Recently started using mail merge.
Combined it with some vba scripting(didn’t learn it well, just found some scripts on the net and modified them a bit) so that I could get pdf files for emailing by clicking a macro button from an excel sheet.

Also, go to use the info about the keyboard mouse right click button when someone’s Right Mouse Button was not working. https://www.online-tech-tips.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Windows-Right-Click-Button.jpg

I mentioned only computer things because of recency, but please do share your experiences in other topics too.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    As anyone who recognizes this username knows, I always try to help teach the merits of Marxism, which I believe is more useful than ever these days in analyzing the world around us and what we need to do to fix it. I can give anyone here a good introductory reading list or answer any questions, if anyone wants that.

    I also have taught soldering to a couple people.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Here’s a little “intro to Marxism-Leninism” list I threw together, modified a bit. It’s critically missing National Liberation theory, so any additions on that matter would be excellent. I am working through intersectional theory right now, which is why it is missing from this present list, the goal is to be as straight to the point as possible.

        A good intro for someone with no familiarity is Engels’ Principles of Communism and if you are anti-AES but willing to read I recommend Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.

        From there, it becomes more important to understand that Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components:

        1. Dialectical and Historical Materialism

        2. Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx’s Law of Value

        3. Advocacy for Revolutionary Socialism

        And as such, I recommend, in order:

        1. Politzer’s Elementary Principles of Philosophy

        By far my favorite primer on Dialectical and Historical Materialism. By understanding DiaMat first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism.

        1. Engels’ Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

        Further reading on DiaMat, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, essentially explaining how Capitalism itself preps the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates.

        1. Marx’s Wage Labor and Capital as well as Wages, Price and Profit

        Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value.

        1. Lenin’s Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism

        Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions.

        1. Lenin’s The State and Revolution

        Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, and not replaced. Also a good call to action to cap off the intro.

        1. Vikky Storm and Eme Flores’ The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto

        Critical reading on understanding misogny, transphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond. Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.

        After reading all of this, whoever has completed these works should have a good grasp of the basics of Marxism-Leninism and be equipped to do their own Marxist-Leninist analysis, though tons of excellent and fairly critical works were dropped for the sake of limiting the scope to an intro reading list.