shawn1122
@shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 day ago:
Also Shampoo:
Shampoo entered Europe in the mid‑18th century when Sake Dean Mahomed, an Indian entrepreneur, opened “shampooing” baths in Brighton, England; his establishments popularised the liquid, oil‑massaging treatment that resembled today’s shampoo. Before that, Europeans did not use a dedicated cleansing product. Hair was typically rinsed with water mixed with vinegar, ash or herbs, and many households relied on egg‑yolk washes (often beaten with warm water) as a gentle cleanser and conditionerbeachwaveperm.com. These rudimentary methods kept hair relatively clean but left residues that could weigh the hair down, especially under the heavy wigs fashionable from the late‑16th century onward. Wigs offered a practical solution: they protected the scalp from lice, reduced the need for frequent washing, and allowed wearers to maintain a tidy appearance despite the limited cleaning agents available.
- Comment on Newsom Says He Will Consider a 2028 Presidential Run After the Midterms 5 days ago:
He beats out AOC at DNC through the usual shenanigans and asks her to be his VP (she tells him to fuck off) and then the dems lose in a “shocker” in the general election, with ventilator Trump (enhanced with AI) officially making the US a theocracy.
- Comment on Yum 5 days ago:
Syphilis?
- Comment on I don't think so 1 week ago:
Is white a unifying culture in anyway? Wouldn’t calling it European make more sense?
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure racism never existed in America, especially not in the Boomer era. They are a well known for being an open minded and accepting generation.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
I mean, that’s just smart, wearing Western formalwear to convince white Westerners that you’re human.
I think the point does stand that this advice needs to be considered in the racially privileged or disenfranchised context Boomers lived in.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
This is truth. Immigrant and minority boomers/Gen X didn’t have it this easy. They were dodging racists like landmines and racist hiring practices were way less frowned upon back then.
- Comment on Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for? 1 week ago:
You’re getting down votes but I remember very specifically a trope on Reddit more than 15 years ago was that as a dude you could dress up in a suit and show up with a clipboard and infiltrate any professional environment. I think it’s a throw back to the movie Catch me if you can. I never saw it myself but it certainly captured some imaginations.
Anyways, I remember thinking maybe if you’re a middle class or better off white dude this could work and some people went as far as to actually share that sentiment and they were received as positively as you are right now.
- Comment on Anon checks up on a childhood friend 1 week ago:
Essentially nothing here sounds like main character. This could be the most miserable mofo in the world. Grass is always greener…
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t open to interpretation.
And yet, 2000 years later, here we are.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
If they identified as Christian but never read the book or rarely go to church, what connection do they have to the religion and why do you feel they wished to impart it on you?
- Comment on Anon thinks it's over 2 weeks ago:
If you could make a time machine and ask all of those people who their inspirations are you will get a list of five to ten people from each. No one is 100% uninspired by other people. That’s just not how art works.
- Comment on See ya. 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t read the book but how did it criticize the colonizer mindset? A cursory look makes it seem like a justification of paternalistic authority, so propaganda for kids to blindly listen to their parents haha.
- Comment on Zero surprise 3 weeks ago:
Everything we do marches us forward on the path to extinction due to climate change. If that isn’t a conflicting goal I don’t know what is.
Rebuilding community is the first step. Capitalism is on its usual decay path to fascism, an ideology based on us fearing each other more than the state. Challenging that notion is the first step to getting heads to roll.
- Comment on TRUMP 3 weeks ago:
As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very fee and far between. For white people j can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.
- Comment on wish 3 weeks ago:
Spain and then America both exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine for Spanish wealth.
America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.
It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.
- Comment on wish 3 weeks ago:
This sounds like a consequence of coming from money. Some rich parents are slave drivers and others are just happy producing trust fund babies. Wealth makes being a good parent more challenging.
That being said, most kids want to vet away from their parents and establish themselves at that age.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity.
After 1950: Expat.
People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they bring value to anywhere they may grace with their presence.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 3 weeks ago:
Which planet is this on? I’m not familiar with any “civilized” countries on this one.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
Science is powerful but, as you’ve stated, balance is most critical. It was one of the most impactful biologists of the modern era that wrote “the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races” based on his theory of natural selection.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely agree. The “internet” was not a harmful worldview reinforcing machine back when we were told not to cite GeoCities in our book reports.
Asking people to betray their dopamine is a monumental task. It’s like any other addiction.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
I know quite a few MAGA doctors so I can assure you that a medical degree is not protective.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
To your point, I’ve met quite a few STEM educated people who fall for this type of information due to lack of historical and political literacy.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a lot of the counter balance to this which is STEM folk not having respect for the humanities, rendering them empathetically underdeveloped.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 weeks ago:
The old testament is essentially Judaism which is an ethnic religion. There is no marketing needed because it is a religion for a specific group of people from a theoretical single lineage. There is no need for God to be accepting or patient since the goal appears to be unify and keep people under control during times of great strife.
Christianity is a universal religion ie. it tries to create new followers. If you’re a religion that is trying to spread grow your following, you need to have a message of openness and acceptance.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
Francis’ words are a departure from traditional Christian dogma which is that those who know of Christ and do not become Christian are choosing not to believe in him and are destined for damnation. Its why the church takes spreading the word so seriously, to the point of seeming aggressive at times, because those that are sharing the message feel that they are quite literally saving you.
There’s a reason a spokesperson immediately intervened with
- Comment on So she's saying that she's a sexual bull? 5 weeks ago:
I was a boy when I first read this. Now I’m a man. Amazing how time flies.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 5 weeks ago:
As someone who was raised Christian and considers myself one, I think Christianity has a few fundamental philosophical flaws (every religion does).
The major issue is hinging everything on an abstract ideal of faith. Under Christian doctrine one can only get into heaven by believing in Jesus. He is the only path to salvation.
This creates a mkral quandry. Could the worst person in the world beleive that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour and get into heaven? Perhaps not, they must also aspire to live a Christ-like life.
Let’s instead imagine the most Christ-like and righteous person in the world. If they do not believe in Jesus, they will burn on hell for eternity according to Christian doctrine.
What you end up with is a religion where it starts to feel like only one thing matters - do you believe in Jesus? It doesn’t take long moral principles are thrown out the window and people to start judging others less so by their thoughts, words and deeds but instead on just how much they beleive in Jesus.
Other religions have their flaws but particularly Eastern religious philosophy at least tries to tackle how do you live a good life a little more head on.
The deeper you go into the Christianity, the more obsessive it becomes about faith and the less concerned it is with how to live a good life.
Which is pretty warped if you think about it - shouldn’t the whole point of religion be to learn how to live well?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 weeks ago:
I opened this expecting some straight nonsense but this has a 1000x more soul and spirit than arguably the most popular pop singer in the Anglosphere (Taylor Swift).
- Comment on International travel 1 month ago:
Sounds like an expectation of special treatment that many Americans don’t even afford people from other countries lol.