I understand but I think we call pride also the sense of belonging to a chain of individuals that achieved growth of knowledge, rights, scientific discoveries and engineering results.

It is a meaning of the word that would easily lend itself to manipulation but also one that allowed individuals to contribute and to stand on the shoulders of giants.

In that sense, the highest level one would easily be being human.

You should be proud to be human.

Not to be born within some imaginary line drawn on a map, in an area that later got “cleaned” as much as possible of everyone else not speaking the same language or worshipping the same god.

I mean, I have a bed sofa. Dunno about refugee status, but this is some Carrie’s mom-level stuff.

That really happens there? My god. Well, after all priests come in many different uniforms. Sometimes even sounding like a screeching cabinet like RFK Jr.

I wonder how many of the people who downvote me have people in their family who will be sent to die in Iran for the lunacy of a bunch of Christians excited for Armageddon.

People who believe in any religion are the same as dormant terrorist cells. One can have perfectly formal relationships with them on a daily basis, but given the right conditions, they become a huge, possibly lethal, risk.

Exactly. And no redeeming factor from any participation or support to an armed resistance against Nazifascism.

I like to point out that he is Swiss-Italian, not Italian. Also, feeling sorry for the nice people of Lebanon having to share citizenship with this toilet seat of a man.

Strikes are organized against one’s own government on topics for which the government has skin in the game.

That’s why Italy, Germany and France see protests against the genocide of the Palestinian people: because those countries sell weapons and buy security systems from Israel.

Now tell me what exactly you think any of those governments could do against the decades long fall into fascism and plutocracy that the US is experiencing, while the same billionaires fund our own local nazi parties.

The only thing that we should keep saying is don’t touch the sick corpse.

Depends on how much we (finally) detach from them and start acting as a world power.

I get all of those already. Don’t need them in a general advice community.

Tell me how I could do it from here (that is not sofa activism like “like and share”) and put THAT in a YSK.

I am in the EU. There’s no reason why I should know this. Keep the US in the US-related communities, thanks.

The scale at which it was applied, both geographically and in number of individuals, was and possibly even remains, unprecedented.

I literally look for live performances on YouTube and then look for similar recommendations or, if the artist did it, their list of recommended channels on their own channel.

I work listening to ambient, which is a terrible minefield for AI, but having discovered Martin Stûrtzer led me to discover a bunch of new no AI instrumental and electronic (mostly modular analog synth) music artists.

I either say dormant terrorists or “the crazy lady in The Mist”.

Potato, Potato.

I treat religious people as dormant terrorists. They may be a good neighbor, a fun sex partner (although rarely for my standards) or even a loving SO, but deep inside they all made a compromise with non rational arguments and that will come up at different stages of stress.

The people you are describing have that threshold very low, but you are no different than them to me.

Calibre is a program for Windows/Linux. To be able to export books (and deDRM them) there are different plugins, but I never heard about one for Google Play Books.

Cannot say. I had a very old Kindle and all my books on device.

I deleted my Amazon account last month. No more Goodreads and IMDb is just another plus.

Extracted my ebooks from my Kindle with Calibre, so I am fine.

Feeling good and less targeted and bombarded.