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Spent a few hours painting a window black today
The frame or the glass?
neither, window bars
mine are the same, windows having bars is a global south thing.
The "I don’t want a random person to be able to enter through the window"inator
Now paint the actual window black so you can’t see through it
I would also like to know this
Rolling Stones moment
Here in Greece we have raging wildfires for yet another summer, one enormous (30km) fire raging so close to the capital the smoke has enveloped the sky in many parts of the city, and the lib government praises itself over its “quick reaction time”. Very few precautions have been taken since last year, so now fire fighters are risking their lives to contain the crisis, unfortunately without much success.
Yesterday's photo of the smoke from the National Observatory from a webcam
same over here, more fires in Kabylia again
Apparently there is a new version of Mpox spreading in Africa and the WHO is declaring it an international emergency. Fun times ahead maybe.
Got caught in the middle of a thunder storm last night. Never experienced something like that before. Shit was wild, it felt like bombs going off in my street. Lots of fires around in the city as well. Nature can be scary.
Thunder storms are scary at night. Got caught by one during a countryside walk once, and you feel kinda hopeless.
Installed a dating app and got no matches, I know this is a somewhat frequent experience for men but it still feels bad
There’s one I’ve been on for… I’m not sure, could be more than a year, though I was inactive for a while during periods of that. I have a grand total of 4 likes and 3 of them were recently when I was inactive, which seemed like the app was giving me a bit more visibility to draw me back in. (And none of them are people I want to match with.)
Based on the things I’ve heard, the game seems to be that these apps tend to “rank” you early on and then from there, you’re mostly stuck where you are unless you pay to get more visibility. And because rejections are not something you “see” unless you match and then the other person unmatches, you have no way of knowing for sure if your interactions (likes, or on Hinge, messages without being matched) are being seen by anyone or if they are buried in the stack.
I know on Hinge, from the end of receiving attention, there’s a limited number of likes you can see at a time without paying. So presumably that means that if, for example, somebody gets flooded with likes/comments and gets 100 of them, they’d have to go through and match or reject with each one to see all of them if they are a free user. And because some women get flooded with more attention than they have the time to engage with, that effectively means you might never get seen at all.
I know that’s not exactly an encouraging way of looking at it, but considering the mechanisms of it helps remind me that it’s likely not something to do with me and is far more likely I got in a bad spot early with the “ranking” and can’t get out of it without paying. So sometimes I go through it for the hell of it to remove people in my stack, or send out the occasional like/message, but I try not to spend too much time on it when it’s designed to work against me.
I am also certain these apps have hidden systems designed to work against most people.It’s not the first time I give a dating app a try. In my past attempts, I always got a few matches in the first few days, then nothing. I believe the app matched me with people that liked everyone (or at least did so at that time) in order to give an initial ‘high’ that I would attempt to chase by paying.
Oh yeah, on some apps, there definitely seems to be profiles that are liking everybody. I’ve heard it speculated (not sure if confirmed) that they tend to give you a visibility boost when you are a new profile, which is why you can end up with a few likes in the beginning then nothing. Though with Hinge, I found I wouldn’t necessarily get any even when new, possibly because Likes are more limited per day than some apps and it allows you to send a message with a like, so it’s a bit more conscious.
hey it can only get better from here onwards
just try to remember comrade that these apps are literally designed to keep you on the app, not actually find you a good LTR, because if you actually find a LTR you wont make them more money
Starting to get involved in mass orgs locally, doing some applied theory, and it feels good!
Big thanks to everyone here, the Matrix server, and ProleWiki for time, patience, and shared knowledge.
When you actually analyze White Replacement conspiracy theories, it becomes pretty obvious that what white supremacists are really afraid of is being treated like Palestineans: Being taken over by some third party, herded into tiny ghettos and periodically mass murdered under the guise of national defense.
I think they are actually thinking on something worse. They want to dehumanize an ethnicity to justify applying means to stop their reproduction. From things like exile, deportation, chemical sterilization and the like. What they are actually looking for is a “rational” justification to commit genocide.
All brutes and tyrants are kept awake at night at the non-zero percent possibility that the tables will be turned. That’s why they scream communism when they stub their toes. They’re hearing bumps in the night.
https://youtu.be/irlrT3zvsqQ?si=6ocOu8vRd-3BlmNn
Exposing US role in Bangladesh regime change
My 20 year old cat died, I got Covid, and I had to block someone for the first time on Lemmygrad. I hope that means this week can only get better from here…
Get well soon. Sorry to hear about the cat. 20 is insanely old for cats so I hope they had a good and long life.
Thanks, comrade. And yes, the cat was very well taken care of, and went peacefully in his sleep.
What … ???
Sounds rough. But hey you got all of that out of the way at least and also who did you block ?
Don’t want to name names, but it was someone on the Kruschev thread.
Hope y’all have a good week, I’m out here fucking around
Can I also get an animal video 🥺
Omg what a cutie
I hope you have a nice week :D
you too Oppo
I mean Rania
cool anteater
I hope you all have a nice week :D
I hope your week is significantly better than mine is starting out to be. Got Covid after avoiding it all this time. :(
Sniff sniff sniff…hey, uh, got any weed?
Have a nice week Oppo! 😁
You too Oppo :D
⚠️Warning⚠️ I have evidence of you not oppvoting my previous pidgeon video therefore you will not receive a new video this week
Thinking of taking up swimming in order to train my muscles more. Thoughts?
Thoughts: do it. It is a really fun and effective way to train a lot of muscles. Just one hour per sessions, one or two times a week is enough for a good full body workout. When I finish my marathon training (and the marathon itself) in october, I might take up swimming too.
35 degrees Celsius over here today. Thank god we have airconditioning at my work. My partner has it worse in construction.
How is it 10 degrees warmer were you are???
Idk this city traps heat like crazy. Lots of concrete with very little trees, especially outside of the city center. At night the heat won’t go away either so it’s just constant sweating on days like this.
Trees make a huge difference. Even in the same city, when you go from a neighborhood with no trees to one with lots of trees and vegetation you immediately feel a difference of several degrees.
Also it’s cooler near water
Robert Hutchinson, After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals.
How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials
After Nuremberg is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals convicted at the twelve Nuremberg trials of 1946–1949. Because of repeated American grants of clemency and parole, ninety-seven of the 142 Germans convicted at the Nuremberg trials, many of them major offenders, regained their freedom years, sometimes decades, ahead of schedule. High-ranking Nazi plunderers, kidnappers, slave laborers, and mass murderers all walked free by 1958. High Commissioner for Occupied Germany John J. McCloy and his successors articulated a vision of impartial American justice as inspiring and legitimizing their actions, as they concluded that German war criminals were entitled to all the remedies American laws offered to better their conditions and reduce their sentences.
Based on extensive archival research (including newly declassified material), this book explains how American policy makers’ best intentions resulted in a series of decisions from 1949–1958 that produced a self-perpetuating bureaucracy of clemency and parole that “rehabilitated” unrepentant German abettors and perpetrators of theft, slavery, and murder while lending salience to the most reactionary elements in West German political discourse.
Have you seen this, @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml?
I had not heard of that particular work (which I now have thanks to you), nor was I aware of all those details, but I was aware that the Nuremberg trials were half‐assed, especially towards the end. John J. McCloy and to a less extent Leon Jaworski sabotaged the already inadequate trials because the Allied anticommunists considered us to be a far more important threat than the Axis and its surviving personnel.
