Hilariously pathetic.

They say this because…

… anyone?

That’s right, Timmy, it’s because they want to execute a large merger once Trump is in power.

Fingerprints aren’t a magical marker that remains visible on a surface for a set period of time. If you handle an object thoroughly and then hand it to your buddy there’s a good chance that only your buddy’s fingerprints will be detectable (and it’s also pretty likely that no ones’ would be clear enough for a match).

A cop that planted evidence on you would then, usually, find that evidence to announce that you had it.

That finding action would likely excuse any fingerprints on the evidence unless they were extremely careless and left a fingerprint inside the baggie.

They’re essentially using it for fracking so it’ll end up in the water supply.

Hey… don’t forget Vermont!

Ah, as someone who doesn’t hide differences do you walk into the office like…

“Hey Nigerian Dan, did you get the memo from Polish John about half-irish half-welsh Sarah’s presentation later today?”

In no way am I trying to erase people’s identities, I just want to highlight that language places an immense emphasis on gender that erases non-binary people and cements it psychologically as an important trait for social interaction.

People are fucking complex, there’s no reason to constantly bucket them into groups by gender identity.

Cast iron has a really large thermal capacity (I use it for searing, as an example, because once you get it hot it’ll sear food without noticeably cooling down).

This is generally a bad property for baking since you would, ideally, like to submerge most baked goods in uniform temperatures to produce consistent heating. This is why baking moulds are made of very thin metal. To work around it with a cast iron pan you’d want to partially preheat the pan so that the heat conductivity of the cast iron is as close to air as possible - that’d be extremely hard to do precisely.

It’s a neat experiment though so thank you for sharing it. We do use our cast iron for cooking some breads but they’re quite distinct. We use it for Farinata, Pupusas, and corn tortilla - and it works for these breads because they’re unleavened and using high thermal capacity cookware slightly simplifies the cooking process by making the heat transference more consistent.

Yes, it is to me. English (and most languages tbh) has constructs that constantly reinforce a concept of binary genders and highlight that as an important factor.

When you learned about Mr., Miss, and Mrs. did you find that awkward? To know how to title a woman (absent the more modern Ms.) you’d need to know their marital status - but for dudes it’s whatever? That fucking pissed me off as a kid - how are you supposed to know if someone is married when writing them and who fucking cares…

To me, at least, gendered pronouns are the same way - I’m writing to a person, about a thing, as them as an individual. Gender is generally irrelevant to this interaction so why the fuck is it necessary for it.

Imagine if it was astrology sign instead: I just finished writing up a response to OsrsNeedsF2P. I hope Virgo appreciates the care I put into it because I enjoy the question Virgo asked.

Imagine needing to know someone’s birth sign to talk about them and imagine that English constantly reinforced that birth sign was the way to identify others and that there were twelve and only twelve proper birth signs.

Gender expression is an important part of our identities - I have a complex expression as a non-conforming man - but it’s not the important part of our identity. It’s a factor of our identity and, I’d argue, only really rarely a top five factor. People are philosophers, crafters, writers, artists, hikers, gamers, cooks, painters, etc… those activities we enjoy are much more core to most of our identities. Our gender expression is important but should usually only impact a very narrow portion of our identity.

So to me, yea, it’s a real issue.

Luetin09 apparently only has 901k subscribers.

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Atrioc is up near 706k.

And everyone should be subscribed to YoungScrolls but sadly only 269k people are.

So long as after the person does self checkout you have someone manually confirm they scanned all the items.

I applaud the massive theft from Walmart people pissed off with having to pay and scan their own shit have been pulling off.

I don’t appreciate pronouns being as wide spread in a working environment. For people who have had to fight for their gender identity I will of course respect that choice - but gender is a rather irrelevant quality in the workplace and I feel like the wide proliferation of pronouns on profiles in Slack/Teams/etc… improperly emphasizes the importance of gender in the workplace. I’d much rather use they/them as blanket pronouns and try and demphasize gender in our language. There are numerous more important factors of people’s personalities that are more interesting than gender like interests (imagine if there was a common pronoun for someone interested in D&D as example) and I’d rather use those factors for identity than gender.

I admit this is likely to be fairly controversial but I do think the world would be a much more pleasant place if gender wasn’t constantly reinforced in language.

I’ve lived on the east coast, west coast and in Europe. Out here in the west coast (Vancouver) the cities are nice enough but anytime I leave my home I have to walk down a hill (and my partner struggles with that due to arthritis), walk along half a mile of four lane arterial roadway, squeeze through two blocks along the same roadway on an extremely narrow unprotected at grade sidewalk while semis barrel by leaning over my head… then I get to a shopping center and transit nexus and can go elsewhere.

While living in Southern Spain I’d walk two blocks on quiet pedestrian streets to a waterfront promenade which was littered with restaurants and provided a wide (like 20 meter) surface to stroll along to reach the city center - at one point before the city center you’d need to cross a two lane high traffic road but that road had protected crosswalks every 150 meters.

The contrast between these two places (and don’t even get me started on how pleasant Barcelona is to pedestrians) is stark.

European countries have access to those same ultra processed foods and yet their consumption and the obesity rates are dramatically lower. I think there are factors beyond simple availability that we should look at fixing.

Once upon a time people worked 9-5 with a commute somewhere under twenty minutes - so somewhere in the realm of nine hours of employment before home tasks like cooking and cleaning started happening. I believe most millennials and under work at least ten and a half hour (and the number of people trying to juggle multiple jobs has gone way up).

The ultra processed and fast foods are generally the default option when you are so fully drained by a sedentary employment and craving chemical joy to deaden the depression of existence. Millennials have eschewed alcohol and tobacco like no other generation and sugar is the only chemical fulfillment they can find so it becomes a spiral of comfort food into physical pain into inability to seek other enjoyment into comfort food.

I’d hesitate to ascribe the obesity epidemic to a single cause due to the exceptions that prove the rule.

I don’t. I’m not a morning person and I’m always garbage if I try to be.

I wanted a pineapple and put a cutting board on my lap to slice it up.

I thankfully only stabbed myself a little when the extremely slippery fruit did its thing.

Global Warming is getting to the point where the US government will probably need to step in as insurers start going under. This is pretty fucking scary considering it’s Trump and he’s likely going to fuck over California home owners out of spite.

I hope those affected by the fire carefully consider global warming when choosing where and how to rebuild.

I’d bet money some NIMBY pos didn’t like the idea of homeless people in their neighborhood and reported them.

RIAA was famously litigious but music was also much more widely available to pirate so it made it harder for streaming services to offer enough value to tempt users away from piracy. Services like pandora that (originally, at least) offered good value in terms of music discovery were the only ones to really offer a compelling reason not to pirate.

When it comes to movies, though, the much larger file sizes kept piracy a more niche activity for longer. When I was in uni pretty much everyone was running Kazaa or similar for music, but only techy folks would put in the effort to pirate videos.

Yea. If that was the only charge I’d agree - but juries rarely (even though they’re supposed to) consider charges in isolation. Throwing Murder1 w/ terrorism on the pile makes it more likely he’s found innocent on all counts.