On the 2nd day of what I’d originally thought should just be a 1 day break and I might make it 3 so I can let the muscle growth around where the arms meet the torso mature and keep stretched out so I don’t get musclebound, which I realize from ‘80s steroid meathead stereotypes is a risk from intense T-augmented bodybuilding.
Don’t really have any “leg day” stuff to do but just a little walking around the neighborhood was enough yesterday, might do some more.
Hot take: insofar as it represented domestic capital and labor overcoming divisions to cooperate in a project of national uplift amidst liberal use of canned slogans and mass gatherings and the suppression of leftist mass action, Japan’s postwar recovery was more fascist than its interwar period
@plum-soup said: I mean post war Japanese government has been very much been defined by the recruiting of former Japanese fascists, war criminals, etc to form the LDP and make sure an American friendly government maintained a stranglehold on Japanese politics. So yeah, fascism
Maybe there’s something in the way the South Korean government was pretty lineally descended from the Japanese occupation compradors too, and under the postwar settlement these two states took parallel paths, but both of self-directed development within a First World order.
And that was the capitalists’ Cold War pitch: operate within a multilateral capitalist order and you’ll be able to become a rich developed country.
And that was also the communists’: “the capitalists’ plan is really just to put the fascists back in charge!”
Hot take: insofar as it represented domestic capital and labor overcoming divisions to cooperate in a project of national uplift amidst liberal use of canned slogans and mass gatherings and the suppression of leftist mass action, Japan’s postwar recovery was more fascist than its interwar period
Yeah I think tomorrow I’ll be good for more topsoil but after 2 more days I’m not sure just a 1 day break is good enough, I was still dissipating soreness this afternoon.
“Thinking about how wild plants do complex optimisation and communication and all that cognition happens in the roots, and grains have tiny shallow roots because we’re breeding them for the edible parts
Wheat is bimbofied grass”
possibly even more true of plants where the edible part is the root, like carrots, since––as he points out––they’re bred to have thicc juicy sugary roots that grow in straight simple shapes
technically I suppose all domestication exists at a strange nexus of neotenization and bimbofication
:/
are you saying that domestication is the same phenomenon that makes the Fate series turn historical figures into big tiddy anime girls? is that the implication here?
agriculture is humanity’s oldest form of gacha. plant your quartz and hope for the weather necessary to guarantee an ssr harvest
Been bumbling around the neighborhood lately, appreciating how it’s reinventing itself as the kind of “Portland” I knew closer in in the early 2010s but had started to write off, like “are we… in the sun-dappled clearing now?”
And had that in mind as I went into a dispensary and “Out of the Woods” came on because of course it did, and I had to keep from looking a fool and crying while the clerk rang up my Pink Lemonade Full Spectrum Blast gummies
The French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars honestly make a lot more sense when you remember that the British literally operated on the principle of ‘officer’s commissions are pieces of property we auction out to rich failsons with literally zero competency checking besides making sure the check clears’.
In an island country where the Navy is the outward-facing force, the Army largely exists to preempt the possibility of any other army taking over, in which capacity “alignment with existing dynamics of social power” is an advantage against potential subversion.
Like, the Napoleonic army very explicitly represented untethered officers as a power base capable of displacing the established social order, which the British system had very explicitly been arranged to prevent since the New Model Army in the English Civil War.
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