Doctor has advised “low impact” exercises such as swimming and cycling as alternatives

Those would be good alternatives if I had access to them. No pool anywhere nearby and no infrastructure to cycle safely. Rural area is aggressively anti-cyclist. Like “people will run you off the road into the ditch for laughs” aggressively anti-cyclist. Too poor to afford stationary equipment, much less a home with a yard to put a pool.

Even still, I’m fighting a losing battle. My body will atrophy no matter what I do. All any exercises will accomplish is slowing the degradation. Already have partial loss of use in my hands, haven’t been able to play my guitar in over a decade now, and only a matter of time before I can no longer use my legs.

This. No matter how much I do it, I never get that “invigorated” feeling people talk about.

I always end up just feeling like shit and, because of my CMT, I take longer to recover. What may take a normal person a few hours to recover from will take me an entire day. My normal is being constantly fatigued, exercising just exacerbates it. Hell, not to even mention that my doctor even told me that running is not a good exercise for someone with my condition because of the inevitable atrophying of the extremities means that impact from my feet hitting the ground is damaging my joints.

I’m also autistic and the sensory overload of being sticky from sweat and overheated from exertion literally makes me want to flay myself to escape my own skin.

Never said it would, but neither will you being a wet blanket to people who are just trying to make the best of a shit situation that they cannot affect in any materially significant way at this current moment.

And FYI, that “magical thinking”, does help bring change. A movement without hope is a movement that is doomed to fail. Look up “revolutionary optimism” and its importance for keeping up morale.

The easiest way to break an army is to break their spirits. If yours is already broken, then you are no help to anyone.

Yea, they say they restricted the Jewish immigrants. Yet, if you read the article posted in my other comment, you’d see that their actions during the time period of their mandate speaks a different tale.

Them abstaining from the vote is purely performative, and doesn’t negate the rest of what they did to facilitate the colonization of Palestine.

Ya know, fair point. Living in the US Deep South, I also see a bunch of big trucks deliberately try to bully cyclists and even motorcycles off the road.

Back when “that site” was good.

By allowing people to relieve some stress and engage in a little revolutionary optimism every now and then, even if it is far fetched and not realistic, so that people can retain their mental health and remember what it feels like to actually have hope about something in this shithole of a world we find ourselves.

You can’t change anything if you don’t have hope for a brighter future. This builds hope, even if it has to reach for it.

Not everything at every waking moment needs to be analyzed in depth. At this current moment, none of us could affect the outcome of this situation anyway, so let people fantasize.

Buddy over here torturing his RAM.

Me, currently with 66 tabs open in Firefox.

Good News Everyone!

A new Onimusha game is coming.

Wait, excuse me, what? The writer of Spec Ops is doing the Wolverine game?

Okay I might actually start being interested in its development.

A rich executive put the lives of others below penny pinching profits?

I’m shook. 🫩

This is why we say ACAB

Please stop falling for the culture war stuff and pay attention to the bigger picture.

You are welcome, prehistoric arthropod from the Cambrian period.

Just look up the history of Israel before it was given statehood and of Zionism. Here is a good article by the Guardian. warning, it’s a very complicated situation, all in all, and this article really gets into the nitty gritty of history. Literally, deep into it. It’s some heavy reading.

Boiled down though…

After the defeat of the Ottomans and their empire partitioned off to various countries after the Sinai and Palestine campaigns of WW1, the British were given control via a mandate by the League of Nations over a territory that became known as the Mandate of Palestine, but it was still mostly Arab citizens, the British were just given authority to maintain order in the region.

During the years of occupation, the British government encouraged European Jews to settle the region in an effort to fulfill political obligations to the Zionist movement made at what is known as the Balfour Declaration. This caused a civil war to break out over the whole colonization thing.

With the end of the Mandate over the region drawing to an end, and the tensions of the area heightened after civil war, the U.N. voted to subdivide the Mandate of Palestine into two separate states: Palestine and Israel

Exactly. We need real direct action focused protests that actually resist what is happening, as in directly impede the effort of this administration in achieving its goals. Bring the gears of this nation to a halt until our demands are met.

Which means we need real organizing efforts, a federated group of organizations from across the country getting together, to discuss what those demands are and lay the ground work that will allow those resistance efforts to be sustainable.

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https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/legal/building-community-resilience/

https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/legal/anarchist-survival-guide/

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