Yeah between this, abortion rights, and the affirmative action thing... it's gonna be a rough next few years, but in the long term the Republicans are toast. I think what we're experiencing now are their last spasms for power because they know they're on the way out.

Just look up the amount of registered democrats vs. registered republicans in this country. IIRC there's like half again as many democrats.

It's almost like the only reason republicans ever win elections right now is due to is voter suppression.

Who are the scab mods who are coming in? Are they getting paid?

And that is why Waze has to go away. It's giving people info on cops, so that's becoming politically inconvenient for Google.

So you advocate your own posting taking its natural course and dying off? I can think of a way you can hurry up this process.

Yeah I was worried this could become a problem, because I imagine a lot of chuds are turned off of lemmy because of the tankie devs. Which makes sense. But I don't think they should be welcome here, either. I'm trying to get away from that authoritarian shit, not get closer to the even worse kind of authoritarian shit.

I journal and take notes regularly by hand and have written novel-length manuscripts in the last couple of years by hand. I prefer using fountain pens or else my hand cramps up (and using anything else for that amount of writing can get a bit wasteful). I don't know if it's better for my memory, but I prefer it for other reasons.

My process is to write a first draft by hand to minimize digital distractions. I take my notebook and pen somewhere without internet, and leave my laptop and phone behind. Then, I type it up, and this is a sort of "natural" 2nd draft process, as I obviously make smaller or larger edits as I'm re-reading my own work.

My mom still has notebooks from when she was in high school. Digital amnesia means I don't have any of my high school and college homework anymore. I developed this system because realized I was putting a lot of effort into managing digital backups of all of my drafts and shit when simple folders and stacks of paper would do fine. But really, I mostly do it because I have ADHD, and using computers to write longform drafts is difficult because they are highly distracting devices. Typewriters and notebooks that only do one thing make things more straightforward for me. So, I get why most people don't approach things this way in 2023.

I hear you. The best I can do is tell myself that hopefully the Coast Guard personnel and other mariners got some practice/training which will be useful in emergencies in the future. And it's still right to try and save someone, even if they put themselves in the dangerous situation.

people who see drug use as the same whether it be meth or weed.

But they are correct about this part, there is no ethical or moral difference between using amphetamines and using cannabis.

And they don’t see beer the same way usually.

Well, they're incorrect about that part. But I'm not going to change the way I talk just because other people are wrong. Think about it: I'd never stop changing the way I talk.

But we’re having a conversation about perception here.

Absolutely.

I worked as a chemical dependency counselor for years with all types of addicts. To me, alcohol is scarier than all of them. Quitting drugs is never fun or easy, but alcohol withdrawal will kill you straight up. One cannot quit cold turkey. In my opinion, alcohol is the hardest drug yet invented, it just also happens to be more socially acceptable than the other ones. Challenging this perception is something I care about quite a bit.

Heroin, amphetamines, alcohol, and cannabis all have genuine medicinal uses, and also all can be abused depending on context. Drug consumption is a fine, value-neutral term, which can refer to both their use and abuse.

I don't think so, considering that the Russian Federation already "inherited" the Soviet Union's permanent member status.

For size comparison, Rostov to Elets is about the same distance as Boston to DC, or Marseilles to Paris.

Scary shit. Imagine the city you live in having its highways torn up to delay enemy tank battalions, or seeing guys set up machine gun nests and sandbags in the park... I hope for a peaceful solution but that seems more and more unlikely.

No matter what happens, I think about 25,000 Russian Army/Wagner soldiers just left the front.

I didn't know people disliked the climax. Weird! I thought that was one of the best scifi movies in years. Instant classic for me.

I really liked it when I was a teenager, but I'm forced to agree, I re-read it a couple years back while I still enjoyed it overall, there were a few aspects I found didn't age super well.

"Left Hand of Darkness" was way, way better. "Earthsea" too, actually (here's a bonus fantasy hot take: LOTR is at least as good as Earthsea). "The Dispossessed" gets hyped because left-anarchists like the depiction of anything close to what they're into, but in many ways it's not actual a very strong novel for the reasons you mention.

My point is, some of her other books are much better if you ever feel inclined to give her another try. IMO She developed a lot both as a writer and in terms of the depth of her personal philosophy. "Always Coming Home" is an extremely ambitious scifi project that is IMO underappreciated in expanding the idea of "worldbuilding" as a thing that authors share with audiences rather than do behind the scenes. It's less of a novel and more of an anthropological survey of a fictional future culture. Also it's the only scifi novel I know of that comes with a bangin soundtrack.

Oh nice, I always wondered why no one ever made that into a movie. He'll probably do a good job.

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If you're reading this and you've never checked out slsk, consider this your invitation. I have spent hours trying to "stump" it by searching for increasingly-obscure music. Someone always has it on slsk.

EDIT: HOLY JESUS HALLELUJAH IT HAS DARK MODE

Not a bad idea, but how would it work with the right to an anonymous vote?

Those sources... are... interesting...