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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The menimalist lifestyle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I am on Sway but I'll take a look at this. I didn't know there were premade userChrome themes. This is awesome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree to an extent. I understand your analogy but I think there's a crucial difference between ads for a product and political positions. You can easily get someone to buy a product, but getting someone to change their views on, say, abortion is much harder. Political positions are tied to identities in ways that purchasing decisions are generally not. There may be some ways to sway some people who are on the fense about a given candidate or position, but I generally think this ability to change people is way overstated. People just keep posting their opinions over and over and think it's actually changing someone's mind, more often they are preaching to people who already agree with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have any idea but I want to thank you for the link. This is not related to conveting to Epub but have you looked at K2pdfopt? It has options to optimize PDF for e-readers. It doesn't work all the time but it's worth checking out. Last I checked it has templates to deal with scientific papers.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Ok I can accept that. I am not speaking about her personally but about many people on the revolutionary left who stay on there and spend 90 percent of the time complaining about what Elon Musk did or said. There's something wrong with this "politics of negativity", where the very apparent opposition you have to something is what ultimately fuels it. It's ironic in a sense. A post complaining about Elon Musk is ultimately creating money for Elon Musk. The apparent discourse and the latent effect are diametrically opposed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's not the same though? We can't stop participating in Capitalism right now. But we can easily stop using Twitter as far as I'm aware. You will not die if you stop using a website. I am not saying don't participate in social media of any kind. I am saying if you can't even stop using a website because it clashes with every value you have, then what chance is there that you'll give up something even greater for the sake of the greater good? Your analogy can be used to justify not making any kind of change ever because it inconveniences us.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It seems that you want a Podcast player and an Audiobook player. I use two different apps for that : AntennaPod for podcasts and Voice for Audiobooks. You can use AntennaPod also for Audiobooks, but I like to separate the two.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

But why are they still supporting platforms run by billionaires? It's so easy to talk, theorize and posture as this revolutionary figure. But when it comes down to giving up one single convenience, people freak out. I don't know if I can take these people seriously.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Speak for yourself! I have internal stereologue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really loved The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky and Beloved by Toni Morrison.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

I hope this is ironic

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