@Parvus@lemmy.ml there is much that needs overriding.

i spend 75-80% of my time; outside of work and sleep; inhabiting establishments where spontaneous/random sex are the primary attraction for people to come and (besides bath houses or some sex clubs) they’re the same as any other social gathering spots.

it same social club like setting; same conversations/dancing/etc.; same thing all around except for the only difference being a dramatically more permissive attitude for public displays of sex.

women are extremely rare in the places that i inhabit, but i do know for that fact that both men-only and coed spaces operate by almost identical rules when it comes to the sex hygiene – show up with in good hygiene and you must be experienced enough with both penetration and fellatio to know how to prepare yourself accordingly if you seek either one. (ie. you’re not welcome if you don’t know how to clean yourself enough to be public; or to be penetrated; or don’t know how to give head without vomiting – grown and fully functional experienced adults only).

the only thing that’s different between these establishments and any other social clubs (again excluding bath houses and some sex clubs) is the entry price tag for most straight men.

and at the gayest beach in one of the gayest cities in one of the gayest countries of the world no less. lol

i identify the most w the “repetitive” part

in more ways than one at this particular beach. lol

i have many of the inclinations of a woman, but very much a man. lol

waking and baking at the beach nearby me w primo weed and good iced coffee while molesting the beautiful men w my eyes.

lots and LOTS of ass. lol

a bigger measure is not being bombed in the last 50 years. lol

yes, that makes sense.

class consciousness is almost a taboo subject within the anglosphere – despite there being a very large and easily accessible body of work that explains it as well as a roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of the world practicing some aspect of it in every day life already.

i’m a neophyte to it myself and high profile examples of other neophytes like graham platner and kat abughazaleh make it clear how much damage you can do trying to practice it without a full understanding it. so any attempts on my part to explain it here should fall woefully short of achieving the goal of helping you understand how the lack of class consciousness is making people in the western world feel stressed/overwhelmed without realizing WHY they’re stressed/overwhelmed.

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml has created introductory reading lists and i strongly recommend starting there by going through their post history if you truly want to understand it.

analyses like these make it clear to me that class consciousness is gonna appear in the anglosphere long after it appears everywhere else, because it gets so close to the mark but never quite reaches it.

you’re 100% right that there’s a disconnect between how people feel about their current situation and how much they’re struggling with stress or feeling overwhelmed. the popular narratives in the west – especially the united states – leave people unable to see the relationship between global economic and geopolitical movements and the impacts they have on their own lives. instead, these manufactured narratives lead them to believe their failed coping efforts are just an unavoidable feature of modern life, as you described it.

for the moment, i’m like you – my life isn’t that stressful, but that’s because i’ve intentionally made it as non-stressful as possible through trial & error, and i know things will change again for me, like they have before. my life as an autistic & queer poc who descends from the kind of immigrants ice is currently rounding up has forced me to experience, witness, and acknowledge the casual fascism that’s intrinsic to western cultures in ways that non-stressed, non-overwhelmed americans never will – that is, until capitalism gets late stage enough to force it on them.

and even under such a reality, i fully expect the anglosphere to continue resisting to accept reality for an absurdly long time. you need to look at the responses you’re getting regarding health to a small taste of this; none acknowledge how much additional stress that affording healthcare while affording life at the same time is adding to their woes.

he’s one of those fabled good apples in the bunch – one of the cops who report the other cops – and the rotten ones in the bunch (aka the 99.99%) are trying to arrest him.

to-MAY-tow

TAH-mah-tow

Force of habit. Lol

it’s so nice to see an old and familiar name. lol

Google has a perverse incentive to keep evolving these standards so that other browsers struggle to keep up, and their browsers feel outdated and feature lacking relative to Chrome.

ditto with their office software and filesystems.

IIRC you are American (sorry for the insult if not) …

lmao

which means you have a great phone gateway option. I did not: had to contact my telecom tbqh it took like two months 🤣 🤫

i’m surprised to learn this; which country?

if it’s possible to make money out of your hobby, capitalism will always be there to enshitify it and that’s how you know you can trust lemmy since there’s no money to be made out of leftism.

you should go pro; you clearly already have the skills.

that’s impressive af; it looks really professional!

do you know of there’s a web front-end/port/app for cheogram that can be used on a browser?

i started using cheogram recently, but it only seems to work on my phone and i’m too much of a crusty dinosaur to switch from using my laptop to using my phone most of the time.

… you need motivation something that you are trying to improve …

wanting to fix something that annoys you works much better. lol