blood pressure meds are woke propaganda!

Probably yeah, but haven’t had the spoons to look into it. Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out.

On Linux the VPN sometimes shits the bed if you have kill switch turned on. Happened to me and it was a pain to remove it and turn it off. Also can’t seem to be able to get it to autorun on start up on Linux mint, but otherwise works fine.

I use proton mail and the VPN, have degoogled to an external physical drive so no need for the drive or other stuff. Should probably check out the pass though.

Yeah these people were very young and nervous so I didn’t start debating the issue, but I did recommend reading for example Losurdo. Then we parted ways.

I suspect that in the context of where I am announcing that you are communist and following it with “I condemn Stalin” right away is both cowardice and an attempt to smooth things over to get to talk about communism at all. But it’s definitely not working out for anyone elses interests but the bougies.

A sad state of affairs, but now I at least have their number and can go and try to dispel these brainworms.

I’ll hand it to them though, they were there asking people if they would like to organize against fascism.

Went to a protest today and a group of very nervous and very young troskyists found me and sold me a newspaper.

First they said they are commies and I said: “Which flavor?”

They said: “ML, but we are anti-Stalin so I guess we are troskyist.”

I said: "Well I am a tankie, but I’ll buy your newspaper anyway, because we have bigger problems these days than worrying about the flavor. They agreed.

My partners cpap made me become an earplug person and now I can no longer sleep without the full sensory deprivation thing that they provide, like at all. I use bilsom earplugs that I buy in bulk from a farm store, one bag has 200 pairs in it, lol. That way they are pretty cheap. Add on top the sleep mask that has bluetooth speakers for my audiobooks and I’ve solved my lifelong sleep issues, especially issues with falling asleep from my own mind chatter (audhd).

But yeah, I still take them off in my sleep or they just fall out. I’ve found them from my ass crack several times, been woken up with one of them in my mouth (disgusting) and there are always several littered under my mattress.

I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have these things to help me sleep tbh. Not sure if I recommend making them a habit.

It’s remarkable that this exact same mindset is the prevailing one in all directions from what supposedly is Europe:

people think we’re the only country with problems and that we have these problems because we’re uncivilized unlike “europe”

Really proves how fake the idea of “being european” is. Nobody apparently can reach this mythical state. Meanwhile it’s a really powerful ideological tool that the ghouls everywhere utilize so hard. This is how the EU was sold to most populations.

Me:

Weird, went looking for hiking spots where you can camp overnight and going into the (to my understanding) government website that has all these listed in my country drops the VPN on my android phone. Tried to browse the website three times, the VPN dropped every time.

Wish I was even a little techie because seems sus, why does it do that? How can it do that? What is it that does that?

Lol, country

Right? It’s incredible how easy things can be.

And don’t even get me started on actual shoes. I’ve been able to finally afford good gore-tex shoes and I can just go around in the world with dry feet all year long. The decades of cold wet toes in the rain are over. Also ice bugs, I no longer have to skip going out when the environment is just sheer ice, I can just walk in it.

It extends to literally everything.

Yeah sure, I know it will. But I also need my cooking to be easier. Tried the stainless steel, absolutely hated it.

I do like my cast irons and have used them for years, no problem. But the amount of fat it needs is not what I want every time. And cooking for a family with my adhd has always meant that I’ve preferted a non stick pan for that everyday cooking. Cast iron is heavy to move around, it’s a separate chore to clean and keep in shape, it’s a whole thing that I just don’t always have the spoons for. It’s also not ideal for sauces and things that tend to ruin the finish.

Tbh this new pan definitely fries a steak better than any of the cast irons I’ve used. And heats up so fast.

This is the manufacturer EU page for it: linky.

The pan is the CTX 28cm, got it from a sale so not as bad on pricing as it would have been otherwise. Still it’s the most pricy piece of equipment I now have, not counting my Kenwood Chef.

So this is why my local national news has several “Russia will collapse any day now” articles up atm. God forbit reality had an impact on muh EU free press.

Jesus christ that sounds scary tbh. I hope you remain safe. I cannot believe this is the times we are in (again).

These posters are in every country right now. It’s disgusting. Looks like the images are different though, I’ve seen ones with a picture of a smol bean journo white woman doing journo things, with the same text.

Yeah it might blow back a bit if he figures out who it came from, but just know that it isn’t on you to know if he needs professional help or not, the welfare check people or whatever they are where you are can and should do that and offer him help that he can at least here still refuse unless he is deemed as being a danger to himself or others.

You have then at least done something which might help you deal with this, it’s rough when there’s so little we can do.

Solidarity. It’s great that you care enough to try and do something.

I don’t know where you are and how safe it is for your friend, but if possible you could leave a message of worry to your local social services where at least here the officials are mandated to check on a person and refer them to care if needed, although only if the person wants to. This can be done anonymously.

I’ve worked with several people like this and when it’s on so to speak there isn’t much you can do, because a lot of stuff might either validate the delusions or escalate the person further. If there are any local ways to refer them to be assessed by mental health professionals, I would probably do that.

Been reading The Spirit Level today and while it is good to read a sort of material analysis of inequality it also gives me the ick quite a bit on how it seems very bio-/psych-/evolution-essentialist and how it talks about the poors and proles. Weird norm fixated stuff too around parenthood and stuff.

Not much focus on things like racism, colonialism, imperialism, pathriarchy although they are kind of there between the lines.

About half way in, reading it for an exam. Kind of expected more as this one always gets mentioned everywhere.