TheRealKuni

Right. Billionaires shouldn’t exist. But as with everything else in reality, there is a spectrum.

And while Bill Gates isn’t a good guy, he’s way better than Musk.

I 3D printed some Crocs, does that count?

And every time we cut off antibiotic treatment of tuberculosis we’re rolling the dice on resistance. It’s a matter of time before we have a version of TB we can’t treat in the developed world, too, if this behavior keeps up.

They’re already working on brainwashing their base on this one. My dad started talking about how in Europe ATC is handled by a private company, not a part of the EU government.

I had to explain to him that Eurocontrol is an international organization, and that international organizations aren’t the same thing as private companies. No one calls the UN General Assembly, the WTO, or the IMF “private companies.”

Au contraire! As was sung, “I am the one thing in life I can’t control”

Are you referring to Wait For It?

Cause the line is “I am the one thing in life I can control”

Also Burr definitely didn’t “wait for it” when it came to boning down on that British dude’s wife.

Vince Vaughn was perfectly cast for Bad Monkey, IMO. He fit the role well, so he worked well for it.

As an American I used to use a variation of this phrase.

Then I decided to experimentally switch to using Celsius. Took a few weeks/months to really internalize it and stop having to do on-the-fly conversions, but honestly I love it.

It’s remarkable how useful having 0 be freezing is for weather. It makes understanding sub-freezing temperatures much easier. Which also helps reinforce what a degree Celsius means.

I wish other Americans would try it. I haven’t gone back, all my devices are still on Celsius over five years later.

Good ol’ fen-phen.

I mean, I and others friends have made jokes about the 51st state thing with a Canadian friend in our group. But everyone in that group knows how fucking absurd the idea is, and everyone in the group knows that no one in the group is in favor of it. Sort of gallows humor.

I have to hope that’s what those others were trying with their jokes, trying to relieve tension by mocking the absurdity. But obviously if that backfires, it’s certainly not the fault of the receiver of the joke. Intention matters but it isn’t everything.

You say that, but in Nazi Germany (whose playbook we’re following) economic crisis was part of the rise of fascism. Not its fall.

Over half of Zoomers can already vote. Gen Z is roughly 1997-2012.

Unfortunately the younger they are the more likely they are to be conservative it seems. More poisoned by the algorithms.

I would much rather have Camacho as president than Cheeto Benito.

It was remarkable how much fake Weird Al music there was. Someone maintained a helpful “Not Al” list.

Flip the script, say she’s gaslighting you by pretending to smell things that aren’t there.

(Don’t actually do this unless you really hate your relationship.)

Okay, so the water in hotels that sucks at getting soap off (it doesn’t really, but it feels like it does) is softened water. It has been treated to remove calcium, magnesium, and other cations, to prevent scale buildup.

As I understand it skin feels slippery like it hasn’t removed the soap for potentially a few reasons. General consensus is that either you’re feeling whatever salt they put in the water to treat it, or you’re feeling the lack of those minerals. That is, you’re use to the water making your skin feel less slippery because of the various minerals in it, so the absence of those minerals makes it feel slippery. You get used to this eventually, but it’s annoying if you aren’t used to softened water.

The confusion comes in because in home water systems, you really only need a water softener if the water in the area is particularly hard. So it’s easy to associate softened water with hard water. Because you don’t really need to soften water that isn’t high in mineral deposits (unless you’re a hotel trying to minimize cleaning costs and are treating a fuckload of water centrally).

So you’re both right. It’s soft water because it’s been softened. And it’s been softened because it’s hard water. 😂

Lol as opposed to… Any other type of meat? I don’t think any meat where they are raised to be shot in the head in an assembly line is “cruelty free”

The world isn’t black and white, there are spectra. I’m not saying meat isn’t cruel, just that some forms of meat are more cruel than others.

FWIW, I’m neither vegan nor vegetarian, but I have made an effort to reduce my meat consumption.

I mean I wouldn’t call myself a 0 on the Kinsey scale. Not a 3 or higher, but definitely not a 0. 🤣

Foie gras makes me sad. It’s usually cruel, produced by force-feeding animals. There are ways to make it humanely but they are rarely carried out.

But damn is it good. I don’t eat it anymore, but I have had it a couple of times and loved it.

There are people that unironically believe this.

I think you misspelled, “there are people who are terrified that they might not be straight and thus obsess over what might make someone gay.”

I remember, in my younger, conservative years, becoming terrified about how I didn’t like lesbian porn as much as stereotypical guys. I was worried I might be gay since I preferred porn with a guy in it.

So in college, being open-minded and experimental (probably why I’m now far from my conservative roots), one day I tried to jerk off to gay porn.

I learned then 1: there’s nothing scary about gay porn, and 2: gay porn isn’t a turn-on for me.

Oh and 3: a culture that makes someone worried about their sexuality because they like straight porn is really fucked up and needs to chill.

That’s me. Sort of. Don’t get me wrong, my wife is rapidly running out of room in her office for all the cute animals I have printed for her (that she didn’t ask for, I just surprise her with them sometimes 😅).

But I’ve rapidly reached the stage where I want to print but have covered most of my own needs for printed stuff. So any time anyone asks if I can print something, I’m thrilled.