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Cake day: March 24th, 2022

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  • I don’t like the grant idea. It can be easily used as a scam. Also who decides what is art and what is worth a grant? You’ve yet again commodified art.

    The ideal way to collectivize art is to remove the incentive for a wage. If people have free time and the means to express themselves then many will be creating art. Then it’s up to them or the community to display it.

    I feel the Soviet system was the fairest. You make art. You get judged by a local or national commitee of artists, if your art is worth it, you get inducted into the local or national Art Institute. You get paid a wage to be producing art every so often.




  • Mitsotakis got re-elected with a resounding majority a few years ago. The situation was much the same as it is now. It begs the question on who voted for him.

    Unemployment has decreased a lot, but only on paper. The Unemployment Office simply discounts most unemployed people as “non-employed”. Simply put, if you’ve been unemployed for a year, you no longer count as unemployed.

    The Greek government keeps praising itself for “economic growth”, but it’s growth that nobody sees, except for millionaires and billionaires.







  • To your friends:

    Let’s say all men voted for Trump because all men are misogynists. Men are 50% of the population. Why didn’t all women vote for Kamala then? What did the Democrats do to gain their votes? What did the Democrats not do enough of to mobilize women?

    The next logical leap in this line of reasoning is that the women that didn’t vote for Kamala are racist, and that’s the only reason Kamala didn’t get as many votes as Trump.

    Now take a step back and realize how ridiculous this whole line of thinking is. There’s clearly more reasons than just pure misogyny and racism at play here. Time to learn about material reality.



  • The key is when they mention “basement of buildings”. Basically during battles if a Russian unit captures Ukrainian soldiers, they put them in the basement of the building they are currently holding positions in and guard them. There’s also reports they’ve done this with civilians in some cases early in the war, that they’ve suspected to be betraying their positions to the Ukrainian army.

    We can discuss whether the reasons for doing this to civilians is legitimate or not. But basements used ad hoc as a cell by soldiers literally fighting on the front lines, while waiting for transport to take the prisoner away to a safer location, to be called as concentration camps is the ultimate straw-grabbing.


  • I have no idea what they’re talking about, maybe those Unicode language tag characters

    This is just something I heard, but supposingly some AI models that are meant to be used in education, are designed to throw in special colourless/transparent characters here and there to prevent plagiarism or cheating, which can then be used as markers by checking apps to figure out if the student has plagiarized their answer using AI. I have no idea how true it is.






  • France: Wracked by 4 years of intense trench warfare, devastated countryside, massive losses, exhausted military and nearing bankruptcy. Political upheaval caused the country to change government 20 times in 21 years from 1918 to 1939.

    Poland and Czechoslovakia: Newly-formed states with similar problems to France (though a bit more stable politically) and large German minorities with strong nationalist sentiment near the borders with Germany.

    Meanwhile, the entirety of Europe experiences a massive anti-war sentiment, which is partly what lead to appeasement to fascist Germany, before WW2, being so acceptable.



  • Get regular dressings and a pack of plastic bags. Place your feet in the bags and tie them off before a shower. Use some waterproof tape to seal it up if you are worried (but if you tie it tightly enough, no or barely any water should be able to get in). I’ve done this many times. You can try it before the surgery and make sure it works. Just be careful not to slip. Use a shower mat to stand on if you have one. Or lay down a towel that you are OK with getting super-wet.

    Another trick that works is to place 2 stools in your shower/bathtub (if you have the space). One stool is for you to sit on, and the other is to place your feet so they stay high and don’t touch the water. Also wrap them in a towel or something to keep it wet (or use plastic bags as well).