Let me know if you have any other questions. I’ve played around with Japanese and more recently Chinese teas for a couple years. Also matcha.
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I have an electric tea kettle that can hold specific temperatures. It is really nice for loose leaf and multiple steeps. Some people can guestimate a temp pretty well, I personally use a thermometer if I’m somewhere without an accurate kettle. Or I just use a black where the exact temp isn’t that important
I don’t recommend the tea kettles with an infuser. The teas are best steeped with the natural decay of temperature. The only teas that benefit from being kept at a temp while steeping are some herbal and chai teas, and those require boiling anyway. Best done on the stove
I’d say the correct temp matters the most for green or white teas. Black and herbal are more forgiving.
Temp drop from the ceramics is pretty insignificant, brew time is far more important
A hot rinse is a common part for Chinese tea ceremony. Makes more sense since the ceramics are small. Tea pots have much more volume to surface area, so only needed for tea pots if the tea leaves themselves require a rinse.
He couldn’t bare to do such a thing. It’s operation Epstein Fury after all
10·2 days agoRelevant section from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
As [Edmund] Morgan says, masters, “initially at least, perceived slaves in much the same way they had always perceived servants . . . shiftless, irresponsible, unfaithful, ungrateful, dishonest. . . .” And “if freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done.” And so, measures were taken. About the same time that slave codes, involving discipline and punishment, were passed by the Virginia Assembly,
Virginia’s ruling class, having proclaimed that all white men were superior to black, went on to offer their social (but white) inferiors a number of benefits previously denied them. In 1705 a law was passed requiring masters to provide white servants whose indenture time was up with ten bushels of corn, thirty shillings, and a gun, while women servants were to get 15 bushels of corn and forty shillings. Also, the newly freed servants were to get 50 acres of land.
Morgan concludes: “Once the small planter felt less exploited by taxation and began to prosper a little, he became less turbulent, less dangerous, more respectable. He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.”
We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.
Anti-black racism has been a cornerstone of America since Jamestown
I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don’t apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one
- Winston Churchill
91·3 days agoBut the US is the only Democracy in the Americas!
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5·3 days agoOh looks like they hit that mail truck. Got too close to the school they were bombing
Yeah, I agree that was complete bullshit. Not even NY DSA is nearly as bold as they should be.
But I’m also not going to dismiss the over 200 candidates currently serving because of the ground work the DSA chapters have done.
And unlike in the DNC, those issues can actually be brought up and forced to be addressed by the serving body in those chapters.
I don’t know if you’ve visited your local DSA chapter, if you live in the states, but for better or for worse it’s all grassroots volunteers.
I don’t personally care which organization someone gets involved in, whether DSA or PSL or a different one. It’s getting involved with the community that matters. My experience is with west coast DSA chapters, which are still new to electoral politics, and even such only at the city level.
Strongly disagree, DSA does far more than simply electoral politics. They’re also decentralized. Chapters don’t follow any centralized DSA message, each operate independently as organized by their local members. When it comes to electing candidates, chapters independently determine what policies are needed for their endorsement and they also hold those candidates accountable outside the DNC. Candidates run on the D ticket because that’s the reality of US politics. In both local and national politics, they have forced political bodies to move their politics to the left, to be accountable to their constituents instead of simply donors. You may not like that they’ve moved those political bodies as much left or as fast as you prefer, sure. But that’s also only a single avenue of pressure. Each DSA chapter is only as bold as it’s members. And that’s only recently grown in resurgence. Before the last 2 campaign cycles, the DSA was a fraction of the size (and it’s still very small) it was, and mostly comprised of old heads. I’m not surprised if the majority of old heads were/are liberal Zionists. But that’s far from the truth for the new wave of members, which now outnumber the old heads.
And it’s not like there’s also PSL. Both play important roles, as do many other liberation organizations and advocacy groups. It’s a United front of coalitions that are needed to push the envelope in as many ways as possible.
3·4 days agoRelevant wizards with guns sketch
I never thought I’d see the day
May Allah awaken the people to the evil doings of Israel and the United States
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The problem is in the normalization of the policies the last Republican left, paving the way for Republicans to expand on those terrible policies once back in charge
America has done state sponsored terrorism for a long time, since it’s inception, really
Getting involved with DSA to promote a meaningful opposition is the best we can currently do at the moment, imo. Internal opposition by promoting socialist candidates and external opposition in the form of protests (ideally labor strikes, but labor organizing isn’t really there yet) are both needed for force their hands to capitulate to their voter base
There are a significant amount of support facts for how French Colonialism and Neocolonialism have affected Burkina Faso, not to mention the plethora of other countries affected similarly. Not only does Fanon use a large amount of supporting facts in his works, it’s very easy to find such in reference to neocolonialism online. As I have when responding to the other person.
First, thank you for well written response
It’s true that Fanon himself did not write too much on neocolonialism, as it was a bit past his time. However, if you understand how reactionary sentiments foment in the process of an anti-colonialist revolution, it’s not difficult to understand how that persists in the face of neocolonialism, as western empires continue to subjugate these nations with modern methods.
In the case of Burkina Faso, we can’t ignore France’s neocolonialist actions since their independence. They have not been sovereign in the same sense that western nations have. While western nations were able to develop civil rights free of the constant battle against neocolonial dominance, this is still not the case for countries like Burkina Faso. France has still been a constant threat against their sovereignty, and as such, the anti-western hardliners continue to stay in power.
Spoiler
Unlike what they did in Indochina and Algeria, France granted independence to most of its West and Central African colonies peacefully in the 1960s. Just because these new countries were independent in name, however, does not mean they were sovereign… the African Financial Community (CFA) franc monetary zone, which is inherently unequal and rooted in exploitative practices.
For decades, France had a certain level of control of Burkina Faso’s monetary situation through their establishment of the CFA Franc zone, This monetary union between numerous West African countries and France, stipulated that these countries maintain their monetary reserves within French treasuries [8]. This monetary policy resulted in an economy that increasingly favored French imports instead of attempting to rely on domestic production, which maintained the historical level of dependence on France that existed within the country and neighboring regions. This dependence on France has made it difficult for Burkina Faso to sustainably develop local communities due to economic policies that favor foreign influences instead of local development.
On 15 October 1987, the socialist president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, was assassinated, aged 37. He was killed in a military coup that is suspected to have been backed by France, the former colonial power.
After Sankara’s death, Burkina Faso entered a period of political instability, marked by coups, military regimes, and civil unrest. During this time, France played a significant role in Burkina Faso’s political affairs, supporting various regimes and exerting its influence on the country’s economic policies. This led to the emergence of neocolonialism, where France maintained its grip on Burkina Faso’s political and economic systems, despite the country’s formal independence.
No, it’s not unless you’re claiming Fanon in unreliable and not credible. A counter argument of ‘I don’t personally think so’ is not a valid counter argument against the highly respected works of an academic who both lived and studied his lifes work
The Wretched of the Earth
A Dying Colonialism
Black Skin, White Masks
If you can’t attack the substance, you attack the source. The only other time I’ve seen a weak bs claim of ‘appeal to authority’ is from people who try to discredit human rights reporting on genocide.
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It’s shit like that that’ll get you tagged as a fascist