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“So, you watch anime?”
Not an ironclad rule by any means, but enough to make me start paying attention.
Yeah, I first ask what they watch before responding in the affirmative. It’s always something like AoT or isekai stuff, which isnt something I want to engage with - well, Escaflowne and The Twelve Kingdoms were cool, but not really part of the modern isekai trajectory.
One day, someone will say “Land of the Lustrous”, and I will be delighted.
I can only say “I watched Trigun and the Frieza saga on toonami ”
Actually wait no, I’ve also seen a bunch of Lupin III movies, those were fun, and like the first third of each FMA but I got bored with those. Not really cause they’re bad, it was just after I stopped watching any long tv series
Lest I look like a chud, I’ll make sure that whenever I ask “So, you watch anime?” that I immediately follow it up with “Did you know that in that Little Witch Academia episode where the non-humans at the magical academy unionize and strike, that when Akko joins the non-humans (respect), that the kanji on her headband are based on a style of typography called gebaji? The word gebaji derives from gebaruto, from German Gewalt. In Japanese, gebaruto generally refers to violence perpetrated by leftist student activists in the '50s and '60s. Their protest signs used a distinctive style of bold, angular, ‘common man’ typography, and this typographic style is to this day associated with or used as shorthand for leftist particularly student activism. Gebaji is also known by other names, such as Zengakurenmoji — you might recognize the name ‘Zengakuren’ from their role in the famous riot at Sanrizuka in 1985. Anyways, here’s a photo of a younger Hayao Miyazaki at some kind of labor action of the union for Studio Toei. You can see that he’s wearing a headband just like the one Akko wore. You gotta love a union man, eh? By the way, have you seen the, like, anime music video created by the Japanese Communist Party? Heck, do you watch any donghua, for that matter?”
Nah, no worries, I don’t follow it anymore, but while I was I took a salt supplement with potassium. Ended it because it just made life too difficult
“jesus was black”
I gotta say I’m disappointed to hear that one. It tracks, but I’ve always liked how much it upset my most racist relatives
I dont eat gmos
I’m curious about your experience with people who say that. Its it anything other than the fact that the statement is fundamentally classist because buying GMO-free or non-processed foods is materially impossible for most working-class people?
I have pretty big criticisms to GMOs because I think their use has and will lead to the further precarization of food systems, the erasure of indigenous foodways and untold amounts of stress on soils and ecosystems. People who oppose GMOs on a “health” basis are a bit silly, in my opinion.
Couldn’t have said it better, so . I understand that GMOs aren’t likely to be directly harmful to eat, but the longer-term effects on the wider ecosystem is the real (and thoroughly not studied nor understood) concern.
I didn’t want to go into “one health” or “ecosystemic health is human health” concepts because I felt it would derail the conversation, but I think they’re important to take into account.
I think it is fundamentally eurocentric to consider that the agricultural and food systems in which one lives aren’t deeply linked to one’s wellbeing, and that the indiscriminate use of GMOs couldn’t have an effect on that.
I see, thanks for explaining!
If you’re interested, I’d like to talk more some other time (I’m ungodly busy and tired all the time right now) on the “being anti-GMOs is anti-intellectualism/science” bit, because as I’ve said before, food scholarship, and food activism are my chosen field of struggle, and I think there are good conversations to be had there.
I think many parts of movements for/about food have had the misfortune of getting started by privileged white people, and putting their concerns over basic humanity. But there are plenty of food-related movements like La Via Campesina who oppose GMOs on a political and ideological level, so we shouldn’t be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
anyone who does keto
I always knew I was getting the wall, but i didn’t realise to would be so soon
(I did Keto with a pretty severe calorie deficit and lost 35kg, which I kept off for a year. I then went to America for a holiday/got married, got plantar fasciitis from social sport that stopped me from walking comfortably and COVID happened and I put 40kg back on lmao)
please please please be safe and get your blood checked regularly when doing fad diets
yeah, I was and already was getting checkups and my bloods done decently regularly because my blood pressure and cholesterol were already shit before 2018 when i did it
I am nowhere near it now because I am, to say it politely, a gourmand
Particularly annoying since the entire 25th Dynasty of Egypt was actually black.
Apparently to them the advanced metallurgy of benin, the kingdom of nri, great fulo, mali, ghana, songhai, alodia, great zimbabwe, kongo, the sand houses of zanj sea, kanem-bornu, etc… are somehow not-worthy or like not “advanced enough”?
I did the version of keto where you just don’t eat bread or sugary food. I think it was adequately sloppy enough to prevent any chudification
holy fuck i’m so sorry, from your reaction earlier today I thought you’d been on the diet
I don’t mean to disagree but
"Jesus was black
Ronald Reagan was the devil
and the government is lying about 9/11"
is a based take because Huey Freeman is probably the most based character in mainstream animation.
I kinda figured the whole joke about Huey was that while he’s going in the sorta-right direction with regard to his age, he always goes about it in over-the-top and ultimately futile ways that really makes him no different from homeboy him and Riley were shading with the awful poetry at Mo’s funeral.
Mansa Musa is a boring figure. He was just some rich dude. Compare him with the founder of the Mali Empire and his grand-uncle Sundiata Keita.
The MSG thing is so wild to me, why is that a thing??? It’s such a good ingredient
I may get shit for this, but I’ll say it anyway: this hair and beard combo, seen on living people. I have yet to meet anyone in person with that look that wasn’t a chud.
This one is going to be US-centric, but if they’re vocal about how they only care about college sports specifically and aren’t a fan of pro sports there’s a substantial chance they’re a horrible reactionary and probably worse than your average chud.
I’m interested to see how the effects of things like the NIL in college sports (players are now legally getting paid through boosters of colleges as a short summary) will impact these people’s fandom (if at all) in the future. This is interesting as their “defense” has always been about how it’s been a more “pure” form of the game without players getting paid which I’m fairly certain is just thinly-veiled racism.
Anyone who not only doesn’t consider ever taking public transportation, but is shocked that whoever they’re speaking to would even suggest it.
My mom recently gasped when I told her I had taken a train once, years ago
