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Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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<Cabbage Leaf Epicuticular Wax Deters Female Oviposition and Larval Feeding of Pieris rapae

>The small white butterfly Pieris rapae is a major pest of brassicaceous crops, causing extensive damage to cabbage Brassica oleraceae[…] Wax removal treatments, in which the leaf surface was rubbed with cotton balls, significantly increased female oviposition and mid-stage (2nd–4th instars) larval feeding compared with untreated (intact) leaves. Spraying treatments with n-nonacosane standard on wax-removed leaves significantly suppressed female oviposition and mid-stage larval feeding[…]This suggests that young larvae are more susceptible to wax feeding inhibition than older larvae and that increasing leaf wax content enhances the resistance of cabbage against P. rapae. Acquiring these traits in cabbage leaves through improved breeding and cultivation methods may reduce and control the oviposition and feeding damage by P. rapae.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11937181/

<Environmental Conditions and Agronomical Factors Influencing the Levels of Phytochemicals in Brassica Vegetables Responsible for Nutritional and Sensorial Properties


>Anthocyanins were detected in Brassica vegetables and described by several authors [13,29]. They are present only in bright coloured species and varieties with red, orange and purple pigmentation, such as some kales, purple broccoli, and red and black cabbage[…] In particular, red cabbage possesses eight main types of anthocyanins (for a total of up to 190 mg Cyanidin−3-Glucoside equivalents/100 g of fresh weight) [30]; cyanidin−3-diglucoside is the most represented [31]. In broccoli, more than 17 anthocyanins were detected [29].


https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1927

<PLANT ANTHOCYANIN INSECT FEEDING DETERRENTS


>A few studies have determined that some anthocyanin compounds can reduce insect feeding. Of several anthocyanins tested, we found that delphinidin-3-O-glucoside added to insect diet at 1000 ppm significantly inhibited the growth of fall armyworms and cabbage loope
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>>46753
potato anon here again. picked some today, Timo and Queen Anne. boiling up some of the latter to see if they're good. most of them went in the "to be planted next year" box due to green spots. will harvest more tomorrow, because I still have
>more Queen Anne
>Almond potatoes
>King Edward

>>46763
update: the Queen Annes were good. could maybe have boiled them for a few more minutes

>>46763
brought the almond potatoes to a party which were turned into gratiné and much appreciated by the guests
it's not a lot of potatoes for the amount of work, but the fact that I successfully grew them and that I have seed potatoes for next year is pleasing

I've thought about getting into gardening for myself, I learned some stuff about it as a kid when my family grew a vegetable garden in the backyard for many years. I'm not really clear on what "permaculture" is or what the benefits of it are exactly compared to traditional gardening, but the way I learned to do it was to first start a compost pile, throw lawn clippings in there and use a lawnmower to chop up raked leaves and pine needles and sticks and shit like that throw it in the compost pile as well and mix it around with a stick every few days or so to air it out, then when you have enough compost for the size garden you want go buy/rent a gas roto-tiller and buy bags of composted manure from a farmer's market, 4 parts composted cow shit, 1 part composted chicken shit for extra phosphorus, till a plot mixing your compost and cow and chicken shit with the natural dirt and just plant according to the season, also bury food scraps, egg shells, fish/animal carcasses in the garden, avoid synthetic fertilizers, etc. I don't know if this is the right way to do it but it seemed like it worked pretty well.



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This board needs a literature thread i think. So itt write about books you are currently reading. Feel free to post opinions, pictures and discussions about books.
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Getting close to wrapping up Zola's La Débâcle about the utter misery of the Franco Prussian war, from the peasantry, to the army rank and file, all the way up to Napoleon III himself. He's done a great job of building up a sense of scale for the sizes of the armies and the landscape of northeastern France, then painting a picture of a landscape peppered with the debris of battle and flooded with torrents of shattered men and the victorious Prussians. Also love the way that even the largely defeated men can turn on a dime when they have nothing left to lose.
I've previously read Zola's Germinal, about a coal mining village in France developing class consciousness but then being utterly defeated. I definitely recommend it if you're not interested in constant talk about army maneuvers.
Anyone recently read any interesting fiction that they would recommend me? I want to read several more fiction pieces before I dive back into historical literature, I find that fiction does a better job of improving my reading stamina. Even memoirs can do the trick tbh.

i read le rivage des syrtes last month
in it we become acquainted with the venerable and illustrious country of orsenna, a country somewhere in some mediterranean sea experiencing some hundreds of years of peace after an unfinished war, outwardly rich and peaceful, the people of orsenna have grown restless beneath the surface as society slowly decays and retreats from the borders to take refuge in the heartland.
in front of orsenna and across the sea lies the country of farghestan, a sleeping giant of an oriental amalgam and perennial foe. the people of orsenna have been forbidden contact with farghestan after the last war and contact on their end has also stopped after farghestan collapsed into petty feudal clan wars yet now strange and mysterious forces are at work in farghestan just as in orsenna the people cry out for change, for something that makes them step out of their monotony and allows them to feel something new, no matter if the cost is the likely self-immolation of orsenna.

the book makes an excellent work of creating an atmosphere of foreboding, that something ominous and ineluctable is on the horizon even as you scream at the characters to get a fucking grip on themselves! and think about the consequences but they can't stop and even if they know what might happen they care not for they're sick and tired of the never ending peace.

excellent book to read if you're an fsl (french as a second language), the writing is very beautiful but you do need a somewhat high vocabulary to enjoy it. lots of florid internal monologue and reminiscence. don't know how well translated the english version is.

>>46696
forgot to add that i can't help but being reminded of the current state of the world in some aspects or with regards to certain people when reading it which gives it a certain layer of grimness

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>>45585
Kolya Krassotkin is a predecessor to Cuno from Disco Elysium.

>>46696
sounds interesting i'll try take a look at this in translation



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Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
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>>20454
>Ward is liberal
Wildbow predicted the rise of "titans" who cause the foundations of the world order to crack

Worm was a story about the collapse of liberalism into neofeudalism, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Its sequel Ward is about how these inhuman tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are far above normal bourgeoisie, just as Porky capitalists are above workers. That's why Glory Girl is so triggered by the idea of titans being way stronger than her where regular people are like "lol its just Thursday for us, relax". This accelerationism trend of wealth accumulation towards the ultra powerful makes the "petite" bourgeois class very offended by the idea that Elon Musk has exponentially more hegemony than they ever will. Taking control over the firmament on which we all stand isn't fair!!!

>“I’m on a brink, and I can’t see it, but I can feel it,” the man said.

>“Try not to think about it,” Rocketround said. “Okay?”
>“I can feel it,” the man said. He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround. “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy. Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom. I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”
>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.
<“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that? One piece in that thing’s construction. What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing? A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”
>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said. “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”
>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said. “But…”
>He trailed off.
>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.
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Anyone following his latest story? How is it going?

is stalin canon in the world of pikachu or whatever

>>46727
Only in the first game when the US existed.

>>46726
every niche fiction community has someone that makes most of the daily contributions so you should just ask this question in wildbow's discord server



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Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star Wars

Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you


New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
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>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol


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>>46123
So I do this largely forum-based RP and one of the big things there is 'faction' RP, where there's a big emphasis put on geopolitical stuff. Since like 2019 I was doing RP partly as an exercise in social fiction. I also run a character who left the Jedi Order because it was full of idealist pussies and liberals. He has since become Mand'alor and rides a boomer-ass Basilisk droid into battle, it's kino shit.

The Solidarity started as a coalition of Outer Rim spacers, droids, and AGIs who rose out of a massive slave revolt during the Hutts’ collapse. By ~300 ABY, they’ve grown into a hyperstate of around 100,000 planets, running on a centrally planned economy and labor-credit system. Their alliance with the Republic is pragmatic: both need each other against the Sith, but the Republic also keeps ties with the Hutts, who are quietly reviving slavery as debt peonage.

Militarily, the Solidarity fields smaller but far higher-quality forces than their rivals, avoiding clone or droid armies out of principle; they uphold a “joint dictatorship of the organic and synthetic proletariats.” They’ve just finished a war that quadrupled their territory and can’t sustain more fighting, so their focus is political: undermining and delegitimizing the Hutts while preparing their own Force traditions alongside the Jedi.




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Here's a thing I made, a keyboard case for a Behringer Model D synth module. I designed the case in Tinkercad and built it with hand tools and some scrap boards and a salvaged drawer bottom and the guts of an old Alesis Q25 MIDI keyboard I found in a Goodwill. It works pretty good. I ended up eventualy selling it on Reverb for a wee profit but it was a fun DIY project.

This is great anon
>I ended up eventualy selling it on Reverb for a wee profit
The synth module too?

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>>46715

Yeah I sold the whole thing as a standalone instrument.



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Discussion of the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and the other works by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Just wanted to revive some of the old threads that were nuked by the server transfer.
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Sorry if it's offtopic but the reactionary obsession with lotr is fascinating to me.

Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
<Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy," Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

>>46620
Not a bad video

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<Original – The Nine Sovereigns at Windsor for the funeral of King Edward VII, photographed on 20 May 1910. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarves, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King of Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom and King Frederick VIII of Denmark.
I wonder if this influenced the 9 rings for mortal men

>>46667
It's an interesting detail in that regard that they're all wearing riding boots.



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What do we think of this series pilot, Leftypol?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAdbUaMlAE&vl=en

I find the other Glitch studio shows (and a lot of indie Youtube animation, for that matter) to be good aesthetically, but their writing kind of juvenile and cringe in that "edgy teenager" way. But I thought Guinevere was nuanced and interesting in both its art an central thesis, with a fresh take on the "Fuck Disney/corporations" cyberpunk message:

>Knights of Guinevere is a show with tenderness and deep empathy in its heart for creative professionals (Andi) in a world where the most prestigious job they can aspire to—and that will let them make a living—is to work for a monolithic company that will extract their talent and energy and burn them up in order to fulfill its highest and only goal of asserting total market dominance even harder.


>Knights of Guinevere understands what it’s like to have the output of that monolithic corporation nonetheless inspire a lifetime of dreams and escapism, especially those dreams as a relief and refuge from a hard life (Frankie). This show loves the artists whose work’s beauty and essential humanity survive the crushing, grinding gears of corporate sensibilities and infuse the projects they’re a part of, that make it out into the world to touch other human hearts. It loves the dreamers who see that beauty and humanity in that art and are touched by it, who see the magic as children and carry that feeling with them all their lives.


>It’s a show with love for people, and righteous, radiant anger towards the corporation that would burn out, drain, and sicken those people, and kill their world and fill it with garbage, all in service to itself.

Pretty good so far, another banger on Glitch's belt.

It was good and I can't wait for the whole thing to be released. But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places. Most western animation has this kind of consistency / pacing issue. But yeah it was great.

>>46659
I hadn't the words for this until you said it, but I think you're right. With anime you sometimes get a lot more liminal / en-route scenes, like stuff is still happening but they aren't teleporting just to The Place Where The Next Thing Happens as often.

>>46659
>But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places.
I've noticed that a lot, especially in GoT. Like in the 5th season one character makes a trip of thousands of miles in a sailing ship in a matter of days. Recently in alien earth similar disregard is shown for the time it takes to travel. The general tendency just seems to be "whatever the plot needs."

Imo it's part of a much larger writing problem that seems to be effecting media where little or no thought is paid to how things actually work or why. The only consideration seems to be how spectacular or melodramatic a particular scene might be in the moment.



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We have no history of travel.So many people out there say they love traveling and will happily tell you about all the places they been to and sights they’ve seen and where they want to go to next. It’s also one of the first things people say they would do if they had more time and money.

But traveling sucks. It’s expensive and tedious. You have to pack, organise a passport, deal with airports, security and there’s just so much waiting! And that’s if everything goes to plan and to schedule. Things can easily get canceled or postponed. Then you’ve got jet lag to deal with, different currencies, language barriers, etc.

Even if you’re not going overseas/flying it’s not like road tripping is any better. Sitting in a car for hours on end just plain sucks.

And don’t think I’m only hating on the actual transport, being away from home sucks too. Whether you’re staying in a hotel or an Airbnb or camping or whatever, you’re away from home and all your things; you’re own bed, your own room, your pets, all your other bits and pieces that make your home your own.
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>>44628
OP is right though. autistic or not.

The whole world is pretty much the same. People all do the same things, live in cities and drive cars to their boring regular jobs, everyone in the world eats Big Macs and watches Family Guy. The only escape you will ever find from this homogenous cultural wasteland is the sweet release of death. But feel free to piss away all of your savings on your cliche whitebread bourgeois journey for a feeling of catharsis that you will never find.

>>46616
>take psychedelics
Remember Lenin was a mushroom and Stalin is god

Have a nice trip 🙂

>>46653
>But feel free to piss away all of your savings on your cliche whitebread bourgeois journey for a feeling of catharsis that you will never find.
<He doesn't eat prey love.

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>>46463
I've been to Switzerland too. It's not that good uygha damn.
>Every place I visited looked like a fucking bob ross painting.
We got mountains all over America too if that's your thing. Switzerland was my favorite country I've been to in Europe, but like have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? Utah? Sedona? Yosemite? Colorado? C'mon.
> The people were kind.
I didn't really talk to them but I got more weird vibes from them. Whole place has Disneyland kind of vibes. I'll take your word for it.
> The people were kind. The quality of everything I ate was better than anything I've eaten state side.
The food in Europe is better on average because they have regulations and sheeit, but that's a ridiculous statement.
>The airport had smoking sections.
Vegas airport has smoking lounges.

So I mostly saw, like Zermatt and Lake Geneva, but I didn't even go to Geneva the city. I briefly stopped in Zurich and that place gave me a headache. Their roads seem to be designed by lunatics.



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Comics and cartoons are the industried were the contradictions of capitalism are the most noticeableYou know them I know them.
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>>46489
>child pregancy bad
that was the point of the album you massive retard LOL

>>46503
it was at dashcon2 2025

>>46504
>that was the point
child pregnacy bad
the mods were chads
toby fox stinkyface





 

I love you guys lol
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>>45547
Wouldn't even really need AI, just some way to check it isn't static, and something to check if it's unique would deter some more primitive bots.

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>>45546
anon, I….

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>>45546
Tbf I only go there when I'm high or drunk so I was legit angry someone was spamming the website for like 20 minutes while trying to jerk off.

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