man selling services, primary among which is the making of hats: and what can I do for you today, my good sir?

man who encourages his friends to kiss while he watches: could you fashion a fine homburg?

how much simpler can I possibly make it

Kenny Harris - Moka with teal blue and red (2024)

Details in Purple

scary futureworld dystopia where everyone has to wear a uniform but instead of being boring nondescript suits its pink frilly dresses that swish with every step and the ribbons bounce and you have to do a cutesy pose for facial recognition scans

i actually have an interesting tidbit on that! not quite an "official statistic," but almost as good.

russian researcher Boris Borisov (amazing name) did an analysis of the data to determine the death count for the great depression/dust bowl- but the intent of this was not so much to get an Official Accurate Count, but rather a bit of political trolling- see, he used the exact same methodology to arrive at his number as western researchers use for the ukrainian famine. so, when he publishes his findings, and critics say "hold on a moment! this methodology is shoddy and likely to give a vastly inflated death count," then he springs his trap card and says "hmmmmmmmmm interesting! you didn't have a problem with the methodology when it was being used to smear the ussr :^)" [link] great stuff, absolute lad.

Critically, both of these events happened. This post draws a false equivalency between the Holodomor, which was intentional, and the Dust Bowl, which was a natural outcome of over farming. It's functionally impossible to estimate a death toll due to poor record keeping in both scenarios. We do know that people died in them. Is that not enough?

the so-called "holodomor" was not intentional. read Mark Tauger's "Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933" and Douglad Tottle's "Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard."

I'm familiar with these works. Neither are widely accepted by the scholarly community, and are generally considered to be fringe theories. I'm simply deferring to the preponderance of evidence, which is that the Soviet authorities were bare minimum far more interested in covering this up than they were with actually helping. The fact of the matter is that the Soviet state had an interest in suppressing Ukrainian nationalism in territories that had only been acquired relatively recently, and creating conditions where survival was difficult is a relatively expedient way to do so.

It is also a matter of historical record that collectivized farming along the lines of the Soviet model did not work very well for much of the 1920s and 1930s, largely due to a lack of necessary machinery and fertilizer which would not be rectified until the late 1940s (turns out it's easier to have tractors when you've just had to rapidly industrialize to win a war). This is corroborated by Soviet documents released in the 1980s. It is not difficult to see that what happened here was a combination of environmental factors, systemic failings and government malice that resulted in mass death. This is the conclusion of the 1984 hearings on the subject, which were conducted independently of any nation or ideology. Even if the Soviet state did not directly cause the Holodomor, they definitely exacerbated it and made recovery more difficult. This constitutes an attempted genocide under the Lemkin Institute's definition.

if you reject the scholarship of Tauger and Tottle, you should be aware that even a lot of overtly anti-communist researchers reject the genocide hypothesis regarding the Ukrainian famine. Viktor Kondrashin, Stephen Kotkin, Ronald Grigor Suny, Hiroaki Kuromiya and John Archibald Getty are just a few of the overtly anti-communist researchers who have rejected the genocide argument. to be clear: i do not agree with a great deal of the conclusions made by these researchers, all of them have a clear anti-soviet bias and i consider the research of Tauger and Tottle to be far more accurate, but *even they* do not agree with the claim that it was a genocide. for someone who claims to be any kind of communist at all to be more willing to swallow anti-communist propaganda than these anti-communists is embarrassing.

lol. lmao even.

so was it conducted in outer space? by aliens? or was it conducted on earth by people who live in nations and have ideological beliefs.

I engage in most boycotts by default because I only eat dog treats I buy in the mail

love this site

i didn’t understand the black eyed peas when i was a child but as an adult they’re a very fascinating group to me. the way will i am talks about partying and the club is like he’s relaying information he received from secondary sources

magic should be real for a number of reasons and high among them is that it would be really funny, societally speaking, if all the tumblrinas rotting in their bedrooms suddenly had access to Firebolt and Enthrall Corpse

ohh so youre like BURNING to death burning to death

Man I wish it was easier to be a fan of DIY electronics/electronics repair without being racist to Chinese people

Please explain, I love hearing about niche drama

It's just a pattern in a lot of youtubers where they'll call parts "chinesium" or complain about "cheap Chinese parts" alongside talking about how they got two of these FUCKING COMPUTERS for 4$, shipped across an ocean.

And it's like... Whenever there's a problem, they could just refer to the parts being cheap, or badly made, or whatever. There's no reason to specifically blame China/the Chinese, except for the fact it's become a standard slur in the electronics guys vocabulary.

Especially in a world where most electronics are made in China. Where is your MacBook made, again?

But it's only "Chinese" if it's cheap and crap? That's bullshit. Especially when you're the one who went to a Chinese store and asked for their cheapest crap.

minora's mask

when u get anxiety medication for the first time

Princess skill tree

- singing

- hair

- swordplay

- condescension (giving)

- condescension (receiving)

- sudden astonishing hypercompetence

- sudden hilarious undercompetence

- animal affinity (aura)

- better than you (aura)

- decorum

- dresswearing

- pianoforte

- perverting the holy arts