piccolo [any]

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: November 30th, 2023
  • piccolo [any]@hexbear.nettonews@hexbear.net•Goodbye NLRB. It was nice while it lasted.English
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    3 days ago

    I can’t imagine that that’d happen, they need to maintain some level of “we’re trying here” in order to effectively rile up their base to vote. Not appointing someone to the NLRB is much less noticable than Supreme Court justices stepping down. I think that the optics are best for both parties if the Supreme Court is basically always a 5-4 split one way or the other, or it is always 5-4 ®. That way the line is that it’s always this close to {getting the Supreme Court back,the other team getting the Supreme Court} to mobilize voters.

  • piccolo [any]@hexbear.nettofood@hexbear.net•Are canned tomatoes "more flavorful" than fresh tomatoesEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’d say if tomatoes are out of season and you’re cooking them anyways, like in a stew or a sauce, even bad canned tomatoes are probably better. If you have access to good fresh tomatoes, they can be better than most canned tomatoes, but like high quality canned ones are hard to beat.

    Also, the less processed the canned tomato, the better it is. If you want the best tomato flavour, get whole canned tomatoes, rather than diced or crushed.

  • piccolo [any]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•What are they trying to say here ?! How can this even be seen as negative ?English
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    14 days ago

    Lol I was there recently and also noticed that. The whole museum was full of propaganda, but it was cool to see some of the exhibits, like the Trabant. Some “fun” anticommunist highlights included:

    • The dystopian evil jail cell run by the communist dictators (about the same size as the room I rent in [major city, imperial core country])
    • The dystopian evil kindergarten with a rigid schedule including play and nap time
    • The dystopian evil standard allocated apartment that EVERYONE had and there was NO individuality (much bigger than the room I rent, and for much less money)
    • The dystopian evil SEX that all the HORNY EAST GERMANS were having (the museum explained it as a result of there being nothing else to do, lol)
    • The dystopian evil DIY repair culture
    • The dystopian evil tired bureaucrats who looked more like people than Bond villains
    • The dystopian evil LGBTs who weren’t forbidden from existing by the state
    • The factory farming that happened under the DDR (which, like, as a vegan, sure, but it’s not like the Federal Republic or any Western country wasn’t doing this)
    • There was literally a panel saying that all Eastern bloc states weren’t allowed to deviate from the USSR’s policies or will, then gave an example of the DDR doing just that to resist Soviet reforms in '85

    And every single bullet point here made my blood boil (supposed to be a translation of some of the key terms, without propaganda):

    spoiler (sorry, I only photographed the English text)

    Anyways, I guess I funded anticommunist propaganda by visiting and also buying a DDR patch