I really wished that libs would read. While this is great, having been working on a book (The Cold War & Its Origins) that starts from 1917 and been going more or less chronologically through time, really understanding the French but especially British fucking shit up, primes you to also understand MR in context. It's just something that deboooonking like this doesn't do.

It gives you three options, are none of them acceptable?

{Meeoow|Same}

If you give me some time and help I can make one.

And the propaganda works. People think d-day won ww2.

We will ask them to purge feddit.uk. No half measures.

just being generally chaotic in writing

ADHD thoughts within thoughts. Instead of using two layers of parentheses, substituting one for dashes.

There exists multiple ways of inserting unicode chars:

• Visual selectors, like the character map in Windows, or gucharmap (gnome) or kcharselect (kde), and probably more
• Decimal input
  • On Windows if you have a numeric keypad, you can hold down the Alt key and type in the unicode code point expressed in decimal... with some caveats, the decimal for em-dash should be 8212 (see the next line), but in windows alt codes it is 0151
  • In html—and therefore potentially in markdown—it is possible to use &#[NUM]; to input it, like this: —, which gives you the —
• Hexadecimal input
  • can be enabled in windows and macos, see the wikipedia link for more info
  • ctrl+shift+u works... in some places
    • With an IME such as ibus or fcitx5 installed on linux, it should work through the system
    • For me, it works (without an ime installed) in Firefox
    • Wikipedia says it may work in other X11 applications
• Clicking the Compose key (Linux. May need to be enabled), and writing --- will get you an em-dash

So just silicon valley techbros?

A third book on DiaMat, so not sure how helpful it is, would be Georges Politzer Elementary Principles of Philosophy.

For some easier reads, I like This Soviet World and Soviet Democracy, though they are not theory.