ZombiFrancis
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, water is fuckin’ sick. Thermohydraulics is awesome.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
It’s been over 20 years, but I do remember the acupuncture was beneficial. The physical therapy exercises helped with a shoulder injury, and it was accessible for a laborer without insurance.
I should also mention they were also religious and gave you a pocket bible every visit. It was a very different time and location in my life.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I think he also said he fixed a deaf janitors hearing by popping a neck vertebrae into alignment, if I remember the lore. This was ‘drink heroin for medicine’ era too.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I was using common nomenclature. I don’t recall if they were licensed dietitians or not.
The one sold supplements and vitamin tinctures his wife made, so they weren’t far off from the unlicensed category. But they were both also licensed/certified physical therapists and masseuses. He had done some kind of sports medicine if I recall correctly before starting his business.
The other guy was really into the whole gambit of chinese herbology and such, but he kept himself grounded with physical therapy regimens and promoting tai chi every other sentence.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s kind of the implication.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 weeks ago:
I have known a few chiropractors. Two were decent naturopaths who were also nutritionists, physical therapists, and masseuses. Whole body and nervous system health. Never cracked or popped a joint.
The third charges $35 bucks, no insurance needed, and just pops your middle back and gropes you. Absolute worst and he bought the business from one of the first.
Good chiros are about nervous systems. Bad chiros, the vast majority, are witch doctors selling bunk cures.
- Comment on Whales ARE fish 2 weeks ago:
Monke is fish.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
It’s about what happened with leadership of fascist imperialist movements. Do you know about Puyi? (Or Nuremberg?)
But if you want to build that connection though, of all things, that’d be your effort. That’s on you.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
So this often comes up and there’s a lot of opinions. I often reference the Nuremberg Trials as an example of how a society expresses the consequences of not changing behavior and ideology. You know, if the failure of their war, and the craven suicide of their fuhrer hadn’t already.
But, probably the best example is Pu-Yi and how the CCP handled the Chinese emperor that collaborated with the Japanese.
In short: education and work. Teach them the right way and make them work a job that satisfies the material conditions of a common citizen.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t really be able to know what they’re on about without interacting with them, quite frankly. But I can’t say I really approve of the worship of political figures, historical or not.
I try to approach historical figures as a part of the context in which they existed. It does sound like this person was into theory, so I’d wager their interest in Stalin was more academic than a celebration of the ills that occurred in 20th century Eurasia. But if this person was advocating for Lysenkoism or someshit then you’ve got a grade A idiot.
Like, I find Stalin to be fascinating and the balance of power that he operated both inside and outside the USSR to be remarkable. He can be a very symbolic figure for a kind of struggle against overwhelming odds, which resonates at least on some level with a lot of people, Marxist or not. People get really into things like mob bosses and Scarface so I would try to slate someone’s fandom of Stalin against that, too.
Also, if American, we go over eight decades of rabid anti-communism so sometimes people throw up things like hammers and sickles just as a fuck-you to (Neo)McCarthyism.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
American English with a specialty in the dialect of American Regulatory Legalese.
Spanish, Arabic, and Irish I used to be able to read and write, but was always terrible at understanding any of them spoken.
I learned bits of German by proxy from having friends stationed at Heidelberg.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 weeks ago:
It’s more that some people don’t actively condemn him to the satisfaction of others.
The USSR under Stalin defeated Nazi Germany. Idle denunciation of Stalin in 2026 is the classic and most trusted pivot for (crypto)fascists to focus on when cornered or feeling insecure.
That’s the primary scenario that people are accused of ‘defending Stalin’. There’s always a nazi all too willing to spearhead this conversation, 70 years on after his death. Usually can’t even bring up Khrushchev and De-Stalinization usually since it’s not focusing on Stalin enough.
- Comment on Final Fantasy IX animated series officially in production at EuroVisual, titled Black Mages Legacy 3 weeks ago:
Hey they got movie theatre money out of me for that. It is everyone else who didn’t see it that is clearly at fault for that blunder.
- Comment on Keep it off please! 3 weeks ago:
The problem stems from the term ‘GenAI’. These systems use math to predict things. There are a lot of valid mathmatical calculations to predict out there. Rendering lighting is one of them.
Human language and imagery isn’t one of them, which is what idiots have been trying to funnel through these models.
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 3 weeks ago:
There were betrayals and brutal slayings to go around between and through the World Wars.
When I see these sorts of portrayals of communists and anarchists I always wonder why the contemporary actions of the Whites or the Fascists get to enjoy omission.
Like: Mahkno is a popular example and figure, but he and his army were a component of a larger class system. Hryhoriv, a contemporary, was a large reason for the eventual downfall of all the atamans, including Mahkno, even though Mahkno was the one who killed him.
Another example is Durruti in the Spanish Civil War, whom I admittedly don’t know a great deal about. But he died for reasons that are not clear except: war. It’s a topic of literature at any rate.
After the Republican forces lost the war it was Francoist forces that exterminated anarchists in one of many White Terrors of the 20th cebtury.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
We put a lot of meaning on ‘Boots on the ground.’
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 4 weeks ago:
My DARE program had the cop dads but none of the safety and safe place stuff. I would attribute it to the mixed racial makeup of my district, if the comparison stands up to yours. The DARE cops talked about gangs more than anything.
- Comment on Glorious cracked out wall kitten returns with more wisdom for the masses. 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this covenant is a deep bond. To sever ties with one is to sever with all.
- Comment on As US Slaughters Iranian Kids, Iran Says It Does Not Want to Hurt Americans 4 weeks ago:
‘Marg’ also means ‘demise’ and ‘damage’ as it isn’t an english word. Point being we have a word that doesn’t directly translate.
- Comment on As US Slaughters Iranian Kids, Iran Says It Does Not Want to Hurt Americans 4 weeks ago:
A translation would still remain ‘Down with Israel’ in that phrase.
- Comment on As US Slaughters Iranian Kids, Iran Says It Does Not Want to Hurt Americans 4 weeks ago:
Which conveniently demonstrates, right out the gate, that the official translation is 'Down With America".
- Comment on As US Slaughters Iranian Kids, Iran Says It Does Not Want to Hurt Americans 4 weeks ago:
The direct translation also means something like ‘Down with America’. Word choice matters when translating for a target audience.
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 4 weeks ago:
Tuberculosis (consumption) was another constant killer, coming in at second.
- Comment on i did tho 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on SBA #51 4 weeks ago:
Spongebob’s eyebrows are symbolically, if not literally, Amazon. What did the artist mean by this?
- Comment on They're calling it the Trump Laptop. Highest quality. So affordable. We're making technology great again, folks. 4 weeks ago:
Especially the pizza box.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam 4 weeks ago:
It’s the Street Fighter 2 to Street Fighter 1.
There are about a half dozen new mechanics woven into the game.
They learned a little from Balatro, added some questlines like FTL, and added a whole multiplayer component.
- Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed 5 weeks ago:
People keep setting up these Punching bars and then get mad when their patrons get Punched.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 weeks ago:
Oops, all bad bombs.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 weeks ago:
Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn’t go as far.
Any point you might’ve had about land acquisition, separatism, or imperialism, is pretty hard invalidated by this comparison. Like, why add Bush as a qualifier?
