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Uncle of mine years ago before he passed on. He looked unimposing but one day he lifts an engine block. Anyone who has worked with them knows how heavy they are and he just hoists it. On this continent you see a lot of crazy things working in manual labour.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, lemme know if so.
So I've had a rough last couple of years. Moved to California for a job that a friend offered me that didn't end up working out well for me. Ended up in some pretty decent debt, destroyed my credit, I was smoking way too much as an escape and a ended up a bit depressed. Recently I've moved back home and I am living with my parents as a 30 something year old, got off the pot and back on the right kind of meds that work well for me. Right now I'm back working in the restaurant industry and not super happy with it, but it's a decent place, the bosses are relatively chill and the pay is OK for where I'm living now.
What I'd like to do is any decent paying career that would let me do the majority of my work from home. Now that I'm in a stable situation and medicated I wouldn't mind going back to school to accomplish this. My hometown has a pretty good/cheap community college that would be easy for me to enroll in.
So my question is, in this economy what should I look into? I thought about graphic design, but from what I've read the job market is flooded and it probably wouldn't be that great of an idea for someone with next to zero experience. I have considered coding, but I'm worried that the market there is flooded as well and it probably won't get any better with the rise of AI.
Anyone have a career they're actually happy in? Any ideas at all would be great. Thank you in advance for your advice!

Where we're walkin' he-ah one, we're walkin' he-ah all.

Given the chance that Zohran wins the general and start working on these huge public projects, it might be cool to help comrades move to NYC. There is more organizing to do and a short window to take advantage of momentum.

If I may, uh, borrow a quote from our friends, the imperialists:

Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

If we can light up NYC, then we can light up any major or minor city. The finance capital of the world can become the catalyst for the end of finance capital.

To hedge against any struggle sessions. This isn't "You're bad leftist if you don't move your life around for this one event" This is more for people who have the ability/privilege of being able to drop everything. We need comrades everywhere so no sweat if you can't move.

Questions I have:

1. Currently, which areas need the most help in terms of organizing?
2. Which local orgs can I join and are they connected to national orgs?
3. Which areas should non-locals stay away from in the interest of not disrupting current organizing/community efforts?
4. What are vooooting requirements/limitations for out-of-towners?

My kid watches Lego videos on youtube, and the shorts recommended to him are all about Jesus and the devil battling for likes and subs. I supervise, and he doesn't watch them, but I'd rather just not see them at all.

you know haha funny 5 person book club, selling papers, marxists.org

but if we are in the "dark age" of leftism currently are they the equivalent of Irish monks copying ancient Marxist texts for safekeeping?

maybe those 5 person book clubs are monastic circles with complex scholarly initiation rites

those papers, well somebody has got to retain the skills to publish physical media

and marxists.org is basically the marxism library of alexandria

Since according to Bill Ackman the presence of a place you can buy eggs without a 100% markup is going to plunge NYC instantly into a Mad Max / Escape from New York style hellscape, what gangs are we all joining?

Personally I'm thinking the one of slightly sexy cultists who worship bodega cats.

How about you comrades?

Okay I feel so stupid, I only just realized feminine people wear scarves over their heads because it's hot where their place of origin is. I knew that about religious people, but I didnt know why women in India and parts of Africa do. Someone please help me spot other common patterns in terms of clothing. Even culture in general, like some desert cultures discouraging eating shellfish because it spoils too easily in the heat.

It's easy for me to say, "that book is dog shit" but having not read it since I myself was in high school it's hard to go much further than that

Worked fine a few days ago

Edit: the feeds are back to normal

Many eldars were already seeking extremes but the dark eldar do not seem to be the norm of that time. Given time would they have eventually have eventually become like drukhari apart from the few exodites?

As the title says, I was reminded of this one article/blog post explaining capitalism and the state in an introductory, casual, meme-filled manner.

It had a bunch of memes to describe the state including what I remember to be the Daniel Radcliffe Guns Akimbo meme.

My current predicament, however, is that combining some of these keywords in a search engine doesnt yield very useful results and so, to my frustration, I can't find it. I do remember somewhat of a line that mentioned that politicians merely manage capitalism, but that's all other than the Daniel Radcliffe meme.

As I am now relatively obsessed with finding this seemingly esoteric, niche article, if anyone remembers where it's from, it would be greatly appreciated and would allow me to move on with my life.

Odd question, I know, but the situation is dire.

@onandrah1@hexbear.net kept updating me about the attack and injuries she and her sisters sustained when their shelter was burned down. Last thing I know is that they were in a private hospital and the staff, while being overtly transphobic, were threatening them with calling the police if they couldn't pay the hospital bills. It's been more than 2 days and I'm getting seriously worried. Does anybody know more?

need some new boots, the hiking boots I got from costco split in half of the bottoms after 6 months of daily use. I dont need anything steel toe or super heavy doody but I do need something waterproof and durable. I drive a paratransit bus for work in the PNW so Im constantly getting out of the bus to help customers and it rains and is wet a lot.

Right now I'm looking at UNRWA: https://donate.unrwa.org/int/en/general

(Not sure I trust my local -- US -- website.)

I have previously been sending my donations to MSF: https://give.doctorswithoutborders.org/campaign/675296/donate

What do you think, Chapo?

i am about to attend an emergency demo in response to palestine action being banned in terf island, and honestly i have crippling anxiety about attending, do i just walk up and make it clear i fully support? sorry if this is dumb

Theory can give me out of control feelings of excitement, and that's really bad for me. I've been mostly abstaining for years after reading a few articles. Even with things more psychology related, like Will to Change by Bell Hooks, I try but cannot deal with the raw feelings.

Connecting the dots is so exciting it can be overwhelming. Reading theory makes me want to go around and tell everyone mindblowing facts. Who else has difficulty containing their excitement in a way that can get out of control? How do you calm down? It'd be so good if I could read and chill.

can't fucking find it but I know it exists

pls help chronically onliners

For anyone wondering. I did identify it in the end and it was Dunnock fledgling.

Image provided is a Dunnock fledgling. Perfectly matches what I had yesterday.

So yeah, bird was fine.

This isn't a doomer post, but I'm wondering what assessment comrades here have, given recent developments.

Maybe I just hate them but it really feels that way. I don't have the energy to think about it that hard though

...cus like I hear that and, well, you see the cover image.

Is it just that so much more of the world is underdeveloped (overexploited) and it's just raw statistics? I guess I could see that explanation. But. Also. I've been to Pheonix.