Is there a way to reset your nose after olfactory fatigue? Sorta like a palate cleanser for your nose?

Wasn’t trying to be a dick, pard. Apologies I came off that way. Hope you have a relaxing evening!

My brother in Christ, you are confusing Richard Nixon with Ronald Reagan. Nixon resigned. Reagan was wildly popular while implementing policies that have fucked over America for nearly half a decade now.

Я думаю, що багато європейців вважають, що расизму не існує в їхніх куточках світу. Це легко стверджувати, коли всі у вашій країні виглядають і говорять так само, як ви.

I’m happy to report that I’ve nearly filled out my card (I have two blank squares left). Admittedly I’ve interpreted some of the criteria pretty loosely, but doing the card has really helped inspire me to read! I’ve finished more books this year than I think I have read in the past five years combined, so I’m very grateful!

It helped that I became obsessed with the Red Rising series. :D

Flying is so bad now if you don’t book a flight at the ass crack of dawn you’re basically guaranteed to get delayed so I always bite the bullet and book as early as possible!

I just finished Dark Age from the Red Rising series. Started on the Light Bringer audiobook this morning while working! I haven’t been this into a series in a long time so I’ve been blazing through it, though Dark Age was a bit of a slog for me so I’m hoping book six will pick up in pace a bit.

I also started The Colour of Magic last night to give myself a lighthearted option in between the heavier series. I’ve read more books this year I think than I ever have before thanks to the Book Bingo challenge keeping me motivated! :D

Fascists are extremely sensitive to criticism because they rely upon the mythology that their ideology is bulletproof and objectively righteous compared to all else. I’ll put this excellent snippet from a u/Professional_Low_646 reply to an r/AskHistorians (a subreddit we desperately need to recreate on Lemmy/Piefed!) thread titled: “What lessons did German resistors to Hitler’s political career leave for future people who found themselves in a transition to fascism?”

the German people were actually nowhere near as powerless in all this as postwar Germans have often claimed. Hitler was a populist, and his rule based heavily on doing things „his Germans“ liked. That didn’t mean that the Nazis didn’t make - conscious and often successful - efforts to change what the Germans liked (or at least found acceptable), but in general, the regime tried to avoid upsetting people with its policies. The distinct lack of enthusiasm for the first „Jew Boycott“ orchestrated by the SA in April of 1933, for example, frustrated Nazi leaders, but also resulted in an order to the SA to refrain from future such „disruptive“ actions - at least until propaganda had worked more antisemitism into Germans‘ brains. A similar pattern is repeated over and over, even on core policy issues and late into the war: when the large scale killing of mentally and physically disabled people began to be publicly criticized, in particular by the Catholic Church, the Nazis stopped the murdering (at least for a while). In February of 1943, around 1,500 women in Berlin protested successfully for the release of their Jewish husbands, who had been rounded up for deportation.

In other words, the real way to fight the fascists is to find a way to force their populist support base to vocally oppose the leadership. That’s a code we haven’t figured out how to crack with the MAGA base but we do know from polling data that Trump is the source of their power.

I felt the same way! I start a checklist every time my wife and I go on a walk now. It’s pretty amazing how many different birds you start to notice when you just stop and pay attention for a few minutes. So much to see out there. Hope you enjoy it, friend.

Is this that guy Donald Trump who rapes women and children?

“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

Given how the markets have at this point have elected to completely ignore Trump it wouldn’t surprise me if the sky falls for two days and then the world collectively decides to ignore and forget the shit show.

“Huelga para la dignidad” = “Strike for dignity”

I like this summarized as “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.”

Also if you just want the audio to listen to (I like to do this with TTRPGs) you can do:

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio

Also works great in a pinch for getting sounds and music for FoundryVTT.

OH thank you I understand now. Unfortunately, no.

What?

I don’t have any revolutionary advice to give to you my friend. I’m quite a bit younger than you and I already am feeling the creep of losing touch with the speed of new technology. I think to a certain extent that is inevitable. I will say that there is a tremendous amount of survivorship bias in the videos of young people making racks off of day trading. These videos are designed to get people hooked on what is functionally gambling. No offense meant whatsoever, but if you’re living paycheck to paycheck it’s the exact type of slippery slope that can turn a bad financial situation into a ruinous one. I hope you find something that you like though and wish you the best of luck in whatever you do!

Subscribed! :D

Is there an equivalent community for r/DMAcademy anywhere? I feel like that would be the perfect place for these kinds of discussions!