Yes

Wouldn't the Borg transport some of their drones onto the death star and start assimilating the stormtroopers and crew from the inside before their cube got smashed?

lol at the idea that a scientific concept about institutions could have nothing to do with humans.

That would not be a genocide at all

There's nothing religious about an abaya, apart from that they're fashionable among Muslim women. It's just a modest, loose-fitting dress.

I have an A6 pocket notebook that I carry around in my pocket and I keep notes in there.

Mostly I just map out the next few weeks at a glance and then note down things I have to do day by day. Sometimes I make an extra entry to take notes on and plan things in more detail as needed, e.g. my upcoming holiday, the itinerary, my flights and visas and accommodation and transport and a few things to do in each place, or the wifi password of a place I'm staying, or notes and thoughts on something I'm researching.

My notebook never distracts me the way my phone might, and it's easier to keep my notes accessible over the term of a few weeks, because they're just there.

I still use an online calendar and obsidian for more long-term notes.

Edit: I also sometimes use my notebook, which cost about 0.50 €, to stabilise a wonky table. I wouldn't do that with my phone.

The doco uses Nazi Germany as an in-depth case-study and doesn't survey other examples of fascism. But I asked the creators a similar question in a Q&A after the premiere and they said that yes, the same definition works for fascist Italy, but that there examples often called fascist for which it might not exactly fit, such as Franco's Spain, a much less industrialised country.

However, this analysis provides a clear materialist understanding of how fascism is formed out of the decay of capitalism, the particular material nature of fascism, and allows us to draw clear relationships and distinctions with liberalism, bourgeois democracy, other forms of dictatorship. And if there are some things we've thought of as fascist that don't fit the definition exactly, then this definition allows us to study those differences and particularities, and to study the transfer of ideological features from the original classical fascism to other political formations.

Here's a serious materialist analysis of the question by Prolekult, drawing on writings of Marx, Clara Zetkin, Jairus Banaji and others. https://youtu.be/QO-7cymgtqo

Don't Starve Together

It means they'll become a Russian version of Azov Battalion hth

If people want to read about wizards in a wizard school there's always Discworld. And it's actually pretty well written, funny and with good storylines.

If a resource is becoming depleted than the socially-necessary labour time to produce it, it's value, is going up.

When Marx discusses the lengthening of the working day as the bourgeoisie gained dominance in the early chapters of Capital, Volume 1, he discusses how gradually the working day was lengthened so far beyond what was sustainable in terms of maintaining a healthy workforce that the life expectancy of workers was dropping into the 20's and the average height of English conscript soldiers was falling below that of soldiers in its competitors.

In short, capital in England had expanded the level of exploitation of its workforce and robbed their health to the extent that it was undermining the process of capital accumulation. There was a shortage of good labour, and the security of Britain's capitalists was under threat.

At that point, faced by increasing Worker's resistance, the British state stepped in to secure the interests of capital by legally limiting the working day, so that the health of the workforce might be restored and the resistance of workers curtailed in the interests of profit. This netted us the celebrated 8 hour workday, which was gradually chipped away in the latter half of the 20th century.

Now to COVID. We're already seeing labour shortages thanks to COVID-induced disability, and this situation is likely to worsen with time as COVID-induced disability and other disabilities proliferate with the breakdown of health systems. The current health policy in the imperial core is to brush the pandemic under the carpet in the interests of getting people working, and this policy is leading to increasing scarcity of labour and a growing surplus of discarded, disabled workers.

This situation is not in the interests of workers, and in the long term, it is not in the interests of capital. This presents an arena of struggle around which workers might organise and push-back to achieve concessions once again.

We don't want to be getting sick over and over again with a virus that kills and maims us, that impairs our health further with each successive infection. There is nothing good about this situation. But it does strengthen the power of mass mobilisation and strikes, as labour is increasingly scarce. And so, with sustained organising, grass-roots education and resistance, we could push back the high tide of COVID denials, and win back some of the things we need to strengthen workers power and end the pandemic for real.

This includes health protections in the form of paid sick leave, socialised health-care, and disability indemnity. It also includes prevention in the form of limitations of risky workplace practices, non-pharmaceutical interventions in public spaces and at work such as air filtration, masking, UV lighting, limitations on crowding, closed spaces and close contact, as well as socially supplied vaccination and treatment.

In the long run it could also be used to organise for better pay and conditions at work, and stronger unionisation, which we're already seeing.

Wait, he's a proven kid fucker?

Ur-fascism just describes some surface level symptoms of fascism but misses the structure and causes almost entirely.

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Engels - Anti-Duhring (aka Mr Duhring's Revolution in Science)

In individual cases gaming may promote socialisation and community-building, but in aggregate, gaming is counter-revolutionary.

No

Sounds like ADHD. You should consider getting that checked out if you haven't.

The secret I found to solving this was to just build up a few cleaning habits bit by bit.

You don't have to force yourself to care about cleanliness and organisation, and you don't have to spontaneously clean up the whole house. You just need to build a few little cleaning habits that will manage enough of the cleaning to make it more manageable for both of you. If you learn to take care of enough of the cleanliness of the house, your wife will appreciate the change and will take care of the rest.

I got into the habits of:

• Cleaning the dishes after meals and putting the clean and dry dishes away before lunch and in the evening before bed
• Sweeping the floors once every couple of weeks when they're dirty
• Tidying up clutter from floors, the coffee table, the kitchen bench and a shelf in the corridor that acts as a kind of buffer space where we put things before they go away.
• Cleaning the bathroom mirror when it gets dirty and occasionally the windows.
• Taking out the garbage and recycling when it's full.

By doing this a lot of the work of organising the cleaning is sorted out.

My partner notices the other stuff that needs doing and does it or tells me to do it. She never complains about cleaning anymore because things are manageable and kind of even now.

Building these habits was a simple, bit-by-bit process.

I started with the dishes - the bottleneck in the dishes was that clean and dry dishes were crowding up the rack and not getting put away, so I decided to put them away before lunch and before bed (or other times if I missed these). Whoever didn't cook has the job of cleaning away dishes after meals. This became a sort of automatic thing - if I saw dishes clean and dry I'd quickly put them away.

Then it was clutter. I picked a shelf in the corridor where I would put clutter that was out of place - on tables or floors or wherever. I'd put things there, then every now and then I'd clean up that shelf by putting things back in their place.

For the floors, I moved the broom and the dustpan and brush to a really accessible place. Then when the floors are dirty I grab em and give the floor a sweep, especially the kitchen and lounge where we spend the most time. Sweeping the floor of a room takes like 2 minutes.

For the bathroom mirror, the glass cleaner is underneath it with a squeegy thing. I like the mirror being sparkly clean. So I squeegy it when it gets dirty.

Then it's the bins. If I put something in the bin and it's full or overflowing, I change the bin bag and put the old one next to the front door to take out the next time I go out.

Evenings before bed, I do things that need doing. And voila, clean house. Kinda.

If you do any of the cooking in your couple, I recommend starting with the dishes.