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Thanks for writing this, I loved that book but wouldn’t have been able to write something so on point.

This is a great concept! I’d love to see it/read more about it!

I’ll be sure to give a look at all your suggestions!

It’s already a day later! You got this, the hardest part is flowing by. How are you doing?

One of the things I like of lemmy is the limited content. I can keep up with all the posts and comments of the communities I like. So being flooded with copied content odd counterproductive in my opinion. And copping the comments as well feels creepy and morally dubious.

I haven’t read much on this topic, but I really enjoyed “why we’re polarized”: a historical discussion on political division in the US, spanning the last 50 years and discussing its roots and growth.

I also enjoyed “the last empire” on the fall of the USSR and “the shock doctrine” that talks more about economy and the use of shocks to concentrate power in the hands of the few.

I did not enjoy “prisoners of geography”, the writing strike is quite flat, but the topic is definitely interesting. I’ll have a look at the other two!

My little piece of advice: you don’t have to think about the future, tomorrow, next week, they are all far off. Think about now, this hour, the next 5 minutes, or whatever stretch of time seems manageable. What do you do now? Cook dinner? Watch a show? Cry in the shower? The future might be scary and too much to manage now. You’ll handle it when you get to it. Now, you only have to think about right now.

Verbena tea is calming and soothing. Lavender is relaxing. Green tea for me is a calming ritual.

You got this. Maybe it doesn’t feel like it, but you only need to do one step, and you got that one step.

I finally finished “the judge and his executioner”, my first book in German since I re-started studying it! I’m really proud, and even through my limited language skills, then ending was incredible. The author succeeds in making you “feel” you know the solution of the mystery without you really knowing the logica behind.

And I immediately started Fistletooth, following an old suggestion of @gabe It immediately sucked me in, so I’m really looking forward to the rest of it!

Wishes of a speedy recovery! I’m sorry to hear you have been having health problems. Hopefully they can get solved soon.

As others have pointed out, it’s also a way to replace the soul of the city with something more economically interesting: clean apartments.

Amsterdam has a problem with gentrification on one side and “cheap” tourism on the other. This move seems to want to solve the later by amplifying the former…

Interesting observations! I am surprised by anyone not noticing the irony in Fight Club, and maybe Infinite Jest, but the others don’t seem too critical of their own male protagonists, I feel.