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Dammit, and here I had said I wasn’t going to masturbate today

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I think there was a mistranslation of “biological warfare”

Edit: Jfc, I can’t believe I agree with lil kim

Kim has called South Korean K-pop a “vicious cancer.”)

Also, this response is based as fuck, and I can’t believe I’m using the term based because I think it’s fucking stupid, but this is based as fuck.

Oh, y’all gonna fuck with us and drop letter bombs? Hold my north Korean beer…

It’s a shit storm.

I’m gonna shit myself laughing at this

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Sooooo, we’re symbiotic with roaches and rats.

Good to know! Makes my project to genetically modify us into a single new species a little less crazy

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I am super cereal

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It’s one of those things where on paper, it’s supposed to be as stringent as medical settings, but in reality it amounts to exactly what you said: they aren’t washing their hands.

But, truth be told, there’s some places where people don’t change gloves between food stations, which is even worse than just switching gloves without washing. It all comes down to who is running the kitchen. A good manager/chef is on top of things, and the methed out, sleep deprived, half drunk crew are following procedure well. Otherwise, things fall through the cracks a lot because there’s a degree of similarity between a kitchen during a rush and an ER on a busy night, without the extra training and entrenchment of germ theory to help the kitchen staff stay mindful.

I’ve done both, though I avoided any hospital work as much as I could, and also avoided any kitchen work I couldn’t walk away from at a whim. It’s honestly easier to remember to keep things right in an ER because the work flow is built around it more. Even with having done grunt level medical stuff, I would be more likely to not hand wash in a kitchen and just swap gloves because most kitchens aren’t set up where you can do it without breaking your flow. Dedicated hand washing stations/sinks just don’t exist. You have to walk away from the work to wash.

Now, even in bad kitchens, you’ll be washing your hands throughout a shift, it just won’t be between stations/jobs. It won’t be every ten minutes like in a facility of one type or another lol.

But holy crap, do I get queasy watching someone eat with gloves on. I know damn good and well those gloves are nasty as hell. No way.

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I mean, that track is fire.

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I would contribute to a fund raiser to get James to sing this

Should I permanently leave Israel?

I’m not sure if this is the right community for this question, but it says “no stupid question” so here goes. I’m an Israeli who now lives in the US, but I am considering permanently residing in the US or elsewhere (perhaps somewhere in Europe or Canada) because I’ve become kinda disillusioned with Israel for a variety...

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Well, I don’t have an emotional response to the shit going on there, so take this with that in mind.

There’s a few sides to your decision.

First, can you actually do anything? You’ve said no in other comments, so I assume that stays the same. It means that you aren’t morally obligated to go back for that reason. If you did have either current influence, or could realistically gain influence, to enact change within a reasonable time frame (say, under a decade), you might have that moral obligation. Might. But you don’t, so it’s personal choice.

Second, without an obligation to return, would it benefit you to go back? Do you have deep family ties? Do you have an established career? Do you have property that would need liquidating? If any of that is true, then the equation shifts to going back at least temporarily, and hoping things change, or that you can get out again later.

Third, are you sure anywhere else will take you? Long term visas or resident status aren’t exactly a guarantee, and immigration isn’t either. You’d need a plan, and at least a vague idea of what nation you want to settle in.

When it comes right down to it, the situation over there isn’t something most people would want to return to. That situation isn’t likely to resolve in the next year or two. So staying out makes sense if you can manage it. Jumping off a sinking ship isn’t a bad thing, and doing so earlier makes it less likely you get sucked down with it. It seems you think Israel is going down. If that’s the case, and you can’t prevent it, the sooner you make the semi permanent move away, the better.

Now, it is generally true that if everyone that could resist bad actions leaves a place, change becomes impossible. But there’s also the reality that not everyone that could resist really can. We’re not all cut out to fight governments and society. Not even passively. Hell, the older I get, the less I’m even willing to do because at some point, it’s meaningless.

But I gotta warn you, there’s no place on earth without problems. Right now, any major country is fucking with something very nasty. The U.S. is having our own struggle with fascism and oligarchy, and that’s also at least partially the case for Europe too. Canada is facing it, though it seems their government isn’t actively pursuing crimes against humanity. It isn’t just the western world, don’t think I’m saying that; that’s just where you mentioned wanting to settle. You simply aren’t going to land anywhere you mentioned and be in a country free of horrible actions.

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I do agree with you there, for sure. I’m not confident that will last past my lifetime, but it is currently not going totally off the wall.

It’s a difficult choice, no matter how you end up deciding.

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Yes.

The poor quality joke aside, it varies.

My favorites are apple, grape, and plum, in that order.

Strawberry, that’s something I have to be in the right mood for because I’m very picky about strawberries in general, and none of the major brands get strawberry jellies/jams/preserves right for my preferences.

I actively dislike most berries with peanut butter, regardless of how they’re preserved. So blueberry, blackberry, and the like just aren’t an option. I’d have them by themselves on a nice biscuit, some toast, or whatever. The flavors just don’t mesh with PB well, imo.

I’ve never had a marmalade that went well with PB at all. My dad loves orange marmalade with his though.

I’ve had guava , mango, and (iirc) papaya jams/preserves, and tried them on a PB&J. I didn’t dislike the flavor mixes, but I wouldn’t buy them with that in mind because I didn’t particularly enjoy it either. Kinda meh, imo.

I’ve never tried a pb&j with pepper, tomato, or bacon jelly. I’m not against trying them, I would do so, though not as a whole sandwich since I suspect I would actively dislike those with PB. But I’d put some on a corner of bread with some PB and try it before I formed a final opinion for my own use.

Now, there is another jelly I’ve tried with the pb&j. But it’s absurdly expensive to get where I live, and I have to special order it. So I wouldn’t make a PB&J with it again, since I very much love it in other formats. Prickly Pear. The stuff is amazing. The syrup is balls out on anything you’d use syrup on, and the jelly is the same flavor, just jellied. It’s a very distinct amd delightful taste. And it went well with PB. But the expense is such that I would reserve it for uses where it’s the star, rather than part of an ensemble.

And, yes, I’m aware I’m a wee bit over enthusiastic about a PB&J. They’re on my list of “perfect” sandwiches. The fact that they’re a highly variable sandwich group rather than a more limited thing is part of why the format is on the list alongside very defined sandwiches like reubens, but even if you limited the PB&J to a single jelly type, PB type, and limited the bread options, it would still be on the list.

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So, it went booooong! when you touched it?

Sorry, the typo in the title made me giggle

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Bold assumptions in there.

Nothing says there have to be duplicated organs at all. You wouldn’t necessarily even need two sets of lungs for them to be able to speak, just an air bladder that gets filled up without doing any major oxygenation. You could even have the “horse” lungs doing all the work for that too, without the need for a secondary air sac.

You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.

All that would be necessary for the upper part are digestive tubing, breathing tubing, and a skull on top of a section of something akin to vertebrae for turning the head itself.

Think of that human torso being a very complicated neck rather than a half of a human grown onto a horse.

Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.

Now, where things get interesting is reproduction. There’s where you’d see some trippy arrangement to allow for birthing a baby. I’ve always thought that maybe the “human” part isn’t developed the same. More of a lump of a head with stumpy little proto-arms that finish growing after birth. Just enough so they could run and eat, with the rest of the torso section slowly arising from its flesh prison fully during puberty.

They’d spend their first few years slowly growing the trunk and arms, allowing the muscles to develop over time.

Even if there are ribs, they wouldn’t have to be attached to anything. They could just be under the muscles a little to give structure without the need to have organs to protect.

Also, how many sets of genitals do they have? Do the front and back have to match if there’s genitals on both? There’s sci-fi centaurs where the whole thing is way more complicated than you’d think.

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I hate to break this to you, but there’s only 43 people on lemmy at all. We’re all just pretending to be everyone, including you.

You aren’t you at all, you’re a constructed personality inside someone’s mind with a lifetime of false memories and a thin veneer of “free will” to give you the illusion of being a real person.

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You better get away from my peanuts, willard!

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Absolutely!

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Holy shit,I didn’t even know it was still available

southsamurai ,
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You’re shopp in the wrong places. There are plenty of options

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Jfc, people are stupid

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Jesus fucking Christ. Humans are weird.

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What’s this we shit?

I snuggle every motherfucker I can get my arms around. I will snuggle the shit out of you

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Turn it into the frolicking pit, get all hard fucking core with the frolicking. Be a couple of happy, smiling, frolicking motherfuckers up in the woods!

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aggressively warm and hairy snuggling begins

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Depends on the kind of race.

Most races are distance traveled the fastest.

But there are races, occasionally, where you have a set time to reach as far a distance as possible.

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Probably being run off the road and attacked with a knife because I wouldn’t/couldn’t get out of the way of some methed out asshole.

My old car had a gas shut-off if enough big bumps happened.

I was doing 5 over the limit and a dude comes up behind me, honking and going batshit.

The road was a curvy country road with no real way to pull off safely. Too curvy to put my ass on the line speeding up more. So I just waved him around and slowed slightly on a slightly less curved section.

Dude revs up, then starts to jerk into the side of my car.

I brake hard and steer as best as possible to what little shoulder exists.

Passenger side is barely hanging on the edge of a five foot drop, and of course the bump slipping off the paved section hard set off the gas shutoff.

Fine, whatever. The switch to cut it back on is in the fucking rear hatch area.

So I drag my sasquatch ass out out the car to go hit it.

Dude comes screeching back from the other direction. Brakes hard, practically jumps out of the car, pulls a shitty switchblade and comes at me.

Shit went down. I have one small scar, he was worse off. I used to tell the whole story, but people are fucking idiots, and I’m too old for internet bullshit.

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Shoot, share it anyway. That’s what it’s all about, people just sharing themselves and maybe getting a chance to walk that mile in the other person’s shoes :)

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Motherfucking Theseus gnomes. Always fucking shit up. They keep switching out my testicles. I have no idea where they came from.

Also, I thought it said thesaurus gnomes the first time I read it, which is still kinda funny.

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Man, he’s one of the greatest songwriters of the era. Deeply underappreciated.

But I’ve never been able to get into him as a performer. He’s fine on guitar, but his singing just falls flat for me, live or studio. He’s not bad, his voice is pleasant enough, and he’s on key and all that, it just doesn’t “do” anything for me.

Which sucks, because the dude’s talent as a songwriter is insane. Like, “if you needed me”? C’mon, that alone would be enough for anyone to retire proud. I want to like him as performer, and I always give him another try when someone drops a link online, or plays it irl. It just hasn’t worked yet.

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Gods, they are so damn strange, but it works. Knifey was the first track of theirs I ran into, and I was obsessed with it for a week until I could get it out of my head.

It’s all just balls out insanity with no filter beyond very basic song structure. In the best way, that isn’t a complaint.

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Lol, yeah. But they’ve got the entire essence of strange punk down to an art/science.

Tbh, I think they’re the first punk band since the eighties that I’ve really dug.

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Say that to my face and see what happens

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Legit though, look at those arms. Dude is jacked!

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Not just no, hell no.

People like to think that the seventies is when you automatically lose your ability to think and do anything useful. That’s bullshit; it’s individual, genetics combined with access to good nutrition, healthcare, etc.

I used to work as a nurse’s assistant, specifically in home health where the patients were often at home with spouses, and other age peers. I had patients as old as their 90s that could still function mentally just fine, but had physical issues. I had patients older than that too, several just past 100, but they really wouldn’t have been able to be a walmart greeter.

But even with the patients that did suffer cognitive difficulties, there were plenty of family members and friends that didn’t. Most people suffer only minor cognitive decline in their seventies. Given otherwise good health, there’s no necessity for someone without a diagnosis that would prevent them from doing their job to be forced to retire.

What we need are term limits, not ageist bullshit. The problem isn’t age, or even a given political bent, it’s the accumulation of power and influence that then becomes a commodity open for purchase, leading to corruption.

Now, I wouldn’t object to mandatory fitness evaluations, but that’s going to be as corruptible as anything else political. I certainly think some specific diagnoses should exclude someone from making decisions for the entire nation, that affect the entire world, but that’s a tough thing to make happen, much less make work.

But age? Age is absolutely not a factor in fitness for any public office. Hell, I’m of the mind that none of the elected offices should have minimum ages, beyond a national age of adulthood so that the people in the position aren’t immediately beholden to someone like a parent. Pick whatever arbitrary age you want for that, and we’re good to go as long as it passes muster legally.

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Probably a typo, but just in case: you don clothing.

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Yeah, obviously, or the title wouldn’t even have happened.

And it’s been that way for a while now. Back when windows 10 happened, I was able to install mint, get most of my preferred programs set up, and handle data transfer with zero CLI use. Which was awesome, because my dyslexic ass would have taken forever otherwise. It wasn’t until I started putzing around for pop and giggles that I even opened a terminal.

My mom w as able to jump right in after installation of mint, and go through the gui to try things out, no issues.

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Dyslexia!

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Cixelsydm’i

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With the caveat that I rarely use any of them because I prefer having my own files, CDs, and records, I’ve gravitated towards deezer for the most part, apple music the rest of the time.

Reason being that deezer is the least annoying as regards setting up playlists, and apple is my wife’s preferred service, and it’s usually easier to just let her set up the playlists and then make suggestions for adds/removals over time lol.

Mind you, I don’t really like any of the interfaces of any of the services. They all suck in different ways.

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That’s a win-win right there

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Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone “correcting” you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.

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Yeah, wrong community for the post, but it was a good read despite that.

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They might not have it in acceptable quantities for drinking, depending on the kind of food served. If they only keep it in stock for specific dishes, the front of house might not even know it’s there.

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My homie, if you have never had the glory that is milk with a cheeseburger, you’re missing out.

Spaghetti? Bomb.

Burritos? Bomb

I can keep going, and even explain how and why various foods can be paired with milk and not only be as good as any other beverage, but can sometimes be better. It isn’t every food, but it works often enough to be worth trying.

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How does it feel to be a jackass?

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It is possible to respect their efforts, but refuse to sign up for things on principle.

And, if the account is “free”, then why did you need to give them an email in the first place? If they aren’t getting money from you, then needing a login that would require an email address is sketchy as hell on the surface, and there’s no explanation given.

Yeah, blocking the site in its entirety is kinda weird, seems like extra effort for no benefit at all when you can just not use the site. But objecting to what is a pointless “account” unless they’re monetizing the information makes plenty of sense. Worker owned is not a guarantee of good behavior. It certainly helps, and it’s the superior business model imo, but it isn’t inherently going to mean they aren’t doing dumb shit.

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The older usages of it weren’t as bad, supposedly (and I don’t have the access to link a source that’s authoritative without paying) and were generally akin to calling the wife the queen of the house, but also implying that she was more of a dowager queen, and one without power.

But it eventually just fell into the usual trope of men either dismissing their own feelings by joking about their wife, or expressing the idea that the wife is something you put up with rather than respect and love.

Now, that first part is important! Using terms that seem derogatory, but are really there to cover up genuine emotion that is untoward for a “real” man has been a thing for a very long time now, so you can’t just assume that any given man using terms like “old lady” or “the old ball-and-chain” are being misogynistic. It’s becoming less common for men to cloak their affection behind dismissive or derogatory terms, but it is still there.

It’s like when you’re petting your dog and you’re babbling about them being a monster or beast. You love the dog, but you’re using inverted meaning to express it. It’s just that the freedom to babble to your dog about how wonderful they are became more acceptable sooner. Which is a bit of an indictment of the systemic misogyny we live in.

Anyway, if you compare that to the supposed origins of “old man” to refer to a father in specific (rather than the use to mean a husband/boyfriend which is one use of the phrase), it came from naval usage like so many other neat phrases.

Is was, and still is, a term used for a Captain or other commanding officer. When it got applied to dads, it was from a similar way of thinking, wherein the father is in command of the household, but it was also an honorific of sorts.

The reasons for it being used that way in the English and American navies is a whole essay by itself, but that essays are already out there online, so I’m not making this longer by going into it lol.

Anyway, the tl;dr that’s horribly misleading is: a combination of ageism, patriarchal thinking, and a tinge of misogyny here and there.

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Thank you :)

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That was my first thought too

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