Congrats man, that's amazing ♡

Thank you so much :D

I used facebook for promoting local events but in the last ~5 years it was less and less effective for that. Then I used it only for meme groups and getting angry at strangers. Hard quit last summer and never looked back.

You don't have to join meme groups? They're easier to avoid than a toxic algo. I just use groups for hobbies I actually engage in.

I never really used it much, but sometimes there are really interesting threads or content on local events. There also seems to be a massive amount of vile and rude commenters.

Yea I wanted to try it out, but couldn't find a way to sign up after a few minutes... Maybe it's closed?

I just read the headline, that's enough for me...

We can surely learn a lot by looking at the past, but it would be foolish to apply it 1:1 to the present/past.

I feel like all the big utopian ideologies that dominated the minds of people around WWI have more or less disappeared, replaced by money.

My personal feeling is that the pendulum is very much swinging back towards ideology and the feeling that we need to "purify" society, often through state-sanctioned violence.

I guess everyone experiences it differently, but in my "bubble" most people are severely disillusioned with any utopian ideologies or concepts. A dystopian future of some cyberpunk flavour seems inevitable. Of course this is a very biased view and probably not reflective of reality at all.

In Adam Curtis' newest documentary series, called "Can't Get You Outta My Mind", he looks to the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to identify two competing ideologies: the geopolitics of money, and nationalism. The Serbs and the Russian nationalists failed and were pulled into the orbit of the oligarchs into the globalized world of Big Money. In the absence of fascism and communism, it seems countries can only swing on the pendulum between "nationalism" and "globalism".

The documentary in part inspired my comment, it was (as most of his stuff) very worthwhile to watch!

For those curious, here's part 1/6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFrhIAj0ME The other parts keep getting kicked off YouTube for copyright yadda yadda, but they can be found.

You mean UBI?

Damn your guest book got wrecked, I just see a thousand random <img> shenanigans

I hate buying stuff thru amazon. It's really hard to find what you are looking for and I can't trust it really.

Only upside they have is that their delivery is fast and service is ok (compared to normal retail offering online store)

Can't wait to be able to go somewhere, look at the options and talk to a human.

Online shopping is shit

Wow I never knew such documents existed, really interesting! Thanks for the share!

Well, there is a ton of them, basically one for every food that has a protected tradition or origin designation. Not all of them are useful as a recipie though.