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the right size masonry bit, screws, and plastic sleeve anchors to grip the hole in the brick might do it, but the metal style anchors are much stronger if you’re worried about it coming loose. either beefy masonry screw anchors or the expanding metal sleeve kind

ah fuck

if you don’t do it right it can be hard to solidly screw into masonry.

If your new place has solid wood to screw into I wouldn’t worry about it much.

I’m wondering what USU’s angle is tbh. Some of their writing seems good but other articles are pretty bad.

I more meant whether “any chapter discussed so far” included the current one, which people are ostensibly just starting on today? But I understand contextually that your comments are regarding chapter 3 so its clearer to me now.

depends what the object is really. If its just a clog of the usual suspects (hair and other small/soft debris) then a drain snake is probably the best option. it can’t be too big if it made it down the drain in the first place (assuming your drain has a grate or some way of preventing large objects from falling into the pipe. I’d be shocked if it didn’t.) Maybe post on local groups and try to find a kind handy person to help you out? you don’t have to be a plumber to unclog a drain generally.

If you have a plunger you could try that too

https://unity-struggle-unity.org/

I don’t necessarily endorse it, some of their articles strike me as brilliant and some seem highly questionable

Audiobook ping @[email protected]

https://voca.ro/190nzNZjoHoP

I fucked up the recording a little on this one so the quality is scuffed but hopefully still listenable

Ofc! I’m planning on reading the (only?) book on the subject at some point: https://annas-archive.org/md5/e2b2ed1b860171324d518d90281bad24 but haven’t yet

Yeah it’s wild. And you know, as an encyclopedia, I can see tossing it in for completeness. Then when you read the article and see “wow basically the only ones of any authority denying this are the israeli state themselves” it is still immediately obvious which is actually the truth.

other way around I think?

https://mronline.org/2024/11/07/einstein-opposed-zionist-colonization-in-palestine-and-predicted-the-current-catastrophe/

Not that he was necessarily a staunch anti-zionist in today’s terms but he saw the nakba and the terrorists who perpetrated it for what they were (nazis), it seems

it wouldn’t be legible at emoji size I suspect

I’m not sure if he has the ability to do that these days or not. His benevolent dictator period was long but seems to be mostly over

honestly that article is shocking to me (in a good way). It goes to show how universal the understanding of this genocide is becoming if even wiki editors are this uncompromising

Admittedly, it wouldn’t be offensive to put an acknowledgement of the israeli denials in the 2nd or 3rd paragraph somewhere, as they do on other genocide pages, it is part of the picture even if it is clearly lies, but clearly that would not be near enough to satisfy jimmy nor the zionist journalists in his ear, so why even offer to adopt the thin end of that wedge.

So, this thread is for discussion of chapter 1, now that we’ve finished it? or is the idea that people will be discussing chapter 2 here as they read?

edit: also audiobook links here, will be working on chapter 2 soon

• Intro
• Ch 1
• Ch 2

this is US-centric advice which isn’t even a great idea in the US and misunderstands the OP

Sweet! It forces me to actually read lol

Chapter 1:

Ch1 Mirror

If the chapters get longer which I assume they will they might be too large to upload to hexbear directly lol. But its a fun gimmick while it lasts

Pop science is also full of bullshit though. If you don’t have at least some solid grounding in the scientific method and science basics, you won’t be able to tell if the pop science you read is bullshit or real.

Similarly, and even worse because of the sheer quantity of intentional misdirection in the political realm, if you don’t have some baseline grounding in theory, a working understanding of historical materialism perhaps, then you will not have the mental tools to evaluate the pop politics and decide if they are right or full of shit. It isn’t something that’s common sense or easily reasoned from first principles

As communists, we should aspire to go beyond just trusting prominent figures, whether they’re influencers, politicians, publications, whatever, and improve our faculties and awareness and understanding of the world

Manufacturing consent…

edit: or better yet, inventing reality