Do you wear over-ear headphones outside?
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What do you think about the new Bundeswehr tents?
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I finished my semester. I'm on vacation except I have no friends. I see my classmates' stories at parties and travellign with their gf while I'm alone in my bed staring at the ceiling. I feel empty. I am neither interesting nor beautiful.
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Maybe it's just me, but I absolutely wouldn't care. In fact most other people just annoy me and I'm pissed I can't do things at my own pace and go where I want to go and when I want to go and stuff. Maybe your number one priority is socializing rather than traveling for the sake of exploration/relaxation or whatever
That feel when benzos + alcohol.
It's been such a long time since I've had some alcohol. Just two cans of relatively high-alcohol-content beer plus 20mg valium (diazepam) have completely chilled me out. My jaw is unclenched for the first time in months. No more headache, no more voices in my head.
I'll sleep well tonight - finally.
Might try opioids some time.
>do 10 pushups
>arms and chest still hurt 2 days later
I don't need this
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I don't really want to start working out, I just wanted to see if I can still do 10 pushups. But thanks maybe I will start doing 10 pushups every 3 days now, however what I actually could need is exercises for the lower back since I have started suffering some minor pains there lately. What's good here? Something like planks? I mean like the lower third of the back
if it is first time in awhile the soreness is DOMS. it won't continue on the same cycle after a few cycles
i had this issue, i just spent more time standing and walking and other simple activities and i strengthened over time. you should be able to improve more with actual exercises, they dont have to be intense
I want to read into communism as I have a big knowledge gap regarding it.
I'm not solely interested in the philosophical arguments in favor of Communism that make it a charming utopia but a comparison of actual communist societies past and present, where they failed, where they succeeded, how the standard of living changed and how the governments were overthrown. It's important that this comparison must be done from an unbiased point of view.
Can you recommend a good book?
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a lot of communist societies used Communist theory just as a justification for simple authoritarian rule of the group of party elites
Like the bunch of people even today can gather up and create a cummunist party. Lets just imagine - its 5 guys named Pedro, Jose, Madean, Seger, Tuarum. They are buddies from the past and they decide that they want to become rich. They buy cheap communist flags on Alibaba and declare that they are communists and that society is unjust. They will recruit more people into their party using this communist idea of utopia just like a lure, like a fairy tale of what is possible and promise it to people, but they themselves understand that they themselves never going to build any communism, this party of 5 guys just want to live a rich life of rulling a country and use ideology of communism as justification of their rule.
And i am not saying that its somehow super bad. A lot of ruling elites of countries in the past had even worse justifications. Imagine being born into a country and some group 5 guys rule you because their parents fucked each other for generations and they supposedly have some royal blood. What is worse - bunch of reds lying to you about building a better future, or a bunch of inbred fuckers who think they own you because of some heredetiary fairy tales?
depends on how you define success
if success is building communism, where everything is free and eveyrone equal - then no, but in some countries communist movements succeded in overthrowing the entrenched political elites which like parasites where milking the working class without any respect for their right.
Of course in the process the capitalist elites were replaced with Nomenklatura elite of the party, rulling the country as a separate class of people, while pretending that they destroy the any class distinctions and make everyone equal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura
But party Nomenklatura elite itself becomes entranched in power and distances itself from people, while lying that disempowered people are in fact rulling the country somehow. Like how the fact is the communist country ruled by workers if workers can't even protest, while party Nomenklatura elites can establish the norm of the work day for a worker? And Nomenklatura can raise salary for itself and reduce the work day for itself. But workers can't. Nomenklatura becomes new parasite class of elites that abuse the worker, while lying that they represent the workers and one blood with it.
A Russian, a Kazakh, an Azerbaijani, an Iranian and a Turkmenistani walk into a bar. The bartender asks "Why the long table?"
The destruction of Russia would be really bad for all of them. If Russia falls apart, the pieces of Russia would be really unpredictablem armed with nukes and chemical weapons and who knows what evil can arise out of ashes of Russia. You better not disturb this dark forest, if you dont' want a monster jump out of it.
in my country there is not much football tradition, but every so often I like to watch the champions league or the world cup and for me the best player is Thomas Müller, since I saw that he vaccinated Argentina in the 2010 world cup, whenever I watch football again I see that the guy is still relevant and at a good level.
To me as an occasional spectator and without being especially fanatic, I consider Müller to be my favorite player in history along with Ronaldinho.
