Oh i was going to say I’m wearing a tshirt i got in 2007, but now i think of it i have a stuffed animal from when i was born as well

Those missile range maps always remind me of this “A small state threatening Germany” shit

If i were less grouchy and hungover, I’d be asking grok, or my eating disorder comrades to calculate the calories of the portions, to compare with the caloric intake of soviet citizens

1983

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, an average Soviet citizen consumes 3,230 calories a day, compared to 3,520 calories for the American.

The average daily calorie intake in the Soviet Union is: grain products and potatoes, 44 per cent; sugar, 13 per cent; dairy and eggs, 11 per cent; fats and oils, 17 per cent; meat and fish, eight per cent, with seven per cent other products.

The American consumes daily: grain products and potatoes, 26 per cent; sugar, 17 per cent; dairy and eggs, 12 per cent; fats and oils, 18 per cent, meat and fish, 21 per cent, and six per cent other products.

https://ia800706.us.archive.org/6/items/CIASovietFoodHabits1983/CIA soviet food habits 1983_text.pdf

Is that literally just boiled beans? Im imagining sailors are saying yuck because they’re not being served an entire animal at this point

I’ve kinda given up on this, but CW for food would probably be better to spoiler the picture, it’s in da rules, all food, not just meat

Moral is low, and everyone is miserable. It’s heartbreaking.

no it isnt 🤣

Everyone mispronouces latin words anyway, pretty big pet peeve of mine tbh

We should continue to gently correct spelling smelling and grammar gamer mistakes online.

FTFY :)

I didn’t save it, but I saw someone on hexbear a few months back, that in these war games they don’t target the huge HQ tents that are set up, because it would mean the commanders and their staff would spend the whole time waiting to get back into play.

So they have these really efficient comms units that would be immediately obliterated in a real world situation.

Very cool

I cant find the bernie comments about trump making a good evil commie, i wish anyone would cite anything, i wanted to laugh

There were giant bushfires before people, and there will be giant bushfires after people. For a long while people were at least managing the afforementioned fires, if anything colonisation brought attempts at suppression.

I keep thinking about the cycle where every 20-30 years since settlers rocked up and tried to kill all the locals, there have been massive devastating fires. Nice work everyone.

I can’t really be bothered but there’s surely research done cataloging historic wild fire regiems through soil cores. Anyway.

Yeh pretty much. I dont totally agree because sometimes ‘family drama’ can really hurt. Generally, funerals suck, but they’re not about you. You kinda just have to suck it up and have a tedious day. Stand off the the side and dont bother yourself with the other people.

OP, you ought to be there to bury your dad I think. I imagine you’d at least get a free feed out of it.

But then again, on the first hand, god wants you to wear a hat

Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her avail­able for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible ob­ject of possession.

This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colo­nizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.

[…]

The Algerian woman who conceals herself… who sees without being seen… defies the colonial order.

— Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism (1959)

FT reporting on what has always been the case, wowzer.

A dishwasher is a robot 🤖

Getting married for love was imo, a brief fad, and a gross perversion of marriage, it’s always been about wealth and inheritance

i cant make a more articulate point rn sorry

There are websites that can swap between simplified and traditional Chinese characters

in my experience learning characters I needed to learn how to write them, starting from basic strokes - there are some good videos on youtube, you have to be patient, this takes a long time

for traditional characters and Taiwan dialect you’d want to learn bopomofo and not pinyin, for the reasons other people raised. From what I have seen bopomofo would also help learning the basic strokes and some radicals

i found a podcast called Dimsum Pinyin really really helpful for training my ears to tones, and pinyin in general, but there are likely better resources from ROC. There’s probably a lot out of ROC, if you look for ‘comprehensible input’ videos itll help.

hanping dictionary app and pleco dictionary were really helpful when i started, they both have paid features showing stroke order for characters

Ive seen people say you dont need to learn hanzi, but it’s not only fun, it’s really helped me remember words. If I hear a phrase and can identify the characters, it’s much easier to remember what it means. the character for cat, 猫 mao, is a radical for dog 犭quan, grass 艹 cao, and field 田 tian

anyway, rambling while i procrastinate, good luck

María Remedios del Valle

According to wikipedia, her portait is on the 10,000 peso bank note as of 2024. Probably something organised before Milei was voted into the presidency.

Attacking people for posting here is the fastest fucking way to get people to stop participating in the community at all. This shit just harms the site. Everyone already understands that something written from one side or the other must be viewed through a certain lens.

I agree with you and more people could stand to be reminded, but I also think along with this you could have responded with nah i read it dw bb.

I’ve regularly noticed people here not reading past a headline, and making pretty daft assumptions based on them.

Comrades, when things are feeling tense on Hexbear.net, have a snack do a little exercise. 10 pushups can feel as satisfying as a cigarette. Not exactly related to hexbear, otherthings frustrate me a lot more, but it’s how I got fit.

Their missiles have been largely-they have some left, they have some, but they have far fewer than they had four or five months ago. Their manufacturing capacity is… almost gone. The drone capacity is almost gone, they have very few. But they have some.

Every accusation, a confession