simply_surprise

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I've recently turned 20. What highly specific advice you, lemmy users, would offer me? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 months ago

If you're ever challenged to a late-night, drunken, pants-less, barefoot race, make sure to take your pants off slowly and hand them to a friend.

If you take them off too fast you'll lose all the shit from your pockets.

Hope this helps!

Where can one host an ama the official sub seemed to be dead ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

There's a post in the Hexbear ama comm from 22 hours ago with 50 comments.

Where can one host an ama the official sub seemed to be dead ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You said in a different thread that you were considering posting it to the Hexbear ama community.

Where can one host an ama the official sub seemed to be dead ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Are you dumb ?

Yes, can you explain what controversial things you're going to say?

Cause i am asking people if they would like me to ?

The title of the post is "where can I post my ama" not, "is anyone interested in my ama".

Why not post it to the Hexbear comm?

Where can one host an ama the official sub seemed to be dead ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Wtf i wasn't going to say anything gross or offensive

Then why did you say it would be controversial?

I didn't really even want to post it.

Then why did you make a post about posting it?

Where can one host an ama the official sub seemed to be dead ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

It sounds like you're planning on posting something you know will be offensive, and you're looking for a place that will protect you for saying gross things. You should either:

  • Just keep it in drafts. AMAs aren't a thing for regular people.

  • Post it in the Hexbear ama comm so they can tear you to pieces.

I spent $10k on food last year. What’s good way to track grocery spending? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

I keep a running Google sheet on my phone, and add prices as I buy stuff at the grocery store. I have a core skeleton template with things that I buy every week, and then I add my planned meals and anything I have written down that I need.

It helps to keep impulse spending down, and track costs per meal. Grocery costs have really increased in my area, though. It feels like they've doubled in the last two years.

Yooo 😳 What is Xi Pointing at ? in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 5 months ago

The communism button

Trying to get back on reading in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think there's probably a couple qualities that go into reading well. I think it might be helpful to read something, easy, fun, and entertaining (to exercise the "reading words" muscles) and something relatively short and deep at a slower pace (to exercise the "reading slower and understanding deeply" muscles).

I haven't read Crime and Punishment, but I thought Notes from the Underground was interesting!

Mandatory reading for all Lemmygrad users in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Happy birthday Oppo!

We Are in a Big Covid Wave. But Just How Big? in c/usa@lemmy.ml
The hammer and sickle of the Communist Party of China. 🇨🇳 in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[–] simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 5 months ago

The farming answer to a mall ninja punch knife

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Why is my house so fumking dusty (lemmygrad.ml)
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Ancient poetry recommendations - preferably not Greek/Roman (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I recently finished the Epic of Gilgamesh, and I'm starting a collection of poems by Rumi.

I've previously read Cold Mountain by Han Shan.

Are there any other ancient poets/poems with published work that you'd recommend?

I'm looking for things that are:

  • Basically as old as possible
  • Poetic/mystic
  • Not Christian (or Western, Greek, or Roman).

Thanks!

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Just finished "Yellow face" by R.F. Kuang (lemmygrad.ml)
 

It was a really good read. The main character is a such a breathtakingly massive hater.

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so full (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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better late than never (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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Lion (of Damascus) blanket (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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Excerpts from Wretched of the Earth: On National Culture (lemmygrad.ml)
 

"For us who are determined to break the back of colonialism, our historic mission is to authorize every revolt, every desperate act, and every attack aborted or drowned in blood."

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Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - What did you think of it? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I just finished it today. It was very interesting to read of the lives and traditions of the Ibo people, and it was very sad to see them begin to be destroyed by the colonial machine.

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no idea (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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Are there any great revolutionaries who were good parents? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Excerpts from Wretched of the Earth: Chapter 1 (lemmygrad.ml)
 

"He of whom they have never stopped saying that the only language he understands is that of force, decides to give utterance by force. In fact, as always, the settler has shown him the way he should take if he is to become free. The argument the native chooses has been furnished by the settler, and by an ironic turning of the tables it is the native who now affirms that the colonialist understands nothing but force."

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(speculation) Is there any way a state-level actor can fight a nuclear armed state-level actor without risking being nuked? How? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

There's clearly something about to happen in Western Asia, this is meant to be a question related to the situation, but mostly a place for speculation.

Is there a way that Iran can aid Hamas without a risk of being nuked? Is it easier for Hezbollah as they aren't exactly a country in their own right?

Is the only way to engage a nuclear-armed state guerilla war waged by internal dissidents?

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