Wandering Adventure Party

90% of my mastodon feed is NERDS talking about emacs. I don’t get anything but I really appreciate people’s passion and lowkey vicariously feed on it

Are most people okay?

Asking cuz I was lamenting about the state of the world to a friend and he said, "remember that most people are regular, normal people who are not racist". I think if most people were good, then these absolute dogshit people would not be in power. Maybe not all, but many people, a significant chunk of the population is fucking terrible. Or maybe I am a misanthrope

Have an entire book (and some) to read for next week, and have only gotten through 8% of it. Someone save me

1. ⁠What is colonialism?
2. ⁠How has colonialism been different under different ways of organising production, and what is the character of colonialism under capitalism?
3. ⁠How are imperialism and colonialism different?

Why do Swedes like to have such dim lighting? Already there is no sunlight. I got the bulb in my room replaced because I could barely see anything, and the replacement is not any brighter.

@juergen_hubert no it didn’t hahahaha

Hello cuties. I am back

I got locked out of my apartment yet again. I have 1 hour to get a spare key from the reception, open my door and return it. 4 bus rides. Asking them to come over and open the door would cost 600 sek

Edit: After acquiring my spare keys from the reception, i found my keys buried deep in my bag.

I am taking 6000 years to finish If We Burn but his illustration of Dilma Rousseff’s presidency and how it lost popularity is very insightful. It describes the incredibly challenging position leftist politicians are left in our complex governance systems. I don’t want to do Lula apologia but even for him it must be very difficult to do things he wants with the composition of the Brazilian Congress. The same for Zohran.

This makes me think a couple of things…
P.S. I am anti horizontalism. I am not doing liberal democracy apologia

Now that that is out of the way, I wonder what other new governance structures can we build that avoid bureaucracy, avoid the slow paced-ness of consensus building, represent popular interests without marginalisation on multiple scales? people talk a lot about direct democracy, but what would the logistics of that look like? How would it be implemented? alternative governance models- what are the nitty gritties of these models? How would they work (1/n)

Didn’t know how similar Brazil’s class society is to India’s

I have decided to commence my hustle tomorrow onwards. No more depression

Climate finance, end of neocolonialism and the destruction of capitalism will not happen in the GN, it will definitely not be given to us via diplomatic negotiations and institutions. It will have to be snatched, violently most likely. This is my main takeaway from the conference.

Death to the Global North! 🤪

Idk why despite ranting about this to my friends I cannot stop thinking about that one sentence. Like the attitude that certain tasks are so disgusting that they are beneath you, but being okay with another class of more exploited workers do the same in worse conditions back home. HMMMM.

This has the same energy as another incident. This one Brahmin guy I know was quarantined during the pandemic. People were keeping their distance and obviously taking precautions AS THEY SHOULD.

This dickhead has the AUDACITY to say, "I FEEL LIKE A DALIT"

There are several reasons to criticise my workplace: pay is peanuts, they expect too much at that pay including overtime sometimes.

But this new guy joined and he was tripping about other things only. We are expected to clean the toilets as a part of our duties. This includes sometimes putting our hand down the bowl and unclogging it. My issue with this is that we are not paid to do all these side quests. But the task itself is just a task. None of my coworkers complain about it.

This mfker acts like it is beneath him to clean toilets. Like you can tell he has had domestic workers clean his toilets his entire life. He goes on to say, "da they. treat us like dogs da, we have to clean toilets"

@libreinator

People still iron their clothes

Ironing clothes is the most ridiculous exercise. You waste energy and time for what? “To look presentable “ ! That’s a conspiracy by the Big Iron. The clothes will get wrinkled in no time. It is a pointless exercise. How wrinkled my clothes are have nothing to do with how I am as a human.

Under communism we will not have to iron our clothes anymore

The worst customers are those who stay past closing time. Go. Home. And let me go home too!!!

Chat is it my responsibility to remind my employer to pay me on time

Did not get paid