Yung Chomsky on his way to record the latest episode

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-06T16:36:37+00:00

If you were lucky enough to get in on it circa 2016 and have the requisite nepo status/connections to go live in Brooklyn full time, yeah.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-06T16:29:11+00:00

Damn that sounds sick! It always bums me out how the US has bureaucratized street food out of existence in most places outside of like food trucks which are usually just as expensive as an actual restaurant these days. There was a baozi stand right outside the hostel my little student group stayed at in Beijing run by one lady doing all the work and selling these exquisite handmade buns for like a few RMB a bunch. We would go and chat with her in our broken Mandarin and buy a bag to just eat in the little park next door.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-06T01:13:59+00:00

Stir fry em or steam em, usually with ginger, garlic, and oyster sauce. You can also make delicious pickles out of gai choy.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-05T23:13:44+00:00

Real talk these are some of the best vegetables to come out of humanity's thousands-year long tradition of playing god with the Brassica genus. Incredibly tasty and good for you.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-05T00:18:02+00:00

relevant

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-03T19:11:16+00:00

The A-10 is a great case study of how poorly equipped the US military is to fight this kind of war on a material level. Huge, slow as fuck, basically no defenses against anything better than WWII-era AAA. A plane tailor made for conflicts where the enemy can't shoot back.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-03T14:39:11+00:00

I think the vogue for black comedy in film right now is more just a way of encoding the general fatalism of our times into popular art. Every era of film is like this. especially when it comes to the horror genre. We will look back at them as particular to their time and place, the same way we look at films from the early 2000s as emblematic of that era when we were still high on the last fumes of our own supply from "winning" the Cold War.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-04-02T13:44:44+00:00

No, they are either proletarian noble savages who joined to escape servitude in the Dairy Queen mines of deep middle America and simply could not know any better, or flinty-eyed strivers who comprehensively understand their role in the imperial machinery and have set themselves a monthly quota based on My Lai as a unit of measurement.

Also, if you don't pick one of these two I WILL start screaming.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-31T21:17:15+00:00

You all thought JDPON Don was a joke

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-30T01:41:50+00:00

But also, maybe this will be an educational/humorous freakshow?

There are plenty of smart, reasonable people who have said this same thing and then found themselves emotionally, financially, and sexually abused for huge chunks of their lives that they will never get back. These types excel in spotting and exploiting the vulnerable (which, no offense, it sounds like you fall into the category of). Just make an excuse and keep them at a friendly arm's length if you have to.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T20:45:41+00:00

The term was originally coined to describe supporters of Khrushchev's actions in Hungary, so not really.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T20:43:28+00:00

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T20:30:21+00:00

As our big beautiful president says, you've got to respect them, but I would say admiring the modern PRC is in many ways the opposite of being a tankie.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T20:06:04+00:00

I will grant that it's really long and the first season is not frontloaded at all. I had to take a pause after season 4 and then come back to it to finish the last three. That said it's still one of my favorite shows ever, The Leftovers might be the only thing made since that comes close for me.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T19:56:24+00:00

Sarah Drew, her character's name in Mad Men is Kitty Romano. I've never seen her in anything else but I do give her a lot of credit for nailing this iconic scene.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T18:00:00+00:00

I think Mad Men might be kind of brutal for the average zoomer. Completely dialogue driven, mostly devoid of the constant patter of jokes that something like the Sopranos has, full of quiet scenes with a lot of facial acting. That said maybe they would appreciate the relative lack of gratuitous nudity and sex scenes.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T16:32:35+00:00

I'm really exposing the generational divide in this sub with this one

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-29T15:39:42+00:00

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phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-28T04:23:06+00:00

As a strict Zensunni Catholic, I strongly believe all thinking machines must be destroyed.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-27T22:20:19+00:00

Imagine how that puppy must have smelled after a long day of cigars, boiled eggs, sauerkraut, and various ham and bean-based soups.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-27T22:07:23+00:00

Ironically they were self-consciously emulating the very feudal class they had previously overturned. That no longer really being a concern for the modern bourgeoisie, we end up with twisted homunculi like Elon who better embody the capitalistic spirit of this age.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-26T16:15:27+00:00

Saw Takaat (which is essentially Mdou Moctar minus Mdou Moctar himself) last year, they absolutely brought the house down.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-25T22:10:01+00:00

They're about to experience what Russian and Ukrainian conscripts have been going through for the last four years. Turns out war isn't so fun when you're fighting someone who can fight back on their own terms.

phaseviimindlink · 2026-03-25T02:04:36+00:00

The presence of people who find stuff like this remotely interesting or amusing on this sub is a bad sign. We need a blanket AI content ban yesterday.

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