pepper spray, but more effective at long range than close.

Get involved in Mutual Aid groups!!

No one is coming to save any of us, the only people who have our back is each other. We have to drop this American individuality bullshit and focus on growing communities that function outside the capitalist/US government paradigm because those institutions are not going to save us: they plan to grind us into paste to make money.

We truly are at the end game, the capitlists don’t see our middle class as valuable internationally anymore, so they want to cut the strings and make us compete with people who get paid dollars a day to solder parts together in a factory. Bezos pushes his employees so hard because he’s part of this mindset, too. They expect our lives to revolve around making them money until the planet is burnt to a cinder.

Figure out what your useful skills are, and add them to the pile. A lot of us here are tech nerds, and we can build out sneakernets and large-scale non-internet-connected-LANs in neighborhoods. Others can offer grow food, others can offer medical care, and so on.

We have to accept that the systems as they exist are failing us, and we can only count on ourselves and each other.

We don’t have to do it alone.

Oh no, I don’t have any grapes.

Ducks > Chickens

Kinda older at this point, but I still love Cadence Weapon’s “Breaking Kayfabe.” In 2009 he was named Edmonton’s Poet Laureate.

Because you like Handsome Boy Modelling School I’d give Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By a spin.

sudo apt-get install intel-media-va-driver-non-free

Video will still be clunky but less clunky.

EDIT: I’m so happy.

An EMPTY locked safe.

As is tradition.

Because Zuckerberg is actually one of the worst billionaires alive, but he doesn’t make (as much of) a spectacle of himself like Musk or Bezos, so people forget and keep using his products.

We don’t have people going “Stop using Facebook/Instagram/Threads! Why are you still using it!?” like we do the people who say the same about Xitter every time it comes up, because Musk is actively out here saying the quiet part out loud so people are more upset about that despite Xitter having less influence, realistically.

If I had any hair I’d be tearing it out because this has been readily apparent this was going to be the plan going forward since January 7th, 2021.

I’m so tired of it being screamed from the rooftops and everyday it feels like the media forgot entirely about all of it.

The endless treadmill, I’m just so tired.

I think a lot of people feel this, and its like this on purpose to make people too exhausted to fight for their rights.

In other news, Nobody ate all the cookies.

1. No.

2. No.

3. No.

Because they hate their customers and want the mouse to become junk you have to replace when the mouse goes dead. It’s a finesse in planned obsolescence, same as the first time.

It’s purposeful. It’s to force you to buy a new one.

A mouse with a normal charging cable placement can still be used by being plugged in when the battery goes dead.

This mouse, with the charging port on the bottom, becomes unusable once its battery goes dead.

No, it’s because Apple hates it’s customers and is happy to bilk them.

That said, they do make some very nice things, but participate in so much anti-consumer nonsense (not that that’s any different from any other major corporation).

Looking at what you quoted, that’s fair and can see how you misread it as such. I am sorry I said that it was purposeful.