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freeocalan.org has collected a bunch of them here: ocalanbooks.com

There is weird politicking and bizarre bedfellows happening in Turkish politics right now. Erdogan's allies to his right are advocating for Ocalan's release as some sort of diplomatic manuever. Ocalan's own nephew I believe has made it into parliament as a relatively outspoken Kurd, and I imagine he is doing the same for more personal reasons.

Meanwhile Ocalan has been pumping out some of the most excitingly radical and revolutionary libertarian socialist ideological literary material in the world in our lifetimes from solitary confinement (Yes it's torture) over the past 15 years, springboarding off the ideas of Murray Bookchin and instructing the PKK to abandon Marxism in favor of Democratic Confederalism, which they mostly appear to have done despite Kurdish culture's continued cult of personality around him. I can't help but wonder if this is a test: Turkey wants him to say one thing publicly, and he's hedging his bets that his comrades will know to not listen.

Good cop steps back and lets bad cop have a turn.

I don't think any of the proxies or frontends have a good way around it yet, and google is clearly using it as a way to fuck with said frontends. Best practice suggestion: Every time you get cockblocked by something like this, you must send at least one friendly DM or message to the content creator suggesting they at least put a second copy of their content on a decentralized platform.

Por que no los dos

Percentage population increases since 1961:

Humans: 161.85%
Farmed chickens: 1,071.43%
Farmed pigs: 375%
Farmed sheep and goats: 275%
Cows: 178.61%

God dammit jesus fucking christ I was looking for an optimistic take where I showed you guys that farmed animal populations haven't gone up as fast as the human population but I was WRONG, not only are there many more of us but on average each one of us is also having radically more animals tortured on our behalves. Shit. Everyone wants to be middle class and here we are in our western post middle class phase going "No please, it's not what you think it is, we beg you" looking like absolute hypocrites. How do you convince the world to go vegan without looking like you're merely asking them to forego the luxury that your own liberal society has been dumping on you your entire life?

I appreciate that Randall Munroe isn't a part of the Feynman cult. Angela Collier did a great video about it a few months ago.

Himmel

As a bike wrencher, mad respect to car mechanics that make that shit work. Cars are 10x more complex than most bikes, 10x more proprietary, and sometimes 10x more expensive. Fucking nightmare land.

There usually are vegan vaccine variants if you're privledged enough to be able to access and demand them. It's usually far outside my level of acceptable practicality to do so though, so I get the default version.

OP wants to claim both compassion and nihilism.

Which ones? I've yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldn't satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.

Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.