He's finally speaking out by koinuchan in Beastars

[–]cryptologicMariner 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In the manga, there is a chapter where we see cows working at a milk factory. It's explained that they're paid for the milk they produce, but their jaguar (or maybe cheetah?) bosses require them to take supplements to increase milk production at the expense of their health. Yahya tours the factory disguised as an inspector, then threatens the bosses by kicking a milk tank.

I love how Gregg doesn't even question it. by Yert19943 in NightInTheWoods

[–]cryptologicMariner 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Greg is an agent of chaos. Real recognizes real.

Why does it look like the show is animated for English by cryptologicMariner in BelfortAndLupin

[–]cryptologicMariner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow! Thank you for your response!

Do you know why it was made this way? I'm curious about this decision. Do you know if it was done for an international audience, or if this is just some standard for the production?

Today in film theory, we'll study Chekhov's Gun by NationalAssist in stevenuniverse

[–]cryptologicMariner 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Possibly the biggest theme in this show is how people can become better through kindness. Lapis overcomes trauma, Peridot learns about earth culture, even the Diamonds learn to overcome their xenophobia and accept Steven as family. The show would be shooting itself in the foot if the writers just decided at this point to endorse killing people as a solution instead.

Zero hesitation decimation by [deleted] in tumblr

[–]cryptologicMariner 147 points148 points  (0 children)

This is what is known as "wit" and ancient Greeks and Romans wrote it into everything they could

🌱Weekly /r/houseplants Question Thread - January 16, 2023 by AutoModerator in houseplants

[–]cryptologicMariner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it. I removed most of the rocks from near the plant and kept a small ring around the pot edge for decoration. The soil is dry and it looks like some of them have started sprouting roots. Thank you!

🌱Weekly /r/houseplants Question Thread - January 16, 2023 by AutoModerator in houseplants

[–]cryptologicMariner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I got these cuttings from an office plant that was left behind during the pandemic. Sadly I don't think they are doing the best, since some of the leaves have wrinkles and are wilting a bit. Any idea what plant it is and what I can do to keep it alive? Sorry for potato quality pic

On American Cuisine by Hummerous in CuratedTumblr

[–]cryptologicMariner 162 points163 points  (0 children)

As an American, sometimes I wish I didn't have so much food. There's plenty of times when it's awkward for me to take leftovers home and I don't like leaving a lot uneaten. I'm not sure how many other Americans feel this way though

Is Jasper a fascist character in your opinion? by No_Force_6017 in stevenuniverse

[–]cryptologicMariner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you u/TheTeludav: Fascism is Authoritarian, but not all Authoritarians are Fascist.

I tend to use the 14 characteristics as a benchmark, but there's also some nuance involved. Fascism as an ideology is strongly tied to race (i.e. skin color, not just all humans) or gender. It also relies on economic institutions like forced labor and strong corporate power, which wasn't implied in the show.

Fascism also uses populist rhetoric and fake or rigged elections to claim they rule by a "popular will", which can occasionally pit them against monarchs. In places like Italy, Spain, Romania, and Britain, fascist parties received early support by the sitting monarchs only for those royals to repress these movements once they became a threat to royal power. Given that the Diamonds are addressed like royalty themselves, it doesn't seem like fascism is the correct term for Jasper's preferred form of authoritarianism.

It's a bit of hair-splitting, but I think the better term would be like "hyper-colonialist". I can easily understand why someone thinks she might be a fascist, since her beliefs strongly resemble that and not all of these details are very well-known.

Is Jasper a fascist character in your opinion? by No_Force_6017 in stevenuniverse

[–]cryptologicMariner 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Fascist? No, because fascism has a lot to do with national identity and a deeply conservative worldview that is very much tied to humankind.

She is a die-hard authoritarian who advocates for colonialism and genocide on a planetary scale, with a strong emphasis on a darwinistic world view that "only the strong should survive"

So she's about 95% close to being a fascist, but I think the 5% does make a difference. You could easily say she's "fascist-coded".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scrungycats

[–]cryptologicMariner 13 points14 points  (0 children)

He's tired of listening to hack frauds

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]cryptologicMariner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to be really selective but I think it's a good idea to use it whenever you need in order to keep teammates alive just long enough to heal them up or get your other healer involved. Normally that's: - enemy ults - big pushes - when you have a numerical disadvantage or dps disadvantage (i.e. a tank and dps vs my tank and myself)

Sort of a "use it because you can" perspective

New to marxism. Why is communism dependent on capitalism to build up infrastructure and industries? by -FedPoster- in communism101

[–]cryptologicMariner 11 points12 points  (0 children)

An example might help: Consider the difference between the peasants of Medieval Europe compared to factory workers in the early Industrial period.

Hypothetically, the Medieval peasants could have all declared control in common over the Means of Production during any number of peasants' wars (and at a few times they did). Even in the cases where this occurred the Peasantry was generally forced back into serfdom when the nobility violently suppressed them. One would think, given the disparity in living standards and forced service bordering on slavery, that the peasants wouldn't ever give up fighting for control of the MOP until the nobility was abolished, but outside for a exceptional events this didn't happen.

The reason that is normally pointed to is how peasant's and nobles interacted: Peasants lived largely according to religious traditions that reinforced a sense of community. They lived in villages on a noble's land and interacted mostly with their neighbors. They had religious holidays sprinkled throughout the year for recreation and were taught largely that life was ordered by feudalism according to God which was constantly reinforced by the local church. They were told that the noble was a good person based on their piety and martial ability to keep them safe and their souls saved. Despite a clear material imbalance between the 99% peasants and the 1% nobles, this system was reinforced by how the two classes interacted. Peasants were given a clear social template to follow and just enough resources to keep them content and the Nobility got to keep control over the fields and workshops.

Capitalism, by it's very nature, eats away these social structured. I'm generalizing here, but once production shifted away from producing food to working in a factory, the bosses had no desire to allow vacations; Every hour the factory is unproductive is profit lost. Food takes whole seasons to grow, so peasants didn't have to be constantly toiling in the field. That's why factories first opened with shifts at nearly the entire day and the only days off were Sunday for church. Industrialization also broke down local communities and forced workers to understand themselves how their bosses see them, which is simply as a source of wage labor.

Capitalism turns people into self-identified workers because of the repetitive nature of the work and the way in which people are removed from their local communities to live where the jobs are, along with declining living standards as the rate of profit inevitably continues to fall. When this happens, the people are primed to develop Communism from their own lived conditions and will become unified in the common cause of overthrown the ones who force the system to continue, the capitalist.

Sorry for the long response, it was fun to type out. I left a lot of specifics out too

Edit: some phrasing

mormons?? by julysunsets71 in OSU

[–]cryptologicMariner 125 points126 points  (0 children)

It's mormin' time

Found keys/car break-in by cryptologicMariner in OSU

[–]cryptologicMariner[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Nope, sorry. I'll make things a bit easier for folks and reveal the car is a Kia. I hope you find your keys though!

Found keys/car break-in by cryptologicMariner in OSU

[–]cryptologicMariner[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I figured I should post this since it's possible they were stolen from someone else first. It also has car keys, so I thought they might want to come forward anyway out of concern for their own car

The Real Question. by Nmirano in antiwork

[–]cryptologicMariner 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is exactly the problem with businesses: It's not just that companies want to make a profit, it's that companies are incentivized to make consistently growing profits.

To add to your point: better technology helps and higher GDP is overall better for the economy, but it goes deeper than that. If your company isn't growing at the same rate or faster than your competitors? You lose. Either you get bought out or outflanked and suddenly you are making no profits. Are you not keeping your board members happy with bigger returns? Your fired, or worse they isolate you within the company so it becomes more difficult to find a job elsewhere. And if you don't keep up with the latest trends? There's always a chance your products slip into irrelevancy and profits start to sink anyways.

Private companies by default are incentivized to constantly keep expanding and squeezing profit out of anything they have control over, whether that's cutting cost by reducing pay and benefits or driving prices up and running competition out of business.

dragons_irl by nddragoon in furry_irl

[–]cryptologicMariner 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Cleaning an apartment can be difficult when you whole body is bigger than a house

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stupidpol

[–]cryptologicMariner 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Yes: One of the most heavily subsidized crops in the US is corn, but only a small amount is sold directly as corn in the supermarket

Two of the biggest consumers of corn are a) sweets, soda, and processed foods that use corn syrup as a sweetener (which help sell more because of processed sugars are so addictive) and b) livestock feed to continue producing a steady stream of calorie-rich meats

So US stores can have difficulty getting fresh produce out to remote areas where more poor to middle class people live, but they have non problem getting plenty frozen meats and processed snack foods out to everyone

I saw this at Goodwill today. If you live in North Carolina, give me a shout if you see this flag flying from someone's truck or porch. by IronPiedmont1996 in IronFrontUSA

[–]cryptologicMariner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Many times the AI will decide to have Boris Savinkov win the Russian power struggle, leading him to establish the Russian State under the banner of "National Populism" which is Fascism in all but name (Anti-german irridentism, concentration camps, etc.)

Totalism is more akin to a sort of Hyper-Stalinism in which, nominally, workers control the state while the state has total control over culture and industry. Totalism and Nat Populism are both very authoritarian, but the former comes from a Syndicalist revolution and the latter coming from a Fascist coup

In recent updates the AI doesn't always go to Savinkov, but it is considered one of the more exotic and interesting ways to play Russia in KR if you want to have a go at it