That thing about being anti-bacterial is true. By simply being a barrier that microbes (and dirt, and water) can’t penetrate. For short term wound treatment, petroleum jelly is an excellent barrier for an open wound that’s not bleeding. Bandages inundated with it can keep a wound clean in the roughest conditions.

I’m no Luddite, but the idea of a “bread machine” has always seemed wrong to me. A machine half the size of R2D2, that’s half mixer, half oven. And they “recommend” bespoke flours and mixes that demand obscene markups. All to produce mediocre loves.

Anyone can do better with basic equipment and cheap supplies. But not everyone will do better and that’s fine. It’s just that you could get bakery fresh delivered for like a year before you’d approach the upfront cost of those monstrosities.

The only reason to honor Bob Lee is because he’s responsible for more dead slavers than any three Union generals.

Jeff the god of biscuits.

You can’t make yourself sleep. You can make yourself get up. Force yourself to get up early the going to bed early part will take care of itself.

Oh and you should stop drinking liquids a couple of hours before bed. Unless your a man over 50, in that case if you want to sleep through the night you’ll have to avoid any fluids after Tuesday.

Not all “elephant experience” parks are the same. Some only have rescue animals, don’t use them for “shows”, segregate male animals from guests, and only allow interaction on the animal’s terms.

Similar to the difference between an accredited zoo and Joe Exotic.

FYI: direct equivocating chattel slavery and prison forced-labor is an old tactic for confederate apologia. Prison conditions are, as OP points out abhorrent and racist. But they’re utopian compared to race-based chattel slavery. It makes the slavery apologist’s job easier when they just have to defend prison conditions to an audience ignorant of the realities of antebellum slavery.

Saying that prisons are the same as slavery doesn’t make prisons look worse, it makes slavery look better.

My opinion of anti-theists in general is that they’re like “fat hate”, just basic bigots who think they found a loophole. In anti-theist spaces for example, Islamophobia isn’t tolerated, it’s enforced.

Dawkins was always a public bigot. It’s no wonder he talks just like American conservative Christian, he’s been in bed with them for years.

One of the biggest reasons nobody trusts the media is because of this stupid standard of objectivity. Not the journalists fault, might as well insist reporters can fly as be “objective”.

Pretending to be objective is dishonest; making it an editorial standard guarantees you’re lying to the audience.

So they just pretend to be objective, we all see though it; and nobody likes being bullshited.

Israel can take Iran

I’m out.

What does it mean that a company is worth $4T? (and I’m not talking about market cap)

It means that above and beyond the sum of Apple’s assets is a giant balloon of funny money backed by the full faith and credit of the greater idiot. Tesla has a big pustuous boil full of money too, and bitcoin is nothing else. I sure hope they don’t pop.

Because I’m not allowed to read the article to know if this is mentioned: a big reason why this would aggravate Wukong fans is that Nintendo is a Japanese company.

This dust up over HB1 is my favorite Christmas present. Seeing Vivak and Elon elitesplain why immigrants are good to MAGA is never going to get old.

We need to keep this issue in the cycle. Can we get Jefferies to declare that expanding HB1 is the Democrats top priority? Perhaps introduce legislation to loosen the restrictions on H1Bs.

We have a constellation of satellites constantly broadcasting the most accurate time humans can measure and it’s crazy every device doesn’t have an antenna to pick this up and set the time.

I just want to point out that a civilian airliner with no defense, warning, or maneuver was struck by Russian anti-air and almost made it back home.

“spices” were valued for their exclusivity, or because rich people ate them.

For example, allium plants like garlic and onion were viewed with suspicion and disgust, even considered poisons. This isn’t because they don’t taste good, more that anybody with a garden could grow them. Meanwhile, spices like nutmeg, which only grow in far-off places were coveted.

This is also the probable explanation for prohibitions on pork. Pigs are the meat of the poor, because you don’t need much land or resources to raise them. That old wives tale about trichinosis implies that ancient people were too stupid to cook their pork thoroughly while consuming chicken and fish that had the same illness and parasite problems as pigs.

Whenever you hear someone say:

the South never could have won due to the North’s industrial capacity

Tell them

that sounds like wisdom in English, but it’s a joke in Vietnamese.

This article’s reasoning is faith based. The cornerstone assumption is that industry profits and layoffs obey the preferences of the market.

To those who follow the industry, this is demonstrably false. What follows is the lack of awareness on full display:

and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

This is like when you get the right answer using the wrong formula

When I was a kid, I thought people who lived like that were just on TV. Middle class existence was as relevant to my experience as robot maids and talking cars.

Honestly I’m still a little suspicious. Hollywood contrivances are a history of how we think of ourselves, not of how we are.