There is cooklang which I use in Obsidian. Maybe there are shared repos out there. They have a discord server you could check on

Honorable mention: https://www.completefoods.co/

Meanwhile Americans decry the subversive influence of Hindu-Arabic numbers

Sounds like you might enjoy people being honest to you rather than enjoying compliments or criticism. Criticism is more blunt when said to someone’s face, but compliments can seem disingenuous, so maybe you don’t believe the compliments subconsciously

Lucifer’s Hebrew name is Helel!

He’s a capitalist, he should know buying out competition would be preferable to destroying them and letting the capital go to waste

But the fascists themselves at least claimed to be a third way beyond liberalism and socialism which they saw as ineffective right? Even before the petit bourgeois started backing them

Isn’t that how fascism got its start? The sentiment that socialists were ineffective and indecisive, and taking advantage of the vacuum left by conflicts between socialists and liberals…also that is as much on liberals refusing to compromise leftwards as the contrapositive

Liberals think he got run over right? Also they know China is communist, has been for a while, and will be for the foreseeable future…

So this image is saying communists are on the winning side of history and liberals on the losing side by a wide margin?

Yeah I get it but that’s what disappoints me. Like what I mentioned about Dune and Warhammer. Tolkien achieved something and kick-started a genre, but that genre turned out mostly to be about fantasy races fighting genocidal wars…not celebrating the wonder of mythology and fairy tales, at least in my opinion. At the very least, they could be more meaningful by being symbolic of something. But Tolkien already saw to that from the start

I like when authors are intentional about their stories like this.

People bring up Tolkien’s “applicability not allegory” or death of the author, or just defend their treats against being apparently politicized. But people politicize, interpret, and re-mythologize things anyways. Tolkien’s stories have been coopted by European nationalists to fight the “orcs” of the “East.”

A similar thing with Dune, people fixate on the environment aspect or exaggerated brutality and oppression by imperialists hence Star Wars, Warhammer, etc. I guess. I find it weird. The point was or should be the struggle for liberation and the power of ideology.

Might as well be on the nose about things as an author IMO, seems annoying to deal with

Also: was Dune about Palestine? I thought it was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, so the Arab Revolt. Maybe the Great Game

I’m glad India owns the islands. Not that India is some champion of indigenous peoples, in fact they are an imperial power in their own right. But it would have been worse if some Western nation owned it (like they still do other islands in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, wtf)

The Sentinelese make obvious that lustful chauvinistic gaze of the West that I haven’t seen in other countries, except maybe imperial Japan, which was copying the West anyhow. The whole idea that the world is there is be “studied” and that places like the Sentinel islands are some final frontier is fucked up.

I understand the linguistic and anthropological curiosity a little, though I think researchers should be more humble. Most are humble actually, it’s the general public that still has chauvinism.

The missionaries bother me the most. Christianization has killed off many local cultures, claiming to liberate them but not saying the quiet part about control and whatever prophecy about the end days where everyone needs to be Christian I think. In India, the lower castes and pariahs mostly are Christian, with the promise of equality, but in reality they still have the caste system within their communities and are just pariahs in different ways at large now. So not much has changed. I am also brown and live in the US, so I have felt the lustful gaze of missionaries throughout my life here. I get missionaries banging on my door every week now. It’s kinda scary, considering the KKK were around only a while ago here.

Also interesting fact, the Andaman and Nicobar island were home to British jails for political prisoners. Indian rebels and revolutionaries met in jail there and even founded parties for independence and socialism. In a way, the islands are a birthplace of Indian revolutionary spirit

lol sorry by fantasy I didn’t mean the genre or setting, but like Mary Sue type writing where communism wins just because the writer wants it to, bad choice of words there.

I’m trying to write some communist fantasy myself! I think leftist writers put in a lot of effort to understand the history and be realistic about it. I’ve never seen anyone just champion communism because it sounds nifty

What “book” are they talking about lol, what modern communist writes utopian apologia or fantasy?

(not the genre of fantasy, I meant like, fantasizing about communism as a dream rather than a real historical struggle)

Autobiographies like Guevara’s are based on actual historical realities

The Dispossessed comes to mind, and the subtitle is An Ambiguous Utopia

They’re definitely not talking about the magic system in Das Kapital right??

This is what dates and hanging out with a friend turns into anyways. Go to a show/dinner/game then awkwardly walk around town because neither wants to go back home and do something less fun

The metric of economic organization is just dollars then??

There’s a Buddhist parable about getting hit with two arrows. You could imagine it in a scenario where you are on a battlefield and are struck by an arrow. But for some reason you freeze up and stare at it, so you get hit by a second. You should have taken cover.

Another way, more secular if you prefer that, is shooting yourself in the foot. That only happens when you’re not watching what you are doing or thinking.

Existential fear and the unknown unknowns aren’t something that you should seriously be afraid of. They are fears of fears, that something potential may be potential. Two degrees removed from reality. At least something more immediately threatening, you can act against.

Those more abstract dangers are for humanity as a group to deal with. Tackling them as individuals will result in anxiety. Focus on more immediate problems, or find others to tackle the more abstract problems together, knowing you still might not achieve anything material just yet

One must imagine Sisyphus high on life*

I imagine there must be something like a runner’s high once you get used to pushing up the boulder and it gets easy peasy.

What’s with the date references lately? How am I supposed to remember all these dates?

9/11 I can understand but why tf would I memorize Jan 6 and Oct 7 etc

They already have anti-China shit in the original show. The part with the Dai Li conspiracy and brainwashing.

Actually even before that, the Air nation being 100% based on Western exoticism of Tibet, which apparently means racially predisposed to being peaceful spiritual nomads (who live in one of several settled places nonetheless for some reason) and get genocided because their reincarnation prophecy challenges political goals of empire.

IIRC in some interview the show creators even pull out the line “hate the political party, not the people” when the topic came up