I use Amazon as a search engine to narrow down to a few options for a product, then go to those manufacturers’ websites and order directly from them. Been a while since I’ve ordered directly from Amazon.

“I require privacy not to conceal some malice in my own actions; but to protect against the malice of those seeking to abuse that authority.”

New vandalism idea: smear some strawberry jam into the nooks and crannies of a swasticar, then let nature take it from there.

IIRC the line that gets people worked up about sex before marriage is just something like “Keep the wedding bed pure” …kinda vague, and to me personally it reads a lot more as “don’t cheat on your SO” than anything to do with timing of sex.

Definitely not a theologist though, so grain of salt.

Iirc, the law specifies exposure of the female nipple and areola as the things that are indecent…

So… get some titty tassels with a large enough sticker plate to completely cover your areola, and you’re 100% legal!

You may consider also carrying a taser.

Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.

Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.

And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.

Get a 1/3 cup measuring cup from your local dollar store. Two scoops will land you at almost exactly 10 tbsp.

No one should be expected to count all the way to 10 during that shitty period between waking and caffeine!! 2 is much more manageable.

If there’s a Winco near you, they have good-might-be-stretch-but-significantly-better-than-Folgers coffee in their bulk section that you can grind in store. It’s fairly cheap - no idea if it’s a better or worse deal than Folgers. Decent variety of strengths and flavors.

If you don’t have a Winco nearby, you might have something similar- on a scale of [normal grocery store] to [Costco], Winco is kind of right in the middle; I’m guessing it’s not the only chain that’s like that, and that similar stores will have a similar inventory.

Archaeologists circa 2184 will have a much more interesting job.

Oh, right on! I’ve only worked at a few different hospitals, so the sample size of my anecdote is pretty tiny, but I’ve noticed two trends that seem to contribute:

With newer surgeons, women are quicker to recognize when shit’s getting out of their experience level, and ask for help from their seniors before an emergency unfolds. Men tend to dig themselves into a hole first, then call a senior for a rescue as an absolute last resort.

With seasoned surgeons, women tend to be nicer to their team; men tend to be assholes. This is problematic if someone on the team is more timid - there have been instances where someone notices something like a hole in the surgeon’s glove, but didn’t say anything about it because they were afraid of inciting the surgeon’s anger… and then the patient ends up with an infection. As the tech or nurse in the OR, you need to bold as fuck sometimes. I.e., when I was a couple years into this job, we were wrapping up a big open-belly case, surgeon starts closing while the nurse and I were doing our counts. Counts were no good - one of our lap sponges was unaccounted for. “Doc, stop closing, we’re missing a sponge” …he ignored me and kept closing… so I reach over with a pair of scissors and cut the needle off the suture he was using. He proceeds to lose his shit, we do a sweep of the abdomen, and sure as shit there’s the missing lap. Then he doubles down and starts snapping about how lucky I was that it was in there. Both the nurse and I start chewing him out - literally doesn’t matter if it’s not in there, if your surg tech says there might be a retained sponge, you stop what you’re doing and start looking for that sponge. Were I less blunt with that dude, he’d have finished that stitch and closed the cavity, so now the nurse has to chart that a cavity was closed with a wrong count, then legal gets involved. I literally saved that dude from some serious trouble, but he was too butthurt to be anything other than pissed.

Anyway, women tend not to pull shut like that. Every time I’ve needed to call the room to a halt with a female surgeon, she’s just been on board with addressing the problem. Men feel like I’m challenging them personally that they need to contest; women see it as a challenge to the entire team that we all collectively need to resolve.

To be clear, most surgeons male or female just want what’s best for the patient and don’t put up a fight when I raise a concern… but when there is pushback, it’s generally from a man.

so the ones that make it are more skilled on average than men who don’t have to overcome those challenges?

Hadn’t considered that, but you’re probably right. Female doctors get a lot more stupid pushback. A year or so ago, I was in a thyroid case, doc was one of the younger women on the ENT crew. Also super small. …and people treat her like a fucking child. Anyway, we had recently had issues with pathology following her orders, so once she was done taking specimens, she ran them down to pathology herself to make sure everything went smoothly… the lab tech who received them literally told her to ‘go back to the OR and ask the surgeon to clarify the order’ lol. She would have been 100% justified in exploding at that tech, but she didn’t cuz she’s actually a decent person. That kind of shit never happens to men. I’ve been called ‘doctor’ more times than I can count, despite the giant green “TECH” label hanging below my name tag. “Quite the promotion, sir, but if you’re not trying to kill the patient you should probably bounce that question off of someone who knows what they’re doing.”

My take on feminism is that it just means equal rights and equal treatment, so fuck yeah I’m a feminist.

I once had a physical therapist tell me she wasn’t a feminist because she thought women couldn’t be as physically capable as men when serving as soldiers

That argument has always seemed like a cop-out to me. The division there is with physical ability, not gender. Establish the physical requirements and call it a day. There are weak-ass men who have no business getting near fields like that; and strong-ass women who blow the physical requirements out of the water.

Overall, men will pull ahead in jobs that emphasize physical labor - that’s fine. The flip side is also true, with other jobs favoring the anatomy and physiology of women. Aviation comes to mind. Especially if we’re still in the context of military, size and weight both need to be LOW. So same spiel - establish the requirements as the job demands and call it a day; weight and size limits will tend to favor women.

In either case, marking it as men-only or women-only is fucking stupid; but the demands of a specific career field leaning into anatomical and psychologic advantages of one sex vs the other is fine so long as the numbers reflect the actual demands.

*This does come with the need for and oversight, though, as the potential for abusing a system like that is high in order to accomplish sexist goals.

There’s something to be said for the mental side as well. Speaking as a surgical tech, the best techs I’ve worked with have consistently been women. I couldn’t begin to tell you why, and I’m backing this on the tiny field of view I’ve had into this field, but anecdotally, women are just better. I get a similar impression looking to the nurses and doctors, but I don’t have the expertise to really judge either of those.

Tldr, utilize people’s strengths, but don’t be a sexist asshole about it.

Murder is fucked up, human or not.

Couple issues with that. Murder is just illegal homicide. The homicide bit means it’s definitively only dealing with humans, and the legal bit is only as fucked up (or not) as the law itself, and history is littered with examples of legality clashing with morality.

We have some really evil folks in this world and they’re protected by the same laws as everyone else. Some of those evil people are doing things like running countries or mega-corporations or engaging in some other means of causing a massive scope of death and/or suffering. You find yourself in a position in which you could feasibly take their life - do you? It’s illegal: very much murder. But allowing them to persist allows whatever evil they’re inflicting on everyone else to also persist.

I know none of this is what you’re talking about, but I see the word ‘murder’ pop up a lot in conversations like this, and it’s just not the correct word for what you’re trying to describe. You can make a solid case for the morality of veganism without relying on the connotation of buzzwords that aren’t actually relevant.

Real (actually brewed) root beer. Not to be confused with root beer flavored syrup mixed with carbonated water, which is 99% of what’s available.

It’s hit and miss depending on the source, but when it’s a hit… chef’s kiss

We getting into strawman shit, or are you just not paying attention? The suicidal shit came before the military, not because of it. I’ve got plenty of real faults if you want to make a dig at any of them - no need to make shit up.

You’re missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I’m stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. …but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone’s too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I’m a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can’t control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won’t change anything outside of severely reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

I left “I’m a fucking idiot” in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn’t have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster… which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

Veteran here. It’s more like: “I’m a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice.”

Plan B was to kill myself, so I don’t feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.

You’d be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it’d be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.

I’m probably the least tech savvy person on Lemmy. If my dumb ass can figure it out, the subset of Reddit’s population who we’d actually want in Lemmy’s community should have no problem.

That said, onboarding could have been better, and you’re right about the potential hangups: “fediverse” sounds like some kind of federal government function like a hub website that links to all the different .gov agencies, and “Lemmy” sounds like a cartoon character. Choosing an instance was more stressful than it probably should have been; ultimately went with .world by blindly following the advice of a YouTube video, but on day 1 I was pretty oblivious to the extremist shit that’s associated with instances like .ml and had no clue what ‘tankie’ even meant.

That was two years ago though - no idea if that reflects what getting started is like today.

And again, that’s all coming from a relatively tech-dumbass, so I’d imagine it’s probably smoother for people less prone to starting a fire when they turn their computer turns on.

Edit: sorry to anyone who had to read that before the edit… when I’m tired I have an annoying tendency to think a word as I’m typing and then just skip to the next one. And I’m tired all the fucking time, so my posts have a lot of holes Q_Q

The graphics are fantastic, but it’s a nonstop grind and super pay-to-win, and the top paying players never get banned despite constant exploits.

I don’t really recommend it. 3/10

Judging by your post history, it looks like I agree with you on nearly everything, except apparently when it comes to splitting hairs over how much faith we have in the average American to actually get up and get their hands dirty to take our country back.

…and honestly, I’m a little jealous of that optimism. The past decade has made me cynical as fuck. You’re right to call me out for defeatism. This all seems so fucking hopeless to me, but I really ought to keep that shit to myself - not like I’d be doing anyone a favor by ‘winning’ them over.