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I am. So many proclaimed "communists" don't really care about the whole communist thing, they just want a dictator.

The "leftist" spaces on grad, .ml and Hexbear were SUPER pro Russia last time I cared to see what they were up to. Tell me, in what universe is Russia a communist or even socialist nation? And at the same time, socdems are seen as evil incarnate. China, too, allows for billionaires, but since there's a strong one party rule and they're not allies of the west, they're A-OK too.

I already said I'm talking about tankies, not leftists, socialists or even communists. Tankies just use their so-called leftism as a disguise when really they just worship authoritarianism.

So the difference between a modern day tankie and a socialist is that the former would prefer everyone in the geopolitical west to die or suffer, whereas the latter would prefer socialism to spread to the west.

They tend to hate Western democracy as a whole. If Trump brings about complete Russian domination in Europe and ends elections in the US for good, of course they'd cheer for their comrade.

That's my theory anyway. I don't see modern tankies caring about socialism, that's more of a guise for their authoritarianism fetish. After all, one of their most celebrated countries, Russia, is not at all socialist either.

Mind that I'm talking about tankies specifically. Plenty of leftists out there who are sensible. Asking about the two wars was kind of a litmus test. To me, if you approve of one offensive war, but not the other, you have some heavy geopolitical bias. Tankies are happy when Ukrainians die, but against the war in Palestine. Fascists are happy when Palestinians die, but have differing opinions on Ukraine. If you just don't like people dying and think neither Israel nor Russia is in the right, then you're not a tankie. Oversimplified, but very quick way to gauge whether someone is opposing some geopolitical bloc, or injustice and violence.

Yes, Citroën is just another word for lemon

I'll show myself out

(also I don't actually hate Citroën, only Peugeot. Citroën used to make cool shit)

No I think it would be better in real life. To scare interns. Not actually develop the megapox.

Where do you stand on the war in Palestine and where do you stand on the war in Ukraine?

But the same people usually praise other regimes that also abuse human rights. It's not about the humanity, it's about not being the right brand of authoritarianism (the right brand is anti-west)

I suspect once Trump goes far enough up Putin's ass and turns on its European allies, tankies will also start celebrating the USA and ignoring everything that the US is doing in... *gestures broadly everywhere*

Tbf I've never had to go more than a couple of hours without power. Which is good because a couple of days of power with heating could be couple hundred kilowatt hours once I actually replace my wood furnace with a heat pump. Right now I just have one air to air heat pump to help out, but eventually air to water is needed. Can't do ground source unfortunately.

Solar doesn't really do anything here in the winter when the batteries would likely be drained. We get like 6 hours of daylight and you it's almost always overcast all day. It's great in the summer though, assuming said batteries can be drained to sell to the grid when power is expensive and recharged when the prices are too low to sell to the grid.

It's not particularly good to use indoors and very impractical to use for multiple meals when it's like -30 outside. Also I'mma gatekeep now and say that BBQ should be wood or charcoal, not propane. More smoky flavor.

That said, obviously one should own a BBQ of SOME sort if they own a house. I think it's legally mandated in my country that any home with even a tiny bit of land around it, needs to have something that can be used to produce burnt shashlik and sausages.

I don't like non-stick anymore because the coating eventually gets all scratched up and doesn't work as good. Idk how it gets scratched up, I never used metal. My ex did, so maybe it was her.

Cast Iron, if maintained well (i.e just don't cook anything too acidic. You don't usually need to re-season), lasts forever. It's also great for when you want to sear something without the pan cooling down once you put your food on it. Because it's thick and stores a bunch of heat. Yet somehow it also gets hot pretty fast.

I don't get stainless steel personally. Apparently to get things to not stick, I should be using MORE heat? But I already use a lot of heat! On the up side, they get hot really fast.

Copper and carbon steel I've never used. I hear carbon steel is similar to cast iron in many ways, but easier to maintain?

If you're doing a new build, definitely go induction. Electric sucks because it's kinda slow-ish to get started, gas sucks because either you need to have a gas line built to your house if you don't already have one, or you change out the gas container every now and then (and that thing is heavy, mine's 17 KG of gas + whatever the huge chunk of metal weighs, which is definitely more than 17 KG). Plus the whole issue of, y'know, freshly burnt hydrocarbons (yay CO2 and potentially other gases). Oh and gas explosions aren't common, but they can happen!

Only downside of induction is that if you lose power, you can't cook. A wood-burning stove as a backup is excellent in this case, because depending on what your heating system is, you may also lose heating if power is gone.

Lol our far right praises everything Trumpler does. And there are also pedo suspicions about some members of the family running the far-right party in my country.

They haven't been able to get enough power to go full Hitler, but all they really need is a few good crises. They want to get rid of all LGBT and POC too. Funnily enough they don't want to ruin the welfare state though, unlike the liberals.

Uh we have our own far-right problem plus many people just don't care about foreign politics.

They're actually afraid of being called nazis, so they have to side with the so-called Jewish state lest Netanyahu claims they're holocausting again

It's ridiculous because it seems even most Jewish people don't support Israel anymore.