Balkan Odyssey is a weird (weird in the idk what to think about them sense) one imo. They’ve got some good videos but I remember watching their “What do we do with former socialism” video and they had some bad opinions. The one I remember off the top of my head was that they said

“Marxists-Leninists, or Stalinists, for the lack of a better term […]”

Damn, that sucks. I literally just finished the Mistborn trilogy on Friday and it has become one of my favorite series. I haven’t had a series I enjoyed like that in like a decade or so. Do you by any chance have links to comments he’s made about Zionism or anything like that?

Send to device should be sending it to the memory of your Kindle. I have a Kobo and that’s how it is for me at least and I don’t think it’d be that different for Kindles from what I understand.

I hate finding cockroaches in my home but I’ve definitely found an appreciation for them in general. They’re pretty important to the world’s ecosystem.

Tier lists originated in video game culture pretty much. It’s a way to try to subjectively rank things within a game by its viability. The s tier thing comes from Japan I believe, where in some academic cases they give an S grade for excellent performance. In the context of tier lists the reason there might be a S+ tier is because some characters might be really really good and are in S tier but some characters are just way better than everyone else and are in a league of their own.

To be fair, climbing up in trees isn’t gonna save you from a bear.

What’s funny is they don’t know what whataboutism is. If someone says “Russia is doing a bad thing” and I reply with “USA is doing that same bad thing”, that’s not whataboutism. I’m speaking about the same topic you are. If I were to say “USA is doing some other bad thing (that wasn’t related at all to that topic” then that would be whataboutism.

Patriots, Traitors and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Fight for Freedom by Stephen Gowans is a pretty good book. Been a while since I read it but it was very eye opening and a good read.

I’m Lithuanian and the fascism has been bubbling up for a long time. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of people you come across are not fascist but the government itself is a lapdog of the US and pushes fascist rhetoric on the workers through things like the media. They also glorify Nazi collaborators as freedom fighters who fought against the evil Soviets.

I enjoy watching a couple of sports but my main one is basketball. Favorite team is the San Antonio Spurs even though I’m not from that area of the US. Became a fan of them in the early 2010s because I liked their style of basketball back then.

Also I’ll always post “The Beautiful Game” tribute video whenever I have the chance.

It’s not just sleeping a consistent amount but also sleeping at consistent times. Waking up at 5:30 after 8 hours can feel decent if you consistently do it for a bit.

Currently reading Open Veins of Latin America. I knew of the exploitation the colonizers and imperialists did but reading the stats and stories of the earlier periods just makes my jaw drop. I also wasn’t aware in the 1800s after Paraguay kicked out the Spanish, they were the only nation in the continent that wasn’t controlled by foreign capital and were pretty self sufficient. Obviously that wasn’t acceptable to the imperialists so the British helped fund Brazil and Argentina to start a war with Paraguay. Paraguay lost and have been under the boot of imperialists since then.

I live in the U.S, but I visit LT often. Obviously the govt. is garbage and a lapdog of the west but if there’s one thing I noticed is that Lithuanians are exploited by the capitalists just like in other countries. Some are nationalistic fascists, some are just trying to survive, and some want a return of the Soviet Union (mostly older people though).

As a Lithuanian, it sucks reading this because it’s true lol.