BakerBagel
@BakerBagel@midwest.social
- Comment on PRAY TO THE ELDER GODS 3 days ago:
Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will. But if I know not even the tail of this whale, how understand his head? much more, how comprehend his face, when face he has none? Thou shalt see my back parts, my tail, he seems to say, but my face shall not be seen. But I cannot completely make out his back parts; and hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.
-Moby Dick, Chap. 86: The Tail
- Comment on Stuck 4 days ago:
Boys start playing with their weiners as soon as their hands can start grasping stuff. It’s instinctual.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 week ago:
Europe is in the midst of a massive housing crisis.
Canada has possibly the worst housing crisis in the developed world
Korean homes are 3x as much in the major cities as smaller rural cities.
Housing has been consuming a larger and larger chunk of people’s incomes for the past 15 years. That’s a cost of living crisis. Because the 2008 crash allowed the wealthy to pick up all the pieces and restart the game using the exact same rules. Nothing changed, nothing improved, neoiberals just painted over the foundational cracks of our society and said everything is fine now. The finacialization of every aspect of our lives has only become more extreme, so i would definitely say the 2008 crisis was never actually solved.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 week ago:
Replacing salaried desk jobs with hourly wages and no pay increase isn’t exactly employment growth. If everything recovered just fine, why are millennials miles behind where their parents were at a similar age? Homeownership has been steadily declining, savings accounts have steadily been dwindling, and the rate of Americans living paycheck to paycheck has only gone up in the past 20 years. That’s not a recovery, it’s an adaptation to a new normal.
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 1 week ago:
Idk how you can say it ended when the fundamental causes of the collapse were never addressed, the perpetrators were never punished, and the middle class continued to shrink. Stocks were pretty much the only thing that improved since 2008.
- Comment on i just wanna live 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 🐙🐙🐙 3 weeks ago:
Lots of eild experiments giving drugs to animals.
- Comment on ARMADILL-NO 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 3 weeks ago:
I’m ready Moby Dick for the first yime right now and i absolutely love it! I love stories about the sea. I want to reread it again in a few years and do a journal about the book. I wanna be one of those freaks that writes a report about every chapter. I’ll post every one on my blog and forward the post to my aunt who’s a retired highschool English teacher. Let her know all those years as a public teacher weren’t for nothing.
- Comment on Not today 4 weeks ago:
Claim to use British English but didn’t call it Acacia Avenue? Something seems fishy
- Comment on Late 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Damn, I’ve got the heaviest drinking pattern of any 10 year old you ever seen then.
- Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch? 4 weeks ago:
Why would New York cops go after their own like that?
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Where do you feel Chinese ethics lack compared to American ethics?
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually pretty the whole premise of The Vital Abyss short story. Cortazar explains how he signed up with Protogen and how glad he was to get the nerve staple that removed all empathy from him. Ot, and all the other short stories are worth reading if you liked The Expanse
- Comment on kmk 5 weeks ago:
I fuck the sphere. None of the others look like they will be pleasant going up my ass
- Comment on You guys have to end it 5 weeks ago:
Not to mention the DUI rates in the US are astronomical. Over 1/3 of motor fatalities are alcohol related in the US.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
There is a massive difference between allowed to say my government is doing something wrong, and being allowed to say “gas all the kikes”. One is criticism of authority, which is good. The other is hate speech, which is bad. You can absolutely have one without the other.
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I’m a single guy. I’m not cooking dinner for 1 two nights in a row.
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I just take half the box and boil that, eat half of that, then eat the other half the next day
- Comment on nets 1 month ago:
Stuff falls out of garbage trucks, trash cans get tipped over, stuff gets blown out of the bed of a dumptruck at the landfill, landfills erode and take trash with them. Trashcans aren’t just magic portals that take trash into the nightosphere
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I took in a stray kitten that someone dumped at my work back in the fall. I wasn’t sure if i would keep her or not, but i felt obligated to clean her up and feed her while i figured out what to do with her. As soon as she started interacting with my other kitten, they became best friends and i couldn’t in good conscience seperate them.
Another friend of mine slowly took in a stray cat over the fourse of a summer. Leave out food for it of it hangs out around your house until it starts to nuzzle up against you. Then you can pet it, maybe pick it up, and then take it to a doctor to get it checked out.
It sounds to me though, that you just don’t like animals.
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a woman at the gym 1 month ago:
Depends. Some people just absolutely cannot handle blood under any circumstances.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
You mean a libertarian? Yeah we know
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
How far up your own ass do you have to be to actually believe that people actually want ads?
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - February 9th, 2025 (#608) [Atlas Shaves Edition] 2 months ago:
Ended up going with a Parker Variant as well as an open comb Maggard head to experiment with on the bevel handle.
I would love to upgrade to something nicer, but I’m stretched thin and don’t have the budget right now unfortunately.
- Comment on Sunday SOTD Thread - February 9th, 2025 (#608) [Atlas Shaves Edition] 2 months ago:
Got home from a weekend of festivities only to find that the threads of my daily driver gave out. It was a Bevel DE kit i bought myself for Christmas back in 2021, so I’m a bit peeved i only got about 3 years out of it. The handle and base plate are still good, but the top cap is unusable.
Anyway, i need a cheap replacement and fast, and am looking for advice on how to prevent the threads from deteriorating in the future.
- Comment on Man, their reputation really has gone to shit 2 months ago:
If tou look into the plans and wacky shit the CIA has tried to do over the years, you realize they are just daycare for Ivy League grads. They are absolutely useless at anything beyond intelligence gathering
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 months ago:
Because the hens provide eggs and are less quiet than a dog in a back yard. Roosters just scream randomly from just before dawn to just after dusk and are territorial and aggressive as all hell
- Comment on We still have three eggs up for auction. 2 months ago:
It really depends. I live ina rural town with about 17,000 residents. You are allowed chickens in the city limits, but not allowed roosters. I know a few people that have chickens in their yards, but there isn’t really enough apace for a chicken coop and activities in the yards since house are packed in pretty tight within coty limits. Outside city limits i would say about half the farmers have chickens as far as i can tell, but they are fairly reclusive
