Its two founders, crab boy and gucci, were both insufferable reactionary dipshits and the worst posters on the old sub. They explicitly set out to create a safe space for reactionary dipshits like themselves, that was always both the inevitable end state and their intended objective.

It took way too long for the old sub to purge them, I think it only happened towards the end after the admins had started targeting the sub and its mods.

I have literally had a fascist dipshit make exactly that argument before, with the most self-satisfied tone like it was some sort of gotcha.

Trotsky’s work as a reactionary particle physicist exposed him to dangerous forms of novel radiation that ultimately lead to his death following a crippling mutant brainworm infestation and a failed attempt to combat them with an icepick.

I once had a former USAF psyops officer claim the Air Force was doing something like that during the first Gulf War, but he was drunk and rambling in a boastful “good old days” sort of way that included pulling out a zip lock bag full of old psyops leaflets he’d kept as souvenirs, so not the most reliable source.

Statistically speaking, the only thing advertisers are good at selling is their own services to businesses. Advertising is a miserably bad investment that mostly just eats up funds, even as it’s forced to exist by businesses needing to be seen and known about. Like nobody alive sees an ad and thinks “ah, I must own [thing] now!” they just maybe notice that [thing] exists and maybe at some point remember that it exists but are more likely to just run across it when doing a search for [general type of thing] later anyways. But without engaging in it, businesses suffocate because they never build up a critical mass of being known about.

It’s all such a fucking stupid and pointless grift that has no reason at all to exist and it doesn’t even do the one thing it’s claiming to do well at all.

Games Workshop did weirdly good by making their orcs British soccer hooligans.

They also made their flavor of ontologically evil elves into pasty nordic vikings.

“I would like to watch grown men play catch while destroying their bodies with poison and scrambling their brains with concussions, and I would further like to make being violently passionate about one arbitrary brand name my entire identity. This is what is mainstream and the most socially acceptable sort of hobby: passively consuming this content at a rate of 30 seconds of gameplay per hour of ads, while drinking heavily.”

Sports fandom is just twitch streamer stan culture except somehow even more toxic and harmful for everyone involved.

Yeah, though I’ve read that it’s also true for the UK. I speculated in another comment that it could be from how urbanization and industrialization went in Europe, where people were displaced from traditional sources of spices and thrown into an environment where there weren’t really alternatives/replacements available, and the traditions have just further atrophied and been annihilated over the generations since with fast food and ready-made foods in stores catering to those atrophied tastes and just stacking more salt, sugar, and fat into things instead of going for flavor. In other places urbanization and industrialization were more abrupt and happened in a context where spice production was already industrialized, so tastes remained largely the same and their respective fast food and prepackaged food at least tried to mimic that to some extent.

I also can’t help but assume that ludicrously cheap meat was also a big factor in food becoming blander in the US, at least, because it was an excuse to be lazy and not learn to cook when someone could just throw a cheap piece of beef in a pan with maybe some salt at the most, then douse it in red corn syrup that maybe had a detectable bit of vinegar in it, and it would be palatable enough to eat even if it was bland and mediocre.

Yeah. I still remember learning that when I was in high school and being confused at how there was just so little left of someone I was at the same time being told was so famous and prolific. I think that was one of the formative steps to realizing just how fragmentary even the most famous bits of history really are, because before that point everything I’d seen about antiquity was always presented with a sort of air of completeness and I never realized how often that vague summaries of a place or person or practice genuinely were the sum total of what’s actually known about them.

They were meant to be episodic, in a way, which means chorus recaps and the like.

This reminds me that the few times I’ve seen historians earnestly talk about all the “lost epics” of the expanded Iliad poetic universe have been very funny, because at their bluntest they’re just sort of hemming and hawing around a point that’s basically “so it was all just a big fanfic scene, really, and a lot of it was bad, and it represented a bunch of different contradictory canons, and like every character no one even liked got a spinoff epic about them getting lunch that one time… So really it seems the two books we do have seem to be what were considered the best, and certainly were the most popular of all them which is why any copies survived at all.”

Like obviously they’d still be really neat to have, but it’s really funny to think about how this big chunk of what’s held up as one of the pillars of western literary culture was just like, the contemporary equivalent of a fanfic scene where everyone involved was just kind of making up their own stories about these mythic characters and some of it was popular enough to get repeated down the line and only two stories were popular enough to still be getting copied many centuries later.

spraying said burning oil.

Specifically aerosolizing it, not just splashing it around, for anyone who’s unclear on what sort of “spray” is produced. It turns a big lump of burning oil where only some of it can get oxygen into a huge cloud of tiny oil particles that are each surrounded by oxygen, creating yet another additional explosion as suddenly a lot more of it is burning a whole lot faster.

Like it’s not just a bad idea that makes the fire bigger, it’s a catastrophically bad idea that turns the entire room its in into fire instantly.

Now technically there is an amount of water that can put out a small enough grease fire, but it’s on the order of hundreds of gallons hitting it all at once so unless someone has a bathtub sized emergency reservoir on a quick release directly above their stove, they’re not going to manage it with a glass or a pot or even a large bucket full of water. Especially since the actual solution is just “put a thing that won’t be on fire over it and it will stop.”

Europe has lots of its own spices and historically made very heavy use of them, particularly things that can just be grown in gardens or foraged from the woods. It’s more that the traditional culinary knowledge was gradually annihilated over the past two hundred years or so (for a variety of reasons including urbanization) and now even something like “growing a few plants to season food with” is a niche thing that only enthusiasts who are passionate about cooking do instead of just the expected normal thing for most of the population to do.

I’d probably attribute the death blow to war rationing, fast food slop, and frozen ready made food, and it’s probably down to cheap fat and sugar meaning the cheapest way to mass produce ready made slop was making it bland but greasy and overly sweet. But that’s also mimicking historical signs of wealth in European cooking, where rich people just stuffed their faces with the fattiest foods dripping with expensive sugars because those were all expensive luxuries, while the European poor were left seasoning stews with domestically grown herbs, garlic, and onions. There’s probably an interesting investigation to be made of how culinary trends went with industrialization in periphery countries and what was preserved or lost there vs what was preserved or lost in European countries, but I don’t have any knowledge in that area. Maybe later industrialization went faster and preserved more existing culinary culture, while slow industrialization annihilated it as large swathes of the population were removed from domestic sources of spices and there were no good replacements available?

From what I’ve read on culinary history, traditional foods would have been spiced heavily at the time just with local herbs and things that are absolutely everywhere on the planet like garlic and onions. Blandness is a much more recent problem caused by war rationing and mass produced processed/ready made foods that pretty much annihilated traditional cooking knowledge and warped the public’s tastes around the blandest slop possible.

Historically people would find basically any way possible to make food taste better or at least more interesting within the limits of their environment, and it’s only relatively recently that “idk just throw more salt, sugar, and fat on it and that’s all the flavor the slop needs” became the culturally dominant culinary theory.

Clutter is a real thing, but it’s something that’s present all the time when it really should not be and is so in an obstructive way, such as ads, locked out premium features, reminders of premium features they want you to buy, wasted empty space, etc. In contrast something like a settings menu definitionally cannot be cluttered (at worst it can be disorganized or poorly labeled) because it’s something that’s rarely touched and which needs to be exhaustive in its contents.

So apps tend to be actually extremely cluttered in bad ways (because monetization is real clutter), while also being infuriatingly barebones. They’re the actual worst thing and should simply stop being a thing.

Me when people keep telling me to read theory but then I read this “Lenin” guy and he’s just saying what I’m saying!

Huh. Since I heard about them not having a cable at all just a few years ago the person I heard it from must have had very outdated info even then lmao. That’s interesting, thanks.

Cuba’s only got one undersea cable connection to the rest of the internet

When did even that happen? Last I heard every plan to lay one kept being blocked by the US so they only had satellite connections.

I love the three inland seas behind narrow straits, all the conveniently nearby huge island chains, and the absurd mountain placement. Guess we know what continent’s been hoarding all the fantasy worldbuilding cliches so all the others have had their cliched geography carefully rationed, then.

I read all of that series as a kid and I’m pretty sure the only reason I get that is because of the recap posts that someone, I think it was you, made last year or this year or whenever it was.

Nobody I know understands why I’m always talking about yeerks though.

If it weren’t for the chamoy that would probably be pretty good. Actually, maybe it’s better than chamoy candies - which are easily the most disgusting candy I’ve ever tried, being both intensely salty and also blandly unpleasant in a just sort of generally foul way - because of how comparatively dilute it is. I’ve never had it on something as an actual sauce, only in those disgusting hard candies.

I’d probably try it because the rest of it I know would be good and probably works well together.