my laser place recommends exfoliating with something neutral/non-acidic after 3 days and repeating every 3 days in between treatments. it works well for me, face gets a little red right after exfoliating but nothing major. all places seem to have different things they recommend though so it's hard to know what's ideal, just need to experiment and find what works best. but i don't think some light exfoliation should be off the table after a few days of healing, it could help in this case.

seems like corruption got really bad under him

i'm sorry, i didn't mean to put words in your mouth. i mean, i just don't see any reason to put stock in him saying that stuff. he is a capitalist through and through. it's a fair observation that western pols have stopped even doing the lip service because they feel they have completely defeated the left and are too brazen to even do that to placate people anymore, but that just says more about the conditions and advancement of contradictions i think than it does about any real likelihood of RF pursuing socialist policies. sure they have been doing like high state spending keynes stuff but it's not a step towards socialism. i think russian anticommunism clearly has a radically different character than western anticommunism for obvious reasons which is worth talking about but it's not meaningfully "less" anticommunist what they are doing imo. the underlying class relations just aren't so different after all.

they have different (but not so different) ways of keeping the left down which are appropriate for their history and material conditions. Russian Federation is still an anticommunist project driven by anticommunist ideology, like let's not get ahead of ourselves and act like the guy is some kind of fellow traveller

come on now

i think lumpenproletariat is a useful term that shouldn't be synonymous with "reactionary", it doesn't mean that.

the utopian synthesis: no England, yes socialism.

Seder is a bit of a fellow traveller as he actually shows respect to those more radical than him and even used to have them on the show

totally, it's a similar trajectory to any western capitalist state, not nearly as accelerated or contradictory as the exceptional US but ahead of the curve in the west EU context. thank you comrade, you too.

pretty much, i made a quick and dirty effort post in another reply.

nooooo... we have good PR and a lot of people are under the impression we're some kind of nice ish euro socdems, but it's not the case at all. I don't have time to do a full effort post right now, but we have been ruled by an alternating pair of Tory parties since we achieved "independence" (island is still partitioned by the Brits). that's Fine Gael (Nazi roots, look up the blue shirts) and Fianna Fáil (right wing republicans). first they were compradors to the Brits, more recently it's the yanks reflecting the historical global shift in hegemony. we are at the bleeding edge of west EU neoliberalism, ruled by a cabal of landlords. the Tory parties which historically alternated for 100 years entered an exceptional coalition with each other in the 2020 election because Sinn Féin won the popular vote. it was essentially a soft coup. their ideological differences (based on opposition or acceptance of the Anglo-Irish treaty 1921 which partitioned the island) had been considered irreconcilable up to that point but suddenly when the republican socdems were about to take power for the first time ever they united. since then it's just been intense decline with COVID in the mix too and the coalition won the elections again last year after SF blew their chance by being liberals. the Tory coalition has a radical atlanticist agenda and we've never been more overtly a loyal vassal of the empire. shitty single bed apartments in Dublin cost over €1500 in rent. over 13,000 people are homeless, an increase of 10k in the last 15 years or so. inflation has gone wildly out of control and more and more are struggling.

Irish people are by and large good on Palestine, which is nice. unfortunately our govt have been able to leverage this fact to do their own PR while more or less going out of their way not to punish Israel, they've been putting off the occupied territories bill (divestment) for years using arcane parliamentary measures because they don't want to piss off the Yankee overlords. the current govt has also aided and abetted a significant rise in far-right support in the last decade by continuing a manufactured housing crisis and taking a "head in the sand" approach to the rise of actual fash. they are still relatively fringe for now but it's still a big change from 10years ago. things have never been worse in my lifetime, our good decade was the 90s and since 2008 it's just been decline, stagnation, austerity, inflation getting worse and worse by the year. i consider myself to live in the second least hospitable place in Western Europe, second only to the UK.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/08/15/more-than-two-thirds-of-young-adults-in-ireland-still-living-with-parents-figures-show/

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/10/25/homelessness-in-ireland-hits-record-high-of-14760-people/

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2023/07/20/ireland-has-one-of-lowest-rates-of-home-ownership-for-under-40s-esri-says/

https://www.ontheditch.com/donohoe-had-secret-call/

https://www.ontheditch.com/us-ambassador-warned/

corruption in politics is a fact of life here for decades and as a result a severe political apathy has set in. too many are still comfortable homeowner class (starkly divided by age) and nothing has changed for the better in many years with no indication it will as we just elected the same govt for 5 more.

I'm really glad to hear you've been doing better 💜

I'm not sure offhand, i haven't really used the feature just noticed that the navigation buttons work. I'll try to remember to test it for you! I have a 3rd party dock too fwiw.

would love a good option, I use a fire stick for Plex and smarttube which works fine but it is slow as shit for supposedly modern hardware.

the steam deck does already support HDMI-CEC, no need for IR sensor if your TV is new enough to support that.

being on world and hating .ml is so funny. enjoying the fruits of collectivised labour while vehemently disagreeing with the ideology that made it possible. straight up they wish some CEO owned the whole thing instead, that would be more comforting to them

i love Nobara

the EU is over, in its death throes.

its gonna depend vastly on the person, sizing it down slightly might make it more achievable and less overwhelming which could be good, but if you can plan 5 years ahead with a bit of confidence more power to you. i'm in the camp of not really being capable of planning beyond the end of the week