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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

WhatsApp getting ads is great news! WhatsApp, and any other meta/facebook/for-profit-social-network will never be a good product. Therefore, the second best alternative is for it to be as bad as possible, so people finally change to worthy alternatives.

What is the alternative here? Don't know, perhaps Signal, though the devs are not welcoming at all. The UI is absolute shit. Looks like UI for old people, huge margins and empty space. My screen fits like 3 chats. A compact theme would take a few hours to create and vastly improve the product, but ya..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I know all about that. Trust me, I hate the guy. His podcast with Zelensky was pathetic. So were his remarks in the podcast episode next to that one.

Having said that: I dont have idols, but if I had, Terence Tao would be one of them. I will listen to the podcast regardless of Lex.

 

Hopefully this is not off-topic. If it is, please remove it.

Terence Tao one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, who normally never does podcasts, recently did a podcast on Lex Fridman's Podcast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Absolutely agree. Maybe send them an e-mail? Though it shoudln't be too hard to convert using Calibre. Hopefully the resulting file is properly formatted. Regardless, they should definitely provide an .epub version. Shoot them an e-mail!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do you deal with that age difference? I have a crush (gym crush) that is around 14 years younger than me. However, I don't approach him and I am quite apprehensive of doing so because of the age difference. We do say "hi" to each other and he does seem somewhat interested in talking to me.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I disagree. "street legal" IS anarchy. Anarchy may not be only street-legal, but it also is. Anarchy is anything whose goal is the abolition of hierarchies. Mutual Aid is anarchy. Is mutual aid not street legal? It is.

I think you have the wrong idea of what Anarchy is. Anarchy needs not be "chaos". Anarchy is cooperation.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46695440

I found this zine interesting and on-topic for Anarchy. These tactics should be in everyone's mind, specially nowadays.

You have several different formats in the link, pdf, doc, etc.

 

I found this zine interesting and on-topic for Anarchy. These tactics should be in everyone's mind, specially nowadays.

You have several different formats in the link, pdf, doc, etc.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

What is her job? Going around the world with seemingly unlimited funds and giving some interviews? Just sounds like a Kardashian with extra steps.

Yes, she did. She provided mutual aid. She might not have saved the entire world, but no one ever does. She helped a few, and that is more than anyone could say about you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There is something very weary in people of "high status" or "power". I have never met them, but just seeing pictures of people like Trump make me so uncomfortable. There is something so weird to them. I am an atheist, but there is this intuition/feeling inside of me telling me that they are some sort of devil or a dangerous person. An all around "fakeness" to them.

I have noticed this with people high in the hierarchy ladder. It could just be because I am an anarchist, I despise hierarchies and I have distrust for authority and therefore, I despise them. But ya, I feel so uncomfortable near them. It is like looking at a fake item that everyone is admiring and I am screaming internally: "Do you not see how fake it is???".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good luck brother! You said "young guy". What is the age difference?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

People seem to be rising up, at least. Finally. Hopefully momentum keeps them going and they start organizing a bit better and being more impactful.. Let's start the revolution.