Pseudoplatanus22

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

All I get from those videos is how desperate Metal fans are for allegedly superior "classically trained" musicians to validate their taste in music. Why does it matter what a classical musician thinks about I Cum Blood by Cannibal Corpse?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

You guys aren't going to believe this, but I called it. I felt it in the winds a few weeks ago that Kissinger would die before the year was out, and the winds told me the truth. Not the exact date mind you, and he was bound to die eventually, but still.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

BlackRock and UK Gov doing a bit of the old Imperialism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

We've had a lot of rain recently too, but it's not the wateriest I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I'm hearing also that they may have access to the Cuban Havana syndrome gun, and Anthrax, and yellow cake uranium, and...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rewriting Kapital to have a swearword every other sentence and calling it vulgar Marxism

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hyperloop gags aside, the fact that they're able to use cars underground suggests that they have the ventilation problem sorted out. At least, I hope they do. It would come in handy in case of an Israeli gas attack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean like a Puma, perhaps?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alright, but we still remember all the shit that happened to the indigenous people at the hands of European settlers, and more importantly, so do the indigenous peoples of the world. That's not going away, even if the liberal consensus is that it's all in the past and we should forget about it. This is all part of a historical process, and history doesn't end once the liberals say it does. It's all cause and effect. What I don't like about this post is that it's just handwringing about the state if things, thereby implying that these struggles are, in fact, in the past. If this is all going to be forgotten, then why do we bother talking about it? We should be documenting and discussing precisely so that it doesn't get forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But it's not framed that way, and a lot of children won't see the similarities. I may not have, once upon a time, as critical thinking isn't encouraged at school. There are many things I think about in relation to economics and foreign and domestic policy which I had to have pointed out to me by more experiened leftists. This frustrates me, as I should have been able to spot these glaring double standards and errors by myself; it also makes me worry about the children of today, who may go their entire adult lives without encountering anything which intellectually challenges them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I disagree. The only people who will think like this are liberals, and who gives a fuck what they think? Libs gonna lib, as they always have. Left-wingers (some of them, at least - I assume there were some who thought differently) have always been critical of colonialism and imperialism - Marx wrote scathingly about atrocities committed by the British against the Chinese and Engles had some thoughts about the English occupation of Ireland, for example. If it seems as though no-one cared about the Aboriginal Australians or the First Nations people, it was very likely because not as much was known about them; there were only so many socialist thinkers at the time, and they were probably more preoccupied by potential revolutions going on closer to home.

However, the surviving indigenous peoples of America and Australia certainly won't forget what happened to them, or what is still happening to them. The palestinians have the support not just of white European and American leftists like myself, but broadly of the Muslim diaspora community on those continents and the people of the Islamic nations surrounding Palestine. I know I certainly won't forget what Israel has done, nor will I ever think it was justified. And what happens when Uncle Sam finds it inconvenient or impossible to stand up for Israel anymore? I don't know for sure, but it will probably involve a lot more killing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there still a premium feed around? I want to listen to their series about the manosphere

 

Mahogany is a tropical hardwood used in the manufacture of furniture and musical instruments.

Mahogany in its truest sense comes from trees from the genus Swietenia, itself containing three species which are all native to the Americas. Of these, the most commonly used for timber is the South American Swietenia macrophylla, or Big Leaf Mahogany, although the other two species in this genus (S. humilis from Central America and S. mahogani from the Southern United States and Caribbean) are sometimes considered to be genetically indistinct, readily hybridising with one another and being defined mostly by geographical distribution.

Mahogany is especially well suited to musical instrument manufacturing due to its pleasing deep red finish, its pronounced low and low-mid frequencies, and its tendency to sound better with age. Of the large scale guitar manufacturers using mahogany, perhaps the most famous is Gibson, whose Les Paul and SG models have been made from mahogany since the 1950s.

Along with its use as a timber tree, mahogany also has a history of medicinal use. Its seeds (known as Sky Fruits) are reported as having antimutagenic, antitumor, and anti-inflammatory traits, and have been used to treat hypertension, diabetes, and malaria by people across its introduced range.

All three true mahoganies are threatened in their native ranges by habitat degradation caused by agriculture, and commercial overharvesting; this has led to the international trade of American-grown mahogany being heavily restricted (in theory) by CITES, and has led to large scale planting in South-East Asia. However, due to the low ages of most planted specimens, illegal harvesting of old-growth stands continues unabated.

Despite being threatened in its native range, it has proved hardy in the Philippines where it is planted for timber. It is facing calls for its control and removal from native habitats there due to its ability to spread quickly and suppress the growth of native vegetation; this is exacerbated by its allelopathic leaf litter, which along with blanketing the forest floor with shade, secretes chemicals that supress the growth of other plants, much like the leaf litter of the European Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus).

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