AFAIK, basically they're having to buy way more expensive liquefied gas all the way from their friendly ally, the US, rather than the cheap energy they could get from evil evil Russia. People have been pointing at the Cost of Living crisis in the UK since before the pandemic, but shit really hit the fan once they sanctioned Russia and blew up their own pipeline.
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I’m having trouble expressing tone/emotion in writing without visual indicators like emojis or “/s.”
Neurotypical people problems \s
Do you watch movies or stuff like that frequently? It sounds like you're engaging way more with text or images than audio input from other people.
Italy has joined the "poor countries needing charity health work from Cuba". Who's the failed economic system now?
I'm also always impressed by how positive Cuban health workers abroad can be given the circumstances. Not only is their country being denied properiry by foreign powers, but in every country they go they are victims of demonisation campaigns by the bourgeois press, and they still manage to come out not hating the entire country they're sent to.
The asteroid 2063 Bacchus because IIRC Bacchus (Dionysus)'s tales have some themes of gender non-conformity. But in a more serious tone, the Hellenistic mythologies used to have some gender non-binary figures such as the statues of Aphroditus, but the Latin-speaking Italian Romans generally took gender roles very seriously even before Christianisation, so you'll probably have to find some non-Latin astronomical object.
Just to help with the pronoun confusion, she goes by "she" or "they" according to her twitter, but has stated that she prefers "she".
To be a little fair to the guy, the February Revolution starts in episode 62 of the Russian series because he goes really deep on the historical background up to that point. But still sucks.
I still think some of his other series, specially the Haitian and 1848 ones, are pretty good and would still recommend those. His book on the Roman Social War is also pretty alright. It just really sucks to go through more than a hundred episodes on the Russian one only to end with what seems like some state-sanctioned grade school level conclusion. Western leftists really love revolutions until they're successful.
A flyer passed out to store goers read:
FEED THE PEOPLE–EAT THE RICH!
On Friday December 15th, a merry band of miscreants entered Whole Foods and liberated a variety of foods to return necessary resources to our communities. The People harvested and prepared these items, and this food belongs to the People. We are merely giving back what is already ours.
We assert that corporations like Amazon and Whole Foods do a tremendous amount of harm: hoarding wealth and resources, stealing labor, and destroying the land we live on. When we purchase food from Whole Foods, only a small fraction of what we spend is going back to those doing the labor to produce the food–the vast majority of it is funneled into Jeff Bezos’s coffers, where it is in turn reinvested in weapon manufacturing, war, and big oil.
Furthermore, Amazon’s contract for Project Nimbus with the IOF means that Bezos profits directly from the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Boycott. Divest. Shoplift. Not another dime for genocide!
As of November 2023, Jeff Bezos has a net worth of nearly 170 billion USD, an almost inconceivable amount of wealth. To put it in context, it would take you over 215 lifetimes to manually count the numbers between one and 170 billion. Corporations like Whole Foods perpetuate the myth of scarcity which falsely asserts that food must be earned and hunger is an unavoidable consequence of modern society.
We see this for the lie it is, and we refute every part of it. Access to food is a human right, and we will feed our communities by any means necessary. We believe direct action is a vital form of resistance against the capitalist institutions built to crush, starve, and bleed us to death. Solidarity with shoplifters everywhere! We hope you will be inspired to take similar action wherever you are.
Move like water. Take back what has always been yours. Become ungovernable.
Another flyer read:
These items were liberated from this Whole Foods location because we believe everybody deserves to eat. The shelves in this store have been stocked with items that were harvested, prepared, and cooked via a long supply chain of exploitation and extraction from people and land.
This food was made by the People and it should fill the bellies of the People.
Don’t fall prey to the myth of scarcity! Look around is enough for all of us. This food is being hoarded, and we are giving it back to our communities. The world belongs to us—everything is already ours.
We reject the capitalist logic that food is a privilege–it is one of our most basic human rights. We deserve to eat whether we can pay or not. Tear down the system that starves and kills people, one liberated apple at a time!
Try it at a Whole Foods near you!
I'm Joe Stalin and I approve this message.
Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games.
As a person who is very prone to game addiction, to the point where I refuse to play online games, this is a very welcome change. Hope the pressure impacts companies abroad.
Interessante comparar com os supostos preocupados com a dívida publica. MG com Zema por exemplo até cego vê.
What will happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the language found online?
Absolutely horrifying thought. Wasn't PageRank literally invented to solve shit like this?
This could create a funny circumstance, where LLM companies have to devise methods for automatic detection of LLMs text, but then normal people can just use those methods to filter out all LLM junk.
Not sure about essays and other non-narrarive writings, but lots of fiction books have an equivalent for sarcasm markers.
They'll write something like this, since lots of sarcasm is based on tone and hard-to-tell context.
If they're feeling very charitable, or if it's really not clear, they'll even make it even more obvious.
In Portuguese some folks even say something like "aqueles caras" ("[said] those guys") after a sarcastic sentence to make it clear they're being sarcastic.
Sarcasm markers are way more ubiquitous than they seem. I don't think you should worry too much about adopting some internet lingo like saying "cringe", because language evolved.
But Sarcasm is weird. Maybe you could try to consciously pick up on how writers, actors and even family and acquaintances you like express it outside of forums in various ways.