cacophony5never [they/them]

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Cake day: September 17th, 2020

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  • This is gonna date me... Rock Band, Guitar Hero, DDR, and lately I've been playing one that integrates fully with an actual electronic drumkit and teaches your more or less how to actually play the drums (its called Melodics, its honestly kinda ehhh but I'm fucking addicted to it)


  • I could be wrong, but gamers probably tend to see things more through a lens of challenges that need by conquered, and their failure of relationships leads them to fall back on the system they are most familiar with. Specifically, games have a certain procedure you need to follow in order to win, so they are convinced they just need to find the right "strategy guide" in order to get that perfect romantic relationship they desire. I could be way off base here. I was into video games as a kid, but by the time I got interested in things like smooching and candlelit dinners, I was way more into modding / level designing / etc, and now the only video games I really play are rhythm-based music games.


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    4 years ago

    Everyone's going off on the food angle, but let me give a different take on beans. Or rather, Legumes in general, which in addition to beans also includes peas, chickpeas/garbonzabeans, lentils and various other plants such as clover. Shoutout to my boy Kropotkin on this one, cuz legumes are special in that they have a mutualistic symbiosis with bacteria that coinhabit their root systems, which allows them to fix nitrogen. Aside from Carbon (the primary bulk of of what makes up life, which is fixed through photosynthesis in all plants), the biggest 3 elements required for plant growth are Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium: these are what most fertilizers provide. You might be thinking, "But wait, isn't nitrogen what makes up a majority of the atmosphere" Yes, it does, in the form N2, which has a triple-bond holding the pair together, and as such is very stable and unreactive, making it a pain to do anything with. The bacteria in the roots binds the nitrogen into ammonia, which is a useful form a nitrogen for life, and shares it with the plant, and in return the plant shares some of its carbon and energy. Since the Haber Process (the normal way nitrogen is created to supply to plants as fertilizer) can be incredibly bad for the environment, lets take a moment to appreciate this often overlooked aspects of beans.


  • Honestly I think this is something that leftists should be putting serious, scientific research into. Methodically finding out what works and what doesn't work, what's a waste of time, and what has the potential for real change. You know capitalists have think tanks and focus groups figuring this shit out for them, we should absolutely be doing the same. I'd even say putting together some kind of collective journal to consolidate research.