Sergio

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Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the “attacks” are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it’s all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a “live” adversary who’s actively trying to beat you. I’ve read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that’s rare.

When someone asks you questions, it’s also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you’re heading for an environment you don’t wanna be in.

• THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
• YOU: So, obviously my family’s important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
• THEM: Well… (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We’re expected to make work a priority…

In the martial arts, Tai Chi is the obvious answer.

Consider Aikido. It’s generally more like choreographed exercises. A lot of dojos are very understanding of physical constraints. Check with your doctor, it might be good way to gently test your limits. Plus, it’s important to know how to fall safely.

This cartoon deserves a Pulitzer.

Evil Genie: “Granted.” It starts to rain. It never stops.

This isn’t really my area, but afaik…

• the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn’t the only cause of the French Revolution.
• the American and French Revolutions were both products of “the Englightenment” which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were “inspired by” the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
• I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it’d be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were “implanted” by the French Revolution.

I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.

a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we’d not have a lot of countries.

At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we’re in the shitposting community

The ghosts are the game. The cats are game-masters. That’s why terrible things happen to us if we displease them.

You know how cats are sitting still staring at something, and you’re like “how can that cat sit still so long and stare at something?” It’s this. The entire world is a game to them.

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I dunno. Better report them to [email protected]

thx for the memes/shitposts in spanish, fam, every day I see posts in other languages but so few in spanish for some reason dunno why.

• Theme of ONE PUNCH MAN ~Seigi Shikkou - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBxzqne_gWg
• Danganronpa - Beautiful Days - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5GIMiRKiw
• Attack on Titan First Season Opener (Bollywood Version) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATb87inKC9E

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• [email protected] - warning, includes archive and dailymotion videos too

FWIW at least half of the movies mentioned on [email protected] are on tubi.

Also keep an eye on: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats A couple thousand people (and several communities) moved there after lemm.ee died, but we interact with lemmy.

As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts? Maybe it’s time to be more of a poster!

Nice try, ICE.

Boston is so awesome. You didn’t mention the museums, historical places, concerts, festivals, theaters, hundreds of little cafes and restaurants, bookstores, art galleries, several dozen universities each with events open to the public. Taking the T (public transportation) over to the Boston Common to see what’s going on, then walking through downtown, maybe stop at Fanueil Hall for a snack, then go all the way to the North End to a restaurant. Oh gods I’m homesick and I only lived there like 8 years.

I always imagined that ADHD was just our minds tuned to being hunter-gatherer survivors, and thus not suited for a sedentary office environment.