hawkeye WHAT.

i honestly feel like 80% of the show was just Alan Alda and crew figuring out what they could and could not say on tv.

Like they were pitching it and said "yes it's about a mash uni-" and Alan went "yeah yeah I'm on board but can I say fuck?" And it was just a decade worth of followup questions.

wildest part of the folger's incest commercial is still when the brother mentions coming back from west africa and says "ahh, real coffee"

Ok as a brasillian I do have to add, usually the coffee from the farms that are the best get exported and the local market gets the not as good ones. If we want to buy the good ones we have to buy them from the imported section even if it came from here

Imperialism babyyy

My cousin lived in Ghana for a while and always asked for us to send chocolate from the US because she said the chocolate they had in Ghana was expensive by local standards, and always waxy in texture and not actually very chocolatey in flavor. Ghana's top export is cocoa.

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It reminds me that people like to throw around the joke that "British cuisine is pretty bland for a country that stole so much land for spices". And that reminds me that people don't really understand how international markets work.

The business was not really to bring the spices back to Great Britain. It was to stablish trade routes that generated constant, reliable flows of income in the future for the companies, in order to speculate with that. That is, creating capital.

Whatever food you choose in the cuisine of a white, colonizing country, is chock-full with imported spices, even if only in amounts that appease the white palate. Cumin, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, paprika, black pepper, etc. If you saw some of these names and thought "these are not rare spices", that is precisely my point. It doesn't matter if the ingredients are used to craft tasty, enjoyable foods. What matters is that they are imported, and at some point bought and sold, regardless of where and for what. So the companies that import spices and tropical fruits and foodstuffs and all of that make contracts with local food manufacturers to add these commodities to their products, and promote these commodities, and create a culture around them, and so on.

And it inevitably leads to the situation where you can't buy chocolate in Ghana because the cocoa seeds are sold to Europe for pennies to make cheap chocolate there so that people buy chocolate daily because "chocolate makes you happy", you have to buy imported coffee in Africa and Latin America while the tin says that it was "bought at fair prices to local communities" in the USA, you have to buy imported pepper in India, imported bananas in Guatemala, imported tea in Bangladesh, and so on and so on. While you can buy all of those things dime a dozen at some 7/11 in Chicago.

It feels appropriate to tag on the fact that this is exactly what caused the so-called Irish Famine. (Well, that and the English hatred of the Irish.)

Ireland didn't run out of food because of the potato blight, they ran out of food because all the crops that weren't touched by the blight were being shipped out of the country by order of England because the English ruling class were more interested in selling the good, surviving food than in keeping the populace of Ireland alive

(please, please go read The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan)

whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision

i'm so glad i happened to see these tags this is the best thing anyone has added to this post so far

I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. It's price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.

Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.

Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.

It's price gouging, not inflation.

if you're not watching @robertreich on youtube and following him here, you're missing a lot.

(this thing men are usually shown doing in pop culture) just has masculine energy to me, while (this thing women are usually shown doing in pop culture) is just so feminine you know?

Can anyone justify these cultural stereotypes with some weird new age bullshit for me?

My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around

My show is being rebooted. We have better executives now.

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Shoutout to @grimreapersprint​ for actually exploring/explaining each of these in our discord! Here are her findings:

I really want a playlist populated by all this

if Good Omens season 3 turned out like Coco

An asexual and pansexual become room-mates and have wacky adventures

The show is called ‘All or Nothing’

Ten years of this post

Feels longer

tell me about it

"The coral reefs of south Sulawesi are some of the most diverse, colorful and vibrant in the world. At least, they used to be, until they were decimated by dynamite fishing in the 1990s.

As part of a team of coral reef ecologists based in Indonesia and the UK, we study the reefs around Pulau Bontosua, a small Indonesian island in south Sulawesi...

In many places around the world, damage like this might be described as irreparable. But at Pulau Bontosua, the story is different. Here, efforts by the Mars coral restoration program have brought back the coral and important ecosystem functions, as outlined by our new study, published in Current Biology. We found that within just four years, restored reefs grow at the same rate as nearby healthy reefs.

Speedy recovery

The transplanted corals grow remarkably quickly. Within a year, fragments have developed into proper colonies. After two years, they interlock branches with their neighbors. After just four years, they completely overgrow the reef star structures and restoration sites are barely distinguishable from nearby healthy reefs.

The combined growth of many corals generates a complex limestone (calcium carbonate) framework. This provides a habitat for marine life and protects nearby shorelines from storm damage by absorbing up to 97% of coastal wave energy.

We measured the overall growth of the reef framework by calculating its carbonate budget. That's the balance between limestone production (by calcifying corals and coralline algae) and erosion (by grazing sea urchins and fishes, for example). A healthy reef produces up to 20kg of reef structure per square meter per year, while a degraded reef is shrinking rather than growing as erosion exceeds limestone production. Therefore, overall reef growth gives an indication of reef health.

At Pulau Bontosua, our survey data shows that in the years following restoration, coral cover, coral colony sizes, and carbonate production rates tripled. Within four years, restored reefs were growing at the same speed as healthy reefs, and thereby provided the same important ecosystem functions...

Outcomes of any reef restoration project will depend on environmental conditions, natural coral larvae supply, restoration techniques and the effort invested in maintaining the project. This Indonesian project shows that when conditions are right and efforts are well placed, success is possible. Hopefully, this inspires further global efforts to restore functioning coral reefs and to recreate a climate in which they can thrive."

-via Phys.org, March 11, 2024