Being apolitical is a luxury many cannot afford

I make a ham and brie sandwich on a toasted bagel. The just-melting brie holds into the hemp hearts as does the fig jam I out on the other half of the bagel. Yummers.

I like this one. White folks of good intentions in general have learned they have to distinguish themselves socially from the white supremacists.

There are many Jewish people who try to do the same and separate themselves from the genocidal members of that grouping. The term “Jewish supremacist” is a lot cleaner and easier to sell than “Zionist”.

“Zionist” just invites sealioning because then you get into whether Israel should exist at all and that’s just a damn mess.

The Krylon brand makes a thing called Easy-Tack repositionable spray adhesive. It’s a bit like the sticky on a post-it note, and is used for scrapbooking and fabric art that tou might need to move around.

Worth a look, I think.

Ok so it’s just a math problem, then. Inheritance is taxed and incurs other costs, so there’s some re-distribution. Plus with multiple heirs, the estate may be divided.

So keep shooting for another couple of months. I’m just saying, it’s totally doable, it will just take a bit more effort.

This is a major life lesson many never learn.

Suck up to the CEO for appearances sake, but be genuinely kind and grateful to the admins. It’s amazing how good relationships with the people who do the actual work make things easier.

‘They’ didn’t decide they weren’t ready. It was used to fleece the pathetic true believers for a short period until the inner circle felt sufficiently capitalized.

Pie in the sky By and by

Why many word when few good?

No need to fix perfection

At that moment, the student was enlightened.

It is so very frustrating when some one elevates their indefensible personal feelings to the level of cosmic law.

Someone read those books thoroughly and decided they are not worth the cost of staying in a damaging situation.

You have not read them and yet you to want to defend stories you don’t think are true, but might have some little pearls of conventional wisdom? And just gloss right over that the religious trauma caused them serious harm they are still recovering from?

Just pointing out that your luke warm defense of your favorite children’s stories in this context comes across as extremely tone deaf.

Oh that is a good video and a good channel overall, thank you.

Yeah I don’t think I need to be an infectious disease expert to see the writing on the wall. We learned from the COVID Experience that a lot of the pain of a pandemic is the social chaos and confusion that make solving the resource choke-points even harder, creating a runaway feedback loop of problems.

This time around we are less prepared, less informed and the woo-woo crowd has had their feelings validated lately so they are feeling extra empowered.

Stocking up on simple essentials in a calm and measured manner is surely not a bad idea. Just some extra toilet paper, hygiene supplies.

And of course, beans.

Well that’s one potential source of new pathogens, but we don’t need new pathogens to create a disaster.

We (meaning the US) are currently dismantling our pandemic management infrastructure and withdrawing critical funding for international prevention efforts, kids are dying of Measles already and bird flu is already everywhere for all we know. And don’t forget that the regular flu can still be a major killer. God knows what Ebola is up to these days.

This isn’t a future doomsday scenario like a John Carpenter movie. We will be facing this as the world turns into autumn 2025 in the northern hemisphere.

We’ve had pandemic, now we get second pandemic, and we are going to have it very soon. But this time we will fight it with denial, a weapon proven to be useless against infectious diseases.

I despair of any insulation of Canada. Too much daily ground traffic across that huge unguarded border. Cancelling flights won’t make much difference there. North America is one giant petri dish sharing disease like a family full of young children.

But I am glad the other nations have begun to strengthen their systems too. Humanity will survive in some form, pandemics can’t wipe us all out.

So the field is ripe for harvest then. :(

I’m trying to prepare myself for things to get really bad really quickly. Pandemics are the Achilles heel of complex global societies that forget the great secret: we are all made of meat.

I am certain I will be the last person to point out that you may feel you are the last one to know what it was like before the public internet, but that your feeling is completely off base and not based on anything from reality.

Your proposal is much too streamlined.

Perhaps you presume memes are a commodity of which consumption should be maximized!

Nay, I say. Memes are an essential nutrient that becomes toxic in larger doses.

Thus, they must be scattered about in the environment to be encountered by happenstance whilst I pursue my main information foraging goal of finding ad hoc justification for my durable sense of dread.

Memes, uhh, find a way.

Do whatever you want but I am planning many epic shitposts pretty much anywhere I can get a reaction.

He said BIRD mounts and he meant it. It is up to us to rise to the level where we too can use bird mounts.