Acing exams to own the libs.

They kinda suck, but you have to make sure to place them on a completely flat and horizontal surface, and use it in the same place every time. Keeps the variance down a bit.

Unconditional support to our trans comrades.

I’m no doctor, it’s best to ask whoever gave you the diagnosis. But generally salt should be fine AFAIK, just not excessive amounts of salt.

Not sure, but excessive salt is generally not very easy on the stomach.

I’ll try to do more research on what counts as “processed.” Please no MAGA shit if you recommend me anything, but yeah, I’ll do my own research, of course. You know how labels and buzz words get misused, of course.

Oh yeah, I definitely agree there. The way people rail against “processed” food like it has some sort of malignant metaphysical property pisses me off.

I meant more so in the sense that ready-made foods at the supermarkets like mock-meats and such tend to have a high salt and fat content (because the companies want them to taste good if you eat them as-is). Nothing you can’t quickly check off the back of the package.

What the fuck? I like veganism and always respected the movement since way back, but you think that this could be related?

It was just light-hearted jest (hence the /s), but maybe in poor taste. My bad.

Anti-inflammatory, eh?

Regarding the recipes, I was going off of what you and @[email protected] were mentioning regarding low-fat, easy-on-the-stomach foods which is why I recommended that website since it has quite a few recipes that I think would be suitable.

I’m no doctor and I don’t know about stomach ulcers specifically, I was just recommending food that is pretty easy on the stomach in a general sense.

And these are your recipes?

They’re not my recipes, I just think they’re pretty good and well-labelled. They also have a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thenarddogcooks

Tbh, I do like plant-based meat, though maybe it’s still disgusting to you…

I don’t mind plant-based mock-meats at all, I eat them occasionally (though if they’re super-realistic, it does put me off a bit).
I think if you have a sensitive stomach right now it’s still probably better to eat whole foods since processed stuff tends to have a lot of salt and fat in it, which might not be helpful, but I’m not sure.

Critical support to stomach ulcers furthering the vegan cause. 🫡 /s

On a serious note, it’s as good an opportunity as any to try out delicious plant-based recipes. I recommend checking out https://makeitdairyfree.com/recipes. They have a lot of anti-inflammatory recipes, all allergens and sensitivities clearly listed, and many fairly easy/quick healthy recipes with a lot of variety.

Hope you feel better soon.

Love the username

They’re not even pretending to be genuine at this point.

There are already Open Source dating apps. You might be interested in checking out their implementations and how they address the questions you’re asking.

The most-used one appears to be, of all things, the 4chan dating app Duolicious. Here’s a link to a “KnowYourMeme” article describing what it is. It had a lot of discussion around it and seemingly a lot of active users.

The other is Alovoa which has been around for a long time, and is the one that usually comes up when you search for Open Source dating apps. I’m not sure if it actually has an active user-base though.

I think this actually highlights an important point, which is that attempts at creating generic alternatives are a lot less likely to succeed compared to targeted ones. Even the big companies realise this. You see more and more dating apps popping up in different countries targetted at muslims, lesbians, vegans, black people, and so on.

People tired of Tinder & Co. are more likely to find and try your app if it’s the one that comes up when they search “flat-earther dating app” (if that’s what appeals to them) as opposed to randomly choosing one of the dozens of generic dating apps.

4chan’s conditions are especially unique in that it has a specific site culture, a very large user-base, and it’s a forum/imageboard which means that the app already had a place to market itself to all 4chan users. This is probably why it became successful.

Ultimately, I think that’s more important than the specific discovery mechanics of the apps. They become less relevant anyway as you’re already filtering a lot of people by using a more niche app.

In a lot of countries and cities you might find only a handful of people in your region to begin with, and it’s more likely that you’d meet them and talk since you already have a common ground, as opposed to endlessly swiping through hundreds of profile.

Does anyone have a good read on the current situation with Pakistan and Afghanistan?

It should just be a combine harvester. The machine itself is an impressive product of ingenuity, engineering, and labour, as well as symbolising agriculture. It is also a symbol of progress and prosperity.

Yeah, that’s understandable of course. It becomes very difficult to find anything to trim once we get to this level. The only thing I can think of, and I would pose this as a question rather than a suggestion, is “Value, Price, and Profit” absolutely necessary for the basic course? The “Political Economy” section would certainly feel quite thin if it’s excluded.

Aside from that, I don’t think much can be done in terms of cutting things out. Maybe if there are shorter alternatives to works such as “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism”, or a couple essays to replace “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, but at this point we’re resorting to quite extreme measures.

I believe the only way to go beyond this, which is completely out of scope of this project, is to create more works such as the Abriged version of “What is to be done” and use those for introduction rather than the unaltered classics.

I don’t disagree. Admittedly, it’s a bit difficult to put myself in the shoes of a lib who’s been exposed to this list for the first time. Different people would be curious about it for different reasons.
I hope you’re right that reading the works in the first section back-to-back would be enough to motivate them to read further.

I would rather aim for 20 hours as the goal as opposed to 25. If I were in your shoes, I would add “Yellow Parenti” at the end of a section (maybe after the checkpoint) as a “strong recommendation” and just not count it to the hour count because it would technically be “optional”.

I like the list for the most part and believe that the decisions for what to cut and what to keep in each section are well-reasoned.

My main concern is with whether too much is being asked from Nia Frome’s 5-10 minute “Tankies” article.

The way I see it is that while the first two sections do more than a good enough job of correcting misconceptions about Marxism, they do not do an adequate job (in my opinion) of addressing the ‘elephant in the room’ for most people, which is AES.

Can we get some fun stats and stuff from Lemmygrad over the years? I think it would be cool to see things like change in monthly active users, when the spikes were and what drove them, which communities became more/less popular, etc.

I think only instance admins have access to this info.

The only public thing I could find was monthly active users using a random website, but it only showed a few months (and I’m not sure it’s accurate).

Don’t feel apprehensive about asking questions. So long as they’re genuine and in good faith, people here have always been more than happy to help in my experience.

I’ll link you a comment thread where I asked similar questions about artisans a few months ago and got great answers from @[email protected] and @[email protected]. I also found the (very short!) excerpt that @[email protected] linked, “Stalin’s Shoemaker”, quite helpful.

Here’s the comment thread: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9364892/7108472

Yeah, I’m not very well-read on the non-aligned movement as a whole, and I don’t have any material lined-up on my reading list to expand on it.

I’m hoping to find some resources to better understand the context, and potential mistakes that were made during that time and in that region specifically.

Thanks for your input :)

I know, I was trying to get in on the insider trading, but @[email protected] won’t help me out :(