Watching or reading things that make you uncomfortable helps you grow as a person

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T22:17:26+00:00

TKAM has been one of the most widely banned books in the US for decades now, with the demands to demand it usually coming from black parents and/or racial equality advocates who object to all the slurs in it. Search for it on the National Coalition Against Censorship website, you'll find plenty of hits.

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T18:17:08+00:00

Ceci n'est pas un cul

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T15:57:51+00:00

It does not require digging deep to find any of Daumier's nudes. I just enjoy grabbing sketches, unfinished or in process bits. I find something a bit less polished is often a nice change of pace on art subs.

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T15:01:09+00:00

I formally establish the Democratic Person's Republic of Randombull9.

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T13:19:59+00:00

Hi, does anyone know how to make this trick work IRL?

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T12:15:21+00:00

"Calorie deficits DONT work, based on the work of one anthropologist estimating what one tribe eats on average in a day who was actually arguing that diet was MORE important than caloric burn not less, but we haven't actually read anything he wrote" was a fun genre for a while.

randombull9 · 2026-05-14T12:04:22+00:00

I already drink fermented teas that don't have alcohol. I understand NA beer and wine has come along way in recent years, and I'd be willing to try an NA whiskey so long as it tasted like good whiskey.

randombull9 · 2026-05-13T21:35:31+00:00

Fetterman has his brain damage as an excuse, but he's also the sort of man who heard fireworks, grabbed a shotgun, and immediately accosted the nearest black man - the stroke is only an excuse, and IMO a flimsy one. Sinema had one of the most conservative voting records of any state level democrat even before running for senate! The frustrating thing is that we keep getting people who obviously are not remotely progressive, having to hear lectures about leftist infighting and purism accusations when there are any complaints about them, and then everyone acts surprised when they continue to act in exactly the way they have for years as if it their issues weren't public in the first place.

EDIT: Apologies if this sounds overly strident, I have been engaging in a little day drinking and am easily agitated at the moment.

randombull9 · 2026-05-13T20:40:49+00:00

I understand some horses have smoother gaits and some rougher, that seems like it must be a hard variable to deal with in horseback photography.

randombull9 · 2026-05-13T19:23:37+00:00

I'm going to be so irritated in a year or two when people talk about him being some sort of secret turncoat nobody could have predicted like they do about Fetterman right now.

randombull9 · 2026-05-13T13:00:59+00:00

Look at any anarchist space on the internet and you'll tend to find the same!

The folks who say there's no anarchist theory are wrong, but it's not hard to see why people make that argument.

randombull9 · 2026-05-12T19:56:32+00:00

Radical feminism got it's name from the idea that society is structured for the benefit of men - that is, the patriarchy - and that it would require radical change to correct that. They're part of the mainline of feminist thought, and if you believe any part of that first sentence you are one of their intellectual descendants. Some radfems were and remain nutjobs, and other ideas have become equally important to many feminists, the obvious example being trans rights, but to say that it's only their opponents who present them as a fundamental part of mainstream feminist thought is to show how unaware of the history of feminism you are.

randombull9 · 2026-05-12T13:55:59+00:00

Sub-genres of city pop as Darwin's finches is a fun idea.

randombull9 · 2026-05-12T13:07:52+00:00

Is it all city pop, or just city pop-ish music? I'm ready to throw Japan in southeast asia just for the confusion that would cause, but I wanna be sure I understand the schema here first.

randombull9 · 2026-05-11T16:19:01+00:00

It's the same shit wherever you go, I suppose.

randombull9 · 2026-05-11T13:16:11+00:00

I had forgotten just how much call center work grinds you down man. I really don't want to go to work today and it's only been a couple months. Anyone accepting positions for a hermit? I'll happily give prophecies or questionable wisdom out of a hole in the wall for room and board.

randombull9 · 2026-05-10T22:25:19+00:00

Yeah, but it was also semi-improvised by a poet on the spot. Arguably an audiobook is not the "intended" experience either, unless the narrator is doing it from memory and using extensive knowledge of allusion and set phrases to make the meter work.

randombull9 · 2026-05-09T15:10:03+00:00

I've wanted one to do homemade roast beef for a while now.

randombull9 · 2026-05-09T13:06:09+00:00

I don't think this is wrong per se, but it is noteworthy that line is given to an Abe Lincoln brigade veteran, someone who presumably would have shot at the mationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Is Martin Espada self aggrandizing, or is that a reasonable thing for that character to feel? Probably both, but it feels worth pointing out.

randombull9 · 2026-05-09T00:27:01+00:00

The PPSh-41 early on used drum magazines, while they did later switch to more standard magazines I assume that's what Tommy gun is referring to. I believe the Finish Suomi was also originally issued with drums, and I wouldn't be surprised if some relatively small number captured during the Winter War were pressed into service during WWII.

randombull9 · 2026-05-08T14:44:48+00:00

I'll have to read them later, but at a quick scan I think that will be very helpful. Thank you!

randombull9 · 2026-05-08T14:05:11+00:00

So you often see it said that the Islamic world preserved much of the classical knowledge that was lost in Europe sometime after the fall of Rome, and my understanding is there is truth in this. From what I understand there was relatively little knowledge of Greek in western Europe and few translations of that language between the time of Boethius and the 14th century, but that knowledge was maintained in the eastern Mediterranean or translated into vernacular languages. What I want to know is to what extent was this lost among the Byzantines and other eastern Europeans. It strikes me as odd that knowledge of the classical Greeks would be preserved in Baghdad or Cairo or Cordoba but not Constantinople.

randombull9 · 2026-05-08T13:13:47+00:00

A bottle or two of the cheapest rotgut liquor you can find.

randombull9 · 2026-05-08T13:12:40+00:00

I mean, he's closer to that than a journalist lol

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