I recently got back in contact with a friend I hadn’t talked to for 9 years.

I have no job and no education, I just volunteer as a groundskeeper at an old anglican church. I believe that volunteering is really good, but I don’t recommend volunteering for large organisations, especially political ones. I just mow lawns and rake leaves and stuff. Very wholesome. The only community that I’m a part of is a weekly open mic at a cafe, and occasional ticket $ gigs or maybe board games with the homies. I still suck at Settlers Of Catan. Usually I hide in my room and just play games on Xbox. At 35 I really don’t care about anything any more. If I get a job it’ll be e-scooters or aged care. Warehouse and forklifts is trash work, stressful and dangerous. If they’ll hire anyone then that’s a warning sign to me.

We all need to bring back board games. Start with a game like quoridor (really stupid game but good for trolling) and also World Changers. Seriously comrades this game called World Changers could save someone’s life, buy it, try it out, spread the word. The game has Karl Marx and Che Guevara as character cards (also Bach and Gengis Khan and some ancient greek stuff).

I bought Ticket To Ride (Europe edition) but I haven’t taken it from its box just yet. It’s hard to organise with people but if you’re already friends with political activists who’re similar age, have similar views, then start with those people and expand toward less political people.

We don’t have to be isolated.

edit: btw I gave up on education too. It costs a lot and I can’t live comfortably with 5-10 flatmates nor can I easily travel to the campus.

All the good/interesting stuff is banned on reddit, it’s same story on other websites. I miss the old days before internet censorship.

It’s a pain in the ass when you want to run a web server on your PC. You have to disable SELINUX else the damn thing won’t let me modify html pages and show the updates. Everything is just frozen from making any changes. That said, it’s probably easier to do web development another way, my method is nearly two decades obsolete. SELINUX really pissed me off though. I wanted to test forum software on my PC once, and SELINUX was blocking me and I couldn’t figure it out for ages.

-24 votes, what the hell gives? I’m glad I click the “see hidden posts” button just in case I miss something like this.

The articles on RT explained it very well - the Anchorage talks could lead to an agreement but Ukraine won’t surrender the remaining 15% of Donetsk and Europe keeps arming and assisting Ukraine. Something must be done to make Europe think twice about its actions. Supplying Ukraine with weapons and allowing Ukraine to kill Russian civilians is unacceptable, there is no reason why Ukraine should kill dozens of Russians every month in the border towns. Russia has become too tolerant. They’ve made public warnings for weeks (about NATO countries allowing Ukraine to attack via their air space) this happened before the Ukrainian attack in Luhansk.

Get on your bikes everyone!

Russia can afford to keep the pressure on Ukraine. If they back down now, it will be a victory for the TrumpenReich. Gulf States buying tech from Ukraine doesn’t mean that Russia’s technology is crap - Russia has the lancet drone and also anti-drone drones (lol)

This is just sadism - targeting civilian workers at a civilian power plant.

I don’t expect anything big but ya know it’s good for their “war as a business” economy and it makes sense to have embassies in as many countries as possible. Kyiv just doing whatever it can until the next Maidan coup lol

The issue is that the Vatican does diplomacy and makes political statements. Despite being a religious organisation, they also act like a government of sorts. If you read the book Gideon’s Spies by Gordon Thomas you’ll learn that Mossad is also spying on the Vatican. I think every government with a budget is doing this.

Get ready for international supply problems and inevitable government intervention. Trump will go down as the biggest doofus in history.

I can’t buy a washing machine because I have a shared laundry here with about 10 other tenants and I have no say in how things work. Only 2 washers and 1 dryer. At one point it stank of mould and even now it frequently leaks water onto the floor. It’s a matter of trust and hygiene, that’s why I use the laundromat.

Cart sounds interesting but again, no storage area.

The EV rental in my country will only charge $20 to handle the fine, which is nothing. Coffee is like $5 or $6.

I never tried a cart.

Not sure what the rules are now. Sometimes buses can get packed full so I’d say it’s a bad idea unless it’s late in the evening. Once I took a large box (computer chair) on the bus back in 2017 or 2018 that wasn’t an issue.

Sounds good for the future. 2026 is still gonna suck.

Websites should copy VKontakte and make the user line-up several words in Cyrillic. It’s the hardest one I’ve ever had to pass, it has to be exactly in the right place 😂

Like a sliding puzzle from Hell.

Ukraine killed at least 20 civilians in Belgorod in the end of February, or was that Bryansk?

Sounds like a scam. My friend recently looked for cars online, saw one he thought was good. Had a weird description “only 70,000km on the odometre but air conditioning is broken” like how? Then my friend paid $300 for a “viewing” of the car and the scammer made off with the money. Needless to say my friend isn’t very smart and never was! Imagine paying just to see something. This is sadly what mental illness does to a person. Not the first time my friend was scammed either.