Not currently living with a partner, but based on salary differences with my previous partner, we decided to set a minimum monthly saving for each (we had separate finances) since at the end of the day the important thing for us was that both of us would be able to save up money at an adequate rate.
Can’t believe anyone hasn’t said onion rings yet. I make a sauce on the side with raw tomato and fresh chili + bell pepper, just grinding them all into a puree together with vinegar and salt, fresh and spicy to contrast the greasy rings
Thanks!! I’m thinking my next project should be an open source metal detector, I’m so excited about the idea and I haven’t seen anything similar.
Over the past year or so, I’ve had a project with a friend to motorize a Dobsonian telescope and have it ready by the eclipse of August 2026 in Spain so we could use it at night for looking at a bunch of cool stuff like nebulae and Saturn and whatnot. Well, we fucking made it! If anybody wants to motorize a telescope using OnStepX (open source project) I have a lot of input lmao
It was super cool pressing “go to Saturn” on the phone and having the telescope point itself to the planet. Pretty proud of that. Working together with a friend on a project is some of the best fun I’ve ever had
The change.org petition starts with an despicable isolated case of violence against puppies for dramatic effect, then goes on to call for corporate boycott of Chinese suppliers of animal products.
I agree with implementing plans for overarching reform and/or abolition of the animal industry, but applying this exclusively to China is simply anti-China efforts. Mass farming, by far the largest issue (as the change.org petition itself recognizes), is ignored everywhere else.
Most people I encounter on a daily basis have close ones. Friends, families, coworkers who like them. People who they consider best buddies and who they deeply love. This means most people are at least good towards a select few loved ones, and the main issue is not about people being intrinsically selfish/evil/bad but about society corrupting our souls towards each other.
This hits the nail in the head so much. I’m in my late 20s and until recently I haven’t realized I’ve never rejected a girl’s advances at me because of the need for validation (except when in a relationship for exclusivity reasons). I’ve never been the type to hit on a girl at a disco or something, and I always thought it’s just because I’m a chicken, until recently when I introspected and realized I just don’t want to make out with someone I don’t know.
So much of it is this crazy imbalance in expectations, desires, and bullshit created by patriarchy. Thanks for putting it so clearly and well-explained, useful af
True, a more accurate statement would be that our labor goes into it
“exemplar communist prototype”
fails
How can the actual outcome of said revolution be praised if it failed? Even by the account of most anarchists, they were quite easily controlled by the Republican state since the May Days onwards. Destabilizing from the inside the war industry of a faction engaged in a civil war against fascism is not a victory in my book. Ffs, even the Nazis were rooting for the Anarchists in Barcelona and infiltrated them to promote a revolution against the Republican Spanish government (see Harro Schulze-Boysen’s execution by Nazi Germany).
My ancestors have had to endure fascism due to the incapability of the Spanish revolution to put a stop to them. My fucking parents were singing Cara al Sol every morning in their summer camps doing the fascist salute. And I’m living the consequences of said system. If the argument is “ML power structures end up reproducing capitalism”, by that logic anarchism is 100 times worse.
This “debate” was settled after WW2 to anyone willing to look at the material reality. “The Anarchists losing to fascists in Spain is actually good, whereas the Bolsheviks saving the entirety of Eastern Europe from extermination at the hands of Nazism is authoritarian” is a particularly disgusting form of historical nihilism.
Morality isn’t intrinsically hypothetical, real people with real struggles exist now.
Obviously you’re in a socialist community here, and everyone agrees that the endgoal is worker internationalism and the abolition of states and borders.
However, living in 2026, there are currently people subjected to the atrocities of the capitalist empires, who have fortunately managed to generate worker states which work for them and vice versa. You cannot possibly argue that in the current geopolitics, Cubans are better without a state than with it, and it’s also hard to argue that Cuban patriotism is a force for good.
I also find it interesting that you used the phrase “morally good form of serving a country”, focusing on the country, rather than focusing on the people
Every doctor treats people. Cuban doctors in particular treat people in Cuba, so they’re serving an entire country’s worth of people. I don’t see the issue with this description.
Medical doctors, generally speaking, care for people locally
If I commute 45 minutes to work I’m no longer caring for people locally, most patients seen by doctors are people they don’t know or have heard about, all that many Cuban doctors know about most patients is that they’re in Cuba and they’re sick, so they get treatment.
I already explained the moral difference to me between a Cuban doctor choosing to move to Germany and make 5000€/month treating Germans, vs a Cuban doctor staying and Cuba and earning 500€/month treating Cubans (I’m making up the figures). I don’t need hypotheticals about outpatient clinics, or rehab centres, or Netanyahu, I’m describing a specific existing situation and judging its morality, I don’t see the need for imaginary alternative universes where the ICC works to explain how “doctor chooses to get a huge pay cut and treat people from their country” is, I believe, almost universally morally positive.
You could argue it ultimately was for the people, but one of the most memorable and widely used slogans during the war was Za rodinu, za Stalina! literally meaning “For the Motherland, for Stalin!”.
Of course people don’t cry “for the state!” as in “for the apparatus of class repression and bureaucracy!”, but when they cry “for my country!” they’re not exclusively chanting “for my peoples and close ones!”
Well, I think personally choosing to become a doctor in Cuba, and staying there and caring for people who aren’t necessarily your immediate neighbours and community is a morally good form of serving a country. They’re suffering much worse living conditions knowingly just for the sake of the people of said country, who would otherwise get fucked even harder by the blockade
You didn’t really answer, “it’s more complicated” is not an answer. You can say “I don’t have an answer” if you don’t, but I’d like to hear your opinion
No, I’m talking about today
So they should just move out of Cuba and treat people somewhere else and that would be equivalently moral?
Would you say this too about the doctors in Cuba enduring poverty conditions, blackouts, and studying hard all their lives to treat their compatriots even during the blockade, when they could move to another country and make literally 10 times as much while also helping patients there? I think this patriotism in Cuba is saving hundreds of thousands of lives.
Hate to be that person but no, this is not correct. Long live to the heroes of the Soviet Union who gave their lives defending their homeland from fascism, long live the Cuban doctors who study all their lives to treat their compatriots.
the intended audience is not you. Which means you cannot understand what it is trying to say unless you read it from the perspective of an anarchist
Shouldn’t a revolutionary movement attempt to make itself understandable and convince everyone? Why the focus on the intended audience?
Yeah, definitely glad we did that. The relationship ended up not working and I’m glad we both had the means to live independently after.