TyMan210 [he/him, comrade/them]

I’ll have to look into that. I switched to Pocket Casts years ago specifically for the cross-platform sync feature, and haven’t really given it any thought since lol

It’s not quite the same, but Pocket Casts lets you customize how many seconds the skip buttons go forward and back by, which can at least make it a little less tedious

I’ve been working on Spanish for a couple of years now, but what was once 30+ minutes a day has become <5 minutes a day just to keep my streak up on Duolingo. I need to get back into it, I interact with multiple native Spanish speakers in my everyday life, but I’m not quite at the point of being able to have even a simple conversation

I haven’t really been able to fully figure the loyalty system either. I know standard of living is a main component of it, but I haven’t found a good way to reliable keep loyalists around. This is what it says on the wiki, but it doesn’t really help with figuring out what to do:

Radicals and loyalists, just like with interest group membership, are not whole pops but rather individuals within pops. Loyalists can be considered happy or content, while Radicals are unhappy.


There is a large variety of ways that pops can become radicals or loyalists, here's a few of the more common reasons listed below: 

   Pops that experience an increase in SoL will become more loyal.

   Pops from political movements that have their demands fulfilled become more loyal.

   Pops that experience a decrease in SoL will become more radical.

   Pops from political movements whose demands are ignored may radicalize over time.

   Pops whose SoL is below the minimum they expect to have will radicalize over time, particularly if it's so low that they're actually starving.

   Pops that are discriminated against (ethnicity/religion) radicalize over time (but only if they are literate!)

...

Pops will remain radical or loyalist until they either die or have a status change as a result of becoming more radical/loyal (for example, a loyalist pop might stop being loyalist if their material standard of living suddenly takes a nosedive), but they do, in fact, die.
As generations die off and are replaced by new ones, less and less people will remember all the great things done for the country 30 years ago and will start wondering instead what has been done for them lately. 

the Soviet government passed one of its first acts ever, with the decree of 3 May 1918 that expropriated about 2,500 cars from the bourgeois members of society.

To give an historical perspective, this predates the October Revolution by about six months

lol

It reminds me of that series of tweets where several people were asking Notch to just say that he’s not a Nazi, and he weaseled out of every single one just like that