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Just stop doing it. You won’t quit until you really want to stop, and then it’s actually kind of easy. You hear this from a lot of people who quit, that all the circumstances and programs and nicotine substitutes are kind of secondary to the mental aspect of it.

That’s not very upsetting

No Stairway!

Yeah, have you tried just having the good kind of cat?

This is how I met my first wife.

Seriously like the most obvious fucking life hack.

Also, it’s generally super weird how everyone tries really hard to convince you that you are wrong about it. Like I could take all of the collective time people have spent trying to give me unsolicited input on some other random topic, and it wouldn’t even add up to a tenth of the time I’ve spent on the “why don’t you want kids?” Conversation. I’m sorry but that’s sus as fuck. Like some actual brain slug shit.

The unfortunate reality is that nobody can tell you why lemmy.ml is a shitshow in this thread, because they will get banned for it. Just take that information as you will.

It’s ok lemmy.ml will make that decision for you sooner or later.

The problem is that there was a glimmer of democratic hope between the time Tsar Nick was dispensed and when Lenin seized power. A lot of Lenin apologists like to gloss over this part when they pretend like the stuff he did was necessary. Yes, it was “necessary” because he positioned himself as tyrant from day 1.

A lot of people who have never actually been to China don’t understand just how poor the rural areas actually are. China has invested a ton in major urban infrastructure but has largely let the countryside languish. The worst part is that you are born with something called hukou which makes it very difficult to establish permanent residence in these new cities, reinforcing what is effectively a regional caste system.

Wait until you find out how much of Linux the NSA has built.

Now, many many years ago
When I was twenty three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be…

Web Application Pigeon

He protecc

He attacc

But mostly, he raids garbage for snacc

Actually one is lavender and the other is rose. Common mistake.

Same picture

Right, and both of these ideas represent the same form of flawed modernist structuralism which has been largely supplanted by more contemporary theories which take a more pragmatic view on harm reduction as an iterative process in pursuit of post scarcity materialism. This is literally fucking Dengism, but if you say that people should do that stuff, and also value individual liberty, it’s shitlib and the ppb spam. The entire problem is that so many MLs immediately reject any form of leftist revisionism which doesn’t mesh with, questions, or even dares to reject the authoritarian traditions of Mao or Stalin as some kind of capitalist conspiracy which has infested western academia. This is as ridiculous as it is ignorant and seems to betray their underlying motivation not as one which seeks to uplift workers, but one which seems obsessed with some long defunct geopolitical rivalry. It’s exhausting, and frequently very stupid, despite these people believing that they are some collective political ubermensch.

This is why it’s so frustrating, because tankies being overrepresented in online leftist spaces is one of the things which harms the acceptance of leftist ideals more than most of their imperialist windmills.

People aren’t scared away from socialism by economic democracy, egalitarianism or radical direct action. They are scared away by confrontational and aggressive tankies defending tyrants, who seem to care more about relitigating random cold war drama than lifting up workers.

Honestly I think the .ml folks have shown themselves to be such zealots that they should be considered a potential security threat to the broader fediverse.

The more places defederate from them, the more opportunity and initiative there will be for alternatives to their largest communities to grow.

You write nearly perfect English. Perhaps you have improved since then, but minimum proficiency is conversational plus some travel vocab.

My experience is mostly with students from Tsinghua, Fudan, etc, so maybe I am off the mark, but my experience is that Chinese generally have good English language skills. I wish my Chinese was half as good.