SpookyBogMonster

@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who grew up in Chinese restaurant kitchens… I can assure you a flat bottomed wok on an induction stovetop is never going to be adequate for traditional Chinese cooking.

  Seconding this. I am but a humble gringo, and I do love an induction Cook top, but the insistence that everyone in earth can move 100% to induction in every instance only applies if you’re only making European dishes where flat bottom pans are standard.

  Proper wok cooking needs gas, end of story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: I think Howl’s Moving Castle is overrated, and people only like it so much, because of the hot wizard twink.

  Its plot is muddy and poorly paced, and that scene where two old women struggle to walk up the stairs for multiple minutes always felt out of place to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I Imagine Taylor Swift Fans Eat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, people can also be casually misogynistic about the interests of middle aged women ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long until someone digs up a bunch of Halo Infinite discs from a New Mexico desert?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just coincidence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That wasn’t what the Nazis took as inspiration, so much as Jim Crow laws, and the extermination of indigenous peoples.

  Lebensraum was just Manifest Destiny for Germans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can the furries who supposedly hold up the entire internet just pull the plug already?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He's right, you know⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Cloudhiker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Particularly towards its minority populations. The US is full of colonized peoples and regions that it has, if not an extractive relationship with, than a relationship that’s passively exterminationist.

  In much the same way that the US shoved its indigenous peoples only reservations, expecting them to die off or otherwise exit the stage of history, black people were redlined into inner cities for the same purpose. Now Gary, IN is without power, Flint, MI goes without water, etc.

  Of course, this also becomes an active process as well, like when the FBI murdered Fred Hampton, or propped up a tinpot dictator on the Lakota reservation in With Dakota in the 70s.

  But that internal Colonial relationship is at the core of all of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Conquest of Wet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Delhi - during lockdown vs now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is in our nature

  No dumb dumb, it’s capitalism. A temporary system that has a beginning, and will in one way or another, end. We can change things. You’re not a slave to some nebulous “human nature”. Now, log off, stop doom scrolling, and go do something about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users having a bit of fun dancing!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe its been 2 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, just Trots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe its been 2 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the only thing that’s a stretch, check this out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe its been 2 weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the real ragebait here is that OP can’t event get the fake number right SMH 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Enough Hate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire point is that mocking someone for “looking trans” is wrong regardless.

  I agree, but I don’t see anyone doing this. Not the person you responded to, nor the meme in this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Enough Hate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Clavicular isn’t actually trans. He’s a mentally ill conservative grifter, and calling him a “Male to Male Transsexual” is a philosophical point more than anything.

  2. I have you tagged as “JK Rowling Bootlicker” so I have a feeling you’re not exactly acting in the best faith here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it recently, and enjoyed it. It wasn’t quite what I wanted out of a quake game, but as a standalone sci-fi horror game, it’s a thoroughly fun romp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are numerous more equitable models that China could have built its system around. For example, they could have built their market economy based entirely around worker-owned co-ops. Co-ops can compete just fine in markets

  Well, you’ll be quite pleased to know that a significant part of China’s market reforms, has been the development of worker co-ops as a significant part of its economy.

  Why couldn’t China build a market economy, but just have a hard rule of “no one is allowed to amass more than X amount?” Even if people couldn’t hoard more than say, $100 million, that still gives people plenty of incentive to start new businesses, get an education, work hard, etc.

  Because they established markets to bring in foreign capital investment. Foreign companies, wanting comparatively cheap labor, were encouraged to partner with Chinese (usually state owned) firms, to access said cheap labor. Over the decades, the Chinese have taken this foriegny capital, invested it in its own domestic economic development, and encouraged the establishment of worker co-ops, in place of foreign firms. Huawei, for instance, is a worker co-op, and came out of the capital generated from partnerships foreign telecom companies.

  Now, a private, national bourgeoise does exist, and people have gotten very rich. But China also puts those people on an INCREDIBLY tight leash. The reason they don’t limit the wealth you can amass, is because they wouldn’t want to limit the generation of capital that could be spent on economic development goals. Instead, they use the slightest steps out of line to seize those rich people’s wealth for thepublic good.

  I’m interested specifically in the billionaires. So why the billionaires?

  Essentially, the TL;DR is that billionaires in China are a byproduct of market reforms designed to generate domestic capital, and development. While they’re there, and their presence creates contradictions, they don’t have the ability to impact politics the way they can in the west.

  The Chinese state, being a socialist state, seeks to manage the contradictions of market reforms, and funnel the gains from them for socialist ends. Those ends being the development of the productive forces (domestic industry, ending poverty, etc.), while also developing the relations of production, via state ownership of major industries, and encouraging the growth of cooperatives in the consumer goods market, and workers Congresses and party committees in nominally private businesses, to give workers a greater say in firm management.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does China have so many multi billionaires if they are aiming to be a communist country?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  100% they have a class based system it’s just not talked about.

  It’s literally on their flag though. Those stars aren’t just decoration, they stand for the peasants, workers, petite bourgeois and national bourgeois, unified and led by the big star: the communist party, and its allies.

  China is a people’s republic, which historically would mean that those various class strata would be represented in government, by various parties and mass organizations. Not just a single communist party (see, East Germany, Socialist Poland, or the early DPRK). As China has developed its productive forces, however, a decision was made to allow the Bourgeoisie to be an element within the communist party itself, so they couldn’t form their own separate base of political power. While that brings contradictions, they’re far more manageable than they would be otherwise.

  They’re pretty open about all of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously cringe, but I don’t think it’s some trivial thing, it’s a trauma of Colonialism. Americans don’t truly have a claim to the land they pillaged to live on. Whiteness absorbed European ethics like the borg, stripped them of a language and culture, and all they have left is getting run over by a Ford F250 in a Walmart parking lot.

  So a lot of white Americans have this near libidinal need to tie themselves to a culture they consider to be more real or substantive. I don’t think that’s a trivial desire, but insisting that you’re Italian, despite not knowing anything about the place, or claiming your great great great grandma was a Cherokee princess, or some shit… That ain’t it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Japan 🌸⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love their trains, the food is good, it’s a beautiful country.

  But also, holy shit, Japan has just never reckoned with its imperial past in the slightest.

  If you ever see those tourism promotion photos of mt. Fuji with a pagoda in the foreground, that pagoda was built in the 50s, around the end of the US occupation, to commemorate soldiers who fought in essentially every war that imperial Japan got itself into. It’s very clear political statement.

  And I learned this, upon climbing that damn mountain, and reading the plaque in front of the pagoda, only to learn that it was a monument to imperialism the whole time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally nobody⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus wouldn’t have had politics we would find legible to us today, because the political landscape is contingent on the material conditions of a given place and time.

  It’s certainly interesting that the Bible is a series of documents written on the margins of empire, and that might inform how to think about it today. But Jesus himself would have had political opinions that do not map onto our modern, post-French Revolution, ideas of “left vs right”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  10-20 years from now, these thigs will be gunning down people in the streets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Entombed starts playing*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rad!

  I haven’t been clued into the death metal scene for about a decade. I felt like a lot of production trends at the time were leaning towards sounding to clean and overproduced. My metal listening, lately, has been a lot of leftist black metal, which I’m glad is finally a thing.

  Anyway, does anyone have any good death metal recommendations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the spelling for me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re both drowning

  There is no sign of land

  You are coming down with me

  Hand in unlovable hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not getting it™ since 2024©⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hexbear has been Beanis posting for a long time now. I don’t know how it started, but it’s a significant part of that instance’s content at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got too greedy at the end there⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m too distracted by the fact that the gear shifter appears to be a Dildo having its Quinceañera

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May not buff out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jorth Atlantic Treaty Organization?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Domino's Pizza is going digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe Hatsune Miku would do this