love these names and units of measurement
if summer ever ends i'll have to make some barley slop and dip rolls in it
love them setting good examples like this
more please, and in other places
i used to read Tintin as a kid (they had all the books at my library)
really wish this page was real it would have helped so much
i wish i could go more in depth. i get a bit passionate because it really helps with my anxiety and I am one of the rare people that experienced the whole "tingles" thing since I was a child
i only watch femme presenting artists so i can't speak for the male presenting but i'm happy some of these super talented artists found a niche and a way to make a living
sorry hope i didn't seem too boomer-style upset
it's not at you
they all know they are safe they just want that $
Trump will go after a few token bureaucrats but he ain't touching the ruling class that's why they are making this so smooth and easy for him
i know nothing about mukbang so i can't comment on that
but there are plenty of ASMR "slop" artists trying to draw engagement just like there is plenty of corporate "slop" art. but many of the early artists as well as some unknown percentage do masterful set design, stories, roleplays, characters, worldbuilding, audio design, and essentially create immersive short films or aural/visual experiences that go far beyond someone just making mouth noises into a microphone
off the top of my head, and i'm sure others can add more, some prime examples would be Goodnight Moon and Dreamscape ASMR for storytelling. Ardra -ASMR would be a good example of immersion, especially her later works
like EVERYTHING in this hellscape capitalism is perverting the shit out of it and it will ABSOLUTELY die as an artform and become pure slop
as others here stated, Bob Ross just did a specific type of painting well but didn't pioneer anything: except
he is the father of ASMR. he may not have known it, but the arrangement of microphones and the use of the soft brushes, along with his cadence and personality, all laid the foundations
most people tuned into his show to relax and feel good. as a kid, my grandmother would watch because she painted landscapes but i just liked my hairs standing on end and the squishy feeling from the scratch scratch, watching a task be completed, and hearing someone softly talking positive stuff to me
and i know people will argue against this but ASMR, despite plenty not "getting it", is a legitimate modern artform
im busy learning Vicky 3 but i do get that craving to fire up Caveman to Cosmos every now and then
especially since it has that more complex political system that actually acknowledges how OP socialist policies are for population happiness/growth
and i love the whole collapse of large empires into smaller states mechanic.
took me some time to realize all encompassing, radical direct democracy is not the solution to states under siege from every attack vector in existence
in isolation this kind of direct democracy would likely not have "saved" the Soviet Union. would more democratic accountability have helped? possibly, i'm not educated enough to say
doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for it. i believe libertarian socialism/communism/marxism is a transition state that we should absolutely strive for in the post, final-conflict era.
once socialism is dominant and capitalism is on the ropes it would be criminal not to work towards it on the way to advanced socialism and full communism
liberation should be in totality
lifelong civ head who gave up on the series by 5. then i fully embraced the paradox map games.
civ 4 had some banger mods though but i was always more into the "historical period" ones. even made some myself (for civ 2) that ended up doing ok on civfanatics.
looking back though damn those are some lib ass games. just pure Great Man Theory, philosophical idealism, and End of History vibes
cool and good scenario: Putin does big government FDR style programs post-war to keep vets productive, people begin to trust the state's capacity again, Putin dies naturally, United Russia breaks up into it's constituent parties without a solid successor, Russian Communist Party gains a slim majority and leverages this state power, we get a reborn but significantly more lib Soviet Russia closely aligned to China
Sino-Soviet split finally vindicated
this person does an inverse 
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Why is Capital Allowing Anti-Immigrant/Pro-Mass Deportation Sentiment to become Policy?
(hexbear.net)
this mostly applies to the U.S. but also most of the western world:
As Marxists we know that most policy is driven by what capital allows or within the increasingly narrow range of acceptable discourse it allows within bourgeois dictatorship
Obviously it's not a conspiracy of ten guys in a secret room but a general consensus that develops from a chaotic web-like oligarchy of money peddlers, influencers, lackeys, billionaire puppetmasters, etc
But this really, really hurts Capital. they need the influx of cheap labor or face the real threat of forced degrowth. and we know every 
including 
is trying to make it harder for people to be childless but short of forcing people to procreate at gunpoint..
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so why allow this to become a bipartisan consensus (U.S.) instead of say throwing some scraps of social democratic programs?
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or in Europe's case allowing these parties to come to power instead of reversing some neoliberal austerity?
Is this a case of anti-immigration just being easier to do vs. building resiliency into the system? i mean it's always easier to write laws crimializing stuff and throwing cops at a problem i suppose
Or something else?
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since it's a 
thing my partner and i don't trust random youtube channels not to be just some "anti-woke" shit
so i've thought about getting a script as a sort of one-two punch. one, to save my thinning hair so it can still look cute. two, the side effects would be scary if they weren't basically just "ooops you transed yourself"
oh noes... what ever will i do if i grow boobies and my body hair thins
but seriously, some of the side effects (depression) I thought were maybe from cis men getting gender dysphoria but seems even transfemmes have experienced it. at least reading some reddit posts
anyone had experience with this? i'm hoping it can be a sort of gateway to everything else. dip my toes in the hormone adjustments
and minoxidil has never seemed to work for me. i know i won't get my hair line back but i'm cool with that.
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