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i been alright. busy @ work, but also had some time to Level up my Power Level in dota and also my transmutation circle interpretation engine is finally nearing an alpha release... life's been alright. might get married soon. we'll see. what tomorrow brings.
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tardy on these heaters
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congrats on marriage
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marriage is some fail but goey is so much win he could probably pull it off.
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i also enjoy wine (mostly due to my girlfriend) but i think my deep-seated cynicism prevents me tasting any of the flavors described whether present or not

there are basically 4 flavors for me in varying quantities: oak from barrel, bitterness from grape skins, sweetness, and of course delightful ethanol
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beer is better than wine in pretty much every imaginable way
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i agree but if you drink enough of anything youll generally start to like it
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Well you can get the best beer in the world for like... under $25? a bottle? Other than that silly Sam Adams whatever stuff. Decent beer is like $8 a sixer, whereas decent wine is priced, slightly higher than that
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"decent beer" wtf
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Zuh?
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Meursault posted:

Zuh?


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the ascendency of extra-bitter IPAs is a distressing fad imo

go into beer place and like 15 of 20 options are IPAs, wtf
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roseweird posted:

VoxNihili posted:

i also enjoy wine (mostly due to my girlfriend) but i think my deep-seated cynicism prevents me tasting any of the flavors described whether present or not

there are basically 4 flavors for me in varying quantities: oak from barrel, bitterness from grape skins, sweetness, and of course delightful ethanol

yeah, that's all you can expect to really taste, and all the descriptions are really just of various combinations of these flavors, it's pretty easy to make them up on the fly and get people to agree with them with just a little practice. "dark fruits" is just when it's both bitter and sweet, "bright" if it's acidic and sweet, "dry" if it's acidic and alcoholic and not sweet, "jammy" if it's sweet, tannic, alcoholic. people just nod their heads, act like you did them a favor, and leave a big tip bc giving wine tasting notes is basically a cynical form of entertainment



this wine has some excellent flavonoids and great legs to boot

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VoxNihili posted:

the ascendency of extra-bitter IPAs is a distressing fad imo

go into beer place and like 15 of 20 options are IPAs, wtf



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you guys sound like grumpy cranks talking about how modern art is dumb
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babyfinland posted:

you guys sound like grumpy cranks talking about how modern art is dumb



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modern art is awful and we should do something drastic to conserve it in the united states to release the libidinal energies of Europe and ignore that the euro is a real thing
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babyfinland posted:

you guys sound like grumpy cranks talking about how modern art is dumb



im cool with this

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Kurdt
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In an America with more wine professionals than ever before,
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art, like all dialectical moments, has a right and left devaition, both of which are ubiquitous in the degenerate first world left.

the rightist deviation is that all art is apolitical. these are the trots who criticize soviet realism, GPCR proletarian art, and socialist propaganda as "non-art" (while of course western bourgeois art is considered real art). leftists who go to art shows in brooklyn, or criticize islamic fundamentalists for destroying art while making sure you know they impose imperialism too and "we need to side with the workers", or even just separate art from it's context in the class struggle theoretically are right wing and should be re-educated.

the leftist deviation are those anarchists and hippies who believe that all art is political and that the mere act of art is a political movement. drum circles in zuccotti park, squatters who graffiti or take drugs and make schizophrenic art, or rich artists who believe the act of subversive art is an opposition to the bourgeoisie. these "leftists" are a plague, anyone who spent time with occupy and saw it drowned out by idiots on drums knows these people need to be purged from the left entirely.

of course the correct dialectical-materialist path is to see art as subordinate to the class struggle and emerging from revolutionary practice. art is political, but unless tied to communist practice automatically trends towards the bourgeoisie as the OP correctly points out. as it is now art probably should be destroyed, but the conclusion of the OP article is an odd one, he could use some MaO.
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the leaders of nations have needed Art to piece together their murderous landscapes. if something called proletarian art used to exist in the US it was gospel music or black militancy, now it's 911, mass murders, music to gangbng to, and in general more terse forms of hopelessness, pain, abandonment, and despair
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sup b*tch
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babyhueypnewton posted:

squatters who graffiti or take drugs and make schizophrenic art



this owns but is deff apolitical

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the writer of the op is a 'former stalinist'
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that's a lot of words for saying ur "gaey"
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are you a fascist yet impper
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i don't know. i guess that means no
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Mike Nelson here.
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maybe we don't really need grand opinions about art. like maybe it's a peripheral concern which is mostly just fun or interesting and doesn't need to be turned into the spirit of all humanity or something. if anything, exaggerating the importance of art is petty-bourgeois idealism.... but... heh.... no, i'm not going to elaborate on that people.
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getfiscal posted:

maybe we don't really need grand opinions about art. like maybe it's a peripheral concern which is mostly just fun or interesting and doesn't need to be turned into the spirit of all humanity or something. if anything, exaggerating the importance of art is petty-bourgeois idealism.... but... heh.... no, i'm not going to elaborate on that people.



the power of dialectical materialism has turned my every opinion into a piercing ray of truth that must be shone ruthlessly on every falsehood. we shall begin with the popular misconception of anime as children's entertainment:

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meet me in st louis
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i actually bought some modern art this summer. really brings my place together if you ask me.
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Modern art is awful and morally inferior to classical art. That's a factual statement, I'm literally saying that people who engage in modern art are dedicating their time to an inferior matter and that such activity and the beliefs that go with it indicate that those people themselves are also inferior in important respects.
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gyrofry posted:

In an America with more wine professionals than ever before,



a girl i know just got her wine degree and moved to florida to go wine there

#118
Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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wine, like art, should be destroyed; by the liver, and in return, destroy
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i like how baby huey newton talks about most fields of human endeavour in the same way hitler talked about architecture
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Superabound posted:

gyrofry posted:

In an America with more wine professionals than ever before,

a girl i know just got her wine degree and moved to florida to go wine there



Yes, there *are* wines and wineries in Florida. With the Sunshine State's mild climate, and the wealth of citrus products, there are wines made from oranges and other Florida fruit. But there are also wineries in Florida that produce wines from local muscadine and suppernong vineyards, as well as wineries who bring in grapes and juice from outside the state to produce wines using traditional methods. With wineries located from the Panhandle to south of Miami, there is a 700 mile separation at the furthest point. So live on the wild side and try some Florida-produced orange wine with your freshly picked Florida oranges.