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- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
This was a thread about making the specific argument you’re mad at me for making
- Comment on Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this? 1 week ago:
Steelman:
The US is currently a fascist, imperialist state. It has brutalized the global south, indigenous people, and POCs generally since its founding and will continue to do so unless the status quo is disrupted and changed significantly.
The Democratic party supports the same militaristic policies and the same neoliberal economic system that the Republicans do. The primary difference between the parties are various social issues that may make life somewhat better or worse for US citizens, but will never address the core problems of fascism, imperialism, and capitalism. Both parties support and protect the status quo. This status quo only benefits the bourgeois class and rich white people and harms literally hundreds of millions of others around the world.
The Democratic party is the only one of the two major parties that the Left has any degree of leverage over since the Democrats want the Left to vote for them. So, organizing to essentially boycott the Democratic party is a powerful method of protest that could effect real policy change. It is possibly the only effective method of protest left since the US police & surveilance state is cracking down on protests and the Left has no chance protesting violently against the most powerful military the world has ever seen.
The only way to make that threat matter to the Democratic party is to follow through if the demands aren’t met, even - or especially if it means a second Trump term.
Strawman:
It would hurt my feelings too much to vote for copmala harm-us. Plus, Trump would let Putin annex Ukraine.
- Comment on True Story 1 week ago:
It really isn’t leftists’ fault, though. Trump easily won the popular vote and flipped georgia, pennsylvania, and wisconsin from their dem vote in 2020. Low voter turnout/voter suppression are the real culprits - along with dems failing to do almost any of the things that could’ve changed this outcome.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
I’m super critical of gender. Let’s get rid of all those.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 4 weeks ago:
Well… uhhh… that was Amazon’s plan. I thought we were on the same page.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 month ago:
It’s fine and good to wash cast iron - particularly if you had something corrosive in there. Don’t do it in the dishwasher (change in heat can be bad for it - same reason not to machine wash kitchen knives).
People who say washing your pan will remove the seasoning have not properly seasoned their pans or see food residue washing out and think it is the polymerized oils bonded to the metal that are washing out. If that’s the case, you are washing way too aggressively.
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 month ago:
People have weird ideas about seasoning. It is literally oil polymerized and bonded to the metal with high heat; but people act like it just rubs off. You can scrape seasoning off, but it’s hard. I need steel wool to do it.
I think these people complaining aren’t really seasoning their pans - just using dirty pans.
- Comment on Anon mows lawns 1 month ago:
You do have to earn at least minimum wage as a waiter if your tips don’t add up with your wage to at least $7.25 hourly, though. That said, $7.25 is a poverty wage. Ideally this would be solved with an appropriate minimum wage and decent pay for waitstaff/kitchen staff.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu has been very useful to me. My cardio has improved dramatically, I am much stronger than I used to be, and I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment out of going from absolute trash to slightly less trash over 2 years.
But I don’t expect it to really help me in a fight. If I did get into a fight, I certainly would do better than if I hadn’t trained; but one thing I’ve learned from fighting people for like 8hrs a week is that it is REALLY easy to fuck up and get hurt in ways you wouldn’t expect. The outcome of a fight is unpredictable - especially when the other person could have a weapon. The best martial art for self defense would be running.
- Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers 1 month ago:
If it were actually a true story, maybe autistic OP thought he was returning the joke in kind. “Lol shouldn’t you be starving because the British stole all your crops but potatoes”, “lol shouldn’t you be bombing hospitals”. Seems like a fair trade if you don’t understand what was implied. Signed: an autist.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like reddit 2 months ago:
4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching.
Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don’t dredge its depths or even know “the hacker named 4chan” exists, but it has been a massively influential force.
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 2 months ago:
I’ve seen many more coffee folks who have opinions ranging from “it doesn’ttaste different than the local coffee” to “it tastes downright bad”. James Hoffmann has a good video on it: yewtu.be/watch?v=pkbuFwHnJQY
- Comment on No thanks. I'm good. 2 months ago:
The problem is that it doesn’t actually taste good. It’s the labor-intensive and “exotic” manufacturing process that makes the coffee so expensive, not its quality.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
Fair enough! I can be a little harder to hit consistently in practice depending on the level of variety in your diet, if you go out occasionally, etc. But that is a solid and reasonable meal plan without a doubt.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
Don’t take the pills - the serving size on them is very misleading. You’dhave to take a ton of them to have any effect. Gotta go with the powder.
Nothing wrong with supplementation! It’s hard to eat that much fiber due to the relatively low fiber density of most foods. We adapted to our food sources, not so much the other way around - and we don’t spend all day chewing on fibrous, foraged plants anymore. Plus, psyllium husk is a food. It’d be the same as eating a shitload of flax or something but with fewer calories.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
It looks like there are spme that are 10g/serving so 3.7 servings. But then I’m seeing others that are 4g per 2 biscuit serving? So like 18.5 biscuits
- Comment on Dutch toilets 3 months ago:
Males need 37g of fiber daily for optimum health. That’s the equivalent of 568g of raspberries or 657g of green peas.
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
Oh for sure. I only meant in the US where the university is located. But it’s already a useful breakthrough for everyone in civilized countries
- Comment on Breast Cancer 3 months ago:
Now make mammograms not $500 and have a 6 month waiting time and available for women under like 40.
- Comment on I'm terrified of the Netherlands now 3 months ago:
They have ridiculous accents, though. They got nerfed in an old patch
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 3 months ago:
But sometimes philosophy is also like not knowing that flashlights exist and looking for a cat in the dark, sadly.
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 3 months ago:
Philosophy is often more like looking for things that can’t be seen with a flashlight but must logically exist.
- Comment on Compost 3 months ago:
Make sure to have some rolly polies in your compost heap to eat the rich 🍽 those little guys can remove heavy metals from the corpses of the bourgeoisie 😋
- Comment on Get scattered 4 months ago:
How do youbexplain me looking this psycho if there is no SATAN
- Comment on the GIRTH 5 months ago:
Shai hulud!
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
That’s fair, I didn’t put much thought into my response. I never said she was callous or reckless, though. The main thing is that she acted hypocritically and in a way that is inconsistent with her stated values. I think that’s a big reason she is disliked other than just being an “unlikeable” character
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
I think it’s mostly related. People see her behavior as hypocritical. She says she cares about the moral aspect, but never follows through. She says she cares about her family’s safety, but doesn’t really act consistently with that. And she starts to manage Walt’s business (willingly at first) but turns on him even when it might put the family in danger (like giving all their money to Ted).
She’s inconsistent/hypocritical because she lacks courage and conviction
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
Nope read again, I said alternately for that second bit. You couldn’t think both of those at the same time, but thinking them separately is valid.
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 6 months ago:
One other thing to keep in mind is that it is perfectly legal in most jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings to only give a part of the pay range. Say the range is 60,000 - 100,000, they could just say 60,000 - 80,000 or whatever they’re willing to hire people at.
I don’t think this is necessatily wrong practice, but it’s definitely potentially misleading.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
Nah, that lacks nuance. People who hate Skylar for just crushing Walt’s vibe or being unlikeable are idiots. I have watched the show in its entirety three times, and my opinion on all the characters has evolved - my opinion of Skylar is more negative than it used to be.
Skylar made certain choices to support Walt because she thought it was in the family’s best interest (including hers), then she later reneged on those choices when things didn’t turn out like she expected and ultimately forced Walt to take the blame for choices she willingly made. Skylar is not just a victim. She is highly intelligent and capable and simultaneously intends to benefit from Walt’s actions while being arrogant enough to assume she can control the situation, outsmart the authorities, and get off scott free. She shares many of Walt’s flaws. Skylar is relatable as she is unlikeable: just like we would in her circumstances, she is very flawed and lacks the courage to do what is necessary to stop Walt and protect herself and her family.
She did not have to support Walt in the first place but instead did so even when given many opportunities to get out of the situation with minimal consequences. She may have paid a price for doing so as time went on (asset seizure if she went to the cops, social ostracization, her kids disliking her, etc), but the consequences were initially fairly trivial - dicorce from a criminal who was putting the family at risk, embarrassment, harming her relationship with Marie, etc. And, while Walt obviously was callous/cruel/self-righteous/arrogant/and even evil, maybe - as was the point of his whole character, Skylar chose to support Walt in his criminal enterprise when she didn’t have to - going so far as to come up with money laundering ideas, encouraging him to expand his operations to an extent early on, helping him come up with cover stories, etc. and only later turning on Walt when she felt like she could no longer benefit from assisting him and would benefit more by betraying him - going so far as to physically assault him with a knife and threaten to kill him, lie to the police about Walt and also giving them his location which put his life in further jeopardy when he was trying to get the family to safety since he was being pursued.
In fact, Walt saw a way to use Skylar’s betrayal to protect the family and takes the blame for Skylar’s actions, goes along with Skylar’s lie that he was physically assaulting the family, threatening them with death if they didn’t comply, etc. all to take the heat off Skylar for the sake of the family. That doesn’t mean Walt is a saint. He should’ve stopped long before that and did many things that put the family in danger. But, his taking the blame for Skylar’s part in the operation shows that she did have a real part in it - he had to lie to say he forced her to be a part of the operation and to put her in a better light.
When Skylar initially began to support Walt, she was not under significant duress. There was a significant degree of duress later, with Walt acting intimidating, Meth Damon coming to “talk” to her at her house, etc. But you could say that just like the situation got away from Walt and was out of control, the same happened for Skylar. She thought she could control things and continue to benefit from Walt’s operation to provide a better life for the family. Then, when things got out of control, she flipped on Walt. The difference between Walt and Skylar is that Skylar got dragged into the situation by Walt, but remember, he really did try to keep her out of it. At a certain point, she chose to insert herself into it rather than leave the situation.
People dislike Skylar because she lacks courage. Courage to get out early when she had the chance, courage to report Walt to the police despite having many allies to help her and numerous opportunities, courage to stick to her moral convictions about what Walt was doing, courage to ensure her family’s safety before doing things that jeopardized her chances of full custody, courage to tell her kids the truth about what Walt was doing, or alternatively courage to stick with Walt since she had committed to doing so. But, most importantly, the courage to face the consequences for her part in the whole ordeal - except at the very end when it was already too late. She lacks courage and is self-interested, wanting to benefit from Walt’s dealings while bearing none of the risk or responsibility for her part in them.