I was an idiot and read it as .ro for Romania. Of course I know about Russia and the war.
Still I also wouldn’t comment on people posting .com-links, even though the US are fighting endless illegal wars for decades and the president is wrecking democracy for a police state.

Why?

Shoutout to our parents for hitting an absolute timeline sweet-spot. Drop in right after a world war, have a bunch of weird sex before HIV, buy a house for like 20.000€, start a family, retire young and peace out right before the ocean kills us.

We are all equal, we want to live peaceful, save and secure lifes. Then come the psychopaths who crave the power.
Americans who think they have more in common with Trump, Musk and Vance than with average Canadians: Guess again!

This is not a book, but files to use in some kind of dictionary-app. AA is not a place for these kind of files, I’m pretty sure they won’t allow them over there.

VEGETABLE COUS COUS

From Morocco

Ingredients:

• Onions, roughly diced
• Ginger
• Spices, e.g:
  Curry, cumin, turmeric.
• Hard vegetables, e.g:
  Carrots, potatoes, beet, pumpkin
• Soft vegetables, e.g:
  Mushrooms, zucchinis, cauliflower, peppers, tomatoes
• 1 tin of chickpeas
• Salt
• Cous cous

Instructions:

1. Roughly dice plenty of onions and fry in oil with ginger. Fry the spices briefly and deglaze with a little chickpea water.
2. Add hard vegetables in thick slices or cubes, cook a little. Then add softer vegetables.
3. Add the chickpeas at the end and season with salt. There should be some sauce left over.
4. Serve with cous cous!

Shared with Broccoli

I kinda disagree. Social media, even this very harmless version of it, is great for building opinions. But it’s not great at making stuff happen in the real world. I will never meet anyone from Lemmy. It might be comforting to write about guillotines here, posting angry articles, but we in general and especially you Americans need to leave this save zone and actually do something. Fast. With your bodies. In the real world. Show up! Being online is a trap, it makes you feel like you’re participating while it eats you time and kills your energy. Greta Thunberg stopped going to school, wrote a sign and sat down.

Get Signal, gather some local people and do stuff.

Edit:
I agree it can be a challenge. Showing up and meeting a handful of people in the rain can be frustrating and disappointing. But there is no other way and these are real life experiences you will talk and bond about. Sorry for the pep talk. :)

Edit:
I’m not saying you should leave. I love Lemmy! Use it as a tool, not a solution. And a messenger is much more helpful to organize you locally.

Well put! And please go vegan. Exploiting and murdering sentient beings by the billions in an industry too gruesome to look at because you are accustomed to a taste is peak capitalist cynicism.

My personal take:
No thanks! is the most powerful thing you can say. Don’t engage, stop buying endless toys and distractions, build a local community, hang out with real people in reality, share stuff and be kind. Maybe blow up a pipeline too.

Edit: I didn’t see the comment below, it’s much better!

If you own (or rather inherit) 20 million and you invest them with an interest rate of 5% you earn 1 million a year without doing any work. You can buy every luxury you need with an income like that. So everything above 20 million is not wealth or security anymore, it’s power. And some people are attracted by it.

Are you telling me that Jeffrey Bezos is INTENTIONALLY attracting billions of customers with cheap stuff and then starts closing down his ecosystem? Why would he do that?!

💚

I have it from Michael Greger @ nutritionfacts.org as he cites all his sources. But now I was lazy and just did search:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2989356/

You can ditch the fish oil and eat a hand full of walnut a week, or (my favorite) eat half a tea spoon of grinded flax seed a day. I love the taste of flax seeds!

Please eat fruits and vegetables, supplements are (mostly) a scam!

I also get very alienated by the “diversity” and “feminism“ modern Hollywood & Netflix cinema. It’s the same type of diversity and feminism that exists in corporate, where there is diversity in terms of ethnicity and sexuality, but only within class.

Are you talking about Rainbow Capitalism?

Wait, smoking is awesome!

Maybe smartphones and social media are a problem here. Running around buttnaked with penises drawn to you face isn’t that fun anymore, if everyone can take a picture/video that might haunt you for decades. It’s self-surveillance.

A curated list of (not only) German piracy sites.

Don’t feed the troll. It won’t come back, it’s too expensive.