For the older posters here, you know the drill. No struggle sessions, keep it nice.
For the newer folks, hi! I’m Corgi! I made these threads from time to time to see if everyone is doing OK. Got something cool you wanna talk about? Need an ear for venting? This is your space! Just be nice, this isn’t the thread for arguments.
I made a down payment for next year’s wedding recently, and I’ve been having a BLAST with the Retroid 3+. I’ve been going to the bar with the pup the last few days and just sitting with a pint and playing MVC2, Twisted Metal Black, Smash, and Mario. Met another Hexbear IRL recently, that was nice!
Hope everyone is doing well! Remember, you are loved
good, thank you
First time listener, first time caller. Homeschool for our two kids starts next week, and we are studying Dad’s Extremely Anti-Colonialist Early Modern History: Part One™ this year. Can’t wait
Roughly how old are the kids? I could ask down the street about materials for teaching kids / work sheets (they are mostly focused on science and practical things for kids though, German academic material).
They’re 9 and 6. We’re in the very fortunate position of having too many resources available, so we’re trying to pare down what we’re doing to avoid frying their brains. That said, there’s a real shortage of homeschool resources in the Lemmy world, so anything you’ve got that handy will be useful. Thanks, and you’re awesome
We did commie homeschool for three years since the pandemic started, but my kids said that they wanted to go back this year, so they’re going, although they won’t be taking off their n95s at school. I’m pretty anxious about them getting sick (or getting me sick) and hope that they change their minds, but I support whatever decision they make. We studied really well together and I was really impressed with how basically any kind of problem can be overcome with enough attention, resources, encouragement, etc. They head back tomorrow. Good luck with this adventure.
That’s a bittersweet feeling for sure. We went through the same thing last year, sending them to public school after two great years of homeschool; we wanted to give them a chance to learn some social skills, make some friends, and just generally get a sense of what public school is like so that they have that cultural reference point going forward.
If it helps at all, they managed to avoid COVID (thank you, KF94 masks), built some great friendships that have grown outside of school, and got to participate in some fun stuff that they would have otherwise missed. It also gave them a greater appreciation for the fun and flexibility of homeschool.
So: good luck tomorrow and for the rest of the schoolyear! And maybe don’t give away all your homeschool stuff just yet.
Im doing really well, in my social and political theory class i discoverd my professor is a marxist because he told me to read max weber, and all my other classes to me are all very interesting
i discoverd my professor is a maxist because he told me to read max weber
the “because” is a bit confusing here. your professor is marxist, ok, but how you deduced it? max weber is super interesting and a great read, however, he is not associated with Marxism. his writings have frequently been interpreted as opposing Marxist ideas, particularly in the United States. for example, Parsons held a strong admiration for Max Weber because he saw him as an alternative to marx
You kind of have to talk about Weber in pol theory classes, it is foundational even though not the first person having thought about a lot of stuff. It also is good to be able to critique the conceptions as many pol sci people hear Weber, hear Carl Schmitt (right wing Max Weber for conservative authoritarians and Nazis basically) and a few others and then just repeat those points and look down on anyone having a wider set of political knowledge.
I view Weber as basically Marx but with bourgeois escape valves. “Marx failed to consider culture which is this vague thing that just sort of floats around in the air and gets involved in human affairs whenever the bourgeoisie (the people currently paying my salary) starts to look bad.” Weber allows liberal academics to do something like historical materialism (even though it’s nothing of the sort) and avoid relying too much on great man theory / divine intervention without risking their careers. Also, Weber’s idea that Protestantism created capitalism has the entire base-superstructure backwards and is not dialectical.
I don’t actually know that much about Weber so anyone who knows more should feel free to dunk on me. My history professor in college relied on him pretty heavily and stabbed me in the back and nuked my graduate thesis (after we had worked together really well for four years!) because I dared to express support for Students for Justice in Palestine, even though back then I was a lib. So I associate Weber with that guy. Always looking at interesting details, never considering the broader dialectical picture, and rarely mentioning Marx or Marxists except to say that they are wrong.
I forgot to add he also praised marx and engels and criticized neoliberalism, he called the ussr bureaucratic so i think he is a trot
Girl I have been chasing isn’t texting me while she deals with ongoing family drama. About to go into work at a job that’s come to be extremely stressful, one I sought originally to get less stress. I had acting class at community college today. Called out sick yesterday because I was super depressed and having back pain and needed to do homework anyway. Made a wire sculpture of my shoe for 3D design class.
Have been obsessively playing Baldur’s Gate 3 for over a week now and got like 80 hours in so far. Thinking about writing but not doing much of it.
TLDR sad but plugging along, the usual
Baaaad.
Good news: BF recovered from COVID about two weeks ago. Yay!
Bad News: He took up the bottle again for reasons too complex to talk about here. Then he tried to start a fight over something that is a legit grievance(I failed to be attentive to his needs, check in more) but when I tried to deescalate he continued to try and fight, and threatened to follow me if I tried to get away. (
After giving him 24 hours to cool off- he did it again over text.
So, I told him to get his stuff, now he’s my ex boyfriend.
I was shocked with his behavior. He’s a grief counselor ffs. But he is also a recovering alcoholic and I just met who he is after a weekend bender.
Sucks.
