CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 days ago • 100%
I have a hard barrier around expressing anything like that, online or off. The inherent hetero power dynamics make it creepy even if it's not a sexual impulse.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 weeks ago • 100%
My friend turned to me after we watched that and said, "was that the most reddit movie ever made?"
The horniness was whatever. Bill fucking Hader as "Chief Firewater" pissed me off to no end.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 1 month ago • 100%
The mental clarity you get at the 60-day mark of nopiss is like nothing I've ever experienced before.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 1 month ago • 100%
Omg I want this on a mug!! If there is a God She will make this happen 😍
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 1 month ago • 66%
The real answer for a black bear is make yourself look as big as possible, back away slowly, and tell it to fuck off in a deep voice. If it charges you it's hopefully feinting, but if not whack it right in the snout with whatever you have.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
Premade chili, or a thick lentil curry, will be your best bet if you're doing anything active on this camping trip. Cook it ahead of time, throw it in the cooler, and heat it up. You may want to add a grain if you don't want to do rice before or after on the same burner (minute rice will be easy though).
I personally love to dehydrate the above but that tends to be for backcountry canoe camping and hiking, where weight and volume matter a lot.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
There are ways to hide your power level but you have to be very accomodating, not get heated, and figure out what direction to guide someone to get them started questioning the dominant narrative, instead of going debate bro mode. People want to be listened to and respected, and will remember your tone, affect, and willingness to treat them like a person far more than they will your points 90% of the time.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
It means you have to tread carefully when organizing, and that it's important not to be callous about hardship.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
If your position is, "bring on the US collapse; maybe it'll ease the boot off the Palestinians' necks," all I can say is that I hope you're right and I hope you're prepared.
If your position is, "bring on the US collapse; I mean how much worse can it actually get?" you probably have no clue what you're talking about unless you've personally spent time in a war zone or lived through Katrina or something like that.
One of the things that struck me while studying the Russian revolution is just how much of an academic relationship we communists have to major periods of historical change. From our position it's way easier to imagine ourselves in the room with Lenin trying to make a tough decision on agricultural policy than it is to imagine stretching your food store through a region-wide famine and crop failure, or watching your family all catch cholera, or getting shot by the white army...
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
She's better than Will, Felix, or Amber tbh.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
A radical anti-porn activist, upset at his affair with Stormy Daniels, who was completely juiced up on a 93-day nofap streak.
That or a YIMBY who felt betrayed that a developer president never deregulated zoning via executive order.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
Contrapoints
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
I really do sincerely appreciate this sentiment, especially as a vegan, but I'm always curious about the ecological environment it can exist in. It's practically impossible to spend time in the Canadian wilderness in the spring or summer without murdering a few mosquitoes, ticks, horseflies, blackflies, deerflies, etc.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 2 months ago • 100%
RIP to a legit organizer. I took one of her courses a few years back. Super solid info and strategy.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Joey need drinky.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
It's hard when you're not American and at least two of the categories are references to American media, places, or lingo.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Not really a movement, but what I've noticed is that within liberal religious traditions that have a bit of a history of social justice and mutual aid, the younger generations (who are mostly not active churchgoers at this point) have taken very kindly to radical literature and ideas.
Inspired by a subthread in the post on sci-fi and fantasy tropes. A few books I've liked: ***Iron Widow***: a YA novel set in a fantasy version of medieval China. The main character has more than one love interest and from what I remember has a nice little spiel about resisting the social pressure to choose. I won't give any spoilers where it goes but I'm looking forward to the sequel this year. ***Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night***: a cute little winter soltice tale about two metamours that begrudgingly team up to go rescue their respective partner from a magical realm. ***The Giddy Death of Gays and the Strange Demise of Straights***: a bit of a chaotic story with a whirlwind cast of characters trying to make sense of all the heterodox ways that they love each other, amid a rising homophobic backlash. This one is a little rough around the edges as I believe it's self-published but has great showcasing of some unique kinds of connection. Set in Wales. As for movies I haven't seen many, but *Professor Marston and the Wonder Women* is very cute, despite falling into some thruple tropes. *Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice* gets a shoutout for being a very well-made, early (1960’s) take on sexually open relationships. What have you enjoyed?
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Wanna send me the epub? I'd love to put this on my reading list.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Not nearly so detailed, but Sing For the Coming of the Longest Night is a great little fantasy story about two metamours that have to go rescue their mutual partner from a magical realm.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
I can't understand how anyone remotely progressive actually liked Kingsman for the reasons you listed. It also just reeks of traditionalist masculinity, especially with the princess at the end 🤢. The only redeeming quality is the villain's silliness and Samuel Jackson's performance in that role.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Iron Widow is decent for this too if you like YA fantasy. Bonus for a Chinese setting.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Thanks for keeping my beaver in your thoughts ❤️
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Absolutely not! I'm lucky that the trail wasn't actually backcountry for most of it, and I had an emergency sat phone, first aid kit, etc. with me, but I have seen some shit go down in the woods and know when to be careful.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
I probably planned it a bit too ambitious in retrospect. I'm a very experienced adventurer and camper with some long canoe and cycling trips under my belt, so I'm well used to keeping up spirit and mental resilience in tough conditions, but never done a hike longer than a few days.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
The pace was forced on me by the rest of my summer and fall being busy af, as well as difficult logistics on spots to stay (the trail I was doing has few official camping spots and they are far between). If I dedicate more time to it next year I could go quite a bit slower but I'll just miss out on all the other shit I wanna do in life, especially in the warm weather.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
I made it 546 kilometres in 19 days, with ~350 left to go. Idk if my water filter failed or there was a hygiene slipup, but I woke up Thursday feeling super fatigued and that quickly slipped into beaver fever symptoms (or some kind of infection/parasite). Now I've spent the last few days recovering on the couch and picking up reading again. Still feels like a big achievement, but I had a bit of a short time window to finish the trail. Now I'll probably be too busy for the rest of the warmer season and have to wait until next year. ![sadness](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/3de7432c-5d0b-441d-9167-0c61cc3838ab.png "emoji sadness")
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
I found very few of them had any close contact with "outsider" groups - the big two that come to mind are queer people and neurodivergent people (at least those who would have trouble masking all day so as to conform to the culture, dress, etc.) Some of them were certainly a bit socially isolated, but they could count on being able to pay for not just basic needs but treats, comforts, and brand identity markers to paper over that. With an above-median personal income, the main next steps are to secure house ownership and then start a family, which can serve as your main purpose in life and also your main social unit that isn't governed by economic transactions. I found very little interest in community building or intersectional solidarity.
When you're on that level there's no reason to question eating out or ordering food several times a week, flying across the world and staying in hotels several times a year, or ridesharing into work every day. There's no need to think about the massive amounts of service labour that go into making those comforts accessible at the push of a button, nor anything that would lead them to realize that very few of those labourers can afford any of that themselves. For them, service labour is something you do in high school for some extra spending cash and a way to teach diligence to the youth.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
I was in tech for two years recently. It gave me enough money to purchase a vehicle to live in and to coast for the next little bit, but among the many reasons I quit (it was bad for my brain, it took up way too much of my time) was feeling the distinction in class interests. The biggest expression of this was that my coworkers had such bubbled views of social relations and had strange expectations of what the world owes them simply on account of how much money they have.
I think if you're committed to your principles you'll be fine. I just found I didn't like being around people of that class for such extended periods of time.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 3 months ago • 100%
Lol I love how Varn has been ranting about MMTers for a while but each time with a bigger disclaimer that he agrees with their fundamental analysis, up to the point where he has the founder on. I'll have to give it a listen.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Volunteer work is great as you'll have something to keep you occupied if you're struggling to initiate a conversation, and also you'll have to talk to people just a bit to get some instruction or collaborate on the work. You'll start off on a good fit since people will like that you're helping out with their favourite cause, and they'll be naturally a bit curious about you and why you joined.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Maybe OP identifies with some kind of nihilism and doesn't like seeing it criticized in broad strokes?
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
It's so stupid because there's such a simple gotchya response. You think there are too many people for the resources we have, and some need to go one way or another? Then it makes sense to start with the people that use the most resources, right?
In fact we probably don't even need to get rid of that many - let's just off the 5000 or so richest people on the planet, expropriate their stuff, and that will free up far more fuel, land, water, energy, money, whatever than you could possibly hope to get from letting millions in the global south perish.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Oof, another major L for science.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
You can't hurt me with this, and put in my mouth all the time.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Wow the only thing I've seen that comes remotely close to this is Ajit Pai with the fidget spinners seven years ago.
Pro tip for the libs: do not try to use the latest, hippest memes to paper over a gap in youth support that exists for material reasons.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
This comm is just ten or fifteen people desperately trying to make each other laugh.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
This is a really cool idea.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Now THIS is game theory.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn 4 months ago • 100%
Only listened once but the new one is absolutely killer.
I mean something like marketplace or kijiji, but not necessarily monetary. It's probably a ridiculous question but I'm curious if anybody's been exploring this space.
It's definitely an uncomfortable and painful show for 95% of the screen time, but I couldn't help but love the writing, acting, cinematography, soundtrack and pretty much everything else. I really wasn't sure how much I liked the finale and it's particular kind of left turn (don't spoil it) but now that I'm about a week out from seeing it I think it's an incredibly strong finish. I'm curious what anyone else thought of it.
10/10 would not recommend because it's dangerous and irresponsible, but boy that was a hell of a ride. All I want for Christmas is more trains of every kind ![FrogPog](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/83763250-b73e-44d4-9eb5-05bc7e781de1.png "emoji FrogPog")
![jesus-christ](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/ba00a473-2f3e-429e-b18b-fdd68e8827c9.png "emoji jesus-christ")
I just watched it last night. I thought it was a pretty incredible film conceptually and visually. I can also understand its purchase in the West, as I feel like it glorifies pre-USSR imperial Russia, and there are only thin references to anything in the 20th century (the most notable and darkly trippy of these being the soldier digging his own grave during the siege of Leningrad).