shhh don't give her ideas

fantastic, this tickles my brain in just the right way

Are there any leftist organizations in your area? I guarantee you you're not alone in the way you feel, and if you start organizing with other principled and disciplined people, you can do something about it.

Edited to add: There's nothing inherently wrong with the other suggestions here; it's good to have tactics to manage your own mental health in the world we live in. But, at the end of the day, taking care of yourself isn't going to actually stop the genocide, or any of the other problems you mentioned here.

One of my favorite quotes is from Angela Davis, and it goes, "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept." I can accept that there are some things I can't change right now, but that doesn't mean that I accept them as immutable facts of life, or that I have to accept them on a moral level. Fixing society's problems is going to take a lot of time and effort, but that doesn't mean we should throw our hands in the air and give up, it means we need to get to work. And right now, not enough people are actually doing something.

I know lots of progressive people who are frustrated with the state of the world, but they stay at home and binge-watch TV because they think there's nothing they can do about it. Imagine the frightening progress we could make if every one of those people stood up and started organizing. Defeatism is the cancer that prevents the modern left from getting anywhere. People have to stop believing they're powerless if we want to get off the ground. Evil triumphs when good people do nothing, and I'm not going to stand by and watch the world burn. I'm going to grab a fire hose, but I'm going to need some help to actually put out the fire.

thanks for the link, that one didn't render in my browser

preach. i had to ask multiple people to stop leaving voice messages in our activist group chats. i can read about ten times faster than someone can speak, and i don't want to listen to "um, ah, it's like, well, it's like..." for 15 seconds while they gather their thoughts. plus you can't skim back through a voice message if you forget part of what they said, you have to take a guess at where to seek to and then wait for them to get to the point again.

gather your thoughts, type them out in a text message, and you won't be wasting anyone's time.

pouring one out for them

was about to call bs and say that it's only one crouton, but then I looked at the source and saw there was some JS code to load one of eight random croutons. I have JavaScript disabled, so that explains it, but I went and loaded croutons 1 through 8 manually. delicious and crunchy

That's good to hear. The webpage didn't load for me, so I missed that tidbit

maybe not all that effective, but it's funny as hell

Good job writing this! I'm looking forward to next week's episode

that's hilarious

very interesting video, I love TAS stuff

damn how bad was it that even her hat needs first aid

send this post to my former doctor's office

i had a prescription for hydroxyzine, and the pharmacy literally gave up after they couldn't get a response from the doctor's office to renew the prescription

going to a new doctor later this month, hopefully the OTC diphenhydramine won't give me dementia in the meantime

...hey! I'll have you know I listened to a Solar Fields album last sunday, and it only took sixteen minutes before I heard a second note!

thank

that round where they guessed the right answer based only on 7:36 pm was crazy

also I have to point out that in the telescope picture, the red arrow was actually pointing to the eyepiece, not the finder scope. the finder is the mini telescope attached to the body of the big telescope. they messed that one up

another fun quiz show is Says You!, but that one is a radio show.

y'all better turn them lights back right this instant

that is truly a unique lunch

was not prepared for that nostalgia blast of hearing the nighttime Pokémon center theme

to answer my own question:

psychedelic rock, psytrance, ambient, prog/power metal, jazz, conscious rap, post-rock, drum & bass (especially neurofunk & liquid), goa trance, big beat, funk, some house, reggae, Indian & European classical, and a little pop.

I should post some Carbon Based Lifeforms to /f/DoNap

fantastic introspective jazz. off to listen to the whole album now

I mean if a band is unique enough then sure. I'd consider Shpongle to be its own genre

meow did that happen

i mean, mew would do such a thing