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If even one of you gets a post removed during one of these bit struggle sessions you failed the bit and should feel immense shame. Doing a bit successfully is Praxis.

Find things to struggle about that doesn't get out of hand. It's important to let off some steam now and again but do it in a way that doesn't harm your fellow comrades or add work to the mod team.

I'll start: Some beans are better than other beans. Like kidney beans are bad nasty icky beans but black beans are actually amazing.

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[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Methamphetamine is good for two reasons:

  1. At a therapeutic dose methamphetamine, aka Desoxyn, is less neurotoxic than other stimulant medications which are used to treat ADHD (and potentially other conditions but that's more speculative and off the beaten path for psychiatry) and this is important because it provides a much-needed alternative for situations where the more conventional stimulant meds are not tolerated or ineffective for any number of reasons. Honestly if it weren't for the stigma there's a good chance that on the basis of risk of harm to the patient and effectiveness, Desoxyn would be given preference over Adderall and lisdexamphetamine.

  2. The discovery of methamphetamine and the widespread usage of it, aka Pervitin, critically undermined the Nazi war effort because they were able to utilise it to achieve early gains and it allowed for pushing Nazi soldiers to run on virtually no food, both of which looked good on paper especially in the early stages of the war but it was entirely unsustainable and so it made the top brass of the Nazi armed forces completely overestimate their abilities, thus leading them to overextend themselves and especially to overextend their soliders which led to a paper tiger effect where the Nazis appeared to be much more threatening but, when facing stiff resistance, they tended to crumble.

Hate Nazis? Support neurodivergent folks?

Love meth!

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Destigmatize and legalize all drugs and then provide proper health care for people who use them and probably all drugs have some redeemable qualities.

Meth is really only a "bad" drug because of who primarily uses it and how it's made but both of those are pretty much intentional systemic issues rather than an issue with the drug itself

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Methamphetamine is a really interesting test case because most people will be comfortable with opioids, despite the issues they cause due to addiction and abuse, because they also have therapeutic value but when you drop the idea that meth is in a similar boat - good therapeutic value despite serious issues with addiction and abuse - it tends to sit really uncomfortably with a lot of people.

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

ITT: tons of reactionaries with meth derangement syndrome.

[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m a bean centrist. The best bean is the bean you have. All beans have their place, and that place is my stomach, turning into farts.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

All Farts Matter

I think your underestimating this communities ability to accelerate and exasperate struggle sessions over mundane things.

Don't bring up cats around here...

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

beans are uh cultural appropriation, no i will not elaborate

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Found the Pythagorean

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[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nobody will get banned

heh watch this

beans are just okay tbh

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] honeynut@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you can't do that it's authoritarian

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Little to the right.....

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kidney bean goat chilli bean.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Upbeared because I completely disagree with this take.

Black beans are absolutely, 100% superior as chilli beans in every way - taste, texture, ease of preparation.

Kidney beans belong in two places and two places alone: in rajma masala and in the F-tier for beans.

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Updoody because fuck you

This is absolutely wrong. Kidney beans are the best chilli bean BC it's how my dad did it and it makes me think of my childhood when I eat chilli.

rajma masala, omg thx for a new recipe to try

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

If you like chilli with kidney beans and you like North Indian cuisine then rajma masala is going to be right up your alley.

It's been a long time since I have made this dish and I discovered this website long after I last made rajma masala but its recipes have never failed me:

https://www.spiceupthecurry.com/red-kidney-beans-curry-punjabi-rajma/

That recipe relies upon a pressure cooker because every Indian household has one but you can always skip that step by draining two 400g/14oz cans of kidney beans instead.

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[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kidney beans taste better because they come from real human kidneys.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

what the fuck are these black beans!?!?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

This makes only rich people kidney beans an ethical choice, since you're basically eating the rich which is always the morally correct option

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

kidney beans are bad nasty icky beans

bugs-no knifecat

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're like stringy and have a weird inconsistent texture no matter how well they're cooked. So many better bean options

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Try putting kidney beans in the air fryer for a crunchy topping or snack.

[–] AmericanCenturyOfHumiliation@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

does this actually work 🤔

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes! Recently I've been having tons of bean wraps with air fried beans covered in hot sauce and mixed with fresh onion, tomatoes, and lettuce. The beans gain a somewhat substantial texture, so they aren't just mush lol

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay I haven't tried this. Is it basically puffed kidney beans? Liked puffed rice? Is this actually good or is this part of the bit because I would totally try this

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that puffing requires high pressure, sort of like a pressure cooker, to achieve except in the case of popcorn because it's capable of achieving a similar level of pressurisation through the kernel that you'd get from a pressure cooker.

In the air fryer I'd expect them to come out like those roasted chickpea snacks that you can sometimes get.

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[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't eat enough beans sadness

Epic Struggle Sessions of HistoryShampoo vs Conditioner

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait you only use one or the other? Okay this one will get me banned because that's absolutely not okay frothingfash

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[–] Venus@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (23 children)

We do this all the time. Video games are a big one. For example, some absolute freaks on this site defend Dark Souls 2 and Final Fantasy X-2 cringe

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

My copy of X-2 is older than some Hexbears chad

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[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Stop splitting the left :c

[–] hexthismess@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Mixing black, kidney, and pinto beans in Santa Fe Soup is delicious and no one can convince me otherwise.

[–] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Baked is the only good beans. Baked is the best state for most things to be, including me.

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[–] rake_in_lake@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Soybeans best beans. Fight me

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[–] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

If your revolution doesn't support kidney beans, you aren't a comrade.

(I flipped a coin to choose the bean)

[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Decimalization is a plague wrought upon our society by bourgeois liberals, while traditional units of measurement were refined over thousands of years by the proletariat through practical use to be applicable to the real world.

Consider money. You have a mutual aid program with one thousand dollars that it needs to give to three equally-needy people. How the fuck are you going to give each of them $333.33 repeating money? Absolute bullshit.

The old money system was far more rational. Two-hundred forty pennies to a dollar was a pretty common way to break it up. That breakup allowed each dollar to be split evenly among 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, and 240 of your fellow workers. Compare that to the modern, decimalized dollar, which can only be split evenly between 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, and 100 of your fellow proletarians.

It's not just money that suffers from decimalization though, it's damn-near everything. What the fuck is 30 centimeters? Oh, it's about as long as a foot. Why not just use a foot? Do you know how long a foot is? It's about as long as A FUCKING FOOT! HOW MUCH IS 235 MILLILITERS? IT'S ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP! ISN'T OUR SYSTEM IS SO MUCH MORE LOGICAL THAN THE OLD SYSTEM OF A CUP BEING ABOUT AS LARGE AS A CUP!

You might be thinking "oh you're just a dumb provincial American, get used to the metric system and it isn't so bad." Motherfucker the beautiful thing about the old measurement system is that you never have to "get used" to fucking anything, because the measurements are based on practical shit. The only practical measurement in the whole fucking metric system is the liter, and that's because they made it almost indistinguishable from a quart.

BuT hOw MaNy QuArTs ArE iN a GaLlOn? Listen here you common core chucklefuck. Saying that it's easier to remember metric because it's all in tens or hundreds or whatever is just pasting a bandaid over the problem, which is that our education system has had all practical skills systematically rooted out of it. I remember taking Home Ec when I was in middle school and I damn well learned what all of the common measurements were by applying them to real life shit. This metric bullshit is designed to be easier to memorize when you read about it in a textbook.

Who would design this disaster? The French took a break from their rampant Islamophobia and Antisemitism to create this bullshit. But it wasn't the French people, who continued to use traditional units of measure until the new systems were forced upon them, it was the post-revolutionary Bourgeoisie, who had never cut wood or measured flour in their fucking lives, who said "hon hon, let us introduce a new measurement system, oi oi" and infected the world with this plague.

Metric is idealistic nonsense imposed by rich assholes that is increasingly being favored over the materialist, proletarian traditional measurements. The only reason it has any continuing cultural purchase at all is because PMC dipshits like to lord how much smarter they are over everyone. Look inside yourself and destroy any vestige of a hold the metric system has on you, just as through self reflection you should seek to destroy all other forms of liberalism.

spoiler(this is like 50/50 a bit and my actual preference)

(normally I like to argue with people over this but I've actually got stuff to do today so i won't be replying)

[–] TraumaDumpling@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

pretty much every single profession that needs to measure things (i.e. carpenters, construction, engineering, soldiers, etc.) uses metric. this customary measurement thing is a 4chan meme with no basis in reality and betrays a serious lack of participation in or knowledge of the daily realities of actual physical work or science. the USSR used metric. China uses metric. Cuba uses metric. The only countries which do not use metric are Liberia, Myanmar, and the USA. the 'foot' is not actually as long as most people's foot, it is defined the same arbitrary way as metric lengths, via standardization to a specified measure (often a specific amount and configuration of some material in some specific conditions) with an international institutions decree.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

actually, a "foot" and other imperial measurements are now defined by metric measurements, so they don't have to haul around their stupid metal bars in specific temperatures to check xi-lib-tears

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[–] edge@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fahrenheit is based on humans, Celsius is based on water.

0F is about as cold as the average person can handle (with warm clothes), 100F is about as hot as the average person can handle. 100 is of course also about our internal body temperature.

Fahrenheit also divides nicely into groups of 10s. "The temperature is going to be in the 80s today, so wear light clothes."

Meanwhile in Celsius, at 0 you have to put on a medium coat, at 100 you're literally boiling alive.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

felt temperature is wildly variant on conditions and between different people. boiling point of water is consistent and predictable.

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