ResoluteRaven
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ResoluteRaven
7hr ago
No, I don't think the average man is disgusted by painted nails. I find the Empress Dowager Cixi-type nail extensions to be silly and impractical but have no visceral reaction to them, despite being on the extreme end of the prudishness spectrum when it comes to other types of body modifications e.g. tattoos, piercings, and dyed hair. I've also seen nothing to indicate that this practice is gaining in popularity in the real world.
ResoluteRaven
9hr ago
It wasn't independent during the period of greatest emigration though.
ResoluteRaven
3d ago
Some leftover Japanese-style chicken curry and rice. I use the premade roux cubes but add a lot of additional spices, and my family recipe includes okra and coconut milk. Afterwards I'll prepare a big pot of black-eyed peas with ham hocks and collard greens for the week.
ResoluteRaven
7d ago
Rotisserie chicken eaters: Science says that diets high in sodium are bad for you. What do you do about this?
If I am preparing a meal and one of the ingredients is salty then I add less salt. If all of my ingredients are salty then I go to the grocery store to restock on fresh produce. Easy enough.
It is funny to me that teammates in high school baseball would insist on drinking Gatorade and getting others to drink Gatorade on the basis that you NEED those electrolytes on hot days or you'd DIE.
I sweat so much on hot summer days, even just standing outside, that I will get dizzy without some source of electrolytes, whether gatorade, jerky, or something else. Other people don't seem to have this problem and I envy them.
ResoluteRaven
7d ago
Is it really so simple that the conspiracy theories of a revolutionary pack of morons in 1979 drove them to fight their only geopolitical friends in the region?
In a word, yes. The Iranian revolutionary program is a descendant of the Muslim Brotherhood ideology of Sayyid Qutb (though this is embarassing for them to admit, as he was a Sunni and spawned other groups that have been or are enemies of Iran), which was itself a repackaging of early 20th century leftist ideas in an anticolonial context where poor Muslims are the oppressed class and Western powers are the oppressors. Israel, being for most intents and purposes a Western settler-colonialist state founded by Europeans, is a natural enemy for people with such beliefs. As you pointed out, the timing of the revolution in Iran allowed the new regime to step in as the champions of the Palestinian cause at the precise moment the Arab governments were giving up the struggle and signing peace accords, and the ability to channel the free-floating anger of millions of young Muslim men was a handy thing for them until Hamas finally broke their leash and set off the geopolitical chain reaction we are still living through.
ResoluteRaven
9d ago
Have users on this forum struggled with mixed identities? How did you resolve the frictions? Do you have a stable identity that you're now at peace with?
I grew up as a mixed race State Department kid living in a series of third world countries. I was not particularly introspective about my ethnic or cultural identity until some point in high school, when I put some thought into which aspects of my parents' cultures I valued and consciously took those parts for my own. I do not fit in perfectly with any larger cultural community and that is fine. If I have children, they will most likely assimilate fully into broader American culture regardless of what efforts I make to preserve our ancestral traditions, language, etc., and that is also simply the way of things.
ResoluteRaven
11d ago
ResoluteRaven
12d ago
Black culture is more warm in the sense that people are gregarious, speak louder, touch each other more, and have more large raucous social gatherings than certain types of borderline autistic northern Europeans or WASPs who stand six feet apart, never talk over each other, and eat meals of boiled potatoes and beef in respectful silence. Of course, not all western cultures are like the latter, and southern whites in the US are noticeably more similar to their black neighbors in behavior, food, accent, etc. compared to northeners.
ResoluteRaven
12d ago
So if they said "I politically believe that people like me are benefited from seeing people with views like you as demonic monsters and that killing you would be a net positive to my group's quality of life" is that really gonna be ok?
Yes, those are the rules. Anyone is free to express their desire to commit torture, rape, and genocide as long as they are polite about it. That may seem ridiculous, but it has worked out for us so far, while other comparable fora have died from lack of engagement or collapsed into (greater) ideological conformity.
ResoluteRaven
24d ago
Some empty tankers that were unable to enter the Strait of Hormuz have chosen to go to the US or Brazil to fill up on oil there instead.
The HBD explanation for the differences between northern and southern Italy isn't African ancestry, it's the Hajnal line. The north fell within the region where the influence of the Catholic church and the manor system was sufficient to break traditional clan networks and create an individualistic population with higher social trust where it was possible to do business with strangers, while in the south the same type of tribal honor culture persisted that holds back much of the Middle East and Africa ("Me and my brothers against my cousins; me and my cousins against the world").
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