Hello and welcome to our Weekly Discussion thread, I would like to appologise for the delay in posting, this will not become a pattern in the new year.
Please have a seat, take a tea or warm beverage for compensation for waiting so long, and Enjoy the second week of the new year
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Trixie the golden witch
Apparently VK.com is banned by my school. I just wanted to watch a Bandy match ffs
So there is snow. I think I see some of it on top of the roof of a car in my street. It’s not exactly the blizzard they predicted but it’s something. What a panic.
There will be 10 cm of snow tomorrow and there is a panic about it lol. Talks about people not reaching the office and such. Don’t get me wrong, the country is not prepared for even so little snow. Today it was also freezing and the roads were slippery as fuck and I saw many people falling. And I’m not planning in breaking my neck getting to work lol.
Anyway, my local action group split up. Not because things are bad. The opposite actually: we got too big for one group and we decided to make two now! Yay for progress.
we got too big for one group and we decided to make two now!
Impressive! Will you liaise with each other to make sure you both don’t accidentally compete and get in each others’ way or will you be more autonomous?
Yeah we will still discuss thing with the other group to prevent stuff like that
Congrats for the growth regarding the action group!
I just got fired because they didn’t want people with temporary contracts. I was already trying to find a new job, since I didn’t want to stay already but they didn’t tell me when they were going to fire me so now I don’t have a job and without a new job planned. It sucks, because it’s also a time where I have a lot of healthcare expenses, all of them to do with being transgender.
That sucks. Hopefully you can get benefits in the meantime.
That sucks. Hope you can get a new job soon. Also on hexbear there’s a mutual aid comm that might help if you need some expenses covered.
Is it just me, or is pinball an overpriced hobby?
Doing a brief search online, it looks like the average pinball table is more than twice the cost of a gaming PC, and even simulators like Pinball XF and Pinball Arcade have DLC that is overpriced for what you get: typically $10 for a handful of tables, which sounds trivial until you notice that purchasing the entire DLC library can cost hundreds of dollars, which is just obscene for one computer game.
I guess that somebody can excuse the physical tables by saying that they’re made for establishments in mind, not ordinary households. I can accept that. Although you have to travel pretty far if there are specific tables that you want to try, and public tables can come with other inconveniences such as waiting for your turn.
There are some low-budget alternatives besides simulators and public tables, such as portable pinball tables (I had one based on Small Soldiers when I was little), though I am guessing that those are unpopular with adults. In any case, it’s hard for me to imagine a low-income person being passionate about pinball in general. Even collecting LEGO sets would be a cheaper hobby.
Slightly related but my father was always a “pinball wizard” (70s teen). He picked up Pinball FX, played it for two months and got in the top 30 leaderboard and just dropped it.
Still think about that sometimes, what a madlad. Didn’t even buy any DLC.
I love to play pinball at the arcades. I have a couple of tables Im pretty good at, but yeah I would never buy them for myself.
Elon Musk has gone fucking crazy. Every post he makes is antagonizing the UK and posts about how shitty the UK is are getting boosted.
Hes acting as a heel that is serving to legitimatize the fucking godawful kkkraker fascist government and serve as an easy punching bag that can make people rally around our politicians in the UK on a point they all agree with.
Its blatant upper class collaboration between the UK and the US, nothing more, UK politicians get a poll boost because they can score some easy PR wins, Musk likely gets better trade deals.
Not only that, he is also boosting far-right parties like AfD vehemently. It seems that with his newfound political power he will try to instigate the ascent of as much fascist parties to power as is possible for an influential multimillionaire. He might be a lunatic, but in no way is he a complete fool.
And what liberals are doing to counter him are of course insufficient.
goes on to rant about the rise of far-right in the EU
Their politicians and like-minded journalists can shout all they want about how Russian propaganda corrupts the EU from within, and call for banning Russian media outlets, but when it comes to USA and Elon Musk in particular, we can only ‘condemn his intervention’ into the politics of European countries. No one would possibly think about blocking X or the like. No one would lift a finger to actually prevent him from spearheading the rise of the far-right in the EU. I’m usually optimistic but it can’t be helped if 80 years after USSR crushed the Nazi Germany more and more countries are drifting to the right. Germany, France, Austria, Greece, Italy, what the heck is happening to Europe? Have we forgotten?
He sees a chance to gain influence in arguably the second most influential western country of this moment, so he takes it. And as always with liberal ideology, they let him.
he is not wrong there
Today is my first day of semester 6! And fun fact, 2025 should be my last year of undergrad and if everything goes according to plan I will graduate in December! I just wanna finish up here and finally move on to my masters. Also I will start learning Russian this year, too bad there’s no classes I can take so self teaching is what I’ll have to do.
yay looking forward to your posts (if you are going to do any)! and feel free to let me know if you need any help with russian
I will be making posts (just published my first one now!) and I will definitely take you up on your offer for Russian help!
I just started with Russian on Duolingo last week. And here I thought spelling was difficult in my first language (English)
I did do a few lessons and struggled since I didn’t know the alphabet, that is something I know will be tough.
If you can get it, I recommend the app called “Russian Alphabet in 3 Hours.” It uses what it calls “contextual learning”, going through the letters and putting them in context of use to help you learn them. You’d probably have to practice them as well after to make sure it stays ingrained, but I think it’s a pretty strong introduction to the alphabet. And it’s free, afaik; the only “string attached” is an organic ad for a related podcast that teaches more Russian and I think the podcast is paid, but I didn’t go as far as checking that out.
Thank you so much for the recommendation! I found the app and downloaded it, it’ll be very good to get my start with the language so I really appreciate the help.
No problem! Hope it works well for you.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
thank you, have a good week as well oppo!
unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.
will do captain oppo, your wishes are my command
Have a nice week!
I understand 🥺👉👈
Back at cha! :D
Living the good life! Lol
It seems the US has successfully eradicated Asian Hornets, which is a great achievement. If only European countries could put up some effort…
We would sadly rather shoot all the wolves than get rid of Asian hornets, seeing the political landscape.
Well yeah wolves threaten land owning rich farmers’ profits while the hornets target mainly honey bees and wanting to prevent that is green bullshit!!!
Though it must be said that our honey bees are doing pretty okay and are in no direct threat of extinction at the moment. And our native bee species are mostly solitary which means they are often not worth the effort for the hornets.
We should focus on more rewilding efforts to restore biodiversity, attracting more native bees who are better pollinators than honey bees and attracting more birds who can help us with hunting terror hornets. But with the current government that’s just a far away dream.
or pigeons
Im imagining americans chasing down the hornets with AR-15s and just decimating them.
Think I made a post on the bear a while ago but I still have Killer Klowns by the Dickies stuck in my head on loop whenever I read the news.
"The ringmaster shouts, “Let the show begin!”
Send in the klowns, then let them do you in…
See a rubber nose on a painted face
Bringing genocide to the human race!"
I’ve had Stacey Q songs in my head for like a month. Its started to let up a bit but there was a bit there where it was constant for days.
Chinese people are strong, resistant to brand name-calling.
