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 No.10080[Reply]

Anyone know anything about feng shui or related? Any materialist ideas about it?
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 No.10086

>>10080
Directions so that the front of the house always receives cool winds while turning away from the sea storms at 90 degrees to avoid your doors being caved in by winds and floods. The rest about luck is just superstition and cope.
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 No.10087

>>10082
you should put your bed facing west so the sun doesn't hit your face in the morning
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 No.10089

>>10080
When positioning a desk in the room, make sure that the light goes in from the left side if you're right handed, and from the right side if you're left handed.
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 No.12175

>>10080
Putting a mirror opposite a doorway or hall gives you a bad feeling because it's momentarily disconcerting to see someone coming towards you before you realise it's your own reflection.
Luck is dependent on mood, among other things - luck is just being able to recognise positive opportunities, and being in a negative mood will attune your perception more toward sources of danger.
Not sure if there's anything else in Feng Shui that has 'real' explanations other than this and the stuff about wind and sunlight. Probably worth going over it all to check, though. Even the stuff that has no strict materialist explanation likely ends up conforming to aesthetic/design principles.
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 No.12185

>>10080
>Anyone know anything about feng shui or related? Any materialist ideas about it?
nosey people invented a reason to get into other people's houses, but it's harmless, so whatever.


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 No.12057[Reply]

Hoping someone can expand and provide some more context for some thoughts i've been having lately. For example in this clip from the latest mandalorian(don't watch if you don't want spoilers). The defeat of the empire and the second death star was originally a simple happy(if not lazy) ending to a series of adventure films. Now it's always kind of, for lack of a better term, deconstructed.

My earliest memory of this is Clerks. if memory serves that one was actually a conversation about the first death star blowing up and how it made luke skywalker a murderer or something. But it was supposed to be a half joking kind of thing. Now that ironic reflexivity seems to have totally replaced any kind of genuine sentiment.

Now look I know this is easily explained by shitty writing and copyright licenses. The property of star wars makes money so you have to find a way to keep milking it and since people already own their own copies of the original, it has to be sequels that don't depart too far from the original or else it it'll become something else and possibly not make as much money. But my point is that it creates a very actual shadow of circular recurrence over the society thats watching this. A sort of cynical defeatism where nothing can ever get better and disrupting the status quo will only ever lead you back to the original struggle anyway. Things can't end, so things can't change.
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 No.12059

>>12057
Is this the same premise as the Book from late Mark Fisher, what's it called again ? A yes Capitalist realism !?
Stop consuming big budget culture industry that is stuck on a depressing repeat because of capitalism. You can divert your attention away from that, and towards smaller budget production or even just indie artists that tell better stories. When you find something you like tell other people about it. I know that the old established IPs about space operas have turned to shit where people suffer as much as today but with better technology. Find the new IPs that aren't about dogshit futures. There's even a thread >>8338 for this in the /hobby/ catalogue already.
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 No.12068

>>12057
Basically as cliches and tropes arise they get noticed and after a while it's "not cool" to lie them, so they get deconstructed or subverted or whatever to be 'hip and cool'.

That's the gist of it.
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 No.12076

Why the hell did my post sage?!


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 No.11681[Reply]

title
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 No.11720

>>11681
I only listen to clips of their bits, and those are generally pretty funny.
Love Blackface John Wick VS 8chan Neo.
Never listened to a whole episode and don't intend to, so can't comment on that experience.
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 No.11729

I'm gay actor Michael Douglas
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 No.11738

My favourite moment from the cumbois, Charlie Sheen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfzHJwFvaA
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 No.11760

>>11720
Yeah, clips are the highlights. They're basically just riffing, and the clips are the good parts.
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 No.12081

>>11681
No it isn't funny but I listen to it anyways because nick mullen is my close personal friend


 No.5793[Reply]

Do you think cats can pass the mirror test? My cats seem self aware, but aren't interested in mirrors. They also have zero understanding of computer screens, and keep crawling behind speakers looking for the source when you play recorded cat meows, no matter how many times you do it.

I really wish I could communicate enough with animals to explain how technology works sometimes, or how certain things are dangerous to them. It would be more fun if I could teach cats about light switches, or if we could design VR video headsets with games that cats would like to play.
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 No.11941

>>11938
Fuck.
I'm sorry man.
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 No.11947

>>11704
>breed of dog that arose recently during the height of capitalist consumerism
Nice try, the chihuahua is actually one of the few remaining American dog breeds bred by pre-Colombian natives.
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 No.11953

>>11938
Shit, that's awful. I'm sorry comrade.
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 No.11973

>>11947
The modern Chihuaha and tht Native American dog breed have about as much to do with one another as modern bulldogs and bulldogs of the 1600s
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 No.11974

>>11938
That sucks. RIP.


 No.8931[Reply]

Pipes are better than cigarettes but harder to maintain and acquire tobacco for (pipe tobacco is not the same as cig-tobacco)
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 No.8977

>>8976
OP here, in my country they still sale old GDR cigarette brands like karo or duett. You just have to search a little or buy online. About soviet fags I don't know. Would be awesome if.
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 No.9117

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MBRF_oOeJ8
pipesmoker of the year (featuring >>8971 and Harold Wilson)
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 No.9126

>>8969
Smoking a pipe or the tobacco?
A pipe is detached, no extra paper, leaves or filter in the mouth, just a literal pipe, sucking in the smoke. It's more a different feeling when breathing it in than a specific tangible difference.

Tobacco wise, finely grounded and very dry tobacco works poorly with pipes in my experience. Burns away too fast and you can accidentally inhale the ashes since they're so fine. stringy not fully dry tobacco works best (don't pack it down into the pipe bowl though)
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 No.11853

>>10326 Cigarette smoking thread
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 No.11876

I don't want to get cancer anon, so no.


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 No.5173[Reply]

This is an old film about a fictional black militant uprising. When it was released, it was immediately banned by the FBI, who attempted to destroy all copies of it. It's pretty relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spook_Who_Sat_by_the_Door_(film)
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 No.11540

>>11539
>necrobumping
>racial division is revolutionary!
Burger leftists are the worst
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 No.11553

>>11540
lol not as bad as eurofags who don't understand race in america
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 No.11554

>>11553
Race in America is retarded.
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 No.11805

>>11554
You would know, retard.
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 No.11822

>>11805
What a brilliant comeback faggot, how long did it take your 2nd grader mind to come up with it?


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 No.11776[Reply]

How important was it for the soviets during ww2
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 No.11778

I already made a massive effort post about this so there is no thread to really be had.
Please read https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=921020

TL;DR: Lend Lease was barely 4-10% of the Soviet war-effort, and the majority of it was delivered after the Battle of Stalingrad. The first deliveries didn't reach the USSR before the Battle of Moscow halted the German assault and pushed them back.

On top of that the majority of Lend Lease tanks and planes were inferior to both Soviet and German tech used, only the Studebaker truck and Aircobra were worth a damn.

On top of that was the fact that the main reason the Nazis had the power to even begin the war was because American, British and Continental European corporations actively supported Hitler up until 1941, with Rockafeller's Standard Oil helping refuel German Submarines up until mid 1942.

>inb4 Muh 1939-1940 Soviet-German trade pact

Soviet exports to Germany were 5th place in terms of amount and were only even that high because they got embargoed from their usual sources. The amount of Wheat the Germans got in trade from the USSR wasn't worth even a month of bread for the army and was less than 1% of Soviet food stocks. The USSR received thousands of pieces of machinery, equipment and military vehicles including a semicomplete ship of the line, the Lutzow, which took part in the war against the Germans.

The Nazis were also politically supported by the West throughout much of the war and prior to it, with Poland being a major part of this.


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 No.11469[Reply]

Thoughts on TMTHC and The Plot Against America?
Loved TPAA, hated TMTHC past season 2-3
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 No.11715

Only saw the first season of TMTHC and loved it, but I could tell that once it got past the plot of the book itself it would run right into bad writing.
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 No.11769

I kinda liked TMITHC, honestly, if it wasn't cancelled I'm pretty sure it would've gotten more time for things like the BCR and the multiverse plotpoints to develop


 No.6701[Reply]

>>12226
Oh, and here's a flickr gallery for easier viewing: https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/albums/72157686396348231/
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 No.10730

>>10722
Why are you so pissed off about people appreciating the kitschy aesthetics ITT, burger?
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 No.11730

>>10730
Are you retarded? They're doing the exact opposite, which is what >>10722 is criticizing.
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 No.11731

>>10509
>>10685
>muh gastles muh gathedrals muh dembles
shut up you pretentious faggot, this shit is cool.
>and instead of making great contributions to art and literature they make buildings shaped like food.
I mean I'm no fan of Burgerland consoomerism (or Burgerland in general really), but this is honestly just retarded contrarianism. Americans have made plenty of significant contributions to art and literature.
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 No.11743

European castles and palaces are pure bourgeois masturbation, or remants of the degenerate feudal aristocracy that still somehow persists after centuries.

At least kitchy roadside American crap was made by honest workers or upstart petty proprietors, rather than commissioned by some inbred shitheel Lord with a family banking fortune.
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 No.11758

>>6701
JFC I understand the american opioid problem a little better now.


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 No.2046[Reply]

Is it worth it? I here they take political prisoners but surely they won't mind a tanky would they?
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 No.2048

It’s a nice place, but it is not worth it unless you’re the child of Cuban immigrants.

If you’re the child of Cuban immigrants then yeah move back and be with your family and have access to healthcare and a college education that’s awesome, but if you’re not then you’d probably be happier being with your family.
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 No.11725

>>2049
Some paint and Cuba would look good tier.
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