I think it all becomes muscle memory and people figure it out. The overstreamlining required by western users also speak about their understanding of systems. People in the west are apparently - educated to be afraid of complexity and problems.

I think super apps fill an "infrastructure" role in the app ecosystem. Almost like an OS, but collective. And as long as other people can hop into the ecosystem and participate, I can see the value. But it makes sense that the natural monopolies as messages and banking and marketplace become a single thing. Therefore, complex.

But I still like the unix motto, about doing one thing well. I wonder how extensible these designs and applications are for smaller teams working on single functionalities.

I think small business owners generally do.

Big business, and land owners and their families don't really work.

I think it's all about energy efficiency. Places with no access to clean water often also have no access to reliable energy sources.

Considering he was an asset to the US military, he technically did material damage to the US military too...

The material damage done my hamas against the IDF was mostly political, and could only be assessed months after the attack because of the repercussion of actions of Israeli government. If the political setback wasn't there, the attack would have been just a "terror suicide attack against party goers".

I think the odds for nothing much to have happened were pretty high at the time. Just like many times before.

I think this man's acts are likely to result in nothing. But it was an attack against the US military forces image. What happens from it depends on the political agents now. The US media and military, the international media, and peer to peer social networks.

My own mind changed a lot since the beginning of this conflict. It unveiled so many things for me.

In the beginning I though that Russia's intelligence had failed Putin. Seeing the dusty equipment on the trains, the western unity in Ukraine defense, and the sanctions, I really thought the decision making was off.

I had no idea about 2014, or the ideologies involved. My own world view wasn't clear either, I probably had an instinctive understanding that I wasn't bonjoursie, but not in clear enough terms to seek action from it.

Zelenski was everywhere, every tech company hoisted a blue yellow flag on their homepages, Russians were denied entry in competition. Which... Don't really contribute to much on the war effort, other than propaganda.

But propaganda eventually bends to reality. Only one line of analysis could explain the whole shit altogether, and it was completely ignored by western media.

Thank you comrades for lighting the way. Thank you independent media.

Sometimes the unexpected is welcome. :)

In covid quarantine times it was nice to be greeted by strangers going outside. An acknowledgement we were all going through weird times. For example.

We're kind of still going through weird times. Maybe acknowledging it collectively could help things changing faster. :D

Well, you're both a bit broken, aren't you?

A relationship is building a third entity together. Not a child, a couple. Your calendars, habits, tastes will align very much.

Sex can be figured out later. If it's too boring you can find ways to spice it up. Not every relationship has to be monogamic, mature couples can figure something out.

I would say: keep talking, keep aligning expectations, keep opening up and being vulnerable with one another, keep true to yourself and one another, keep the respect up.

Algo, go to therapy. Both of you, separately, and both of you together, if possible at all. You've got a lot to unwind, but the journey of unfucking yourselves is very gratifying.

Later in life, everyone will be old and ugly. You'll both be healthy, happy and in shape, bu working well together. Play the long game, make your own goals, and win for yourselves. Not for anyone else's notion of winning.

Good luck. :)

Communist parties are the best parties! 🎉

Education and hard work really matter. A lot. If you're intentional about where to apply them.

We need to work smarter and harder than everyone else in Capitalism, to push the world forward.

We fight for less work, and less exploitation for everyone, but we have to know we need to work harder, to study harder, to communicate better, to risk more, so that we can bootstrap everyone out of the capital.

It is important to learn how to make oneself valuable, though. To understand the rules of the game, and to game it, where possible. To learn to be valuable, and to use that value and negotiate from a position of power.

It you're in a position to comfortably go to a university, go for it. If you're not, it's not an excuse to ever stop studying, or working hard. To find ways to apply our skills and knowledge to the benefit of the working class.

That's the burden we carry.

I think memes are one of the "spaces" of the Internet. There's context for consuming a huge gradient of text and video lengths.

Memes are the immediate, 3 seconds long attention span. And, as we mention, we are horrible at it. For the reasons you recognise. I agree! But we must fight for that's attention space, because that's where most people is.

As usual, the fight is harder for us. Doesn't mean we give up on fighting.

Of course the funnel is different. We have to strategise around it. Different people, media and content for different sections of the funnel. But we need the top of the funnel too, because that's where real people are.

What about Stalin's big spoon? It's nonsense and confusing, but puts Stalin front and center. What else is there?

They got troll face, Chad, polandball, the frog, and the list goes on. Who's us, on the memeland? In south America we got care bears and the URSAL.

There must be more! We can do fun too, for fucks sake!

With love. :)

I was expecting a gofundme camping to recover your losses.

Also, you don't even know if they are in Gambia. As far as I know, they can be in Germany. Everything is just lies, smoke and mirrors to make you feel like that. Screw them.

Take that as a very expensive class in online safety and social engineering. Keep on studying it, but don't take it personally. That only works with people that have hearts. :)

I think everyone here agrees numerology is a scam with zero scientific evidence.

What does lemmygradians think of traditional Chinese medicine?

The scientific reasoning behind specifically acupuncture and cupping sound 100% like bullshit to me, but anecdotally it works for relieving chronic pain for my partner. Go figure.