George jetson house, what they thought the future would look like in 1960:

USA.jpeg right there. That image is for everyone who lives there except for like three cities. And the bike route is actually crossing several major roads.

Nice, those are some good bird pics. I like the coloration and little red flourishes on the woodpeckers.

Around me we get a lot of nut hatches, and titmouses which are my fav. They have little mohawks, and are quirky, but brave, as I’ve seen them do david and goliath standoffs with much bigger birds like crows. Not my pic but here’s one

I’d really love to get into that, especially bird photography as it’s been fun to try to learn bird calls and try to spot them. Nature really recharges the brain in a way nothing else can. Esp for those of us who are goal oriented or always feeling the need to be accomplishing something, being out in nature helps us drop all the expectations and distractions.

Doing any nature related activities away from screens, whether it be daily walks, gardening, hiking, kayaking, mountain climbing, swimming, camping is really good for both mental and physical health.

In that blue zones documentary, it’s said that daily walks and daily gardening help your mind and longevity more than any other activity.

Learning a musical instrument is always good, and is something you can show off. Knitting, crocheting, or any kind of ravelry works your mind, and you can also listen to audiobooks while doing it. Woodworking (you can start small, even doing spoons and things).

I wouldn’t be too focused on doing mentally challenging activities. Screens wear out our brains enough, and what we really need is time away from them to recharge.

Outside of that I’d just recommend reading a lot of non-fiction, audiobooks where available.

Or eastern promises. Viggo has a good range.

I learned roman numeral analysis in school, but over the past few years of playing jazz, that all gets thrown out the window, as it’s too unrestricted and impossible to analyze mid-flow anyway. It’s better to find the music you like, listen to it and play it over and over, and you will end up absorbing and repeating it.

Music theory is to music what grammar or linguistic theory is to language: not necessary to speak it, and would just slow down the flow of something that’s too complex to think through.

Christian Bale, Patrick Bateman.

This is a really good article going over class basis of pacifism, and touching on its historical failure to undo injustice:

What about Pacifism / pacifist socialism? Is violence necessary to acheive socialism? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi? audiobook

Some quotes:

Will the peaceful abolition of private property be possible?

It would be desirable if this could happen, and the communists would certainly be the last to oppose it. Communists know only too well that all conspiracies are not only useless, but even harmful. They know all too well that revolutions are not made intentionally and arbitrarily, but that, everywhere and always, they have been the necessary consequence of conditions which were wholly independent of the will and direction of individual parties and entire classes.

But they also see that the development of the proletariat in nearly all civilized countries has been violently suppressed, and that in this way the opponents of communism have been working toward a revolution with all their strength. If the oppressed proletariat is finally driven to revolution, then we communists will defend the interests of the proletarians with deeds as we now defend them with words.

• Engels - Principles of Communism

On the question of whether the armed struggle is the only path to liberation, I would answer that at least in the case of our country, we have no other path. And we think that in the immense majority of latin american countries, there is no other path than the armed struggle. It seems to be the same case for countries in Asia and Africa. In general imperialism counts on, in every way, joining forces with the oligarchy, of every country, to impede the democratic revolution in every country. And its hanging people with a rope that can only be cut by armed struggle.

Revolutionaries didn’t choose armed struggle as the best path. Its the path the oppressors imposed on the people. So people only have two choices: To suffer, or to fight.

• Interview with Fidel Castro on the question of violence

Most of us have no idea what that is, might be good to link something.

Can anyone verify if Kyrgystan is indeed, full of gamers?

The colors are great there, it works surprisingly well.

I can’t find it, but there’s a cool infographic / image that has all of them. I could only find one for the hammer and sickle variations:

Vietnam:

Angola:

Nepal for originality:

Every time I go to a bidet-less house, and see that they’re going as unwashed as a 5th century peasant

• Bidet
• Hand barbells + weights
• Inexpensive watch like a casio f-91w, or a cheaper smart one. Turning off all phone sound notifs is nice.
• Used e-reader
• Heated blanket
• One of those water bottles with a straw and a smart lid

We do have a this is a bot account user setting, and it’s possible to block bot accounts so you never see them.

But a profanity bot seems pretty useless to me.

I wish trump were “traitorous” to the US project of native eviction, white supremacy and genocide, but he’s not, and neither is any US democrat.

Every decision you make and everything that happens is based on conditions, and nothing exists outside of conditions.

In the ultimate sense there’s no such thing as free will, because everything has a conditioned existence.