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    18 days ago

    Potassium carbonate is derived from wood ashes by mixing it with water, letting it soak for a while to dissolve it, then filtering out the ashes and evaporating the water. The potassium can be used to create soap by saponifying oils and fats. This is also why wood ashes can be bad for animals to play or roll in, and can be bad for the soil if it’s simply poured in one place









  • The point was that rich people (capitalists) play with the lives of others for entertainment and wealth (e.g. gambling, stocks, company margins), and dont care of they get hurt or die. Squid game takes it very literally by kidnapping and trapping people, and putting them into death games that the rich can watch and bet on. It isnt much different than the rich trapping us in low wage jobs while we slave away and die from a lack of health care while wall street ghouls bet on stocks. This is in why there is so much support for Luigi Mangione - people are tired of being exploited.

    Some people believe that they can push through and become one of the rich guys in the end, but reaching that point requires the same exploitation of others that keeps the rich, rich. So rather than saying its better than capitalism, its saying that it IS capitalism. Its a critique of capitalism: “Either you get exploited or you exploit others”


  • Theres a lot of things which used to be part of american culture but have fallen out of fashion for one reason or another. For example, a lot of american christmas songs reference roasting chestnuts, which most americans have probably never seen in their lives because an infection brought over from japan on imported plants wiped out almost all of the chestnut trees, the dominant tree in the eastern US. Id say with the 12 days of Christmas its because of capitalism and endless work leading up to christmas and right back to work afterwards.




  • To be fair, the evenrealities ones are much closer to something that could be mainstream for AR than what apple made or the google glass. The apple vision pro is big, bulky, expensive and proprietary. The google glass was expensive, had little use, proprietaryness, and looked goofy, plus was only one eye. This solved the issue of bulk and looking out of place. However it hasnt solved being proprietary or costing a lot. I can only hope that future glasses fix these two points, even if they dont come from evenrealities




  • Companies in the late 1800s to early/mid 1900s would build towns and housing around the mines and pay workers in “credit” only redeemable at the company store for necessary goods, food, etc. Due to the high prices and single company monopoly over all aspects of life there, people would go into debt and be essentially locked in with fences like prisoners and forced to work off the debt.