Based Pedro

Maybe my knowledge is completely obsolete but wasn’t Gibraltar under UK control?

Thank you comrade, much appreciated

Can people please recommend some media (writings, videos etc) for times of mental hardship? Feeling extremely stressed these passed few weeks and just want some pick me up. Essentially ML material that lifts me up hopefully.

Thanks comrade I appreciate those words <3 Woke up with insane wisdom tooth pain, need to get my car fixed while maintaining sanity.

Mostly been bouldering these past few days and doing chores. Weather is finally starting to pick up so can’t wait to start riding the bike again. Depression is ever present regardless, but hanging in there.

Bought my first pair of bouldering shoes after climbing for like a year. The difference from the rentable shoes is night and day (I know obvious) and the change in climbing is insane (also I know, obvious).

There was a post saying that lemmy was moving to a new image provider so some images might get broken.

Tried to, but it didn’t display lists for some reason.

Are there any good (and safe/non data collecting) reader apps/sites? For instance Red sails has a great website but sometimes I’d like the option of setting the font size and text width myself.

Amazing, thanks again

Thanks! Was just about to ask for the red sails article.

What exactly is Pax Americana?

First time hearing about that term and it actually explains so much. Thanks for this, I’ll be saving your comment

Are there any sources that I could quickly reference? I know The Deprogram has a wiki that I usually use, but are there any others without having to read whole articles? I’m going to read them anyway, but just as quick info.

Thanks, but it’s exhausting tbh

I agree that staying out of debates that I don’t have much knowledge about should be better, however I can’t just not respond when people spew misinformation about things. Even when I answer with “China is socialist” they counter by saying that it can’t be since they have billionaires etc. It’s exhausting.

Another one regarding China is the mass surveillance and social points system. I’ve made a post in the past asking if the social points system even exists and in essence it doesn’t, but what would be a good answer to the surveillance one apart from saying “The West also does surveillance” but to this I’ve gotten answers such as “The number of cameras in London monitoring people are 30k (idk what the exact number was) and in China it’s in the millions”.

Is this from Blackshirts & Reds? I have that in my reading queue and it’s probably going to be the most important text for me to frame against these types of arguments.

I’ve gotten replies that this is just conspiracy theories (even after pointing out that the CIA said so in their documents I get hit with “why would the CIA out themselves like that”) along with “if the US didn’t do that we would be fucked from the Russians”