I went to a bar to watch Eurovision and booed when Israel came on but I was the only one

I need a place to vent again. But It's bullshit that I need a referral to see a place where I live that offers HRT, but they want a referral that I can't give because the doctor I use to see for this, left, and his place refused to give a referral and just told me to get a referral from a primary care doctor, which I don't have.

and im trying not get overwhelmed at the same time with dealing with my dad's affairs either since he died.

started a new job a month ago. In the AI generated onboarding documents it says i better get really comfortable with AI because it will be an extensive part of every job in the company.

fast forward to last weekend when CEO writes an angry teams message saying people are relying too much on AI to do their jobs and aren't putting any thought into anything.

lol lmfao even

🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

Am I the only one very suspicious of the amount of odd questions being asked by fresh accounts lately? Maybe I'm just paranoid but I can't help but feel like there's some very glowie activity going on as of late.

My job has been hard on my body lately and I'm so tired from the long commute. But I use the time to read and scroll Lemmy. It's very encouraging. makes me want to keep reading even when I'm getting confused and have to go back several times.

Honestly have a newfound appreciation for just how offensive Tom Cotton's "are you a member of the CCP" questions were to the Singaporean CEO of TikTok, considering that Singaporeans infamously dont like being called Chinese and the founding father of Singapore being very clear that Singaporeans are not Chinese

Things are not looking good in Bolivia, folks. The US is planning to destroy the resistance there while US puppets are rushing to the aid of the neoliberal puppet Rodrigo Paz.

Striking workers have erected barricades blocking highways in every region of the country.

I hope you all have a nice week :D

Hey maybe Xi will decide to enforce international law by arresting trump and trying him for genocide. Wouldn't that just be hilarious?

I don't know why but the last five days have been weird and bad.

I don't feel like doing anything.

I don't enjoy anything, I think.

I don't want to really do anything.

I have no motivation, I think.

People around me are getting married and having kids left and right. I'm 30 and it's just a natural thing to happen to people around my age, but man you start to put imaginary pressure on yourself.

Major disrespect towards the working class. Any company which makes the applicant worker do these fucking obnoxious mini games is a no go for me. As if i need to demonstrate superhuman skills to flip burgers!

Hey everyone, welcome back to the general thread! I hope everyone has a great week and keeps pressing forward. May your steady efforts build up to positive development in your lives!

As always, communism will win.

Hey everyone, I'm recovered from muscular pain. It was horrible to walk with that pain.

A lot of people don't trust certain parts of society such as the homeless and I understand why. I wouldn't trust a mafia boss or a mobster, someone with a record for willingness to do crime against the defenseless. It's a fascist mentality.

However I would like to add my two cents with brief experience of homelessness and just general interactions with a broad section of lumpen. Be it street musicians or prostitutes. Sadly I only have anecdotes on my side which is part of the issue, it's very difficult to do empirical research on this subject and avoid biases.

In my brief experience of homelessness the only person who immediately approached me was another homeless person. He immediately noticed that something wasn't right with me and came with advice, in the meanwhile I've likely had more than a 1000 people walk past me without a care and you might wonder why didn't I go to an institution? Well because they dismantled them.

Marxism is based on Dialectical-Materialism, it means the body is the mind is the body and practical experience is necessary for change to happen. You cannot simply "fix" someone with a mental exercise. I think many Chauvinists dismiss the lumpen because they toss them a book and expect class consciousness to sort it out. It's not that simple, change needs structure that supports it.

I have found this one of the major weakness of the modern day left movement. There is a lot of effort trying to pull down the petite bourgeoise, not a lot of efforts pulling up the disenfranchised. It ends up being left upon a religious institution, the Heartfelt liberal or the extraordinarily rare mutual-aid group. All of which get infiltrated by the right.

I have never encountered a communist in the presence of the "lower classes" but I have had reactionaries try to befriend me and idk if people realize how far the influences of 1 neo-fash can spread. So this guy I will call him Measurehead, because that's what his personality was like, yeah a competitive racist. But the guy literally inserted himself anywhere and he's been all the way to China and around. Which has really bothered me because this is the kind of people who go around to the lumpen everywhere and spread their ideology. This one guy has probably ended up influencing hundreds by now if not more. And he was so good at gathering a crowd around him it's like scary to see. The way how he immediately could spot who to turn to in order to gather a crowd around him.

It scares me because the sort of people who get co-opted by the likes of him include people who would be willing to work tripple shifts for half of the pay. Regardless how one feels about the downtrodden, you're going to have to deal with them. That is a fact. This is the reason why I have been trying to shine a little bit of a light on the issue. It's not just because I've read Mao or Malcom or Che, although I believe their personal life experiences had influenced them to arrive to similar conclusions.

So I think I should figure out how to pay for a new phone service plan or whatever because having it in case I am not using Wi-Fi is important. I should also definitely find out where I am going to get a job because that is more important than other things likely are (jobs will pay for housing, but housing cannot get me a job).

I got a new PT and omg the guy is literally a redheaded Himbo with a 1:1 gigachad jawline, I was lowkey afraid I would be giggling and blushing like a cartoon character but everything went well.

we should pool our resources and buy a big house together

I was watching the Eurovision final in the bar and me and some other people were booing Israel whenever they came on. Some people had scorecards and I could see that some of them had scribbled out Israel. Right before the final result was revealed me and another girl who was booing Israel in the bar were holding hands in suspence and when finally Bulgaria won the bar went wild. Great to see.

did a ton of yard-work today for a lady; planted three beds, filled 5 more, did some work on a chicken-coop and each one of those beds needed a good 50/50 mix so it was a removed turning them after weeding all of them.

made good cash, I'm happy about it.

Capitalist flavors of thought are pretty bizarre. You get Nihilist Flavor, which is like "everything is impermanent and meaningless, enjoy it while you can, YOLO." And you get Cotton Candy Health Flavor, which is like "you should try to live in a sustainable way; be healthy, exercise regularly, eat your vegetables, brush your teeth, sleep well... why? shoves 'so you can work longer for the capitalist' under the rug... uh, so you can savor the Nihilist Flavor for much longer".

"But I want to be a part of something that matters."

"Oh yes, so we've got Product Fandom, Colonized Religion, 'Family' Workplace, and a variety of cults."

"Aren't all of those cults?"

"Stop resisting!"

I was able to set up an appointment with that new place I was trying to go to! and got in rather quick to which is kind of surprising since my previous doctor, I had to like schedule four months ahead of time. But instead of dealing with that one place that refused to give a referral, I called the other place and talked to them about it and they were able to get my medical records and one of the medical staff reviewed and accepted it.

It is still really ridiculous that one place refused to write a referral, like again. It all just to set up an appointment to see someone. It's not as if I was asking for something big.