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Formula 1 for me.
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all the people i have known in metalwork or maker spacers were all far-left and kept injecting their politics and insecurity about being 'authentic' and 'cool' into everything. it's a major turn off.
i have no idea how heating up pieces of metal to merge them together or other stuff like that has anything to do with politics, but people can't help themselves. Also these spaces in my experience... were all well-off white people desperately trying to 'signal' they were not like 'white people'.
anyways, i take those kinda classes and hobby things at adult education centers and libraries and such... because no politics. a lot older crowd though but a lot less massive insecurity and injection of identity insecurity into everything. turns out the really cool people are the boring uncool ones.
Alloys are intrinsically liberal. Keep metals pure!
This insecurity about being authentic has pervaded so many things, even absent any real political context. LIke people will suddenly whip out "You know, nachos aren't really authentic Mexican food, they're Tex-Mex cuisine." Okay, what do you expect me to do in that situation, spit it out and go "Ugh, that's disgusting!" Authentic or not, they're still delicious. I totally get pursuing authenticity when you're trying to preserve a culture and are worried it's under threat, but it gets brought into absolutely ridiculous contents, often by people who have no real basis or authority to be the arbiters of authenticity for what they're discussing in the first place as a way to try and make themselves seem more worldly.
What. Have you ever been to Texas? Queso is tex-mex. Nachos are something else. Queso is better.