Also look into doing steel cut oats in the slow cooker; I’m currently eating the second to last serving of a batch made last week, which was cooked with some dates and cocoa and flax, and to which I’ve added peanut butter and pumpkin seeds (and would add some wild blue berries, but I’m out)
The “worst” apartment/neighborhood I’ve lived in was the only one where I could walk to a corner store. Just a ghetto gas station, but still. I wonder how many people from my socio-economic strata would consider that proximity to be distasteful, rather than convenient and interesting. And how much the lack of cars matters in the viability of such businesses near to low-income housing.
Why? Did Stonedape have a big history of harassing people and returning with new accounts or something? Or were they just on the other side of an argument about site policy one too many times?
I have no doubt there’s nasty shit that has been removed.
But when the very first action is somebody getting banned for talking back to the mods, rather than actually engaging in any conduct that harms a person, why would I care to look further?
It’s not going to change my habit of occasionally browsing this forum either way, but if you’re going to make a point of naming your crusade and showing everybody your war record, it’d work better if it appeared to not be what worriers think it’s about.
But how can they have nothing to worry about if there’s a one strike you’re out policy? Appealing bans is the process we’re supposed to be comfortable with?
Zero tolerance for hateful conduct is reasonable. Having the mods in charge of divining people’s attitudes from vote history is stupid as hell and you’d have to be a forum mod to think otherwise.
Nothing wrong with that. People can conflate patriotism with civic duty rather than nationalism, and it’s good to get that message into unengaged heads who have a positive opinion of patriotism.
All that big brother/CSI stuff wouldn’t really affect the classic serial killer MO though. Even if we suppose that a random surveillance camera caught a killing or abduction, who’s to say that anybody would check it, if the victim was not known to be on that spot, or even that the victim was missing? I.e. if they’re not a privileged class victim. And if there’s no social connection between the victim and the killer, there’s no telecommunication trail.
It seems like it’d be relatively easy to prove that a person is a serial killer, but not much easier to identify them if they’re smart.
Not anime or even manga, but I really enjoy the webcomic Kill Six Billion Demons, which is isekai by the author’s admission. It’s reaching the climax right now, after several years. It’s got really fantastic world-building when you include the text posts below each page, and some pretty great art, especially the mystical/hellish cityscapes and trippy angels and demons and such. Female MC, as far as the misogynistic tropes are concerned.
Absolutely. A story that’s all about overcoming abstract oppressive systems isn’t really a story, that’s just history. You need characters driving a narrative. But yes, a purely personal conflict doesn’t have nearly the weight of a clash of ideals and organizations. One Piece builds enough of that stuff to be endlessly interesting, but is still principally a story about a group of good guys going on an adventure beating up bad guys, which is just way more fun than anything that is mostly concerned with making some point.
Certainly. I don’t think Oda meant to suggest that it’s nature over nurture as a rule, definitely not as a political commentary—he seems pretty conscious of the oppressive nature of hierarchy. But I do think he’s comfortable in writing a story with villains that are just plain bad, without worrying about making the audience feel sorry for them (though he sometimes does) or analyzing the origins of their personality. And that’s refreshing; it makes for fun storytelling and isn’t necessarily inaccurate. There are some individuals who, through some combination of nature and nurture, are just antisocial.
Sure, but other people came out of those same upbringings to become good people; Corazon most notably. I think the implication was that power and subjugation are not ultimately determinative of whether you’re a good person, but they do shape and foster evil. I’m still undecided on just how evil Big Mom is.
Walkaway was a pretty cool book imo, if a little lib cringey at times. I’m sure I don’t want to know the full extent of his political opinions, but vaguely plausible anarchist revolution stories are hard to come by.
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Easy instant pot lentil curry, has been a “clear out the produce” standby
https://www.budgetbytes.com/african-peanut-stew-vegan/
West African peanut stew, one of my favorites
Also look into doing steel cut oats in the slow cooker; I’m currently eating the second to last serving of a batch made last week, which was cooked with some dates and cocoa and flax, and to which I’ve added peanut butter and pumpkin seeds (and would add some wild blue berries, but I’m out)