Drinking coffee while or before reading helps me personally if it’s not something super gripping (most non fiction lol). Honestly sometimes learning is like working out. Building a habit out of it is difficult at first and it is usually best to start slow but consistantly. Pick any book and just read a set amount of pages or minutes per day, stand up while reading it if you have to in order to stop from getting sleepy, just power through it as best you can. Eventually increase the amount of time you spend on it. Sometimes it happens naturally and you’ll just want to keep reading one day, sometimes you have to say, it’s been a few weeks and I should up my time by some amount.

I really recommend picking a book on a topic that doesn’t just interest you but is important to you. For me, political theory and indigenous history fill this requirement.

A lot of podcasts use RSS, would recommend. I use an opensource app called Antennapod to aggregate them. It will even find them for you if you use the search function

There was political violence around Tian’anmen square on june 4th 1989 yes. This cannot be denied and no one is denying this, not even the CPC. The narrative around that political violence that we hear in the west is however, riddled with lies and intentional distortion for the purpose of propaganda. Here is a great video on the subject that is fully sourced if you are interested. Some of the source links are unfortunately 404s now, I’ll see if I can find the articles referenced and make a followup comment.

Edit: I have unfortunately found zero archives of the missing articles and my sleuthing skills are limited to searching the only 2 archive sites I know rn.

I did however find the wikileaks info that the telegraph article discusses

Gimme all your pennies so I can make ingots please and thank you

It’s fascinating that this story has come into public consciousness recently. It’s something a learned about I little over 2 years ago but I’ve only started seeing information about it without looking for it this past week. Anyone know why? Did something happen?

Not his real name but its the only thing anyone called him and I never knew another name for him

Used to a know a guy named Mop who had a dog named Filanges on account of his long toes. He called me bud and gave me brisket every chance he could as long as I stayed for a conversation

The pig is owned by a pig lmao

Depends on the project. Manual labor? Group 100% of the time. Intellectual labor? Alone the vast majority of the time.

I don’t use AI if I can help it.

Is this about Cheney? It feels like its about Cheney lol

:)

I miss anarchostripperism

Haven’t seen any of them in like 6 years, maybe more

Way ahead of you, taking an anthropology course rn lol

This is gonna sound fucked up bc it absolutely was but I only learned that women are people when I was like 15 maybe 16. By that I mean complex and interesting in a way deserving of respect and patience. I was a shitty kid who grew up around a lot of misogyny. Learning this earlier would have saved women in my life a lot of trouble and grief they didn’t deserve. There are a lot of people I’ll never be able to make it up to and I think about them a lot tbh. I wish I could find 2 of them to atleast say sorry.

On a less consequential note though, I wish I had learned how interesting history can be far earlier. I spend the majority of my undergrad on physics which I liked to think about but didn’t actually enjoy doing very often. I struggled heavily compared to my peers especially as I came to realize most of the uses for my degree would betray the morals I was developing at the time. My interest in the subject remained but my motivation to be good at it plummeted. I took an art history course as an elective in my 3rd year and fell in love. Not only was it beautiful and interesting in the mechanical sense but the evolution and variety of human expression was endlessly fascinating. I am a history major now and while some of the romance has faded at the hands of 200 pages of grain and transport statistics I am much happier. It’s a wonder I did not realize this sooner to be entirely honest. I am autistic and have always loved obsessing over fictional worlds, knowing everything about them until I ran out of things to know, digesting and regurgitating their lore to anyone who will listen. How I did not see the greatest story right in front of me I will never know. It also ended up being far more alligned with my morals which is a plus.

I am honestly glad I discovered it when I did. Any earlier and I would have been (more) insufferable and my somewhat reactionary family would be aware.

The non-pedophile obviously? How is this a question? Are you genuinely asking if I’d rather be gay or a sex offender?

This would put me on suicide watch if I was having a bad day

I actually use my middle and ring finger depending on the angle can be more comfortable