muddi [he/him]

There is cooklang which I use in Obsidian. Maybe there are shared repos out there. They have a discord server you could check on

Honorable mention: https://www.completefoods.co/

Meanwhile Americans decry the subversive influence of Hindu-Arabic numbers

Yes! I grew up with Indian style porridges like khichidi and upma with Indian pickles, but went through a phase preferring sweeter Western style breakfasts. But lately I’m turning back to savory. I think the heartiness makes me feel more full and for longer

One Western combo I came up with and really like:

• Oatmeal
• Chopped Field Roast vegan apple maple sage sausage
• Fried onion
• Fried garlic
• Generic Western herb mixes (Italian blend, herbs de provence, table blend, etc.)
• Some vegan savory flavorings and salts (soy sauce, MSG, yeast extracts, mushroom extracts, vegetable stock or bouillon)

Sounds like you might enjoy people being honest to you rather than enjoying compliments or criticism. Criticism is more blunt when said to someone’s face, but compliments can seem disingenuous, so maybe you don’t believe the compliments subconsciously

Lucifer’s Hebrew name is Helel!

He’s a capitalist, he should know buying out competition would be preferable to destroying them and letting the capital go to waste

But the fascists themselves at least claimed to be a third way beyond liberalism and socialism which they saw as ineffective right? Even before the petit bourgeois started backing them

Isn’t that how fascism got its start? The sentiment that socialists were ineffective and indecisive, and taking advantage of the vacuum left by conflicts between socialists and liberals…also that is as much on liberals refusing to compromise leftwards as the contrapositive

Liberals think he got run over right? Also they know China is communist, has been for a while, and will be for the foreseeable future…

So this image is saying communists are on the winning side of history and liberals on the losing side by a wide margin?

Yeah I get it but that’s what disappoints me. Like what I mentioned about Dune and Warhammer. Tolkien achieved something and kick-started a genre, but that genre turned out mostly to be about fantasy races fighting genocidal wars…not celebrating the wonder of mythology and fairy tales, at least in my opinion. At the very least, they could be more meaningful by being symbolic of something. But Tolkien already saw to that from the start

I like when authors are intentional about their stories like this.

People bring up Tolkien’s “applicability not allegory” or death of the author, or just defend their treats against being apparently politicized. But people politicize, interpret, and re-mythologize things anyways. Tolkien’s stories have been coopted by European nationalists to fight the “orcs” of the “East.”

A similar thing with Dune, people fixate on the environment aspect or exaggerated brutality and oppression by imperialists hence Star Wars, Warhammer, etc. I guess. I find it weird. The point was or should be the struggle for liberation and the power of ideology.

Might as well be on the nose about things as an author IMO, seems annoying to deal with

Also: was Dune about Palestine? I thought it was inspired by Lawrence of Arabia, so the Arab Revolt. Maybe the Great Game

lol sorry by fantasy I didn’t mean the genre or setting, but like Mary Sue type writing where communism wins just because the writer wants it to, bad choice of words there.

I’m trying to write some communist fantasy myself! I think leftist writers put in a lot of effort to understand the history and be realistic about it. I’ve never seen anyone just champion communism because it sounds nifty

What “book” are they talking about lol, what modern communist writes utopian apologia or fantasy?

(not the genre of fantasy, I meant like, fantasizing about communism as a dream rather than a real historical struggle)

Autobiographies like Guevara’s are based on actual historical realities

The Dispossessed comes to mind, and the subtitle is An Ambiguous Utopia

They’re definitely not talking about the magic system in Das Kapital right??

This is what dates and hanging out with a friend turns into anyways. Go to a show/dinner/game then awkwardly walk around town because neither wants to go back home and do something less fun

The metric of economic organization is just dollars then??

There’s a Buddhist parable about getting hit with two arrows. You could imagine it in a scenario where you are on a battlefield and are struck by an arrow. But for some reason you freeze up and stare at it, so you get hit by a second. You should have taken cover.

Another way, more secular if you prefer that, is shooting yourself in the foot. That only happens when you’re not watching what you are doing or thinking.

Existential fear and the unknown unknowns aren’t something that you should seriously be afraid of. They are fears of fears, that something potential may be potential. Two degrees removed from reality. At least something more immediately threatening, you can act against.

Those more abstract dangers are for humanity as a group to deal with. Tackling them as individuals will result in anxiety. Focus on more immediate problems, or find others to tackle the more abstract problems together, knowing you still might not achieve anything material just yet

One must imagine Sisyphus high on life*

I imagine there must be something like a runner’s high once you get used to pushing up the boulder and it gets easy peasy.

Curry is kind of a generic term but based on the butter chicken I assume it’s a gravy of veggie pulp and spices like garam masala? If so I think North Indian and Thai curries are your best bet. Any veggies and greens go well with those.

I was going to suggest some South Indian coconut based curries like avial if you are looking for something milder. They require a different base though. There are some traditional veggie pairings too.

But that’s the beauty of curry. The word “kari,” “kura,” etc. is the Dravidian term for curry, which is its original etymology. It just means vegetable or vegetable dish. You can really do anything. We usually just finish off what we have in the fridge or pantry.

What’s with the date references lately? How am I supposed to remember all these dates?

9/11 I can understand but why tf would I memorize Jan 6 and Oct 7 etc