ChestRockwell

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[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Blerg. I'll check some videos. My current batch of cartridges is almost gone and if I can do this comfortably I don't mind switching.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 7 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Do you shave your head with it? If so, send links to brand etc. I'm a baldie and thus have to do a shave every few days, and find it easier in the shower. I just don't want to cut myself - I once shaved off a flap of skin (granted it was ironically with a Harry's, had to switch back to Gillette after that sadly because the Mach 5 never cut me like that).

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like we need a :blowback: emote. Maybe the tactical espionage podcast logo from last season?

Lots of versions here

https://shopblowback.com/

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah very reminiscent of the ROTJ sand dunes fight in some ways, lots of chaos even tho it's less kinetic (the back and forth between the barge makes that one way cooler in many ways)

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The throne room battle was actually sick as well and yeah snoke getting smoked was 10/10

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago

That would have been actually awesome. Should have let him cook

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 24 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I've always been very pro Last Jedi - there's some shaggy elements to it (in particular, low speed chase is kind of silly) but overall I actually really like it - Luke and Rey's arcs are both good. I also really like "rey from nowhere" and the fact they recanted all of it was truly dogshit storytelling.

 

No disrespect to the R's, I'm a firm believer that trump sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the dems of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire election season watching the Dems play great centrist politics it's just not fair.

If the dems lose again I will face that the R's deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the dems and america

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm with you that this won't last - he can't shake the old habits. It was just funny that he had a moment of lucidity in his normal horseshit. Because he's right - the party rebuilding around the working class would be it's future.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-elites-working-class.html

I'll give him this, at least he admits centrism is actually bad politics.

biden-leftist

I should have probably posted in the dunk tank but regret nothing.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

I work in a university and have some curriculum Input even though I'm a non tenure track faculty. We are reworking the textbook this year and I'm one of the writers. Curent stuff is very libbed "rhetoric is like the courts, look at this good lib decision" shit.

Needless to say I'm gonna cook because the courts won't save the libs now. The "what is to be done" framing is going to be front and center.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

As someone who works in pre/early modern lit, this is a good post and the real key I think is here:

However, the way you're talking about the story makes it sound like an explicitly homosexual text, which it isn't.

I haven't read OP's essay, but in general this is the big thing with gender/sexuality and pre modern texts. Noncery aside, foucault-madness reminds us that these things are historically determined. If you want to read homosexual desire into a pre modern texts you need to basically do the work to explain how that desire fits into the material conditions of the medieval period.

Btw, this is actually rooted in a Marxist approach - sex and desire are not trans-historical but always determined by the material conditions of the historical moment. If you're gonna read same sex desire into Bisclarivet (which, as you note, is actually a commonplace) you have to do the work to read it into the text and articulate how we see something like same sex desire in a period where this didn't really have a systematic/ideological/cultural sanction.

[–] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Glad someone else had the citations-needed post so I didn't have to.

 

It's time for the marshmallow roast from the fires of die-motherfucker

 

Also the outrage of the residents really shows the humanity scale of black and brown people in this country.

In summary, death to Amerikkka

doggo-matapacos

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Rebel Ridge is fun (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net
 

Ok so it's Netflix slop and it shows in the third act, but the journey is generally enjoyable and has a lot of good pigs being pathetic.

From the AV club review

spoiler

That’s really the genre Saulnier lands on here, complete with a moral clarity about its violence—Terry doesn’t kill, for reasons not precisely stated but perfectly in keeping with his background as well as his pragmatism—that might strike some as insufficiently radical, especially for a filmmaker who has knowingly flirted with exploitation-movie righteousness

Personally I wanted at least a few of the pigs to die, though there's definitely some fun wounding/injuring. I wonder if some of the tameness is due to the Netflix slop machine.

Still, I think even if the ending is a bit disappointing, the journey makes it clear how corrupt the pigs are and how irredeemable they are.

In short officer-down

 

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire. marx-hi

We have again proof that Marx (and Hegel) are correct. curious-marx

The first instance of an indicted presidential candidate running is of course the GOD Eugene V. Debs, running from prison after interfering with military recruitment for World War I, one of the most pointless wars ever. marx-angry

We now might have a presidential candidate running from (the funniest version at least) prison for hush money to a porn star. marx-joker

This is proof of the eternal science of Historical Materialism, and I will not be taking any questions at this time. marx-goth

marx-guns-blazing

 

The whole live is good, but I just love a stripped down ballad like this.

pikmin-chillin

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net
 

cat-vibing

Fucking jam, also, insane plot to this story. I love it.

WE MADE LAAAHHAAAVEEEE

The moment where she sings "please, please understand" is also a top tier moment.

 

Folks, it's good! Incredibly violent with some fairly decent (tho not perfect) politics.

spoilerThe inclusion of what's basically a religious group of trans warriors (that's how I saw it at least) that power up Dev Patel's character to kill cops is sick as well.

 

Great review

monke-beepboop

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/food@hexbear.net
 

Folks, it's good! I'm about 2/3 through the 3lb bag I ordered and just threw down for a 5lb. Eventually I need to order some in bulk to save on shipping, but I need to figure out how I'll store multiple bags (I got a large container for the beans)

shinji-mug

Some thoughts for the comrades out there:

I think my favorite is in the moka pot. It's got a very rich body, a bit of acidity which I like, and still is nice and mellow.

However, my daily drip machine also does nicely with it. It's got less acidity in that, more just a mellow and easy to drink blend.

I do have an Aero Press, but I haven't tried with that yet. I should bust it out sometime though.

Also, it smells fucking phenomenal. Every day when I open the container now, it's like, god damn that's good coffee.

In summary, it's damn fine coffee.

 

Excited to try. What are you preferred brewing methods for this stuff. Does it go well in a moka pot? I have a boring drip machine for my day to day, but have you done any aeropress or other methods with it that are wildly delicious?

Also, any other good coffee roasters out there worth supporting?

shinji-mug

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