Hello comrades and welcome to the last improvement megathread of 2024! Special shout out to everybody who checked in to the threads this year.

It's the last thread of the year so let us know how was your 2024! What were your W's and L's this year? Do you have some resolutions/goals for 2025?

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Long live the great unity of all the peoples of the whole nation

全国各民族大团结万岁

Quanguo ge minzu da tuanjie wansui

Good luck in 2025!

"BRICS, the Global South-led forum for economic cooperation, continues to grow in influence, as its seeks to de-dollarize and transform the international monetary and financial system.

After admitting four new members (Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the UAE) in 2024, BRICS officially welcomes nine new nations as partner countries on January 1, 2025. They are:

• Belarus
• Bolivia
• Cuba
• Indonesia
• Kazakhstan
• Malaysia
• Thailand
• Uganda
• Uzbekistan

With its nine members and nine partners, BRICS now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP).

The group is an economic powerhouse, including top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals."

linky

checkmate Christians

Hello comrades and welcome to the fourth improvement megathread of December!

Only 3 days until Xmas! I hope everybody is couchmaxxing and getting into the festive mood.

As usual, some discussion ideas:

• Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
• Do you have any goals or plans for next week?
• Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
• If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
• Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Take care

"No Other Land" is the second best movie of the year according to this list

What are some of your favorites that you watched this year?

"Methane production used to be viewed as a problem at cattle ranches and dairy farms, but methane itself is a highly energetic biogas that can be used as fuel. Harnessing it might prove difficult considering that current social graves do not favor open flatulence even for the sake of renewable energy. However, certain diets richer in alfalfa and flaxseed have been proven to reduce methane production in cows, which could potentially solve that problem (13)."

linky

critical failure

Hello comrades and welcome to the third improvement megathread of December!

We recently had an influx of new users and I'd love to hear from them. This is the weekly improvement thread where you can say how you're doing, post your Ws and Ls.

As leftists, there are many excellent reasons why we should strive to become the best version of ourselves. This is the space where we improve together and share our progress.

Here are some of our usual discussion ideas:

• Do you want to share something you've done in the previous week? Everything counts, nothing is too small.
• Do you have any goals or plans for next week?
• Do you have any streaks? For example, "sober for one day." Feel free to post your streak every day in this thread.
• If you don't have a continuous streak, did you manage to abstain from something for a day or more?
• Did you come across some useful information or resource that might help others?

Poster caption: "Conquering Space!"

Good luck with your goals!

Mr. Zizek, welcome to the volcel vanguard

Hello comrades and welcome to the second improvement megathread of December!

I hope your December is going great so far! How was your week? Any plans for next week?

Poster caption: "300 Years Since Reunification of Ukraine with Russia. Our Strength is in Brotherly Friendship!"

Good luck with your goals!