I have to jump through so many hoops to send cash to US comrades so I can't help with day to day stuff.
However - and you can tell me if I'm out of line here - have you considered creating an amazon wishlist on a burner account and sharing it here? That way you definitely get the specific goods you need without worrying about money management. Stuff like the sleeping bag and clothes you mentioned.
Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.
I cannot agree with the idea of them being the "same thing". Potentially related? High cormorbidity? Sure.
I have AuDHD and the two have been in conflict my entire life. Since I began medication for ADHD I've finally begun to understand how my autism actually presents and that I can comfortable live with it.
Before this I constantly encountered executive dysfunction because the two have been completely opposed.
A special interest? A desire to understand something on an extremely detailed level? An important work project that I'm both motivated to complete and will help advance my career?
Nope here's an overwhelming urge to do literally anything else, we got the happy brain feeling from starting that, it's been 5 minutes and it's time to chase a new one.
Even sensory overload or uncomfortable feelings. Hey you want to be reminded of the time you touched something gross when youre trying to fall asleep? Or the time you ate something and it made you feel sick. Or the most anxiety inducing sound on loop in your brain. Since I started medication these intrusive thoughts have stopped almost entirely. ADHD was turning the most uncomfortable aspects of my autism against me for absolutley no personal gain.
The wire was ACAB throughout. Every cop in that show was either a criminal themselves, corrupt, incompetent and almost always extremely racist. The one (arguably) good cop in the entire show gets forced out.
It did a great job of showing how the police and the gangs are two different criminal organisations with their own heirarchies filled with actual human beings.
Season 3 was the highlight of the entire show, watching the police become the "muscle" for the drug dealers.
I'd go as far as to say it was a crime show, not a cop show.
"Diverging monetary policies in Japan versus the U.S. and Europe are behind speculators' moves, he said. The yen's appreciation is contributing to the sell-off, he said."
I don't understand this area of economics and everytime I think I learn something it seems be proven incorrect shortly after.
I believed Japan was facing pressure to raise interest rates in line with other nations. Now it's done that and the yen is starting to recover it's monetary policy is divergent again causing a stock sell-off?
I'm tired of my income turning into monopoly money whenever I think about going abroad.
No interest in experiencing this so will probably never visit the US. My friends who were born there have very weird stories about the TSA questioning why they live abroad whenever they visit. It's as if they pick people who believe the US is the only country worth living in to work at an airport of all places.
You won't just get a butter knife in business class either, you'll get ones suitable for steak and thick braised meat dishes, which is even more hilarious.
My entirely vibes based decision to only use AMD and ARM based components over the past decade is instead looking like one born out of immense wisdom and technical knowledge
Just one more election bro please just one more and then we'll run an actual candidate bro please just one more
Is there a reason we can't see ml c/technology from hexbear? Are we able to defederate from specific communities?
"Justifying your absurdity using hivemind baiting tactics may work on Reddit, but this is Lemmy."
It's actually good when literally everyone else in the room is calling me a fucking idiot and hoping I shut up because that makes it a hivemind, proving my argument correct. This person is totally not a debate pervert.
There was a thread on reddit /r/games 1-2 months ago about a few neonazi dogwhistles being found during development of a life is strange sequel.
The evidence was clear - Anyone who has seen these symbols before knows that one is suspicious, multiple in the same place is undeniable proof something is up.
I checked it before falling asleep and the thread was packed full of comments denying there's anything wrong with these symbols, it's virtue signalling to complain about them, that people taking issue with them are in urgent need of therapy, at worst it's all just a coincidence.
And then a bunch of weird nerd types whose main takeaway from "The Wire" was somehow that its cool to swear repeatedly when investigating a murder scene and any racist memes that reference the same line are therefore A-OK!!! 
By the time I woke up the thread had been cleared and only more reasonable discourse remained, so there is some decent moderation on the hellsite, but I recognised it as the same pattern I see in a bunch of other places such as sports subs - the moment a divisive topic comes up the thread is flooded with transphobia and xenophobia or just straight up nazi shit, and attempt to argue back will be drowned out by 10s of other comments from fresh accounts or ones with no history in that community.
No real point here, just 
living up to it's well deserved reputation.
Can’t believe I’ve been practicing for interviews by ensuring I can demonstrate my knowledge of the subject material and am capable of meeting the requirements of the role instead of focusing on maintaining eye contact and improving my posture