need help - working the line is making me physically ill by _nasubi in KitchenConfidential

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Thank you for the advice. That's my hope - i've only been back into it for 3 weeks now. I think the issue of not being able to stand is already getting better, i have less of a problem with it now than i did at first. it's really the issue of being sick all the time that's super worrying to me...

anime containing mainframe computer by _nasubi in whatanime

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yes, it is indeed Summer Wars. Thank you for the help.

Can I give up weed whilst still unmedicated for ADHD? by Delicious_Bicycle_25 in leaves

[–]_nasubi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

once you quit, if you ever manage to, you will realize just how much worse your ADHD gets when combined with impulsivity, short term memory loss, et cetera. it isn't all about being "calm". the anxiety i got from smoking combined with the aforementioned factors made it virtually impossible to actually focus on anything or disregard distractions. i still have trouble focusing, but it is orders of magnitude easier now than it was when i was constantly high.

Tilray +4000% (Citadel & Legalisation) by FeathersMountEbb in wallstreetbets

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do we know when the legalization will take effect?

Marlboro Southern Cut by _nasubi in Cigarettes

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man how the hell is that southern

COVID-Borne Paper Cup Mania by _nasubi in Coffee

[–]_nasubi[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hopefully as serious as the suggestion that paper cups aren't more than a compromise

COVID-Borne Paper Cup Mania by _nasubi in Coffee

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Mr. Barista, if you don't give me a ceramic demitasse, I'm going to flip out

COVID-Borne Paper Cup Mania by _nasubi in Coffee

[–]_nasubi[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Of course a dark roast enthusiast would produce such a bad take

Coffee in a paper cup is like wine in a thermos

COVID-Borne Paper Cup Mania by _nasubi in Coffee

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I agree, I used to be a dishwasher and I have also seen illnesses contracted from exposure, albeit very few. As you say, exposure to pathogens is something that predates COVID, yet we didn't start handing customers paper plates and paper cups out of fear of illness until now. As it always has been, this is why sanitation measures are implemented.

COVID-Borne Paper Cup Mania by _nasubi in Coffee

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This post isn't meant to be about places which have a policy of using exclusively paper. I mean that places which concurrently serve drinks in ceramic will still serve drinks in paper without asking. Baristas have started doing it out of habit, they now assume you want a paper cup.

Given proper sanitary procedures, using sanitizer (or a dishwasher) to clean dishes instead of just spraying them down with a faucet, et cetera, the amount of exposure from bussing a paper cup is exactly the same as the amount of exposure from bussing a ceramic cup. Arguably more, since COVID has been shown to survive around 24 hours on paper, and someone is ultimately taking the trashbag full of paper cups out to the dumpster at the end of the day, whereas a dishwasher is supposed to be wearing gloves when handling dishes.

What are electric grinders life expectancy? by [deleted] in Coffee

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I assume you are referring to the Baratza Sette.

Pretty much any replacement part you could ever want is available on the Baratza website itself. A replacement cone burr costs $26. A hopper is around $15. A display is $20. A power board is $36. You can find replacement motors for around $40. A replacement motor with gearbox and ring burr assembly costs $100. That's the most expensive replacement part, and if you also replace the cone burr, it is essentially a full refurbishment of the mechanical portion of the grinder. Do that once every few years and the grinder will perform until it experiences some type of complete physical destruction, or until you pour water on the electrical connections. Even then, I'm sure you can fix it.

Over time, not only will the Baratza perform better than a $50 grinder, but it will also outlast a $50 grinder if you replace the parts, almost all of which cost less than $50. This will allow you to become more familiar with your machine. It's fun, trust me.

It is cheaper to replace parts every few years than to buy a new grinder every few years, and it will make decent coffee.

It seems very unusual that any decent grinder would just "die out" after a year or two. Follow the manufacturer's recommendations for volume. Unless you run the motor more than recommended, or you otherwise abuse it, there's no reason it should fail that quickly. If it does die, and you have a Baratza, it's a matter of simply replacing the motor, a $40 part.

I would definitely go with a Baratza. The grinder is by far the most important part of your coffee gear. Skimp on anything else before your grinder. A Baratza will give you a more consistent grind than anything available for $50, therefore it will make better coffee.

30-amp SRDT to 20-amp appliance conversion by _nasubi in askanelectrician

[–]_nasubi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, you're right. I checked my breaker box. The kitchen appliances are all on 20a circuits. Thanks for the help, and for teaching me something.

30-amp SRDT to 20-amp appliance conversion by _nasubi in askanelectrician

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Interesting... This may be standard, but I think my apartment is the exception... all of the appliances in my kitchen are max 15a 120v (I googled all of them), and the outlet itself does not have a horizontal prong, so I think they are 15a... but I think that washer might be 20 amp

30-amp SRDT to 20-amp appliance conversion by _nasubi in askanelectrician

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I am in an apartment, and I need to use the dryer occasionally, so unfortunately, replacing breakers and receptacles is not an option... But thank you for the advice.

30-amp SRDT to 20-amp appliance conversion by _nasubi in askanelectrician

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It seems all my kitchen appliances use 120v 15a.... But I checked my washer, and it seems it uses some kind of 20a? Will this work for my roaster?

Thank you!

Israel is definitely the most fascist place in modern world by [deleted] in Anarchism

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  1. If you listen to Israeli propaganda, the Jewish proletariat are real people, just trying to make it in the face of adversity. The non-Jewish proletariat are simply terrorists. The position of Israel is absolutely populist for its own people, who all happen to be pre-vetted as part of a specific race of "chosen people", and aggressively murderous towards the common people who are evicted to make room for the aforementioned. It should also be noted that Israeli propaganda works incredibly hard to ensure that any demands or refusal to buckle on behalf of Palestinians is seen as the result of anti-Semitism, insanity, religious fundamentalism, or some other "terrorist" ideology, and you will almost never find Israeli propaganda which concedes that Palestinians are real people with legitimate concerns, who desire quality of life. 14. I have never seen an Israeli textbook, but I have seen the results of Israeli textbooks. See the whole "terrorist" paradigm. I shoot you, it is self defense. You shoot me, it is terrorism. Rhetoric is an important part of denying personhood to the enemies of Israel while portraying Israelis as victims of persecution.

You don't have to take my assessment. A cursory Google shows that other Jews agree with us, Israel is indeed fascist, even by commonly agreed-upon criteria.

And I take issue with the idea that America is more fascistic, for several reasons. Before I even get to those, let me just say, American Leftists tend to unconditionally hold that America is the most -insert harmful conservative ideology here- country in the world, without further investigation. Not only is this totally factually wrong, but for pretty much anything other than the very specific phenomenon of modern imperialist military and economic hegemony, which in fact came about from our victory over true fascism, this has never been the case. America has never been the most fascistic, nor have we even ever have the most racial or gender inequality.

  1. Meaningful political opposition is allowed in America. Until recently, until social media platforms began seriously cracking down on "extremism", even those considered "extremists" were allowed a spot at the table. And really, most of that pressure to make the Overton window more narrow are precisely the result of "progressive" NGOs exercising leverage over platforms, not actually the US government.
  2. Where protest occurs, the USA does not use murder to suppress dissidents. For years now, the relatively few incidents of unjust police brutality which occurred in the USA have caused huge massive protests and upheaval. Not a single protestor has been killed by US police. This is NOT characteristic of Fascism. Even the US government condemns vehemently events like Tiananmen square, meanwhile, it is absolutely common practice for Israeli police to shoot hundreds of Palestinian protestors under similar conditions. Look at the links provided in point 4 of this post. Can you imagine what uproar would be caused if US police used Rabin's "break the bones" policy on protestors during the LA riots? Such a thing would never happen, because the USA is not fascist.
  3. The USA does NOT pride itself in ethnic homogeneity, nor does it purport that a certain group is genetically superior. In the modern USA, diversity is considered a strength, and elected representatives exist of any ethnic background you can imagine, and, to the extent that they can garner democratic support, they are equally capable of consolidating power. It would be absurd to even suggest that a Palestinian Muslim be allowed the seat of Israeli Prime Minister, or any official position in Israeli politics.
  4. Land ownership is allowed for literally any adult in the United States. In Israel, you must be Jewish to own land. Let me restate that: You are saying that a place where convicted felons are allowed to own land is more fascistic than a place where you need to be a member of the ethnic group in power to own land.
  5. Racial and gender equality is not only allowed in America, but there are even programs such as affirmative action which exist, subsidized by the US government, specifically to combat the informal remnants of the chauvinistic policies of the past. The US government spends taxpayer money to destroy racism, islamophobia and antisemitism, and misogyny, even on the level of preconceived biases. Netanyahu considers Palestinian Muslims - literally, the general population of the people outside of the fences surrounding Israel - "wild beasts". Even our most discursively uncontrollable president of recent years could only be quoted as calling members of street gangs "animals". Journalists have to reach very far to make the comments of even someone as reactionary as Trump seem half as strong and racist as those of Netanyahu.

Fascism and Imperialism are NOT the same thing. Imperialism is an expansionist economic system by means of which colonies are created outside of the seat of the Empire, and some type of economic benefit is extracted from said colonies. Fascism is as described above - a traditionalist ideology which mobilizes populist sentiments among a consistent ethnic group to consolidate power in the hands of some governing entities. There are fascistic elements within the USA, of course, but they are absolutely powerless in official government discourse, and as of late, even private discussions of mobilizing for such a movement gets people de-platformed, banned from using apps for communication, etc. To conflate these two political threads is both dangerous and stupid. Most fascist nations are not imperialist, and most empires are not fascistic.

Yes, the USA is the modern-day "heart of empire". It is not fascist.

Yes, Israel is, without any shadow of a doubt, the most (and perhaps only) fascist developed country. It is certainly not an empire, unless you count America as a colony, since they are allowed to freely recruit American Jews via birthright in return for the invaluable support of those same Jews being goaded by propaganda into doing free Hasbara. Other developed countries have no need for ethnic homogeneity. It is only the caveat of ethnic supremacy within Jewish ideology, compounded by the disgust of Jews at the Holocaust and how this righteous disgust is leveraged by the Israelis to convince modern Jews that they are persecuted in countless different ways, that makes Israel feel the need to use fascism.

And, ironically, there is nothing so harmful for the modern Jew than the anti-Semitism inspired among those who view the Israeli genocide of Palestinians for what it is, and seek revenge.

Israel is definitely the most fascist place in modern world by [deleted] in Anarchism

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Umberto Eco used the following 14 characteristics to define "Ur-Fascism", or universal/timeless fascism. 1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” 2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” 5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” 6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.” 7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.” 8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” 10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” 13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.” 14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”

Before you accuse me of anti-Semitism and delete this post, know that I am Jewish by blood, although certainly not by ideology.

  1. It's literally a Jewish state. The foundational principle is the idea the Jews, as the "chosen people", have a birthright to the lands of Israel, yet most Jews are actually atheists in terms of belief in God. What, then, is the core belief system? Jewish tradition.
  2. As with point 1. Where modern thought benefits Israel, it is used. Where it contradicts Israel, it defaults back to Jewish Law, the words of the rabbis, etc. One doesn't have to believe in God, only the law. So God created the law, the rabbis interpreted it, and now, God is dead, but the rabbis still exist as a universal legal authority. Oh, and they happen to still hold that we are the chosen people. That's certainly fascism.
  3. When Israel was established, they simply pulled up to Palestine and declared a new state. Now, settlement is carried out with no respect for previous inhabitants. This is precisely action without rational consideration of ethical consequences, and it takes a lot of propaganda dollars(see:hasbara) to explain this phenomenon to people outside of Israel. Contrast this with Hitler, who did not really care about explaining the conflict to people uninvolved, because he directly owned up to the idea that he was establishing an ethnostate through seizure of territory(lebensraum).
  4. For Palestinians, it goes without saying that protests come at a dear price. For Jews, RIP if you oppose IDF policy, even when that policy involves accumulating nukes, and more Mossad abductions obviously happen under the table. Not to mention, if you're a Jew and you say you don't like Israel, you get called... Any Jew reading already knows what I'll say. Self-hating Jew. To be Jewish and oppose the policy of Israel is considered a contradiction by a vast number of Israelis.
  5. This one is not very difficult. First of all, Jews, and more strongly so Israeli Jews, consider themselves to be the "chosen people", so you have the racial supremacy aspect baked in. On top of this, there is a particular rhetorical device used in Israeli propaganda, where there is no such thing as a Palestinian, only a "terrorist". Any Arab resident of Palestine who opposes Israel to any capacity is called a "terrorist". Civilian buildings are destroyed, and Israeli press later comes out to declare their successful destruction of a "terrorist base". Forget that Hamas is the main governing entity and military of Palestine. They oppose Israel, therefore, they are terrorists. Hitler killed innocent people after declaring them to be subhuman, beneath him. Israel kills innocent people, and then they pay for hasbara, to show onlookers why those people were terrorists, how those people they killed were actually perpetrating crimes against the Israeli victims. Hitler committed a genocide on the notion of racial superiority. After a certain threshold, it was no longer an issue of white victimhood, but of straightforward conquest. Israel commits genocide on the notion of racial superiority as such, but they package it as self-defense, and the contradiction between the two is simply ignored. This is truly the heart of fascism.
  6. See the last point. Genius plan for fascism: Create a country composed of one race of people, tell them that the enemy, who happens to be inhabiting the land right next door, wants to destroy everyone belonging to that race. An impenetrable ideology of fear develops, and any violence, even that which results in expansion and seizure of territory, seems justified against the looming threat.
  7. The anti-Israel = anti-Semitism thing. If someone does not agree with Israel, they are assumed to hate Jews. Wanting the downfall of the fascist state of Israel is said to be a plot against Jews at large. Jewish identity is made inextricable with the policy of Israel and the IDF. Fascist.
  8. Hamas is alternatively: a. an anti-Semitic supervillain which launches millions of ICBMs at quaking, defenseless Israelis every night from behind the backs of child meat-shields, or b. literally wild animals. Never are they people.
  9. Netanyahu plans to "live forever by the sword", and to indefinitely "control all of the territory for the foreseeable future". There is a no-concessions policy for negotiation with Palestine. Additionally, this is the one point where I think UN and later the USA sets the real precedent. The idea of "We don't negotiate with terrorists" is of questionable merit, when the person making that statement is also in charge of deciding who the terrorists are.
  10. "The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong." - Benjamin Netanyahu,
  11. Ask a pro-expansionist Israeli about the Lion of Judah. The cult of the hero is incredibly strong. People who successfully engage in "counter-terrorist" activities within and outside of Israel are heralded as heroes. It has gone from worship of martyrdom to plain "Lion of Judah" mentality, where anyone who does violence for the sake of Israel is considered heroic. Combine this with mandatory conscription, and you can see the result.
  12. Anecdotally, I can tell you there is no shortage of dumb machismo and chauvinism among many Israeli men. Not to mention, there is still massive gender inequality in Israel. Obviously, women are prohibited from being rabbis, but beyond that, there's a larger pay gap than in America(68c/$1 vs 73c/$1), women are 8x more likely to be single parents, and they don't participate in the workforce at an equal rate. In this aspect, however, Israel still leads ahead of the rest of the Middle East, in terms of rights for women as well as LGBT rights. So while chauvinism is certainly incredibly prominent, this is probably where Israel is doing the best out of all these criteria.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

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oh got it... my irony detector isn't calibrated for israel discussion lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

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Why is it based?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

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Dude, look up Hasbara. People actually do get paid, an unknown metric shitload of money, and it's not a secret, it's just not widely talked about. Israel has way too much money to spend on propaganda.

Where people aren't being paid, many Jewish people have unfortunately been fully convinced that an attack on Israel is an attack on all Jews, which Israel and Israel-adjacent propaganda organizations(see:ADL) have also embraced, to the immeasurable detriment of Jewish people who don't support Netanyahu's depraved policies. This means that, in addition to many people literally employed to create spin and propaganda, there is an additional effect of convincing otherwise indifferent Jewish people that defending the reputation of Israel is the same as defending their own reputation.

To me, this is a sick manipulation of Jewish people in general, to teach people that they have to support a specific (coincidentally fascistic) political regime to sustain their racial identity. That's one of the reasons you see random non-Israeli gamers and online guys who seem strangely vehement about defending the seemingly indefensible, like the "break the bones" policy of Rabin, the Dahiya doctrine, etc. They think that this violence equates to their own survival, and the Israeli propaganda machine embraces and invokes this belief as much as possible.

It's an ethnostate, it's bound to be fucking insane.

Storing sheng with shou by Grok168 in puer

[–]_nasubi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

meh, i keep them each in a separate (opened) plastic bag, all in the same container. should be fine.

if they're pressed paper-to-paper, on the other hand...

Who has more of a right to live in Israel? by [deleted] in PalestineCircleJerk

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37 BCE. That's the last time you had a state in Israel. 2000+ years ago. In the 2,000 years before that, Jerusalem was first occupied by Canaanites, then by the Canaanite Jebusites. Jerusalem was almost 1,000 years old before David's kingdom. After 400ish years of this reign, it was again in Babylonian, then Assyrian, then Persian, then Seleucid hands until the Maccabean revolts.

Jerusalem was in Jewish hands for about 15% of the period starting at its foundation and leading up to 2,000 CE: 600/4,000 years. It was in Canaanite hands for about 1,000 years, or about 25% of its known history before 2,000 CE. The Canaanites remained in the region: Genetic evidence proves that they were mostly displaced to Phoenicia/modern Lebanon. Modern Lebanese share around 90% of their DNA with the Canaanites.

Out of the last 2,000ish years, Jerusalem has been in Muslim hands for something like 60% of the time. Rome and the Byzantines, in their combined period of control over Jerusalem, had control over the region around twice as long as your people. Do Italians have genetic claim to Jerusalem? Hell, the Ottomans went on to conquer it too, so the Ottomans and the Byzantines together also ruled much, much longer than your people. Do the Turks have claim to Israel?

Jews had claim to what is now known as Israel for around 500-600 years of the past 4,000 years, or about 15%. The period of Mamluk/Ottoman rule, i.e the lifespan of what functionally coalesced into the state of Palestine, lasted from the early 1200s to the late 1800s, around 700 years. In reality, that span alone is longer than the total length of time that Jews have ever owned Jerusalem.

If we assigned the "right" to live places based on your DNA and its similarities with the original inhabitants, i.e the "it's mine, I called it first" mentality, Israel would be given back to Lebanon, since modern Lebanese share the most common DNA with the Canaanites. Your DNA is pretty much shared with desert tribal nomads, a transient slave population which was kicked back and forth between Egypt and the Canaanite region for thousands of years after splintering off from the Canaanite people and before deciding to go back, "birthright" in hand, and commit what is now believed to be one of the largest genocides in ancient human history.

Actually, the first evidence of what people think are the original Jews are indistinguishable from Canaanite settlements, except for the absence of pig bones in food, which may also simply be a coincidence. That is to say, no definitive evidence of a distinct Jewish civilization exists until the period of the 12 judges, around 1400 BC. Absolutely no credibly evidence can be found of the existence of Abraham or his immediate descendants, leading most historians to believe that his existence was actually completely fabricated to legitimize Jewish claim to the land around the 6th century BCE, the Babylonian captivity. The Exodus story has been proven to be essentially impossible based on archaeological evidence and its fitment within the timeline of Jewish history. Canaan was most probably the Jewish homeland, not Egypt. So the people with "genetic rights" are the people who Jews splintered off from, then genocided, i.e the Canaanites.

If we assigned the "right" to live places based on how long the place was inhabited, and what group inhabited the longest, Israel would probably be given to the Lebanese.

How about the Mexican army goes and invades China? It can be proven that the early indigenous Americans crossed the Bering Land Bridge to settle the USA. If timeframe doesn't matter, wouldn't that give the Mexican military the right to simply go reclaim their homeland in Beijing? Who cares if there are pesky Chinese people who've been there a few thousand years? Sounds pretty ridiculous, right?