Yes please - whenever some out of touch figure or a news page tries to offer condolences or condemn the alleged assassin, it backfires spectacularly no matter what the political leaning of the audience is. It's literally the only thing that unites working class people in Burgerland
Thanks for hosting these, it's pretty cool to see on a smaller platform such as Lemmy.
My list would be Europa Universalis 4, Empire Total War and Euro Truck Simulator 2
You've heard of War on Christmas, now get ready for War for Christmas
Always the ones you least expect
Waking up at the same time every day, no matter if it's a weekend or a weekday and no matter if you stayed up too late and won't be getting full 8 hours of sleep.
As obvious as this might sound, this has really helped me to regulate my sleep schedule, something I've really been struggling with for pretty much my entire life.
It's not so much people being attracted to scarcity, but decades of diamond industry propaganda having an effect on our culture. Even now there's an active effort being put by the diamond industry into keeping natural diamonds the "forever gem" while artificial gems made in a lab are being portrayed as "everyday gems", as in less prestigious.
Adopting leftist music by perverting its meaning is pretty much the M.O. of far-right anthems/songs, no matter what the song was about originally. See: Tomorrow Belongs to Me, Fortunate son (to a milder extent), Born in the U.S.A as some of more well-known English examples.
I wonder if this was an attempt at doing precisely that, or was it just some publicity stunt for the movement.
It's kinda difficult to find cracked Linux-native games, though one site that I do know which has a section for it is Torrminator. Don't really want to get in trouble with the mods so can't post the link, but if you do end up finding the site, then I hope it has whatever games you're looking for.
Recently went back to OSRS after getting recommended a video essay about how Runescape is good that included a rant about capitalism ruining the enjoyment of labor and capitalism. It was funny enough to make me go back
I'm not from US, but rather Eastern Europe, though I do admit that the most news I see is from US due to them being the majority on most popular internet sites.
That being said, I'm not talking just about the US but rather western world as a whole, particularly US, Western Europe and my home country, Lithuania. Unless I slept through some event where oppressive systems there got dismantled this century, what I wrote should, at least from my perspective, still apply to those regions and not just the US.
Don't get me wrong, I fully agree with you and the post. It's what SHOULD be happening - after all, the rich and powerful are not going to let power be voted away from them, which means some kind of direct action is needed.
My issue, however, is that there's just no such action happening in reality and there really hasn't been for decades - there are protests, there are some attempts, but they're nowhere close to being successful enough to make an impact. Hell, the right seems to be doing a better job on that regard for some reason, with events like January 6th being something that the left should have been doing.
With all this in mind, that kind of rhetoric starts sounding more like empty slogans or even LARPing in a way.
To be fair, there hasn't really been a dismantling of oppressive social systems in a long while (major ones anyway), so that's not really that great of a strategy to rely on
Ironically enough, even the "think for themselves, it's all nuanced" option often gets picked up from subscribing to someone else's views, mostly because staying in the middle and considering all options sounds like the 'smart thing to do' even if there's some deliberate ignorance of the facts to retain this position (like with the current Israel Palestine war).
It's a very similar thing to those kids in school who'd hear the quote "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing", then go around and immediately start telling everyone how they know nothing to try and appear very deep and smart.
Besides, there's way less original thought in the world than you think - in order to actually properly research a subject and MAYBE come to a nuanced, informed, open-minded view, you'd have to do a ton of research, know all the history and little quirks, things that most people don't have time or education to do especially for multiple important events going on at the same time.
Anyway sorry, I write too much
Don't fall into doomerism - news companies are companies, and negativity gets people on their platforms for much longer than positivity, it's easy to get addicted to it. Set time limits or limit the amount of news you consume per day/per week.
Recognize that caring about something requires mental energy - if you had 1 friend who asks you to care about their hobby or learn a bit more, then you might agree, but if you have 20 friends with different hobbies asking the same thing, then there's no way you can care about all of them. Similar thing applies to the news, recognize that you can't care about everything and try learning how to stay informed without giving up lots of mental energy stressing about things you can't really influence.
It's admirable wanting to keep up with the news, but it also can be a bit of a trap and does require a degree of skill to not fall into what you describe in your post.
Only 41 percent?
A few weeks ago there was this article posted here about why some game companies are trying so hard to kill their old video games and give 0 shits about preservation (as in delisting them from stores, not selling them anymore, etc.).
One of the answers given by the publishers in the article basically boils down to "old, preserved games would compete with the newer ones and eat into their sales", which does say quite a lot - they don't care about losing sales of older video games, all that matters is the sales of the newer ones, preservation be damned.
Disco Elysium features communism and communists (bad) but also has a couple of homosexuals (a secret cabal of organized people dead-set on destroying the ideals of nuclear family) as characters. I'd suggest you guys avoid the game at all costs, it's too dangerous.
Someone poor gets murdered: You're lucky if they're gonna bother checking a couple of cameras and do some interviews
Someone rich gets murdered: Begin nationwide search for the culprit, look through every single camera in the city to see their tracks, plaster their face all over the media and offer $50,000 of tax payer money to anyone who might have any information
Media on their way to doxx and leak every single detail about a guy who killed some rich heartless exec