It’s not ok but that where we at.

this motherfucker looks beautiful

Two in one shampoo and conditioner with jesus reminded me of that time our town had christian-themed sushi bar and its name was - you guessed it - JESUSHI! Wonder why they went out of business so fast…

i see. gotta try it out for myself

seems like too much messing around to make it a widespread solution.

wait til he finds out about torrent magnet links

it makes sense though

the most horrifying thing is that during that period soviets also proceeded to wipe out almost the entire Ukrainian intellectual elite under various false pretenses. One generation gone - just like that.

The most egregious example was The SVU trial (translates as Union for the Freedom of Ukraine trial) - a completely made up case with mock trial drummed up by the media - it was meant to take out folks who seemed out of line with “nationalist” tendencies threatening the state integrity in some nebulous way.

Lysenko the shitty botanist happened a bit later and his ideas had repercussions way into 1970s. Lysenko was still on the come-up back in early 1930s but he really started getting political weight a bit later in 1935-36 when the purges happened and his bullshit started really messing things up after WW2 into the 1950s.

Meanwhile, Holodomor was way more diabolical and spiteful act. Ever since the soviets took over Ukraine - they had paranoia about nationalist uprising taking them out. For a while, a workable solution was to provide national representation. The whole Ukrainization policy. Eventually, their own policy got them scared so much they started the russification policy to undo “the damage”. They started taking out various Ukrainian political and cultural figures under false allegations.

At the same time shambolic economic reforms and collectivization attempts led to people questioning government competence and demand proper political representation instead of whatever soviets tried to do. The government solution was to call business owners and rich upper class peasants the enemy and go full feudal - purge the politically active people (call it the continuing class struggle) and turn peasants into collectivized serfs under kolkhoz system with no representation or rights. They couldn’t even travel without their superior permission and had no documents. And to seal the deal - start village blockades - attrition into submission and assimilation.

Adam Curtis’ Pandora’s Box series has a funny bit about Aleksei Gastev and his scientific management theories - dude wasn’t even political, he just liked figuring out how to get shit done efficiently. His ideas were essentially what is today known as innovation-driven project management - so naturally he was gulaged and commie cronies used feudalism instead.

How many subscriptions tiers does it have?

Revolution led by CEOs, I presume?

and then you get to a point when you try to make your own furniture and find joint weight counterbalance fascinating.

tankie gonna say it was due to mismanagement or some shit like that

it is a lot of fun actually

this reminded me that old Chuck Jones comic in which he encourages young artists to find what works for them instead of trying to fit in.

Shout out to Black Death. Fun little “Sean Bean Dies in the End BUT Also Kills Everyone Else” Movie

YMCA NASA colab would’ve been lit though

cant wait for corporations to crush the competition with some bullshit yet again and then complain that we’re at peak EV tech anyway

that’s grim