letranger (he/him)

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • https://www.budgetbytes.com/ might tickle your fancy?

    for me i’ve always had alot of congee lol which is like a rice soup/porridge, soak/wash rice and then throw it into the freezer into ice cube trays (the freezing of the water absorbed rice will shatter the rice grain) then boil that frozen waterlogged rice cube into your favourite broth. or you can skip the freezing process and use the instant pot porridge setting.

    • i’ve found the easiest thing was canned chicken from costco, with some msg/chicken bouillon was the quickest broth that is my favourite. i prefer it thinned down (basically a thicker chicken soup), then you can throw toppings like veggies or bacon/eggs ontop


















  • People should be coming out of a movie that is about the atomic bombs being horrified by such weapons and convinced that they should never be used again. Instead all they come out with is sympathy for one of the people who contributed to their creation. It’s another example of the tendency to individualize every conflict and view history through the lens of individual person’s struggles. As Marxists we are not so much interested in the character of one invidual, who i’m sure had his merits and his flaws as any human does, but rather in the bigger systemic picture, in the far reaching political and material consequences for society.

    bump, you conveyed my thoughts much better


  • (full disclosure i haven’t seen the movie.)

    can anti war films be interpreted as pro war? the Americans sure did that with full metal jacket, and star ship troopers.

    in that same train of thought,

    can a film depicting the internal struggle of a nuclear bomb maker be disadvantageous to the cause of a long lasting peace?

    I’m can assure you there will be a non zero number of people who finished watching the movie and will from now on, instead of thinking about the suffering of the people who lived through the nuclear bomb, will think “of the internal turmoil the nuclear bomb maker had when his weapon was used.”

    there is the saying that ‘there is no such thing as an anti-war film’.

    i think it kind of depends on your ability to think critically/ or just the ability to cook concepts more. but i think this movie will leave you walking away with the changed narrative/perspective and if you don’t recognise how - then it is propaganda, simply by the dictionary definition alone.

    I imagine all the downvotes is from people who take propaganda as a dirty word, like my brother in christ - everything is technically propaganda.