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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

PDFs are hard because you need a big e-reader screen. Text only formats like Epub or Mobi are much easier. If you think you can find epubs for all the PDFs you want to read, I'd recommend getting an old Kindle. I'm partial to the Kindle Touch (which can be jailbroken easily). You can often find them for around 20 USD on eBay, which is the cheapest you can get something like this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Intel laid off 1 out of every 5 people in the division I worked for about 8 months ago, myself included. I'm sure this will fix the morale problem they have!

spoilerYeah I know I shouldn't have been working there, but it was my first job out of school and they laid me off pretty soon after I realized how evil they were. At least I got some severance so they effectively paid me to quit, which I wanted to do anyways at the time

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'd say if tomatoes are out of season and you're cooking them anyways, like in a stew or a sauce, even bad canned tomatoes are probably better. If you have access to good fresh tomatoes, they can be better than most canned tomatoes, but like high quality canned ones are hard to beat.

Also, the less processed the canned tomato, the better it is. If you want the best tomato flavour, get whole canned tomatoes, rather than diced or crushed.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago

AP and ABC called PA for Trump, it's joever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

AP just called Pennsylvania

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

My guess is Decision Desk, they've called the election for Trump (incl PA, WI, AK, but not ME-2)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some "fun" anticommunist highlights included:

  • The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
  • The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
  • The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
  • The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
  • The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
  • The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
  • The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren't forbidden from existing by the state
  • The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it's not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn't doing this)
  • There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren't allowed to deviate from the USSR's policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

spoiler (sorry, I only photographed the English text)

Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Here's my experience (recently diagnosed ADHD, suspect maybe AuDHD):

Starting about 6 years ago, I started having fairly large amounts of caffeine (300-400mg/day), probably as a way of self medicating ADHD and compensating for too little sleep). At this point, I realized I was physically addicted to caffeine, and if any day went by where I didn't have caffeine by say 3pm, I'd get a bad headache. For the next ~3 years after starting this, I didn't go a single day without coffee.

Starting about 2-3 years ago, I decided that I really didn't like the idea of having to have a coffee every day, so I decided to try to stop my addiction. I stopped abruptly and didn't have any caffeine for a month (for me, I knew a gradual stopping wouldn't work, I had to fully commit to it to get it to stick). It was miserable, especially for the first 3-4 days. The first week as a whole was pretty rough, then week 2 was marginally better, week 3 a bit better still, and week 4 felt good, finally.

Since then, because I really like the taste of coffee, I've been consuming 2-3 coffees per week, but I try to avoid having them on consecutive days. I think it works pretty well for me, and I have managed to hold off the physical addiction like that (except for one time where I compensated for jetlag with lots of coffee, and got re-addicted and had to do the same miserable process as above).

Also, I recently started stimulant meds for my ADHD (Vyvanse in particular), and for a while I couldn't have caffeine because it made me too anxious. Now, I'm used to the meds and can have caffeine, but it's much easier to resist the temptation.

All in all, I'm happy that I'm not addicted anymore, and for me it was a painful process but worth it. I find that caffeine messes with my sleep even many hours after consumption, and I don't feel as rested on days when I have it. I've mostly switched to drinking tea or decaf coffee, and I think it's made me feel less anxious too.

Let me know if you have any questions!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

In my experience the red cups were used for mixed drinks being served by amateur bartenders (or jungle juice), or for kegs, or for drinking games. The latter was by far the most common - beer pong, slap/stack cup, etc. Often, people would rinse and reuse them to cut on waste and/or cost.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Group of young tourists" even (I feel like right wingers would still get triggered over "foreign")

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

They are very very common at fratty college/university parties

[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't Brianna Wu have a tweet where she said she had just learned what pogroms were?

 

I'm at a loss for words with this

 

Love voting for the lesser of two evils candidate who won't let women wearing a hijab in to their campaign rallies! Can you imagine the lib reaction if this happened at a Trump event?

 

some real great takes here bootlicker

I was brought up in a household that was anti military.

Only as an adult was I able to form my own opinion.

Without a strong military in the past we would certainly not be here today and without a strong military now, who knows what other nation might decide to attack our sovereignty.

It's childish to be anti military - it shows you do not understand the interconnectedness of our society - good and bad.

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It's disingenuous to ignore the effect the aggression of the cold war and its aftermath had on the current Russian situation.

Bro, I don't know what warped version of reality you live in, but without a strong American military to stand up to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, you'd be speaking Russian right now. Ukraine blew their chance to join NATO as soon as possible like everyone else did when the Cold War ended, and they are now being slaughtered en masse by Russia in their attempts to turn them into their newest southwestern oblast.

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As a liberal raised during the backlash to the Iraq War, my attitude towards the Military Industrial Complex has really changed in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s seemingly inevitable invasion of Taiwan. Add in the possibility that the US could be dragged into new wars in the Middle East and even possibly South America, and I really don’t think we have the luxury to say “weapons bad, let’s not build any”.

Being the policeman of the world absolutely sucks. War absolutely sucks. But one of the best ways to prevent China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc from saying “might make right, let’s take this land and these resources from our neighbors, since no one can stop us” is for the US to say, “no, we will stop you and we have the will and the tools to easily do it.”

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who's responsible for the US choosing to police the world? who-did-this

The US is the most benign empire one could wish for. History makes that plain, and just peeking over the fence at contender's tendencies and track record further reinforces that. Easy moral justification backed by actual moral justification.

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brainworms

in honour of all the defense of us atrocities i present to you: the hacker news logo with the fascist "life rune" symbol:

maybe we can get that as an emoji in the same vein as reddit-logo

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