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Fruit juice has vitamins and other micronutrients, but it doesn’t necessarily have that elemental salt profile.

Blackstrap is the good stuff, it’s got potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron. Because of how it is produced, it has lots of the impurities of the sugar concentrated in it. Sorghum molasses is okay but not as good for this as blackstrap is. Take a look at the nutrition facts, and you’ll see a bunch of quantities for stuff that’s on the periodic table. I suspect various other concentrates might have similar properties.

Typically I add maybe 20g molasses per liter of water, with another 10g of iodized salt or baking soda or cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate).

I had a health condition for a while that had me carrying salt water on my person for a year, just as a precaution.

I often use molasses with a little bit of salt, that’s about as cheap as you can get.

strawmanarchy

I had to read until the end to read something that wasn’t tired strawmans.

And even then, instead of digging into history to produce some valuable insight, the substance of “anarchists create something that is a state in all but name” is a low-effort meme.

I’d like my 6 minutes back.

I tell ya, after watching the wars in Syria and Iraq and Ukraine, I am OBSESSED with padding my numbers of tanks in a prospective war. It all comes down to those tracked, turreted, armored fighting vehicles that are great investments and not easily countered by anything that is not another tank- certainly nothing that infantry can carry individually.

Here are the news in Spanish, for anyone interested

Gonna have to read and digest this later, with this level of excitement I think I could only handle 1 single new right now.

At least in the fedded verse when a user gets b& you can still see their posts

My agreement with you is deep like a mineshaft.

Every ad represents, in the final sense, a missed opportunity for a meaningful communication, displaced by redundant consumption.

Crises and snap actions do need specialized point people, but I don’t think those specialized point people need to be the same ones that keep the meetings running smoothly or that set the standard for partisan self-education. That’s the beauty of it, the diversity of humans makes it possible for everyone to contribute more of what they’re best at.

A lot of it is paraphrasing another Imaginary Partisan, but I put my own direction on it by emphasizing how the push for “strong leadership” (rather than just strong systems of coordination) in these movements can lead to serious vulnerabilities.

If you have one person who is The Big Leader, there’s a huge target placed on them. It becomes clear that there’s only 1 person who needs to be bribed or blackmailed or (less likely) accident-ed. Plus, you have the whole burden of deciding all the things under one person, and this can burn people out, stratify the organization, and make cadres feel less capable of action.

Someone posted an infobox yesterday on the Party of Bulgarian Communists, and while everyone was smiling at the vidya game logo, I was smiling at how they had a collective for top leadership.

Another thing that is important is making sure that there is a near horizon as well as a far one. Trying to build up a movement around “agitating and educating specifically for some time generations in the future when material conditions reach a breaking point” is a losing prospect; this is asking for people to put their whole lives aside for a revolution they won’t have any experience of. If you can find a way to enrich people’s lives in a way that is clearly moving toward a more equal society, that would be part of a winning strategy.

There are a couple persistent internal problems that communist parties face in the US.

One is that people are in the habit of fragmenting over minor differences in ideology; meanwhile, the two main capitalist parties are giant tents, not tethered to any specific political position, evolving but always drawing support from capitalists and effortlessly maintaining a funding base and a dominance in democratic organs.

Another is that after a century of existing alongside state intelligence, it’s fairly clear that the intelligence services have been running wide circles around the communist parties, and at this point the communist parties have settled in to a form of being that is benign to the American system. This may be through ranks being infiltrated and leadership being compromised, or through hegemonic liberal ideology that partisans accept to the point where their main activities are peaceful^TM protests and electoral campaigns.

Without any desire to sound particularly sectarian, I would say that there is a strong cult vibe to American communist parties. They are largely opaque and insular, and tend to sound dogmatic more often than not.

It could be that all of these problems are closely linked. In any case, for any successful proletarian movement in this country, there needs to be a deep change in strategy that is able to compose diverse political forces, maintain a strong working-class appeal by embedding itself into relevant and winnable struggles, and frustrate all attempts by state and reactionary forces to decapitate or pacify it.

Looks like an open-and-shut case of gunpowder, treason, and plot.

How is one wolf killing a moose solo? I feel like the wolf would need to catch the moose sleeping to do that.

Glaze at the result but donut turnover the die, it will fudge your rolls

It looks really cut-and-dried without context, doesn’t it?

“This state doesn’t even fully exist but I want you to know that I don’t support this state in particular”

“No Way To Prevent This”, Says Nation Where This Happens The Most

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