AstroStelar

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[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Why should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There’s no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything.

 

I want to integrate yoga in my fitness routine, because I am pretty weak in balance and stress management. But when I try searching for stuff on it online, I run into two problems:

  1. I get overwhelmed by the amount of content. A Youtube channel like "Yoga with Adriene" has hundreds of videos and dozens of playlists, each covering a different perspective and set of exercises. I don't know from myself what I want, so it leads to me unable to choose.
  2. I either get impatient or roll my eyes at the way yoga is commonly talked about. Even if there's no mention of more spiritual elements, I feel prejudiced against the usually slow pace and mindfulness talk, even though that's precisely what I want to practice.

I have a membership at a small gym, but they don't have any yoga classes, and I don't want another membership for yoga coaching on top of that. Are there ways around this?

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Sounded familiar, so I checked and it's from 4 years ago.

Faced with these serious allegations, Cuomo at first attempted a bizarre defence. “I’m not perverted, I’m just Italian,” is how Fox News characterised it, which was amusingly accurate. Cuomo suggested that the fact that some women had perceived sexual abuse might be attributed to differing “generational or cultural perspectives”. In a video statement, he proceeded to show lots of photographs of him kissing people in public – a gesture, he said, that is intended to show “warmth”. He further admitted that he sometimes calls people “sweetheart”, as if that were his greatest fault.

I also found this in the search results:

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Someone here defined it as knowing when to follow authority, which I found a good one.

 

I recently became obsessed with trying to work out whether China really does have coin-operated park benches that stab you in the butt when your sitting time is up. This 'fact' was all over the internet, and had made its way into the NY Times, The Guardian, NPR, an academic journal, and a professor's book.

This fixation cost me $55, several days, and a significant chunk of my sanity.

To try to move past it, I have made this video taking you on my journey of internet factchecking.

spoilerthe story comes from a content mill that lost a libel suit against an expose by Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/central-european-news

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Some of the opinion pieces in the sidebar while I was reading this:

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving "no English food" - describing it as "the [worst] holiday I've ever been on".

Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests "no hot bacon or sausage", but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was "sick to death of looking at" by the end of her trip.

agony-shivering

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I found the article, but be warned, it's stuffed with bloat in between paragraphs: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2065841/british-tourist-benidorm-holiday-ruined-spanish-people

Read the article here

A British pensioner was left in tears after her Benidorm holiday because there were "too many Spaniards" at her resort. The coastal city is well-known as a mecca for Brits abroad, but Freda Jackson's expectations of being surrounded by fellow tourists during her trip may have pushed the stereotype to its limit.

The pensioner from Blackburn in Lancashire, who is in her eighties, raged over the number of locals she saw during her summer break in 2018, insisting that Spaniards should have "gone somewhere else for their holidays". While protests against an influx of foreign tourists has defined discourse across European travel hotspots in recent years, Ms Jackson's complaints tackled an entirely different issue. "The hotel was full of Spanish holidaymakers and they really got on our nerves because they were just so rude," the grandmother-of-six said.

"The entertainment in the hotel was all focused [on] and catered for the Spanish," she added. "[And] one evening, a Spanish guy nearly knocked me flying and he just walked off without even apologising."

The Brit said she and a friend had paid for the trip using their pensions, but claimed they were given a hotel room on a slope despite requesting flat-ground access, and were allegedly forced to travel 1,500 miles from Manchester Airport to Alicante after they weren't told their flight dates had been changed.

"I have never complained about a holiday before - but this one was a disaster from start to finish," Ms Jackson said. "My friend and I paid for it from our pensions and it was a struggle trying to fund it over 12 months. The holiday was totally ruined. I cried after."

A spokesperson for Thomas Cook said the pensioner wasn't told about the change to her flights until six days before departure due to a "system error".

"We are very sorry for the inconvenience this caused and are investigating to make sure it doesn't happen again," they added. "We ... offered Ms Jackson and her travel companion a gesture of goodwill to try and put things right, which we hope she will accept."

Earlier this month, another disgruntled Brit slammed a tourist hotspot in Greece for serving "no English food" - describing it as "the world holiday I've ever been on".

Susan Edwards, 69, from Westerhope, in Newcastle, said the all-inclusive TUI getaway to Corfu offered guests "no hot bacon or sausage", but a buffet of salads, fish and rice, which she was "sick to death of looking at" by the end of her trip.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

On that note, China also recently made headlines with a 'quantum-proof' encryption system: https://hexbear.net/post/5176306

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

So the claim being made here is accurate, but fair warning: this website is full of anti-vax stuff and various other far-right conspiracy theories. I was suspecting that when I noticed half the article is about parliamentary questions by a politician from 'Forum voor Democratie', a far-right party that fell down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and esoteric fascism. Unfortunately, they are also the only party in parliament that is explicitly anti-NATO, but that's because they like Russia for protecting "boreal culture" against le wokisme.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 74 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A few years ago, I learned that the official typeface used by the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is called "Bandera".

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Well, it's in Guangxi, which borders Vietnam, so you're not that far off. Guangxi's karst landscapes are wild.

[–] AstroStelar@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have two main gripes with the video:

  1. Skyscrapers are overkill, just making middle density the norm in our suburbs would go a long way. Spanish cities can be used as inspiration.
  2. Supply alone won't fix housing unaffordability, which is also driven by privatisation of the housing market, cash-strapped local governments raising land prices after budget cuts and homeowners not wanting to see their homes lose value.

The channel as a whole gives me a bad vibe as well, it comes across as smuglord aka Dutch redditor

 

volcel-judge

 

The parents never hit their child (back), by the way, only she may hit them if she asks, and is allowed to.

Two excerpts that explain the underlying philosophy:

In the world, Nic points out, women are largely on the receiving end of violence, and in his family that was contrasted with his mom, who would teach the kids judo and jujitsu techniques. His aunt was a national judo champion, and the best judoka in the family. People would come to spar with the family, and they would be paired with his aunt, who is 5-foot-4 on a good day. He grew up seeing pictures of her throwing 200-pound men, their heels flying in the air. Then he would see other people’s families, in which violence was just framed as a negative, end of story.

Margo wants some of Nic’s female relatives’ confidence for our daughter—whether or not she wants to be a martial artist, Margo wants her to be physically prepared for life. Margo has felt so unprepared physically for so many scenarios she’s found herself in, starting with being a young woman in New York City, getting grabbed and groped and followed home and jerked off to on the subway. She wonders how she could have responded differently to all those incidents if she’d had a practice of physical mastery that wasn’t dependent on size or brute strength.

After a lifetime of seeing those dynamics, Nic wants the same thing for his children that he was given: the power to protect themselves and the people around them, and the knowledge to be able to know what does and doesn’t warrant a physical reaction. “I give them a space in the home to practice learning those parts of themselves,” he says, “so if they are in a situation, they are not in that space for the first time.”

“I just want to cultivate children who can protect themselves.”

I like that it involved a girl in this case, but it could also allow boys to still fight eachother as a form of consensual play, and accepting "no" for an answer. Just saying "all violence is bad" can lead to problems down the line when they can no longer control themselves and have zero experience.

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