[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

They sell melatonin and passion flower extract next to the fish oil and multivitamins in the supermarket over here where I live - not sure why people think this is just an American thing

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get your point, but bialetti absolutely does do pod coffee machines too

I would say get an aeropress and just carry/have it everywhere but like, apparently they've changed hands and I have no idea if the one I've been using for like a decade or more is indicative of their current product. Good product though (just be careful if you have dodgy joints). Yeah they do have filters, but I also have a compost bin so they just go straight into there

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Pyrex/borosilicate dishes work pretty well here. Both Pyrex and IKEA do little single serving casserole dishes with a lid that work fantastic. Been using them for decades now

Alternatively you could upend a plate on-top of your bowl

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Where I live sous vide are pretty common in the readymade dinner section - wonder if they're better for you than microwaving and if we should maybe be doing that instead

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

A big man sized cockroach living in your attic. Or maybe it's a cockroach shaped man.

Please be nice to him he's going through a lot

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been doing that too (though not at the same pace). Like project Gutenberg has a ton of good stuff if you just let go of your preconceived notions about "the classics". Like you could right now drop everything and go read Ulysses. I wouldn't reccomend it (go read Dubliners instead), but like you could. It's like a call of the void.

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Because there's like a difference between a beef burger and the platonic idea of a burger. Like if I say I want a burger, you're not going to fault me for buying a chicken burger are you? Even though it doesn't taste anything like a regular beef burger? Same deal with veggie burgers. Meanwhile if I order a burger that looks like beef with the expectation that it will taste like beef, I'm going to be upset when it doesn't taste like a nice beef burger but instead a rather shitty one

Also there's tons of veggie burgers out there, maybe you just gotta try some that aren't like, the weird "healthy" options that dominate the search results. Stuff like a big ol' falafel in a bun or deep fried aloo tika.

...also I don't actually like beef burgers that much

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yezhov was responsible for that. He abused his power, and was rightly executed.

...Yezhov was executed due to internal politics, his deputy's influence on Stalin, purging his own men, and just Stalin being paranoid. On the other hand, Stalin was afraid of a fifth column attack from within, as that happened over in Spain during the communist regime there. He was the one who ordered the operations, we have reports where he comments on how good things are going on the murdering Poles front, he was not unaware or mislead about this, he instigated it. Claiming Yezhov was executed and removed from history over the ethical concerns of genocide is a pretty laughable one.

Also, what Motte and Baily? No when I think genocide I also think about systemic cultural erasure not just the murder and sterilisation part. Because my own country's done that. Most of Europe has, in one way or another. It's impossible to talk about any country's history without bumping into the concept in one way or another. That definition has been around for a pretty damn long time. And it so happens that the USSR did rather a lot of it. The Holodomor is admittedly a complicated issue to unravel (not helped by your apparent dismissal of it? Like, you do know Glasnost happened right? The USSR did give you permission to acknowledge that there at least was a famine in Ukraine), but if you want I can give you some lovely examples from my next door neighbours over in the Baltics. Not to mention what the USSR tried to do to Finland.

Not because of anything China's done. Literally the only context that mentiong them would make sense in is with their own great famine (which slight errata on my part, the 49-51 great famine is the worst man made famine in human history, not the Holodomor) so where the fuck did you pull Uyghurs from? Kinda think that's a bit of a Freudian slip there mate.

Also I fucking know what collectivisation is mate, a textbook definition won't change the fact that even with the most neutral idealistic stance the USSR royally fucked over their attempt with Ukraine. That's not what's the debate's about. That's about the size and if it was sheer incompetence or something more politically motivated.

Anyways oh my god you're an unironic Stalin apologist aren't you?

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

... I'm sorry? The Purges were made up? The systemic starvation of Ukraine was made up? The mass deportations in a deliberate attempt to break up and assimilate various non-slavic groups and cultures was made up? There's so many things here that you're claiming are 'made up' that I think I'd hit the word limit listing them all.

Next you'll be telling me Troksy just accidentally fell on that icepick

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Seconding the star diaries - they're a lot more light hearted and have that more "stuck in space due to weird space things" vibe while Solaris is more "stuck in space because I'm being haunted by moral issues and my dead girlfriend"

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

True, but I always get the vibe from tise auction listings that they were originally for much more - they're always set up nice and pretty with backgrounds and super nice shots and everything

[-] Squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Wait these are new for most people? They've been around for years where I live

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