It depends on how Christmas is celebrated. Handmaking gifts would make an excellent Christmas! I dislike the decoration, tho.

Fun fact: Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate Christmas (or in this case, Yule) because they see it as pagan.

before waking up and finding out that every single thing they ever believed about their countries, governments, and societies were nothing but lies.

I did that, and I don’t know which steps to take first. I’ve gotten to making friends and then telling them about my ideology later, but I am very scared of the police and military. I hear all this new stuff they get–they have tools to hack into people’s smartphones, they are well equipped, and they can just fucking shoot me if they want.

The problem seems to be protests, at least a little bit. My city in particular is a haven for dilettantes across Imperial countries who arrive, then move. This is not like immigrants coming from Mexico, this is like someone in New York deciding he wants to visit the petit-bourgeoise restaurants around town, show up for business meetings, deliver money and fill out paperwork, then leave for Dallas. It’s a tide of people rich enough to love the United States and despise the homeless, yet poor enough to feel alienated and overworked. Like how pond life cannot develop in a river.

There are reasons why I refer to myself as Cascadian, despite being under US-American jurisdiction.

If I get medicated then am I just going to be some guy? A guy who just goes to work, comes home, focuses on stuff and who’s brain is quiet?

Communists don’t have to be neurodivergent or neurotypical. Anyone can be a Communist as long as they have a grasp on the world. Medications will not necessarily hurt you or make you Capitalist. I’ve taken energy drinks, eaten coffee beans, taken all sorts of pills to help with stresses and I’m still here, Red as ever.

The important part is that you’re still alive. Altho it is bravery that spreads the Communist movement, it is self-preservation that ensures one’s survival, so they may one day be brave. Take care of yourself.

Thank you.

They’re coming for Portland. I don’t know what to do.

I don’t like it. (For clarity, I will define AI as neural-network programs that use pattern-seeking to create output.) It uses way more power than it is good for, and altho I sometimes put climate change on the backburner due to necessity, it emits lots. It does not build things like houses and airplanes, its advice cannot help people fix things, and despite the talk of people I’ve found saying “it will get better” it has not done so proportional to the resources put in. Despite most image-generation programs creating incredibly realistic forged images, they have no use in actually making anything valuable, nor in recording things. It is not like carbon dating, the steam engine, or the soda can. It just eats electric power and shits out lies.

Where is this from?

Vietnam just built a high-speed rail.

I mean, in the United States, I am very terrified. There is hardly any good news.

This here is the link to the article. I don’t know about the security.