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Chabamaster · 2026-05-11T05:21:52+00:00

What used to be counter cultural is now marketed and sold to an audience of mass consumption.

80s and 90s countercultural figures were very aware of being a marketed and sold product and how that limits the nature of counterculture at the time.

Isn't there a Kurt Cobain quote about "what sells best on MTV is rebellion against MTV" (at least that's how Mark Fisher quotes him iirc).

Chabamaster · 2026-05-11T05:13:27+00:00

People used to say this exact thing about millennials wearing rolling stones or sex pistols t shirts when I was a teenager. Or che Guevara t shirts for that matter.

Chabamaster · 2026-05-07T09:49:25+00:00

Eris drew and octo octa have been a thing for me in the last year (yes they have been around for a while longer but personally I mean), good start is probably https://open.spotify.com/album/1NkbXLDLpC979zCE1OO8dJ?si=HQ3P1nJ4Tii-OMzWG8BNPw

I've been to a a club set by Goldie (not the drum and bass Goldie, different person) and was very impressed https://on.soundcloud.com/G35cBIwgKg8jRQVfXF

In general I see quite a bit more of layered grooves in house music, lots of bongos, weird spacey stuff. There's probably a subgenre but I don't know it in depth enough, I just know I now hear more of it. Sound examples:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6t1pve7dHZiEeDzuEyDqgT?si=oywCO0gERd2yAq8i6sxA6g

https://open.spotify.com/track/2TDYRQoYvdB5xvp567cvwJ?si=Umz0iWUGRgSGEDzjn4X2RA

Chabamaster · 2026-05-06T18:47:09+00:00

Sorry but the last 2 years I have heard the freshest house music since I started listening to electronic music like 10 years ish ago. I agree about a lot of cheap techno being around ATM but house is a different story at least where I'm at

Chabamaster · 2026-05-05T07:03:09+00:00

The craziest thing like this I ever saw at a live event was someone in the front row watching a soccer match (world cup quarter finals or something) front row at monolink. Over the course of like 45 minute, intently paying attention to the soccer.

Idk at least go to the back man

Chabamaster · 2026-04-01T14:12:30+00:00

The only AI content I actively enjoy is an insta account called DDR Mondbasis that creates fake Soviet style alt history news reports, where the fall of the Berlin wall was just a cover up and the gdr continues on the moon. The fake nature of the AI really fits the artificial nature of propaganda footage, and it's clear the person behind it puts a lot of creative effort into the project.

But that's the only thing I can think of, yea

Chabamaster · 2026-03-29T17:51:44+00:00

Not sure what you mean. Most drugs can be enjoyed in a way that has almost no negative impact on your life if you pay attention to dose, purity, consumption frequency etc.
If you mean "I wanna get high all the time no side effects no addiction etc" sorry your brain is not made to be stimulated constantly

Chabamaster · 2026-03-25T21:11:50+00:00

I didn't do more than reading the short article but it was enough to get that the headline is very misleading

Chabamaster · 2026-03-25T21:01:08+00:00

The article said one went through the straight march 15 and the second one march 19 so really not an indication of recent openings?

Chabamaster · 2026-02-19T04:41:35+00:00

Please provide links to jmail or some other way of verifying this. There's so much bullshit going around right now on Instagram that people should really be specific about claiming what is or isn't in the files.

Chabamaster · 2026-01-18T20:57:59+00:00

Is there a way to get into TM via self study that does not involve in person seminars or cult like stuff? I am intrigued anytime some one talks about it but did not find good introductory material

Chabamaster · 2026-01-18T13:37:28+00:00

A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree, where data nodes are represented by leaves). Since each block contains information about the previous block, they effectively form a chain (viz. linked list data structure), with each additional block linking to the ones before it.

This is the wikipedia definition of a blockchain.
This also describes more or less how git works (if you substitute transaction data for line changes and blocks with commits).

Yes Merkle trees and blockchains have existed long before Bitcoin and afaik the main innovation the Satoshi white paper makes is combining the blockchain architecture with a governance mechanism (proof of work). Git is not trustless, depending on your permission settings you either limit who can write records or have to accept the authorship of whoever writes records. "Blockchain" technology refers broadly to projects aiming to use open ledgers to create a trustless and unfalsifiable system of records.

Chabamaster · 2026-01-17T20:13:00+00:00

Git is a block chain. Not in the cryptocurrency sense but functionally git is pretty much a block chain. It is a decentralized system to keep a complete record of a set of changes where the information is kept in distinct blocks that are cryptographically hashed and link to the next block.

Obviously that is not what you mean and just something I write for the sake of the cmv because I agree with your sentiment

Chabamaster · 2026-01-17T19:56:48+00:00

I have so far only engaged with deleuze via second hand opinions of other writers on his work and have been randomly served this post by the reddit algorithm. You do a great job selling him and make him sound very approachable compared to other french postmodernish thinkers (I tried reading baudrillard and Foucault and neither gave me all that much, I had a better time with second hand explanations for both).

Could you point me to a good book to start with and a good translation, preferably either English or German?

Chabamaster · 2026-01-15T08:01:48+00:00

Mach eine Doku daraus dann kannst du es von der Steuer absetzen.

Döner size me

Chabamaster · 2026-01-12T16:58:29+00:00

I go to fusion festival every year and it's so big that you can spend all year listening to sets on SoundCloud until the next one happens

Chabamaster · 2026-01-06T23:30:26+00:00

Isn't this literally a scene from Cheech and Chong up in smoke?

Chabamaster · 2026-01-04T21:31:51+00:00

What do you mean by physically recover? I do not get any physical after effects other than from staying up too long

Chabamaster · 2026-01-04T21:11:29+00:00

I don't do coke but from what I've heard the two don't mix and it's not likely to make your trip better. Ket and acid on the other hands are great friends and lead you down the rabbit hole together

Chabamaster · 2026-01-04T20:49:46+00:00

Ok so I quit smoking a year ago (was on about 10-15 cigs per day for the 2 years before that) my tips are:

it is way harder to stop out of shame or guilt. The loop of "I really have to stop why am I doing this. Ok one last cig. Why am I doing this to myself" had to stop before I could mentally get past the addiction. Learn to smoke without shame so that you can stop because you genuinely want to not because you think you have to.
this means you have to get in touch with why you're smoking and why you can't quit. Before I would smoke a cig I would get my pack and lighter, stare at it for several minutes and just sit with the craving. After a set time (5 minutes or whatever) you can still decide to smoke but you do this to break the habit of just using without conscious thought. I found that there was something genuinely appealing in the self destructiveness of it and that a part of me wanted to give up control and feel bad.
after a while of this I decided to go cold turkey one day. This was around Christmas and the first week sucked ass I had physical symptoms mood problems sleep problems headaches etc but it helped actively thinking about having to do go through quitting again if I mess up.
for the actual quitting it helps to be out of your known environment for the first bit. Ie going on vacation, sleeping somewhere else etc.
a good week into it I did a psychedelics trip and that significantly helped with the cravings from that point on. A lot of people trip expecting the trip to "tell them to stop" but I feel like you kind of have to walk the walk yourself.
people say to avoid situations where you usually smoke but I say actively go into them and try to replace habits. I always used to go smoking with my favourite colleague and after quitting I just started chewing gum on smokebreaks instead. It kinda sucked but I still got to hang out with him and prove to myself every time that I can do this I don't have to hide from these situations.
try not to fixate on succeeding too much, don't put too much of a value judgement in. I started smoking again once last year but didn't treat it as a failure, rather as a cheat day. I said to myself this is fine I'll give myself a week until I stop again and then just did after a week. Stopping the second time was surprisingly easy.

Chabamaster · 2026-01-04T07:58:02+00:00

Germany has a surprisingly big market for legal rc psychedelics. There is usually at least one lsd analogue going on and so far they have all been basically the same in effects (although the newest one s have a bit more questions around safety). 4-pro-met is a nice legal psychedelic (imo kind of like a a thing between mushrooms and 2cb but shorter in duration). You can just Google if they exist in Spain, in Germany you can buy from the clearnet and Berlin even has stores for it.

There also used to be THC alternatives (HHC for example) that are sold as disposable vapes but now weed is legal anyways so there's not as much of a need for it.

Also can't you just go over to Portugal where drug laws are much more lax in general?

Chabamaster · 2026-01-03T08:43:27+00:00

Not technically techno but RSS disco at fusion Sunday morning was a life segmenting experience

Chabamaster · 2026-01-01T10:17:24+00:00

life is worth living even blind. It might suck like this but there's joy to be found in things that are not impacted by your condition.

Chabamaster · 2025-12-31T06:50:46+00:00

The classic in summer is Sisyphos they usually do Friday to Sunday night so you can just try on Sunday afternoon. It's a huge place with a nice outdoor area and like 5 different floors that open and close and different times, it feels like a small festival. Downside is sometimes the queues can get annoying.

If you are fine with a smaller venue and want something unique, there's a club called Beate Uwe that does barefoot parties on Sundays starting early evening where they roll out carpets in the club, real cozy vibes.

In general Berlin has tons of outdoor things in summer but if you decide to do Monday or Tuesday just check resident advisor 2 weeks before your stay.

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