MF_COOM

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[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 14 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I'm not sure I understand - when it says this center is "guzzling water" what does that mean exactly? I assume they're just using it for cooling - doesn't that release as much water as it consumes?

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Generally, I'm for any technology that reduces labour. But holy fuck I hate leaf blowers I genuinely want labourers to only be 20% as efficient when it comes to gathering up leaves and detritus and let the cards fall where they may.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not reading all of that can someone please give me a tldr

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I believe this is called "interpassivity" zizek-preference - you don't need to act, your actions are already carried out for you by your consumption choices

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He's the detective in the fictional detective novel series in Disco Elysium

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 2 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Is that on Mullen's soundboard?

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 1 points 14 hours ago

whoah

IDK looking into it it really doesn't seem like he wasn't a culture vulture. He is white, he did adopt a fake Jamaican patois, he did go triple platinum outselling actual Jamaican artists. Going in jail doesn't really exempt you from cultural appropriation, and he was found innocent of the charges anyways.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago

Yeah he's been back for almost a year. He's still not on most eps and when he is he's often pretty quiet. Still clearly struggling for sure but like I say he seems to be getting better.

He also started writing poems they sometimes close the shows with in a segment they call "Strokes of Genius". One of my favourite Matt lines came from one over the winter: if I don't have a piece of the pie, why do I care whose thumb's in it?

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think this is the first time they've really ripped into a previous guest - the only other one I can think of was Andrew Yang but he seems to be in a different category somehow.

Anyways, thought their letting loose and ripping into her was some of the best Chapo times in a while. And Matt made some genuinely hilarious contributions to the show this time, feels like he's actually starting to come back to normal in a way I haven't heard before where he seems to struggle to keep up.

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Does your average nonstick pan user know when they're cooking at those temperatures?

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Bernie Public + Sanders Enemy

 

The level of anticommunist bullshit you could just fabricate whole-cloth before the internet was truly on another level. In this obituary we get the following claims/fuckups:

  • "Stalker portrayed the Soviet Union as a mass concentration camp" ???????
  • she makes up an actor in Stalker who as far as I can tell does not even exist: "Ivan Laptev"
  • an assertion that the principal character and whatever character would be played by the fictional actors "represented the country's conscience" and WHO is the country's conscience you might wonder? That's right ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSN!!!! and antinuclear activist Andrei Sakharov
  • it was apparently so obvious that these characters represented these two people that the film was banned in the USSR (it wasn't)
  • it was based on Picnic on the Road by Stanislaw Lem and came out in 1980 (actually based on Roadside Picnic by The Strugatsky Brothers and came out in 1979).
  • because the Strugatsky Brothers wrote such a reactionary script they struggled to find publishers after the release (they continued to publish until Arkady Strugatsky's death)
  • similarly, the principal actor Alexander Kaidanovsky couldn't get any more acting work in the Soviet film industry (he continued to work in the Soviet film industry until the collapse of the USSR)

I'll stop here - it's genuinely impressive how densely packed the fantasy is here, an interesting document of how free to lie anticommunist expats were before the internet.

 

cyber-lenin

 

At least one of the cast members is pro- Palestinian activist (Liam Cunningham) which at least makes me hopeful it'll be decent.

 

To my white surprise the last posted one got taken down, we'll see how long this one lasts

 

Finally got around to listening to this today on my run. I don't know much about the pod itself it seems pretty lib-coded but they will have Breht on to open up the tank gun on their listeners etc.

Anyhow Jason Hickel is a great explainer in general, and since he's so involved directly in a lot of the research he discusses he has a deep fluency that allows even regular dumdums like me to understand. This is a great overview of the development of China's geopolitical position, and an easy listen - hard recommend.

 

I hate it when this happens multiple times a week

 

Apparently this was released yesterday? It's playing at my local theater.

 

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature this year (which it won't win), it's about the Belgium/US coup of Lumumba in 1960.

The jazz aspect is kind of tangential and mostly just serves to give the film a distinctive propulsive rhythm (though I didn't realize Abbey Lincoln was that cool). Mostly it's about decolonial history.

It's a movie made for us, since in my experience it's principally leftists who are familiar with decolonial history. It's got all the players: nkrumah-baffled, lumumba-point, tito-laugh, corn-man-khrush, nasser-ponder, malcolm-checks Sukarno, Nehru, Hammarskjold, Alan Dulles, to the point where I was wondering how a person not already familiar with the history might make sense of it all.

I asked the guy sitting next to me who loved the flick despite not knowing anything about decolonial history, he said there was enough there to help him put it all together.

Anyways, banger flick y'all should check it out.

 

sicko-yes

 

I relistened to this yesterday while making a kickass borscht and it felt new to me, like I'd never heard it before. It's kind of deep cut Parenti so maybe some of you haven't heard it before either!

 
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