southsamurai
@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anon finally gets a gf 5 hours ago:
Wait, so it’s fake?
Damn, that’s so gay
- Comment on Am I the only person who notices the Autistic accent? 7 hours ago:
I don’t know I’d call it an accent really, since it isn’t quite the same thing, but I know what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 7 hours ago:
Banana bread may be the best baked good in human history.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 11 hours ago:
Well, not all pies are desserts for sure, but a tomato pie is, unless you deviate from the usual recipes.
Besides, you didn’t say that a dessert has to be a cake.
There’s also tomato jams, compote, and you can do a tomato cake mind you, a tomato cake is really more like banana bread, where it’s a flavoring more than the star of the show.
Point is that tomatoes can definitely serve in the same role as “fruit”, just like some things that are sweeter can be used in savory dishes.
It’s about the preparation, not the ingredient. I mean, look at bacon jam. Not a dessert, but it’s a savory and sweet spread that’s used in the same was as fruit based jams. Onion jam is in the same range (and, as a side note, there’s also onion and tomato pie which is more of a savory dish than a dessert, despite being fairly sweet anyway).
From a culinary standpoint, there are few ingredients that are fully excluded from dessert territory by virtue of having strong savory taste. There’s also not many excluded from entrees purely because they’re sweet. It’s all a wonderful spectrum of sweet and savory
- Comment on Do people suffering from trichotillomania ever go after the nose or ear hair? 13 hours ago:
Yup. It can exhibit anywhere. In general, you’ll see people having a “preference” for specific spots, but it’s fairly rare for it to be exclusive to only one.
After head hair, eyebrows tend to be the most common, followed by arms.
Those that grow facial hair would likely be higher in the list except that not everyone grows enough of it to be able to pull it at all. But you’ll often see folks dealing with the issue try to pull at the sideburn area even if they don’t grow anywhere else, and even if it isn’t long enough.
I’ve heard that it’s largely based on ease of reach rather than anything else. Otherwise you’d see it on the lower extremities more often.
But it is an unconscious thing, so that makes sense. If they could consciously choose where to pluck, everyone dealing with trichotillomania would just hit the easier to hide spots first.
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 14 hours ago:
ALLLLBATROOOSSS!
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 16 hours ago:
You never had tomato pie? It would likely change your idea of what too much savoriness is.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 day ago:
No worries, thank you for responding so quickly :)
- Comment on Dakota Johnson Delivers Damning Diagnosis On Hollywood’s Risk-Aversion: “It’s All A Bit Of A Mess” 1 day ago:
It was a single sentence’s worth of “damning”.
This, btw, is an article about and interview someone else did. Which isn’t a rare or new thing. But it’s an example of why journalistic telephone games are a bad idea. Thks clickbait title is going to get shifted just enough by whatever site copies this article until someone is claiming Thad she went on a five minute tirade.
What it really was, was an answer given in sound bite size while eating really spicy chicken wings and trying not to just scream in pain. Her entire response, without pauses for the heat, was maybe thirty seconds long. If that. Interesting, yes. Accurate, yes. Damning? Not even remotely.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 day ago:
That’s true enough, and that’s why I said that if Iran was backed by others and that retaliated in a way that might.
Let’s say Iran blames the UK, so they explode something there. Or one of their allies decides to pull fuckery in Germany.
That’s what I was talking about.
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 1 day ago:
Worst case, world war three. If enough other countries back Iran, they might retaliate in a way that triggers something like the nato treaty and you get some combination of countries compelled to do something, which could set off a series of conflicts that might spread.
More likely, some skirmishes and back and forth attacks happen, but nobody outside the region becomes involved directly.
Or, Iran could just posture and use it as political leverage to strengthen their position with allies and the various blocs around the world.
Obviously, there’s variants of those, and plenty of really unlikely options. But based on how iran has acted in the past and how little anyone is pressuring Israel currently, it doesn’t seem like it will escalate unless something else changes
- Comment on It's the dream 2 days ago:
Amen to that first one in particular
- Comment on so how do the kids defeat this clown, stephen? 2 days ago:
Or something lol. Dude had to be whacked out
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 2 days ago:
Eh, I fucked up, what can I say
- Comment on so how do the kids defeat this clown, stephen? 2 days ago:
Yeah, even he’s said that it was not a great choice lol.
I kinda get what he was going for though. It failed utterly, but as a scene meant to ground characters in their humanity and link them so deeply that the power of it could carry them through and into adulthood, the symbology is right.
The problem was their ages. Not because kids that age are never sexual, they can be. It was that the combination of the shock to the reader and the details of the scene pushed the idea into unrealistic territory that made it read unhinged rather than like an improvised magic ritual of sorts.
Like, c’mon man, you don’t actually need to describe as much as you did. The concept of a young girl making that decision as her size first experience is already at the very edge of credibility, trying to make it seem beautiful and otherworldly just breaks the ragged remains of suspension of disbelief. Like, no Steve, no. Not even in that situation would that happen, it just isn’t realistic even in that world. Fade to black, have it happen off screen, and be done with it if you really insist on that being the magic activity.
The fact that he didn’t consider anything less skeevy is another issue, but damn, there were a dozen things that would have carried the symbolism just as much, or more. Why not become “blood brothers”? Everyone slice a hand and shake on it, you dig? You know, something that group of kids would actually think of in that situation. On a literary symbolism level it’s better.
For one thing, the magic connection would be tied into all of them, not just hinging on one character. For another, blood exchanges as a form of power are damn near universal across the world’s history and cultures.
I like King. The dude has a strange and engaging imagination. But that scene is the worst one he’s ever written, on multiple levels.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 2 days ago:
I tend to ask how bad that worst act was. Some shit, ima judge your ass for even if it was only once, no matter how much you say you changed, because you might be faking the change to keep from being noticed.
But the standard is pretty fucking high if it wasn’t personal to me. Like, if I saw you kick a dog that wasn’t even remotely aggressive, ima judge your ass, but be open to you changing. Eventually, if that’s the worst you’ve ever done and you at least pretend to have changed well enough to not repeat it, I’m not going to hold that over your head forever.
But you kick my dog? Assuming I can’t get away with burying your ass, you better hope we never run across each other in the woods when we’re both 100, because it’ll be your last day on earth. No forgiveness, no benefit of the doubt.
But really big shit? No, Hitler never gets to be forgiven, period. Yeah , he’s dead, but ima judge that motherfucker until my last conscious moment
Now you brought up a specific example. It happens to be an example that I would absolutely never, ever trust the person again. Three reasons first, abuse of position. He already proved he will ignore professional ethics as well as general moral ones, as well as laws. That’s hard to change in people. Not impossible, but hard.
Second, he got away with it. That means his regret is dubious. If he truly regretted it, why’s he divulging it that way instead of taking steps to make him less likely to be able to repeat things?
Third, people that diddle kids don’t tend to stop. They just tend to pause. It’s impossible to nail down exact numbers because there’s some that never get caught. But the recidivism rate is high, and it is very rare that someone willing to do that can stop with just one act.
So, no, I couldn’t believe that any good he did balances out there near certain fact of the only reason he didn’t diddle every single kid he could have was because he didn’t think he could get away with those. He absolutely would have fucked every single patient that met his victim profile if he could have.
Also, it’s okay to say pedophile, the word police aren’t going to spank you.
Tbh, I can’t think of any situation where I could weigh any amount of good acts against fucking a single child and that one bad act not taint everything else. And it doesn’t have to be literally fucking, I’m speaking figuratively here. There might be some act that was so irrelevant to the victim that it might not matter if the good was good enough, but I doubt it. I can’t think of anything at least.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 3 days ago:
Thanks for that. My eyeballs retreated into my skull and made their escape through my ears. They just texted me from florida.
- Comment on (・∀・) 3 days ago:
No worries :)
- Comment on Be college freshmen 3 days ago:
Sailors are gay, obviously
- Comment on What are the key things people need to know about islam? 3 days ago:
Well, I’d generally point to Wikipedia and say that’s as much as most people could ever need to know without a specific reason to go deeper.
Really, all it takes to understand what’s being talked about in the news is there, plus details.
For even less stringent uses, you could break it down to being a monotheistic religion that shares roots with judaism and christianty and has wide ranging rules that sometimes conflict with other religions and/or philosophies/moral codes.
Hell, most people, most of the time, all they need to know to get through life is that it’s a religion. Even that’s only necessary for casual conversations so you don’t have to interrupt and ask what that word means.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 3 days ago:
Man, that’s me with elertroweak unification. I didn’t really understand the weak force to begin with, so it being unified with another is so far beyond my capacity I just have to call it magic
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 3 days ago:
Aren’t the Brits more viral historically? Go, inject themselves into another organism and force it to produce more brits.
- Comment on Be college freshmen 3 days ago:
Completely fake, no anon ever gets into college.
Completely gay, watching another dude jerk it without offering at least ma dutch rudder
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 3 days ago:
That’s just what a lamp would ask!
Seriously though, it’s a meme thing. It goes in cycles. Sometimes it’s beans. Sometimes it’s Gowron (glory to the empire!). Sometimes it’s people posting about how southsamurai has the most epic beard on the planet. Sometimes it’s moths.
- Comment on [Republican] Senator’s ‘Send In the Troops’ Op-Ed in The Times Draws Online Ire 4 days ago:
Seems like he’s a real riot.
Overwhelmingly
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 4 days ago:
He needs commitment lol.
Dude used to go around in character fucking with people. Great guy, just a wee bit bonkers
- Comment on p is for pHunky 4 days ago:
Phat-ass hydrogen
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 4 days ago:
Holy shit!
Forgive me for going off topic, but I gotta ping my buddy, @Jerusalemspiderman@lemdro.id
He’s a fellow transmetropolitan fan.
My Spider has the tattoo on his head for real. Used to sometimes do a cosplay of the character.
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 4 days ago:
I wish I could say that I didn’t have to learn it. Even with the women in my family being very empowered, and leading us boys to being more aware than most, I did have to unlearn some things, and pick up others.
We all gotta help each other be better when we can.
- Comment on Banned across multiple communities, posts deleted, for upsetting a mod 4 days ago:
My dude. That kind of thinking is exactly why women need their own spaces.
You may not realize it, or have ever examined yourself, but you just expressed misogyny in a mild form here, where you have had every chance to pick and choose how you say things to support your opinion that the reason given for the bans was unjustified.
It’s okay for a given group to have their own spaces without intrusion. A gay men’s space should absolutely be able to exclude women and straight men. A straight men’s space should be able to exclude gay men and women.
The only time having dedicated spaces is a problem is when every space is dominated by a single group. And that’s just not the case with a women only space. To the contrary, women struggle to have their voices heard in open spaces where everyone is allowed specifically because men dominate those spaces.
If you, as a man, went and ignored a clearly visible community rule, you absolutely deserve a ban from that community. As well, the fact that you’d blatantly ignore a clearly visible rule in community is a damn good indicator that you think you’re above rules, which means that a mod preemptively banning you from other communities ceases to be an over reaction.
So, I’m going to be harsh as hell in this. You stated that you knew the rule and ignored it. That means you’re either an arrogant asshole, or a petulant child. Neither of which is a good look when trying to claim a mod behaved badly.