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Ugh yeah, also this.

I’ve encountered a truly depressing amount of self proclaimed ‘anarchists’ who’ve gone on and fucking on about how if they could just organise their own paramilitaries and forcibly take over the governments to impose ‘totally not fascist, we’re the good guys!’ mandatory regimes of wealth and resource redistribution on the public, they could really fix everything…

And the worst part is that I get it, I was also once a naive and optimistic teenager who read Marx and thought that if I could just explain things to people the right way they’d get it too, and we could fix everything wrong with the world together because most people were fundamentally good and would want to make the world better, if I could just get them to understand Marxist theory…

Lmao, it was fucking soul crushing realising that’s not actually how anything works.

At least back then I wasn’t on about paramilitaty takeovers and ‘anarchism’ though, like I get why more people are armchair revolutionary-ing to those extremes now but that’s just so much more fucking stupid than believing people are ‘mostly good and should read Marx’.

I try not to interract with these types of people any more, I just wish I could stop seeing them pop up so often.

“We need a revolution and vigilante justice should be meted out on the billionaire class”

I am so tired of seeing this repeated endlessly everywhere by people with no intent to actually fucking do it. Yes everything is shit but you are not improving or changing anything with these empty platitudes.

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The issue is that the traditional weavers stayed destitute

And subsequently, many of their skills were lost to society.

I don’t think the ai and data centres are for us.

The billionaires who want to survive this upcoming apocalypse need ai to be functional in order to survive in their bunkers.

Everyone else till then is basically free labour, training material and collateral.

Try to enjoy the last of the abundance, things aren’t going to improve.

Try baking it.

I know what you mean. There’s a street market near me that occassionally gets in the most fantastic produce, it’s a bit hit or miss though, even for seasonal as they rarely have the same stuff in each week.

But I still think about that perfect, sun warmed, juicy af yellow melon I bought there a few summers back. That taste was something else, it was like melon³, like there was just so much more melon to this melon. No yellow melon has even come close since then.

Yeah but fruit has also been selectivly bred to be much, much sweeter too though. Zoos now can’t feed fruit to animals evolved to eat it as the sugar content has gotten so high.

I spent a fair bit of time in hospitals as a kid and subsequently, because the two are somehow linked, ate a lot of grapes.

I genuinely swear to you, thirty years ago white grapes used to be delicious, and unless they were getting old and gross, they weren’t even particularly sweet. Their flavour wasn’t strong, the skin was fruity and the flesh was slightly sour, but they were so refreshing and watery, and if they’d been in the fridge, crunchy too! Oh and they had pips! I used to try and swallow the pips whole as spitting them was gross, but ngl I even kinda miss the crunchy tannins they bought to the experience.

In some mad fit of nostalgia not too long ago, I bought all the green grapes I could find online that I could get delivered to me. I spent like £80 on grapes.

Grapes suck now. They are all so obnoxiously sweet, every variety I could get my hands on tasted like juice concentrate, and they’re all freaking huge now too. Fuck whoever decided grapes needed to taste like ‘cotton candy’, you ruined grapes.

Fortified soy milk, vegetable oil, popping corn and chaat masala. Apples would be nice too but not vital.

You seriously need to try chaat masala on popcorn. It’s tangy, funky, spicy, savoury and all that good stuff, plus popcorn is high fibre and low calorie, so you can eat fucktons of it and not gain weight.

Most good chaat masala is homemade, you can by pre-blended stuff but it’s never going to be as good as a mix you tailor to your own specific tastes.

Mine is amchur (sour mango) powder, kashmiri chili powder, powdered garlic, powdered cumin, hing, black salt, corriander powder and msg. A pinch of sugar can be good too but don’t add it to the blend as it could go bad, add it after to the dish you’re seasoning.

They were scientologists, right?