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

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Meanwhile Americans decry the subversive influence of Hindu-Arabic numbers

Living next to a straight major road is annoying. I’ve lived in a couple places like this near the richer neighborhoods. Rich assholes keep racing their sports cars very late into the night.

I brought it up with neighbors but they just turn into Karens and call the police, who do jack shit. I’ve considered throwing some spikes on the road lol but I don’t wanna screw up the tires of everyone who passes by

To keep it simple, humans are a social species. Perhaps the most social in existence, given we developed language, sciences, and civilization…all of these have a base assumption of social relations.

It’s a false dichotomy to pretend that the struggle is between the individual vs collective. Because the average individual is always part of society, and society functions for the sake of its members. The two developed interrelated, from before humans were biologically humans.

Ignoring this fact and portraying it like you need to choose one is wrong. This is the problem of idealism. Idealism just picks and chooses some idea because it sounds good at the time eg. “individualism” but refuses to acknowledge the historical context and dynamics.

A dialectical view would reveal that people tending towards individualism are reacting to the current dynamic which only appears like individualism vs collectivism. But stepping back and looking at this dynamic shows it’s not really an eternal duel between dualities. They’re not even dualities.

That’s why we can predict a new stage in history, not just another move in a duel. Socialism is not collectivism getting its turn after individualism has its day. It’s breaking past this false duality when people realize individualism in a vacuum doesn’t work.

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!

Europe and European colonies have been in wars constantly since the fall of the Roman empire. The first and second Hundred Years, the Napoleonic Wars, the first and second World Wars, the Cold War, the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars…

Not to mention capitalism has brought itself to its knees pretty consistently every decade or so in recessions and depressions

They really think they’re unique from the rest of the world but can’t admit that the USSR and China are the real exceptional ones in history

I’m glad India owns the islands. Not that India is some champion of indigenous peoples, in fact they are an imperial power in their own right. But it would have been worse if some Western nation owned it (like they still do other islands in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans, wtf)

The Sentinelese make obvious that lustful chauvinistic gaze of the West that I haven’t seen in other countries, except maybe imperial Japan, which was copying the West anyhow. The whole idea that the world is there is be “studied” and that places like the Sentinel islands are some final frontier is fucked up.

I understand the linguistic and anthropological curiosity a little, though I think researchers should be more humble. Most are humble actually, it’s the general public that still has chauvinism.

The missionaries bother me the most. Christianization has killed off many local cultures, claiming to liberate them but not saying the quiet part about control and whatever prophecy about the end days where everyone needs to be Christian I think. In India, the lower castes and pariahs mostly are Christian, with the promise of equality, but in reality they still have the caste system within their communities and are just pariahs in different ways at large now. So not much has changed. I am also brown and live in the US, so I have felt the lustful gaze of missionaries throughout my life here. I get missionaries banging on my door every week now. It’s kinda scary, considering the KKK were around only a while ago here.

Also interesting fact, the Andaman and Nicobar island were home to British jails for political prisoners. Indian rebels and revolutionaries met in jail there and even founded parties for independence and socialism. In a way, the islands are a birthplace of Indian revolutionary spirit

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.

Yes definitely, in D&D as a player you get all the details about what and where, and you only have to fill in the how. For example, the character sheet is basically a template with slots and points that you can find precalculated examples for. The only thing you fill in is your backstory, and take actions during the story.

The DM is also usually helpful to suggest hints or ask leading questions in case you still are stumped during roleplay.

Oddly enough and ironically, structure and restrictions can open things to creativity. It’s kind of like distilling a project to just the creative portion.

Personally I used to do a lot of writing, worldbuilding, and language construction when I was younger before I burned out in school. I wanted to get back to that but couldn’t come up with any ideas like I used to. But then I decided to lay down some rules. D&D was mentioned, which is a great example for this: you get a highly developed setting and specific scenarios, but it’s up to you to find the solution to the problem.

It’s not exactly play as you asked. But maybe you could consider play as part of what I’m talking about. The first part, when you’re entertaining all sorts of ideas, before picking a solution, feels like play to me. Although I like the next part more, when everything and everyone clicks on a solution. It feels like a bonding experience ig

They already have anti-China shit in the original show. The part with the Dai Li conspiracy and brainwashing.

Actually even before that, the Air nation being 100% based on Western exoticism of Tibet, which apparently means racially predisposed to being peaceful spiritual nomads (who live in one of several settled places nonetheless for some reason) and get genocided because their reincarnation prophecy challenges political goals of empire.

IIRC in some interview the show creators even pull out the line “hate the political party, not the people” when the topic came up

Interpreting “essential” in the philosophical sense, that it is impossible to find a genuine communist who is not misotheist: no

(btw misotheism is the hatred of God, and hating God requires you to believe in God. I assume you mean aggressively atheist or anti-religion)

You can be a communist and believe in God. You will probably come across inconsistencies somewhere, but that doesn’t really disqualify you from being a communist. I’m pulling out that quote:

We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

Being a communist is more about what we do materially. Our actions are informed by our previous and current conditions. These conditions might include religion. This doesn’t disqualify us from communism. In fact it might require it in some cases.

Also, our actions are informed by conditions, but that doesn’t always mean well-informed. Part of the communist attitude involves improving this so we do become well-informed. This might involve becoming more familiar with religion (eg. if we need to work with a religious community), or rejecting it (eg. we are recovering from leaving a toxic religious community).

Phrases like “American Dream” and “Manifest Destiny” are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.

No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.

I think it’s just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies “allowed” indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there’s no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I’ve heard of. So it’s just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.

Honestly anything fried properly ends up crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.

Protein helps since it’s naturally soft and chewy when cooked, but it’s not like my mouth and stomach counts the macros. Fried tofu is a cheap and easy go-to for me. I like tater tots too

Sauces don’t belong to anyone lmao I add sauces to everything anyways

One time someone said something and I misheard them, so the sentence sounded ungrammatical and nonsensical to me, like something beyond my conventional understanding of the world thus far. I instantly lost my sanity

This is a risky tip, but if you want to cut acidity without having to add a milk or creamer, you can add a pinch of baking soda too. Why it’s risky: if you add too much, and it’s too easy to do this, it tastes like soap.

Or just cold brew instead of hot brew

POC. Idk if this counts exactly since it started with bigotry then was reclaimed/euphemized

The part that bothers me is that it feels a little like I’m still being called a “colored person” just in a different phrasing, and later on, in abbreviation. I still call myself brown, white people as white, etc. without issue.

So I think it’s more that brown people have always known ourselves to be brown, but not “colored” — that is a slur used by white people against us. Like in our native languages we have a concept of skin shade. But not “coloredness”

Also “POC” sounds a little weird to me, like how saying “people of brownness” or POB feels artificial and awkward.

Not really against “POC” though since people use it broadly already.

It’s a historical grammatical thing. It’s like a “tag” on one word that could be duplicated on another word (agreement of adjectives, verbs, etc. with a noun) so that information is not just preserved but error-corrected in case someone misspeaks or mishears.

Gender is actually a subset of class systems in general and is overblown because of bias towards Indo-European class systems which happen to be mostly along lines of gender.

Yeah I know, not really an improvement if we start calling it a class system instead of gender 😑

To answer your question, I guess a language could break down without this redundancy mechanism of class agreement. But then descendants of European languages like pidgins and creoles often just drop gender altogether and work just fine.