I have 2 hobbies: maths and chess. For maths: I borrow books from the library or pirate them from anna's archive and do problems from the books on printer paper. Very cheap hobby overall. For chess: I bought cheap plastic pieces and a board from amazon (cost me £25/$30), I pirate chess books from anna's archive and I play on lichess (it's free).
Also without sounding like an elitist: not all hobbies are equal. I have so much more respect for someone who sits in their room and studies something difficult like analytic number theory, or someone like you who powerlifts over some "Disneyadult" whose life revolves around buying Made-in-China Disney branded products (i.e. their hobby is just clicking "buy" on some site).
Your allies tried to warn you guys more than a decade ago:
>According to the report, GCHQ began passing information about contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives in late 2015. Agencies from Australia, Germany, Estonia, France, the Netherlands and Poland also passed on information until summer 2016.
I'm not "the US government" or "the Americans". There's no monolithic hivemind to yell at or at fault to say "I told you so". There were zillions of warning signs and alarm bells that went off the the US mainstream media failed to educate the populace about. And not enough of the people voter or applied critical thinking skills. Lots of blame to go around.
In the long view, there was/is a concerted effort by chaos agents in favor of radical upheaval/destruction/division who share (temporary?) interests, belonging to one or more of the following rough groupings:
- Putin, Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Ellison, Trump, and a litany of other billionaire oligarchs whom have each their individual interests for changing, breaking, or tweaking political and mass media institutions, processes, and leadership to capture more money for them.
- Crazy people who aren't educated or aware enough to understand what's going on and go along with what other fringe people said because they like hurting people who aren't them.
- Crazy people who know what's happening but profit directly from chaos despite the risks.. from bloggers to political consultants to merch sellers.
- Crazy people who know what's happening but have some irrational, ideological guide-star like the second coming of Jesus, "government overthrow", "creative destruction"/accelerationism, civil war, race war/separatism, and/or world war.
And then there's:
- Unknowable ~5-70% (varying by forum and piece of content) of engagement generated by bots and sockpuppet human-based boiler room phony engagement to shift sentiment and manufacture consent towards one or more of the above. In some videos on YT, there's like 80% meme coin spam. And there's a lot of repetitive comments by spammers calling for violence that seem like bots.
- Unknowable % emergent issue advocacy groups covertly or overly formed in service of any of the above.
- People who exhibit cognitive dissonance to reality of the risks and changes but benefit directly or indirectly from the chaos. This is endorsement of the outcome while internally disagreeing with the means, but not enough to take a principled stand.
My bottom line: Defend democracy and don't carry water for the Kremlin by in-fighting amongst the 99.9%. Most of the 0.1% through under-restrained greed are the perpetual enemy of organized civilization, and so the Marcus Licinius Crassuses and separation of power must be vigilantly maintained through countervailing factions, structures, policies, and countermeasures in relative balance in passionate contention short of harmony. Bribery, emoluments, chaos, stupidity, and tranquilizing reform delay has got to go.
The American people had a dosier publicly available. And after that, Project 2025 and impeachments and 34 felonies and a civil conviction of rape. All of which were absolutely reported on.
You can't pretend the collective will of American voters just isn't a vile, stupid person who wanted Trump and all that entails at this point.
That's a good list, but it's quite a western list. It's missing some great films from Socialist era Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, etc. If you'd like to know some of my favourites, just let me know.
FWIW, the "1001" has introduced me to a number of Czech (Obchod na korze, Sedmikrásky, Ostře sledované vlaky, Hoří, má panenko, Marketa Lazarová, Ucho) and Polish (Popiól I Diament, The Saragossa Manuscript, Człowiek z marmuru, Człowiek z żelaza) films.
I'm only up to the 1980's though, there may be a few more.
I'm not aware of having seen any Hungarian films (yet).
>(Obchod na korze, Sedmikrásky, Ostře sledované vlaky, Hoří, má panenko, Marketa Lazarová, Ucho) and Polish (Popiól I Diament, The Saragossa Manuscript, Człowiek z marmuru, Człowiek z żelaza)
Excellent! You've watched some brilliant Slavic films already then, especially Marketa Lazarova and The Saragossa Manuscript. I have these two in my favourite films of all time list. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.
Here are some of my favs: Ziemia obiecana (1975), Sanatorium pod klepsydrą (1973), Pociąg (1959), Kanal (1957), Holubice (1960), Slnko v sieti (1962), Zlaté kapradí (1963), Údolí včel (1968), Csillagosok, katonák (1967), A Pál utcai fiúk (1968), A tanú (1969), Kárhozat (1988), Két félidő a pokolban (1961), Szindbád (1971), Szürkület (1990), Dacii (1967), Danton (1983), O slavnosti a hostech (1966), Pădurea spînzuraților (1965), Reconstituirea (1968), and Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён (1964).
Please see my reply to JKCalhoun. As for lists, I used other people's lists on Mubi a lot back when I used to watch/torrent 1 film per day (from 2008 to 2015), and for good forums there's Karagarga, rateyourmusic, letterboxd is OK, rutorrent is OK if you can read Russian, and there used to be an arthouse IRC channel on rizon back in the days but it's dead now. I stopped watching films religiously around 2015-2016, so I don't know where the cool kids hang anymore. Maybe Discord?
Are they suggesting that they came up with this notion independently? I can't speak for other countries but UK politicians who are for this say they're monitoring the Australian ban closely to see if it works, so it's clear they're not claiming they came up with this notion independently.
What happens in every case is this political party or that party in each country takes the blame for it, and their opposition will pretend to be against it, when in fact it appears to be part of a bigger picture.
You're right that reactions are being monitored but this has clearly been discussed somewhere and appears fairly co-ordinated, much like the emergence of digital ID and AI chatbots. It seems to be a common pattern now... Smoking restrictions and car ownership seem to approached in a fairly similar manner across different countries.
This is certainly true in the beginning of a game. Players claim to do this to warm up. However, in a busy confrontation there is no reason to spam any actions that are not directly contributing towards your endeavor.
If you spam useless actions during a fight, your opponent who does not will best you.
The game's been played competitively for more than 25 years now, people still earn their living plying StarCraft. You wont find a single one of them with APM below 200. Having their livelihoods and legacies depending on this, do you think they'd be repeatedly doing something useless instead of optimizing?
Anyways, I think you are missing the point that this thread is about active sitting. I imagine there isn't much difference to the meaning behind movement: movement is movement, meaningful or not.
At this point, I don't think anyone in NATO thinks the US will aid them if anything were to happen so the US is kinda out of NATO anyway (at least until Trump/MAGA is gone).
Also without sounding like an elitist: not all hobbies are equal. I have so much more respect for someone who sits in their room and studies something difficult like analytic number theory, or someone like you who powerlifts over some "Disneyadult" whose life revolves around buying Made-in-China Disney branded products (i.e. their hobby is just clicking "buy" on some site).
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