That’s insane. Really kinda explains everything. Everything else is window dressing. An unbelievably and unprecedentedly prosperous bubble for about 25 years between 1940 and 1965 couldn’t possibly last.
"You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing" Uh, hit up *any* county/state/national holiday festival in the entire goddam country and get you some funnel cake. But yeah, sure - let's call it a PA thing out of misguided nostalgia.
I mean everywhere I get calls them Pennsylvania Dutch, consider that part of the reason carnival and fair rides often have Alpine theming (and honestly even smaller indie amusement parks have pretty German-ass fairy tale theming, and why even Six Flags parks will have Oktoberfest-ass beer hall band shells) is that a lot of American amusement fair culture is honestly pretty German-tinted, and a lot of it specifically comes out of German-settled Pennsylvania and Ohio
You ever think about how the Disneyland logo
is in a Blackletter font, underneath a banner-flying castle representing the central feature of the park, modeled on Neuschwanstein Castle in Disney’s Brothers Grimm period?
Obviously it doesn’t prove you are a woman, the whole issue is a disputed definition in the first place.
But it doesn’t prove the opposite either. Honestly, the whole matter stinks of “chadwashing” which is used to justify an attitude that is sometimes indistinguishable from cruelty - why is “male power, privilege, and entitlement”, in either the individual or general case, being taken for granted here?
I love how feminism is completely unable to remember what it did a few decades back.
This could pretty much be an ‘80s second-waver take without changing a word, Transsexual Empire was published in 1979.
a fun thing about the trend of tagging things as #unreality is that in principle, you could tag real things as #unreality to gaslight people, but you can’t really lie by doing this, because the tag then beomes an accurate description of its own misuse
Just a reminder to anyone who will listen! There’s a huge cold front coming up in America right now and I want to remind everyone to NEVER use or rely on a gas stove to heat up your home. You will die. If your power goes out, the best thing you can do is cover your windows, or get to an area in your house with no windows, and bundle up to the best of your ability to conserve heat. I know generating heat with whatever you have sounds good in theory, but we lost a LOT of people to carbon monoxide poisoning in last years Texas Freeze because many relied on gas stoves and other propane heat sources. A lot of people went to bed and never woke up. Please be aware of the things you can’t see, like fumes from your generator, built up gas when starting a car in an enclosed space, and of course, the excess carbon monoxide that can be generated by leaving a gas stove on for too long.
If you want to generate indoor warmth using a gas stove, put large rocks in cookware into the oven, close the door, heat them up, turn the oven off, and set it all atop the range to radiate heat
Many people think cocaine is a fun recreational drug with no harmful side effects. But the truth is that something terrible can happen to you. You see, your nasal cavity is separated from your mouth by the hard palate and soft palate… but at the oropharynx, the two sections connect, allowing air inhaled from your nose to enter your esophagus. That means that when you inhale cocaine, the powder travels through your nasal mucosa but ultimately leeches into the mouth, where taste buds are present. Then, if you eat a succulent meal, your ability to discern flavor will be reduced by the drug’s numbing properties, resulting in diminished enjoyment.
My aunt had a massive cocaine problem in the 80s, because it was the 80s. One morning, she woke up in the aftermath of a party and found herself in a living room. She noticed some powder on the table, and, being a still-mostly asleep cocaine addict in the 80s, quickly arranged it into a line and snorted it.
It was not cocaine.
She snorted straight wasabi powder.
She claims it was the worst, most horrible burning sensation she’s ever suffered, but it also completely cured her addiction and she hasn’t touched cocaine since.
Cocaine is the enemy of flavor. But flavor is also a powerful adversary of cocaine. Thank you for sharing this.
You cum inside of me and everything fades to black except by a message in the middle of the void that says you can now summon me in battle then the message fades away and everything goes back to normal
we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is caused by ghosts, and that’s bad. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s good. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s bad.
we must advance the thought that homosexuality is caused by ghosts and supernatural influence, and that’s good, for symmetry if nothing else.
Male homosexuality is caused by fujoshi ghosts. Female homosexuality is caused by…
It’s kinda interesting, isn’t it, that there isn’t a word for the male equivalent of a fujoshi.
Because nobody thinks anything of a man liking lesbian porn.
We’ll know we have achieved a better society when women watching gay porn is seen as expected and unremarkable…
This is basically why I expect the next decade or so will be for bi men what the ‘90s were for bi women
Nah - that unit measures the temperature. Might be in a drafty area. Gets power from a small transformer which is probably also in your basement. Might be next to another small transformer that goes to your doorbell.
There’s no doorbell. It would be totally in character with everything else in the house if it was installed in a “handyman” fashion that does technically work just not as well as if it was put in by anyone who knew what they were doing. The unit isn’t really in a draft or the airflow of a vent or the sunlight, the only temperature fluctuation is from the heating itself, and it consistently varies by time of day in a way that doesn’t really make sense if it was trying to (over)compensate for itself at any given point
"You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing" Uh, hit up *any* county/state/national holiday festival in the entire goddam country and get you some funnel cake. But yeah, sure - let's call it a PA thing out of misguided nostalgia.
I mean everywhere I get calls them Pennsylvania Dutch, consider that part of the reason carnival and fair rides often have Alpine theming (and honestly even smaller indie amusement parks have pretty German-ass fairy tale theming, and why even Six Flags parks will have Oktoberfest-ass beer hall band shells) is that a lot of American amusement fair culture is honestly pretty German-tinted, and a lot of it specifically comes out of German-settled Pennsylvania and Ohio
Do you not know where your thermostat is or do you not know how thermostats work? Or have you just been having really messed-up self-conceptions of your actual physical states and now you're blaming it on "fucking magnets - how do they work?"
First off fuck you too buddy, second off I have a plug-in controller on the wall, but it’s on an interior wall in the (front) room
from which I can notice these swings so I took it the temperature wasn’t being measured there but rather just as some of the ports it hooks into
output signals by wire to the furnace in the basement, some of them receive input of current temperature levels from ???
Finding a problem in that the smart people who get into playing chess can reliably kick my ass, the Joe Blow types who just know how all the pieces move I can reliably kick their ass, the smart people with no background it’s because they’re not interested in playing chess, and I’ve never met a mook who got really into chess.
It doesn’t concern me the dollar value of armaments being sent to Ukraine because like, “fighting Russia to prevent them from recovering geopolitical influence and mass they lost in 1991” was always what those armaments were for! What, we’re not going to have them to use on Russian tanks in the future? Russia won’t have the tanks they were used on!
Really it seems like a successful version of what we tried in Iraq or Afghanistan, or “Vietnamization”: we provide the materiel to achieve our goals, but someone else spends the lives.
That said I do not get the sense Russia is even trying to win on the battlefield at this point, just keep the question open by spending obsolete materiel and population fractions that could become a threat if the regime is weakened: national minorities, but also just surplus young men in general.
And that the real play is the “gas weapon”, cutting energy to European NATO, weakening their economies and generally making life unpleasant in ways that raises the Tension Meter and enables future induced or organic disruption, with the ultimate goal of chipping countries from the alliance or at least leaving them less productive contributors to it and object lessons going forward.
They’ve already substantially split the Visegrád Group – which as a bloc having strained the EU might actually leave the Western alliance structure in a stronger position – by differentially relating to their historical memory – and to the still-the-same geostrategic positions that history arose from. Poland still understands “expansion from the east” as chief existential threat but has no such sense regarding Western alliances that recognize Poland as Poland.
Whereas Hungary takes up the Hapsburg heritage of not-Russia but also not-Germany (as it might plausibly understand east-towards-Ukraine force projection), thinking of itself as the natural leader of East Europe (if not pre-Trianon possessor – recall it still reminisces about parts of Ukraine’s land and population as truly Hungarian) in this role.
You know I kind of miss funnel cakes, which was a Pennsylvania thing where some dough would be streamed out of a funnel into hot oil to be fried, taking a tangled appearance somewhere between soft pretzels and spaghetti, then sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.
This was traditionally a carnival food, made and sold from booths in yearly farm-country festivals offering petty rides and games, which its simple, quick on-demand production and too-rich-for-everyday novelty suited.
Huh. Hearing that the “antivirals” they give the immunosuppressed re:Covid work by inducing genetic mutation, and while this usually results in non-viable virus code (that’s the mechanism, after all) some fraction is highly mutated but still viable, some fraction of that fraction is in fact more viable than the parent strain, and applied across a whole-humanity disease that already has such a high “R” of new infections seeded per established case the effect is to accelerate its evolution
IIRC, this was the one that started with M and not Paxlovid.
Also yes, that was noticed at the time along with drastically reduced efficacy over Paxlovid and while that’s been its own thing (Kill a puppy to a get a 10/15-dose course IMO. 5 isn’t long enough), I’d take the Paxlovid thing over the mutation thing.
Yeah, molnupiravir or something (sic, I’m not looking it up). My med twitter mutual was bitching up a storm about it today. It doesn’t do anything but up your cancer risk and hypermutate the coronavirus, etc.
Yeah, that’s it. Okay, this was re: a drug in testing, worrier Twitter combines apocalypticism with grounded biomedical understanding in a way that’s hard to tease apart sometimes.
