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- Comment on who are you? 6 days ago:
It’s about liability. Companies don’t want their salt returned to them after x years, especially not with some lame excuse. So they just define an expiration date y that’s far off enough to not drive customers away, but still minimizes the risk of complaints.
If a (big) customer successfully complains within this time span, they’ll simply decrease it. - Comment on When you see danger coming 6 days ago:
Tar is very problematic health-wise. Banned in some countries for this reason.
- Comment on Love this 1 week ago:
Are you J. Mascis?
Image - Comment on Love this 1 week ago:
I thought that’s celebrating retirement.
- Comment on useless people 1 week ago:
That’s pretty much the basic premise of the Chuang Tzu.
- Comment on ChatGPT does not fuck around 1 week ago:
Hey, SatansMaggotyCumFart is a real mainstay on here!
- Comment on Anyone? 2 weeks ago:
Just put some nail polish all over your hands to prevent it from happening.
- Comment on He would have been a better choice as new Pope 2 weeks ago:
There’s your dope pope.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 2 weeks ago:
That was painful.
- Comment on Anting 2 weeks ago:
How do the crows avoid getting acid into their eyes?
- Comment on open world chess 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I never noticed the toilet on a chess board.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 3 weeks ago:
Cool. Now riddle me this: If you were to stack these eggs in 3D, would you create an hcp or an fcc lattice?
- Comment on Literal interpretation 3 weeks ago:
And that’s how I met your mother.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 3 weeks ago:
Pants down and you could be donating your own turds to the park. Equilibrium restored.
- Comment on What else are they hiding from us? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 5 weeks ago:
You mean funny, like a clown?
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 5 weeks ago:
Surely they must mean pheromones.
- Comment on I hope she found herself 5 weeks ago:
Whoah.
- Comment on Beauty is still out there 1 month ago:
Ceci n’est pas un cigar.
- Comment on SPIRIT WEAPON 1 month ago:
Calm down, Amber Heard.
- Comment on Anon is at a work function 1 month ago:
I only go when there’s free beer. Like, real, actual beer. None of that 0% BS.
- Comment on Anon is lacking something metaphysical 1 month ago:
And one day when we flee
From our sweet misery
And shed our human costumes then
Revealing somewhat smaller men
Go off to work and then back again - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In authoritarian societies, restricting education serves a purpose as a sort of anesthesia for the minds of the people. Solzhenitsyn, describing the few years just before the Great Terror of 1937 started in the Soviet Union, mostly from the perspective of a political prisoner (from Volume II, Chapter 4 of the “Gulag Archipelago” which can be found in its entirety on the web, in The Archive):
And the clock of history was striking. […] The Great Leader (having already in mind, no doubt, how many he would soon have to do away with) declared that the withering away of the state (which had been awaited virtually from 1920 on) would arrive via, believe it or not, the maximum intensification of state power! This was so unexpectedly brilliant that it was not given to every little mind to grasp it, but Vyshinsky, ever the loyal apprentice, immediately picked it up: “And this means the maximum strengthening of corrective-labor institutions.” […] And this was not some satirical magazine cracking a joke either, but was said by the Prosecutor General. […] All this was printed in black on white, but we still didn’t know how to read.¹ The year 1937 was publicly predicted and provided with a foundation.
And the hairy hand² tossed out all the frills and gewgaws too. Labor collectives? Prohibited! […] Professional and technical courses for prisoners? Dissolve them! […] Graphs, diagrams? Tear them off the wall and whitewash the walls.1 My take: The author and his peers most definitely knew how to read, but they could not fully comprehend what was being published because of its, at that time, unparalleled egregiousness.
2 Certainly the one of Stalin. - Comment on We already knew that 2 months ago:
No, I’ve been afraid before.
- Comment on Stop touching your stuff! 2 months ago:
🎶 What’s love but a second hand in motion. 🎶
- Comment on Freedumb 2 months ago:
At least early Christianity is in many ways socialism. Remember the feeding of the 5000 with five loaves and two fish? The meaning is that there will be plenty if everyone shares.
- Comment on Freedumb 2 months ago:
When the true king’s murderers are allowed to roam free, a thousand magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feast we are promised?(Jim Morrison, An American Prayer)
- Comment on Anon stops showering 2 months ago:
Kinda like H2S, I guess. You can sense its putrid smell it in the range of 0.47 ppb to 100 ppm, then your olfactory nerve becomes paralyzed. Just when you think the gas is gone, there’s a 50% chance of you dying at 800 ppm. Years ago, I read about a “mysterious deaths” case in which H2S was the main suspect because of this stealthy property.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 3 months ago:
That’s the way. I have three phones, the two non-work phones are 1. for friends and family, 2. for everybody else. One of these is actually a dumb phone. Can’t stand the distractions.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 3 months ago:
The Zhuangzi has a chapter called “Mastering Life.”
Then again, I’ve been reading the whole book back to front dozens of times. It completely changed me, but for it all to sink it, it took a while.
