the_dunk_tank LarsAdultsen • 7mo ago • 100%

Knowing my husband's location was great. Then, I caught him in a lie and became obsessed with checking it constantly.

Uhhh, what the fuck?

podcasts LarsAdultsen • 9mo ago • 100%

Listened to the War Nerd episode on FARC (no. 50); thought I might share some of the cool new things I learnt

- Panama was a Colombian district until the USA, taking advantage of Colombia's internal strife, orchestrated it's separation in 1903 to facilitate construction of the Panama canal - FARC, while officially distancing themselves from all tendencies, were closest to the Maoists in tactics by virtue of the largely agrarian nature of the Colombian economy - the ELN, another armed revolutionary group, are largely Catholic and seem to practice some form of revolutionary theology (this one took me by surprise; I would've never associated Catholicism with revolutionary mindset) - Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary (seems redundant), played a major part in the training of right-wing death squads who were responsible for a wide variety of atrocities from assassinations to large-scale massacres (even academics/teachers were not spared since they formed such a large part of Colombia's unionized workforce) - **Book Recommendation:** *Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century*; a US veteran's memoir with a critical view on the US's imperial ambitions that also covers their interests in Colombia Some unrelated things that I found interesting: - Alexei Nalvany, the Russian opposition leader and darling of liberals everywhere, was a key ally to Russia's anti-immigration and skinhead elements - The American Civil War saw the use of IEDs in the form of booby-trapped artillery shells by the Confederates (this apparently made Sherman pretty mad)

the_dunk_tank LarsAdultsen • 9mo ago • 100%

Thatcher’s ghost continues to haunt the machine

yewtu.be

Brightline supposedly represents “The Surprising Success of Private Passenger Rail”

movies LarsAdultsen • 9mo ago • 100%

Can someone point me to a good torrent for Spike Lee's Chi-raq?

The ones I got off of RARBG seem exceptionally poorly seeded.

podcasts LarsAdultsen • 10mo ago • 100%

Other premium feeds like the Chapo Black Wolf one

Are there Black Wolf equivalents for Blowback, WTYP, Kill James Bond etc?

askchapo LarsAdultsen • 11mo ago • 100%

What’s the lore behind Maoist Standard English?

I legit thought it was theory but google just drowned me in a deluge of memes

Problem is, I don't know at what point my writing is mature enough to share with others. Even if I do feel like sharing something, I'm never sure what platforms I should post to. It seems to me that sites like medium only help if my writing is already somewhat engaging...which kinda defeats the point of getting feedback early and often. I'm quite lost here.

ttrpg LarsAdultsen • 11mo ago • 100%

Anybody try DMing to a posse of players controlled by ChatGPT

I like solo play, was wondering if I can spice things up by throwing an LLM in the mix. The way I tried currently becomes messy real soon, so I was wondering if someone who's successfully tried something like this could give me some pointers

movies LarsAdultsen • 11mo ago • 100%

Boy, do I have some things to say about Killers of the Flower Moon

in no particular order: ::: spoiler spoiler - There's a scene from Tintin in America that's burnt into my brain of Native Americans being forced off their land by the US Army after oil is found on their land. This movie, however, is a neat reminder that the guns and bayonets were just a few of the tools employed during USA's project of extermination. Every single White institution was complicit in the destruction of the natives even when they seemed to be fair and benign (especially when they seem to be fair and benign). - Why the hell haven't I seen more of Lily Gladstone? Just a phenomenal actress. Her portrayal of someone under constant siege with seemingly no way out evoked a sense of claustrophobia reminiscent of Get Out. Its elevated by the cinematography that just drives home the othering experienced by natives on their own land. Some of the shots of settlers glaring at the Indians reminded me of Lovecraft's description of Innsmouth's denizens. - I was really afraid that it was gonna turn into a White Savior movie at some point, but it was thankfully undercut by Caprio's character being such a dense sleazebag (seriously, his scummiest character since Monsieur Candy). Nearly all the White characters are scum which is certainly an interesting choice considering the state of media in the USA. - There is largely no comeuppance for the crimes committed by the Whites. Indeed, against the scope of their crimes, their punishment was even lesser than a slap on the wrist. While this is in keeping with the history of the incident, it did leave quite the sour taste in my mouth. There is also a larger focus on the moral character of the Hales (who are, weirdly, both Freemasons and "greedy Jews") with the institutional nature of the crimes showing up in just a few scenes and snippets of exposition. Towards the third act, it ends up feeling like a run-of-the-mill Scorsese crime flick, and I was beginning to feel if he really was the right creative mind to tackle such a subject. - Somebody get Marty an editor, for the love of god - I'm starting to understand why so many American horror films reference Indian burial grounds- seems to me it's just some weird expression of generational guilt ::: Go watch it folks, it's not a winner on all fronts but definitely a breath of fresh air. As a descendant of a colonized population myself, the film's gruesome depiction of the mistreatment of Native Americans did leave me feeling a little sick, so I think I'm going to re-watch Prey to cleanse my palette a bit.

askchapo LarsAdultsen • 12mo ago • 100%

Looking for the source of some quotes

The first one is, I believe, related to the Spanish Civil War and goes something like "...on any given day, we were fighting the fascists, the syndicalists, the anarchists [or some such variation of denominations]..." I feel like I might be hallucinating the second one, but it's about this Czech dude who regrets protesting against the Soviet Union for such things as jeans and Hi-Fi systems not realizing that things such as housing were at stake. Would be really great if you guys could help me out with sources for the above!

the_dunk_tank LarsAdultsen • 12mo ago • 96%

Saddam never could catch a break

From the article: >Nor did Mr. Hussein pay much heed to the fact that the archaeological world cried foul -- deriding his project as Disney for a Despot -- because he was violating their sacred principle of preserving rather than recreating. Also see (from this Guardian article http://archive.today/ODrqa): >I visited the site in November 2004, just as Polish troops were preparing to hand it over to the Iraqi authorities. The late Donny George, then head of the Iraq Museum, had warned me in Baghdad about the terrible damage done to the site by the Polish military. He was aghast at reports of soldiers filling sandbags with earth containing archaeological fragments; of armoured vehicles crushing sixth-century BC bricks on the Processional Way; of looters gouging out pieces of dragons from the Ishtar Gate; of digging, levelling, compacting and gravelling in this ancient city. “It’s mankind’s greatest heritage site,” he said. “You don’t just start digging it up to make more room for your tanks.” 

Introductions LarsAdultsen • 12mo ago • 100%

Greetings and salutations

Hey y'all, poster of yore here in a shiny new avatar (the old account wasn't anon enough imo). Started lurking here again after deciding to abandon reddit for good after the whole API thing (honestly wanted to de-reddit sooner, this was just a convenient excuse). Nothing remarkable about me, I'm a relatively well-off third-worlder currently exercising my privilege to shut myself off from the general dreadfulness of modern life, but feeling a need for community even if it's just one's and zero's on a screen.