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I mean they have a point though. We don't have a progressive party in the US. We have a status quo party (which is usually the conservative party) and we have a far right party.

I'm only allowed one shelf dedicated to TBR. It has helped a lot.

Check out Blackshirts and Reds, by Michael Parenti. It's an amazing book about the history of the relationship/battle between fascism and communism in the world over the 20th century (spoiler alert, fascism won).

Nimbys make the world a worse place

We set ours on a pedestal and give them a megaphone though.

Use your finger to follow along! It sounds childish, but there's a reason children do it, because it's an easy way to boost comprehension and reading speed.

I also use audiobooks to listen while I read, for particularly challenging stuff.

Besides that, just practice. If something is too hard, ease into it with something a little easier. Reading is just like any other skill, you have to practice it and get better. Try harder and harder things to train your muscles.

PG is amazing. I love StandardEbooks.org as well. They have a smaller selection, but they are impeccably formatted and really high quality.

Almost entirely buffs. I like that honestly. It feels like a healthier way to balance a game.

This would be really nice for reading the Silmarillion. There's a lot of resources to help with that though, but this is great.

I'll throw a shoutout to Onyx Boox, rather than Kobo or Kindle. It runs Android, can run literally any file type, doesn't lock you into an ecosystem with DRM where you don't really own the books you buy. I despise Kobo and Kindle for that reason.

But I totally agree about how nice e-ink is. It's literally as good as paper. Maybe better. Soooo nice.

I got an Onyx Boox Leaf 2 e-reader, and it's fantastic, I'd highly recommend it. The great thing about it, is that it runs Android, which means you can get Hoopla, Libby, Overdrive, the Barnes and Noble app, the Kindle app, etc, so all your ebooks are in one place and can be read on your device.

https://onyxboox.com/booxleaf2

I get all my ebooks for free, by getting public domain stuff from these two places. PG has more selection but Standard has better formatting and is just generally higher quality. This ereader has paid itself off in like 6 months with the money I saved on buying books.

https://standardebooks.org/

https://www.gutenberg.org/

I rent ebooks from the library using both Hoopla, and Libby.

So NHTSA is pretending to care about pedestrians for the first time in their existence? This is a nice surprise.

He was paid to tank Twitter.

Generally not a huge pop fan but I'm a big fan of Carly Rae Jepsen. Emotion is one of the best pop albums of the last 30 years, however I've liked her last two albums progressively less and less, which was a worrying trend.

However her new album out this Friday is FANTASTIC. It has her most forward thinking and experimental production she's ever had, and every song is growing on me a ton. It's definitely her best since Emotion and I'm a huge fan of it. I think I'm at 4 listens now and I'm trying to hold off until Friday when it officially releases to listen again.

I would sooner get a tattoo of Ronald Reagan on my ball sack than listen to music with ads. I'm not a barbarian.

What I'm hear from this is collective cultures help societies in ways that matter and individualistic cultures help societies that don't.

And I don't disagree. And before someone jumps in with an "innovation" argument, just know that most major innovation was done by public entities, with public research, funded by public taxes/grants.

There was a lot of good done this session in MN but yeah, we have a long way to go. That Nursing bill really stings.

That one I can believe

I wanted to join vanilla but hated the gross beige color so I went with mint instead. Bummer.