Oliver Tambo, born on this day in 1917, was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1967 to 1991.
In 1943, Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, founded the ANC Youth League, with Tambo becoming its first National Secretary and a member of the National Executive in 1948. The Youth League proposed a change in the tactics of the anti-apartheid movement, advocating boycotts, civil disobedience, strikes, and non-collaboration.
In 1960, Tambo fled South Africa due to political persecution, living in exile in north London for thirty years. From London, he supported and helped organize the ANC in the fight against apartheid from a distance. On December 13th, 1990, Tambo returned to South Africa and was elected National Chairperson of the ANC.
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Woke up at around 1 am, tried to fall back asleep but ended up waking up a second time at around 3 am.
I can not remember a night in the recent past where I didn’t wake up at least once in the middle of the night, I wish I could just sleep a full 8 hours straight but I never can.
I do too, but only because I sleep super-early.
Drinking alcohol can do that. When your liver runs out of alcohol to process it starts doing its normal job processing waste but has too little water because it used it processing the alcohol, so your blood pressure and pulse rise and you wake up.
Word. Gotta remember to hydrate. Drinking a quart or two of water mixed with gatoraid at a 4:1 ratio before you go to bed will do you a lot of good come morning. Eating a banana isn’t a bad idea, either. Potassium and more sugars and electrolites, but easy on most people’s stomachs.
Agree with hydrating but two quarts of water before bed and I’m getting up every hour to piss lol. Hydration is an all day effort! Alternate drinks and water!
Yeah, that’s almost definitely the reason. I should be drinking more water.
Is it really that unusual for people to not drink at all nor smoke tobacco or weed?
I mean this is in reaction to a twitter post so its not reacting to a real life sentiment exactly but its still a little strange seeing the two sides being “wow these people are badasses just rawdogging reality” vs “wow these freaks are just fine sober?”
Just kinda strange, for medical reasons I cant drink, tobacco smoke gives me splitting headaches and weed just didnt do anything for me the time I tried it, so I guess Im one of these badass freaks by process of elimination.
Total abstinence, yeah, it’s probably a little strange. I know plenty of non smokers who drink rarely, but I don’t know many people who never drink at all.
Really the people I know who fit this are sober, meaning like conscious choice after alcohol abuse.
Is it really that unusual for people to not drink at all nor smoke tobacco or weed?
In Western societies at least it’s genuinely a small minority I’m pretty sure.
I only know two people in my life who don’t use any substances at all. It seems like pretty much everyone drinks or smokes at some point
I haven’t rawdogged reality for a long time. Usually stoned every day but I don’t drink alcohol or smoke tobacco.
Not trying to be a weed guy but it’s very common for weed to have little to no effect the first time someone tries it.
I tried a couple of times but it was all from the same person so maybe they just gave me shitty weed.
It is unusual, but it doesn’t make it bad. I know I’ve been straight-edge in the past and people looked at me weird for that. Granted, I like runner’s highs and pain, so maybe I’m not the one to go to on this matter.
No. Like 2.1 billion Muslims all fib about not drinking all the time (I kid, most Muslims don’t drink but it’s a constant source of discussion and memes on Muslim social media).
I feel you, though. I don’t drink or smoke for medical reasons and when I was younger it made a lot of socializing weird and difficult. It’s not fun being the only sober person around a lot of very drunk people.
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Depersonalized/derealized/dissociated pretty hard last night from highway hypnosis during a long drive last night and it got me thinking
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Wield the sword of will. Divide yourself in to diverse tools, each with a sharp edge, each with a firm purpose. Attain heaven through violence.
Even if Christianity is correct and there is a hell, I find eternal hellfire more appealing than a lifetime of subjugation to the American fundamentalist crowd and their ilk.
Pascal’s wager: hacked
want to go to hell to chill with my friends around a bon fire and drink and have sex and do drugs… but Evangelical christians are the cult of mamon so they will go to hell too… Fuck. “christians” are going to turn hell into hell.
The contrast between the very real and terrible current events in the levant and the lame and fake “xinjiang ethnic cleansing” narrative is really something
Lots and lots of very real evidence of actual atrocities vs “they’re FORCING them to celebrate their traditions/festivals” or literally “race mixing is genocide” (china watchers 🤝 falungong)
Ayuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup.
Xinjiang evidence? Vague allegations, satellite pictures of construction sites with no context, some anti-communist christian freak, and really sketchy pictures of people sitting in a chair, again without context.
Gaza? Literal live video.
Libs? CCP BAD GAZA FAKE NEWS!
I guess a lot of libs have come around as they couldn’t ignore the deluge of horror forever, but gd.
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Ah the modern Nordic Left.
My countrys right wing gov is planning to cut almost all meaningful workers rights, including the right to strike.
Our leftest most “radical” political party, The Left Alliance has put up a petition that we can go sign to oppose this general strike demanding move.
Can’t wait for the amazing impact this petition will have./s
we get to witness the undoing of everything that was won for the working class since… almost exactly a century ago
I wonder if I will also witness people fighting for those things again, or if people are too brainwashed and we have to wait a few generations.
I am feeling so much better compared to days ago, it is a very big world of difference
I wish china had a more belligerent foreign policy for anticolonial things like Israel/palestine
Chud gaming YouTubers preparing themselves to upload 200000 videos titled “Alan Woke 2”
got a youtube ad for tucking underwear earlier so I guess I’ve had my gender assigned by youtube ads
you will live in pod, you will eat bug, you gender decided by algo
A large raccoon has really been hanging around the house lately. I have tiny paw prints on my trash can, and it walked right up to me when I was on my back porch.
Kinda cute but it scurried down the tree I was pissing against and it gave me quite a shock. A vulnerable position to be in. A bird feeder is right there, might have to find some different solution.
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whiskey exists in a strange place because the best whiskey tastes least like whiskey, yet cheap whiskey is the most whiskey
oh shit project zomboid is on sale
Man if we had a server and oh boy all the conflicting mods
I remember someone a couple months ago mentioned a server. I meant to join it but I never did
anyway if we are hosting a server I request that we add the Scrap Armor and Scrap Weapons mods
