3 months of consistent weight training, down! One of my big goals this year was to gain the functional strength necessary for my coming stages of life, and I’m proud of myself for managing to make a serious habit out of it!

Its not a sexual thing, but put on the Maid outfit

idk who to tell this to, so I’ll say it here: I felt a panic attack coming from browsing linkedin and shut the tab before it could escalate

I appreciate this place, even though its online, as a space for people who are sane and and can see through the capitalist bullshit veneer on top of society for what it is

Does anyone else feel communism has sort of saved your sanity? (If you are a liberal lurker screenshotting this to dunk, you’re friends don’t like you and your mother wishes you would call more) But with everyone’s brains being broken by media, Chatgpt, and huffing pure ideology, having a material orientation of looking at the world feels like it kept me from going down a darker path.

Fuck work. Fuck what it does to your psychology. I’m fucking tired. I got home after 11pm last night after delivering ~400 packages. I went to bed within the hour and woke up within an hour of having to leave again. They’re offering ‘voluntary time off’ but it’s still fresh in my memory a couple weeks ago when I had to take time off for injury AND they cut me a bunch such that I was in the red for a month. I 2/3 want to take that time off and just whine internally.

spiritual edit before posting: I took the day off. Literally the first time in almost 2 years I took a day off ‘just because.’

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

You think one bird ever starts to suspect that all the baths and feeders are… built for them somehow, and the other birds are just like “Yeah okay grandpa”

I think I’m running into vibe coded stuff more often now. I keep using apps and sites from fairly large companies where either very basic stuff doesn’t work, or almost nothing works. It seems like the type of stuff AI would get confidently wrong, like all of the checkboxes interaction windows being slightly off from where they’re rendered, or you’d get a 2FA popup with no code sent out and if you just close it it logs in successfully. How did capitalism manage to make enshittification worse?

unironically used burgers as a unit of measurement in a meeting today because my manager couldn’t understand anything else

Natalie Wynn, also known by her online handle “Deathsquadpoints”,,

I remember a struggle session of times long past. I can’t remember what started it, but it ended with people calling for mod elections, and then one of the mods called this idea a “colour revolution manifesto”. It was so funny. People used to take this site way too seriously

This thread prompted me to finally start on Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. It’s looking like the perfect thing to read for me right now, having just completed Camus’ The Rebel. The topic is very similar but they’re starting from different attitudes: Fanon, the colonized; Camus, the French Algerian settler. The disgusting conclusions Camus draws are, I think, inextricably linked to his settler background.

Consider the way Camus develops the concept of rebellion:

What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion. A slave who has taken orders all his life suddenly decides that he cannot obey some new command. What does he mean by saying “no”? He means, for example, that “this has been going on too long,” “up to this point yes, beyond it no,” “you are going too far,” or, again, “there is a limit beyond which you shall not go.” In other words, his no affirms the existence of a borderline.

and later (emphasis mine):

The act of rebellion carries him far beyond the point he had reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he fixed for his antagonist, and now demands to be treated as an equal.

Compare with Fanon (emphasis mine):

To dislocate the colonial world does not mean that once the borders have been eliminated there will be a right of way between the two sectors. To destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist’s sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory. Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of viewpoints. It is not a discourse on the universal, but the impassioned claim by the colonized that their world is fundamentally different.

Fanon considers the colonized rebel and draws a conclusion opposite to Camus. Rebellion, rather than asserting equality according to Camus, instead asserts difference.

Sitting in the emergency vet parking lot cuz my little buddy stopped eating food and started shitting blood

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