For me it was hockey. I tried it one year in elementary school, and couldn't figure out any of the things my teammates were doing, like crossovers and lifting the puck. I didn't go back for a second year.

But I believe that hockey is a dying sport. Equipment and ice time fees at arenas are way too expensive for working families. And climate change no longer allows for outdoor rinks where kids can learn basic skills for free. There's a good reason that basketball and soccer are picking up massively in popularity in Canada, they're both sports that kids can play casually almost year-round with minimal and relatively cheap equipment.

Always beware the adventurist. Not all adventurists are feds, and every radical experiences wistful thoughts about adventurism from time to time but the genuine adventurists are either prime targets for feds or they themselves are feds. Either way, hard pass.

So much this! Socialism needs to be organically created, it needs to be a mass movement once material conditions are right. And material conditions are nowhere near right in most of the imperial core and "civilized" inner periphery.

Some have called me paranoid because of this belief. But they don't have half their immediate and extended family working as cops of one sort of another. There's no way I can simply lay low after a hypothetical adventure. I would be found real quick.

And due to the above, please don't invite me into any orgs, online or IRL. The less I know about yours, the safer you folks are. I'm just here to chat about events and news and gossip that's already very public. IRL the most I do is reading groups, and I always tell anyone there up front about my family. I hate that it makes me look like yet another all-talk-no-substance fair-weather Marxist but it's the only way I know to keep everyone involved safe.

I've already had a few relatives try to gently and friendly-like ask me about my politics once they find out I'm not a chud. Innocently asking about what forums I'm on with phrases like "I'm pretty liberal myself, I just want to help people." I just dodge that sort of thing with variations of "I just follow the news, I'm not really the activist type." I neve go to any family event unless I am stone cold sober and I can stay sober. I need to keep my guard up even among family that cares for me. It's such a fucked up situation.

Oh my god. My Wii will be old enough to vote in a few months. I got it a month or so after its release date.

I should set it up again and play some Metroid Prime Trilogy. The backported motion-control gun aiming makes the first two games a joy to play.

Well we do of course. We have to meet the right-wing halfway. To do otherwise would be uncivil.

Mexico? Not mentioned, because then they'd have to point out that incumbent parties that have actually done something to help people out of poverty tend to win reelection.

They'd also have to admit that latino men apparently have no problem with voting for a woman as head of state. She just needs to not run on a platform of fucking over the working class.

Well I can think of another soldier that made a positive contribution to this world. For example:

In the case of Julius Streicher, reporter Howard K. Smith wrote that the initial drop was not fatal, and that "witnesses could hear him groaning", upon which "Woods came down from the platform and disappeared behind the black curtain that concealed the dying man. Abruptly the groans ceased and the rope stopped moving. Smith and the other witnesses were convinced that Woods had grabbed Streicher and pulled down hard, strangling him."

That sounds like a proposal that we can reach across the aisle to accomplish!

Maybe it's time for a centrist approach, neither left nor right, something we can all do to appeal to the moderates and bring them into our big tent party.

Maybe we ought to bring in some outside consultants to advise on how to go forward. I hear McKinsey is known for their consulting expertise.

Politico: "Donald Trump Jr. taunts Zelenskyy about ‘losing your allowance’".

Disco Elysium should have stayed a book. I'm sure it has an interesting story, but I'm attempting a second playthrough after being bored by the first attempt, and just like the first time around, I am bored out of my mind.

It's like reading a book one sentence at a time, but I'm not allowed to read the next sentence until I spend half an hour wandering around doing some stupid fetch quest. Just let me "read the book" dammit.

Seconded. I don't have a Tiktok account active right now but I did as recently as a few months ago. Their algorithms are scary good. It's pretty easy to have a socialist-friendly queer-friendly feed in very short order.

I didn't deactivate my account due to content, I'm just not a fan of short form videos for info and news. It's strictly a personal-preference thing.

Youtube is enemy territory, a closed platform run by one of the wealthiest companies in the world with a keen interest in maintaining control over the flow of political conversation. I don't think this is a war that can be won. I think it would be more productive to contribute to Peertube instances instead. Contributing original content, help with reporting and modding, donations to keep servers running, promoting Peertube sites both here and in other forums, that sort of thing.

Of course the really insane thing about Deus Ex is that the most unrealistic thing about it is the idea that Americans would become terrorists to get access to a pandemic vaccine.

Bread with visible mold, a week before the best-before date.

Next day apologize with "sorry I bailed, your sister was in town".

The most ironic part of the food security issues going into WW1 is that one of Germany's most notorious and nationalistic chemists, Fritz Haber, developed the industrial processes that would soon lead to cheap and effective mass-produced fertilizers: the synthesis of ammonia through the "Haber process". He won a Nobel Prize in 1918 for chemistry for that discovery. But it's a dual-use technology. You can use it to make bulk fertilizers, or you can use it to make bulk explosives.

But Haber didn't just take part in chemistry research. He was an enthusiastic advocate of chemical warfare. He relentlessly lobbied the German military to try using deadly gases, especially chlorine, as a weapon. German military officials agreed, and at the second battle of Ypres in 1915, Haber was personally there to supervise the first use of chlorine gas weapons. He would do this throughout the war on the western and eastern fronts.

Haber was one of the scientists who signed the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three. He was no dove. He knew what he was doing, he knew what his government was doing, and he had no moral issues with any of it.

At least TOS's scenes involving infamously-revealing clothing tended towards witty conversation.

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