https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw7AIXQhFWw

In America, they often cut the lampshade off right after manufacture.

Not even for religious reasons, just some 19th Century health nuts like RFK jr convinced everyone that it was good for your health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM87RYAsrSc

This video (6:13) is about shrimp, but it has great advice for someone who’s not a seafood person but wants to incorporate that into their diet.

How the hell is Brad Dourif not in this movie!? Was he busy with Chucky or something?

It’s worse than that. Human rights are the number one justification for state violence and aggression. Not only are “property rights” the justification for police violence. The protection of human rights in general have excused nearly all invasion and conquest since the Berger revolutions deposed the “rights of Kings”. Hitler was protecting German citizens in Czechoslovakia. Putin was shielding Russian speakers in Ukraine. And the only thing George Bush cared about was Iraqi freedom.

I think empathy is misunderstood. Especially this notion that having empathy is a proxy for being a good person.

Consider the sadist. You cannot enjoy someone’s suffering if you can’t recognize it. Being manipulative would also be difficult without a grasp of someone’s inner life. A confidence artist must be an empath. A “cold read” psychic must be uniquely empathetic.

In 1921 Hitler gave a speech where he promised to put Jewish people into camps to see “how they like it”. (he was upset about WWI German POWs and blamed Jewish people for their long internment). So Hitler did recognize Jewish people as human and capable of suffering; that was the point.

According to some psycho-annalists, you don’t have an authentic self. It’s just a Russian nesting dolls of personas and identities that we show the world, but at the bottom is not our true self, but instead another mask we show ourselves.

I’m not sure about all that, but personality, persona, identity, and self are all concepts we use to understand our consciousness. So it would be a mistake to try and reify those concepts as though they’re a real part of you like an ear or a leg.

After watching the latest Atun-Shei video, I’m using burger instead of bourgeois from now on.

To be fair, abortion mostly effects young women. While Medicare and Social Sec touch the lives of nearly every American family.

If they make cuts, the backlash will come from the left and the right. Significant cuts would be an indication they’re not concerned with elections at all.

Dowd is right. There should be some kind of standard so you understand dosage. When I try an edible, I eat a tiny amount and wait an hour. This isn’t because I’m smart, it’s because I’ve had bad experiences with potent stuff.

I know how many beers or shots I can get away with. With edibles, it’s a gamble every time.

These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.

It’s always been this way for the cheap speakers. They’ve no processing power on-board and need the cloud just to tell you the time.

I believe Dashbo is referring to the original painting.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&iar=images&q=this+is+not+a+pipe&iax=images&ia=images

Measles is the most infectious virus we know of. Contagion is measured by how many people the average patient will infect. Covid was a 4, measles is 18.

Too many Zionists are using Antisemitism as a sword and the Shoah as a shield and it’s fucking gross and they should be ashamed.

I can predict the fist step of TSMCs plan for American companies: layoffs.

What joke? I didn’t know how transmissions worked in EVs and now I do. People who think curiosity is worthy of ridicule guard and protect their own ignorance like a treasure.