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- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 29 minutes ago:
You get it.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 59 minutes ago:
Seriously. Only 1 of 6 browsers I use keep any history.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 5 hours ago:
So, religious texts are basically just some kind of “mind virus”? But just not the kind one should be “woke” about?
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 1 day ago:
See, that’s what they call “an echo chamber.” You need more diverse friends!
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
I use one of those minimalist wallets, and I would describe it as a card holder with an elastic for cash.
- Comment on Why do you never talk about what you're reading? Me: 2 days ago:
Looks to me like a pretty boring, but well written, set of anthropology essays. Mostly in the context of “this is Bob. He’s a demon, but that’s ok. He drinks blood, but not a lot. The Egyptians just think that’s annoying. The Greeks would have called him evil.”
- Comment on Keeping my promise to Zephyr 3 days ago:
That’s how I feel about “Big Dawg.” I’m not that big, and not that much of a dog.
- Comment on I am someone who works out daily and sweats a lot. Just doing laundry doesn't seem to adequately clean the underarms of my shirts. What are some ways to clean these areas of my clothing better? 5 days ago:
I used to have this on my undershirts. It’s 100% anti-perspirant.
If you don’t mind sweating, switch to just deodorant. There’s a difference. Anti-perspirant cakes and stains to keep your sweat from becoming liquid. Deodorant just stops smell, and the sticks usually aren’t pure white.
I use a salt stick deodorant and it’s great IMO. That’s the same thing as the “potassium aluminum rod” sometime else mentioned. Easy to find, never even know it’s there.
Wash your whites in hot water and white vinegar, then usual wash with oxyclean, to get rid of the stains in what you have.
- Comment on Boomers scolding us about how they were able to buy a house working at a gas station... 6 days ago:
Thank you for doing this research! It’s the first thing I thought of as well.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 6 days ago:
*Mold sold separately
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 6 days ago:
Bro, I’ll mail you 4 for $4. You just freeze it again once it shows up. HMU if interested.
- Comment on Help a girl out? 6 days ago:
That’s, uh… Not the same thing
- Comment on I know which one I'm picking! 1 week ago:
Isn’t one of the options supposed to have a downside?
This is like asking “do you want $1 million in gold, or in cash?”
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Absolutely correct.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
It’s to make calories easier to get.
Grains, pulses, meat, and some fruits and veggies need to cooked, i.e. processed, to make them safe or easier to eat.
“Processing” is as minimal as sprouting beans. Removing bran. Cutting into small tiny bits. Warming or heating. Pounded or smashed.
Not all “processed food” is ultra-processed diabetes - inducing poison. A baked potato is a processed food. A steak is a processed food.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Pineapple has entered the chat.
“Bitch, I’m fruit on a pole! Yellow means go!”
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
I just found it. It’s an organic shitpost.
- Comment on Niche meme alert 🚨🚨🚨 1 week ago:
I think it takes asking the question of “what is faddle and what’s not?” Jumping off the top of the ropes onto a folding table isn’t fake. The reasons why, sure.
- Comment on Niche meme alert 🚨🚨🚨 1 week ago:
I always thought of it like porn.
There’s minimal plot to explain why the guy in a leather banana hammock is mad at the guy in a spandex banana hammock and vest. If you’ve never been to a ballet, other than the ring, the set, and not singing the interludes, very little is different.
I honestly love the athleticism. Though, I prefer watching the ladies jump around. Their outfits are more interesting, anyway.
- Comment on molly for better socials 1 week ago:
Understood. We’re probably about the same age then, and might have grown up in similar circumstances. I missed maybe half of those same “formative” movies. Goonies. Dark Crystal. Labyrinth. Flight of the Navigator. Karate Kid. Breakfast Club, the ones I can think of off hand. Simply never saw them, or never saw more than 10-15 min of them until I was an adult.
It sounds like you’re being thoughtful about this, which is great. Many are worth watching since they’re well made on top of their cultural significance. And Netflix doesn’t have that many gems. Don’t feel bad about what you’re doing, you’re doing it right.
And At. Elmo’s Fire is maybe a curiosity at best. I didn’t care for it much, but the 80s had some terrible fear of Yuppies, and it was basically the Breakfast Club dynamics in a post-high school world. Who goes to college, who drops out, who gets a job, who stays cool, who becomes the dreaded Yuppie. Meh. It was fine as a Brat Pack cultural artifact and not much else, IMO.
- Comment on molly for better socials 1 week ago:
I’m around the age group that connects to it, but I simply never saw it at that age, so it totally missed me. A lot of people around me did, and have a strong affinity for it because they connected with it while in high school.
It’s worth a watch just to know what other people are talking about. Objectively, it’s well-made and tells an interesting story. That being said, you’re probably not going to connect with it. It’s a product of its time and the social issues affecting mostly Gen X kids. Exploration of young people’s personal traumas and issues was, at the time, sort of novel. Today it might seem trite and surface-level.
It’s a little bit like the movie St. Elmo’s Fire, where it’s a “one of each type of people” ensemble movie before that became an over-used trope, haled as a classic, but if you don’t connect to the characters or the time, it’s easy for it to overshoot you entirely on an emotional level.
- Comment on An American in Paris 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t the 'Merica! version of this be “Noo! Those brown people might pickpocket me, so I should burn down their homes now before they get a chance!”
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
Yeah, but, I would rather drink that for the rest of my life than drink Ecuadorian cherry whatever stuff we have right now for a year.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
Even the fucking witches know to trust the virologists
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
I appreciate the sentiment of your comment. For real, this is worth asking.
That being said, I know what I like, and I’m, relatively speaking, also a bit of a coffee snob. Don’t worry, I’m not some bumpkin drinking Nescafe.
I love a good low acid French Roast. Preferably African origin. Rich vanilla, deep roasty notes, chocolate, tobacco, leather, maybe cinnamon, slightly to moderately bitter. The same is true of whiskeys I like and beers I like or brew for myself. It’s a flavor profile my partner and I both enjoy.
Right now, I have a 5lb bag of a co-op direct whole bean that’s described as:
Roast: Dark
Acidity: Soft
Body: Smooth
Aroma: Toasted Walnut, Vanilla, Caramelized Sugar
Tasting Notes: Molasses, Smoky, Chocolate BrownieNot a French roast, but my partner likes this one and we can agree on it. It’s as light bodied as I like, but I like it a lot. Always drink our coffee black. 8/10 to me. We tested 3 different dark roasts to get to this one.
And to your specific suggestion, a month ago a friend that went to Ecuador and sent us 500gr of beans also direct from a co-op as a gift. Very nice of her. Light with cherry, slight caramel, and bright flavors. I fucking hate it. So much. Tastes like open sewers smell to me: sweet-sour ethyl esthers and funk. I understand that, objectively, it’s good coffee. It’s just not for me. I genuinely dread having it tomorrow morning just to get rid of it. I’ll drown it in goat milk and choke it down. My partner thinks it’s just ok.
We also both hate more than minimally peated scotch, and think people that claim to like scotch are victims of marketing and pressure from other douchebags, or have brain damage.
- Comment on She really was 1 week ago:
Marble racing is one of the things that got me through COVID.
Have you ever seen Jelle’s Marble Races on YouTube? The sand tracks are literally what I did as a kid.
- Comment on She really was 1 week ago:
Add seeds. Now you garden.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
What about the people that make it for themselves because they just like it that way?
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
I’m looking forward to one of those in a bit. Moka pot is love.
- Comment on I want it to slap me across the face 1 week ago:
I once worked with a Brazilian woman that complained about all the weak office coffee, and said, “I want my coffee so dark and rich I can chew on it.”
100% agreed with her on that.
