• RedCheer@lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    3 months ago

    Starting to get involved in mass orgs locally, doing some applied theory, and it feels good!

    Big thanks to everyone here, the Matrix server, and ProleWiki for time, patience, and shared knowledge.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    3 months ago

    35 degrees Celsius over here today. Thank god we have airconditioning at my work. My partner has it worse in construction.

      • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
        11·
        3 months ago

        Idk this city traps heat like crazy. Lots of concrete with very little trees, especially outside of the city center. At night the heat won’t go away either so it’s just constant sweating on days like this.

        • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
          14·
          3 months ago

          Trees make a huge difference. Even in the same city, when you go from a neighborhood with no trees to one with lots of trees and vegetation you immediately feel a difference of several degrees.

  • Comrade Rain@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    3 months ago

    Here in Greece we have raging wildfires for yet another summer, one enormous fire (30km 40km wide) raging so close to the capital the smoke has enveloped the sky in many parts of the city, and the lib government praises itself over its “quick reaction time”. Very few precautions have been taken since last year, so now fire fighters are risking their lives to contain the crisis, working for more than 24h in a row, unfortunately without much success. Some buildings (mainly houses) have already been burnt by the fire, fortunately no casualties for now.

    Edits: added second photo, updated some info

    Yesterday's photo of the smoke from the National Observatory webcam

    An eerie photograph of a big cloud of smoke over Athens. No, this isn't on Mars.

    Today's photo, the flames near the National Observatory itself

  • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    3 months ago

    Installed a dating app and got no matches, I know this is a somewhat frequent experience for men but it still feels bad

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      3 months ago

      There’s one I’ve been on for… I’m not sure, could be more than a year, though I was inactive for a while during periods of that. I have a grand total of 4 likes and 3 of them were recently when I was inactive, which seemed like the app was giving me a bit more visibility to draw me back in. (And none of them are people I want to match with.)

      Based on the things I’ve heard, the game seems to be that these apps tend to “rank” you early on and then from there, you’re mostly stuck where you are unless you pay to get more visibility. And because rejections are not something you “see” unless you match and then the other person unmatches, you have no way of knowing for sure if your interactions (likes, or on Hinge, messages without being matched) are being seen by anyone or if they are buried in the stack.

      I know on Hinge, from the end of receiving attention, there’s a limited number of likes you can see at a time without paying. So presumably that means that if, for example, somebody gets flooded with likes/comments and gets 100 of them, they’d have to go through and match or reject with each one to see all of them if they are a free user. And because some women get flooded with more attention than they have the time to engage with, that effectively means you might never get seen at all.

      I know that’s not exactly an encouraging way of looking at it, but considering the mechanisms of it helps remind me that it’s likely not something to do with me and is far more likely I got in a bad spot early with the “ranking” and can’t get out of it without paying. So sometimes I go through it for the hell of it to remove people in my stack, or send out the occasional like/message, but I try not to spend too much time on it when it’s designed to work against me.

      • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        3 months ago

        I am also certain these apps have hidden systems designed to work against most people.It’s not the first time I give a dating app a try. In my past attempts, I always got a few matches in the first few days, then nothing. I believe the app matched me with people that liked everyone (or at least did so at that time) in order to give an initial ‘high’ that I would attempt to chase by paying.

        • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          3 months ago

          Oh yeah, on some apps, there definitely seems to be profiles that are liking everybody. I’ve heard it speculated (not sure if confirmed) that they tend to give you a visibility boost when you are a new profile, which is why you can end up with a few likes in the beginning then nothing. Though with Hinge, I found I wouldn’t necessarily get any even when new, possibly because Likes are more limited per day than some apps and it allows you to send a message with a like, so it’s a bit more conscious.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    3 months ago

    Got caught in the middle of a thunder storm last night. Never experienced something like that before. Shit was wild, it felt like bombs going off in my street. Lots of fires around in the city as well. Nature can be scary.

    • Franfran2424@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      Thunder storms are scary at night. Got caught by one during a countryside walk once, and you feel kinda hopeless.

  • Che's Motorcycle@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    3 months ago

    My 20 year old cat died, I got Covid, and I had to block someone for the first time on Lemmygrad. I hope that means this week can only get better from here…

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    3 months ago

    When you actually analyze White Replacement conspiracy theories, it becomes pretty obvious that what white supremacists are really afraid of is being treated like Palestineans: Being taken over by some third party, herded into tiny ghettos and periodically mass murdered under the guise of national defense.

    • l0tusc0bra@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      All brutes and tyrants are kept awake at night at the non-zero percent possibility that the tables will be turned. That’s why they scream communism when they stub their toes. They’re hearing bumps in the night.

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      3 months ago

      I think they are actually thinking on something worse. They want to dehumanize an ethnicity to justify applying means to stop their reproduction. From things like exile, deportation, chemical sterilization and the like. What they are actually looking for is a “rational” justification to commit genocide.

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      3 months ago

      Thoughts: do it. It is a really fun and effective way to train a lot of muscles. Just one hour per sessions, one or two times a week is enough for a good full body workout. When I finish my marathon training (and the marathon itself) in october, I might take up swimming too.

  • Ahri Boy 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 months ago

    For ₱34 million worth of condominium received by the double gold medallist from the Philippines, that price would be enough to build facilities for skateboarding, breakdancing, bocchia, air rifle, and other Paralympic sports.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      i found it absurd too lol. Global south countries giving cash rewards is stupid, that money is better spent developing infrastructure, educating teachers, etc…

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 months ago

    Apparently there is a new version of Mpox spreading in Africa and the WHO is declaring it an international emergency. Fun times ahead maybe.

  • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    3 months ago

    Robert Hutchinson, After Nuremberg: American Clemency for Nazi War Criminals.

    How the American High Commissioner for Germany set in motion a process that resulted in every non-death-row-inmate walking free after the Nuremberg trials

    After Nuremberg is about the fleeting nature of American punishment for German war criminals convicted at the twelve Nuremberg trials of 1946–1949. Because of repeated American grants of clemency and parole, ninety-seven of the 142 Germans convicted at the Nuremberg trials, many of them major offenders, regained their freedom years, sometimes decades, ahead of schedule. High-ranking Nazi plunderers, kidnappers, slave laborers, and mass murderers all walked free by 1958. High Commissioner for Occupied Germany John J. McCloy and his successors articulated a vision of impartial American justice as inspiring and legitimizing their actions, as they concluded that German war criminals were entitled to all the remedies American laws offered to better their conditions and reduce their sentences.

    Based on extensive archival research (including newly declassified material), this book explains how American policy makers’ best intentions resulted in a series of decisions from 1949–1958 that produced a self-perpetuating bureaucracy of clemency and parole that “rehabilitated” unrepentant German abettors and perpetrators of theft, slavery, and murder while lending salience to the most reactionary elements in West German political discourse.

    Have you seen this, @AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml?