It makes perfect sense when viewed from “the credit companies work with lenders to ensure your credit only rises if you’re constantly in more and more debt but still paying it like an obedient little wage slave”

I would agree if it weren’t painfully obvious the Russian elections that brought put in in weren’t heavily influenced by putin-run domestic terrorism and election fraud.

Wait, actually, it still is a good comparison.

Carry on.

8 comes close to me last night.

Snow starts at noon, by 130 we decide we should leave for the 3 hour drive home.

10pm, after 7ish hours of driving, 5 hours of darkness and 6 inches of snow, passing cars spinning off the road, carefully picking lines around accidents to avoid deep snow, assisting two drivers with a jump-start and a gallon of gasoline, and a very slow ascent up a steep hill while tires screaming to be replaced… We are home.

And that was after me not being able to sleep since 1130pm the night before due to insomnia.

It’s been a fun 36 hours.

Personally I’m a huge fan of bouncing a ball off a couple of sticks, but you like what you like, eh?

The completely masculine urge to be super feminine and wear pretty things and go out with girlfriends to try on new clothing and…

Totally cis tho

Honey is acidic with a pH of around 4, so it technically corrodes metal if left for prolonged contact.

I make knives and I really want to let one sit in honey for a week to see if it gives it an acid wash.

I have other acids that work much quicker, but I’m having a bit of a giggle at making a pattern-welded steel butter knife and calling it my “Honey Knife”

Because we have knives already in our kitchens, and they don’t take up extra space in a drawer that would otherwise go to another more useful utensil.

Also my cheese slicers have all been cheap as shit and snap after a few months, and the nice heavy duty one I had with a replaceable wire got lost in the move earlier this year and they discontinued it and I’m sad.

Well, you’re certainly correct in your assessment of the pun’s quality.

I’m not a fan of slant rhyme even when it’s close, so it’s even less effective on me I guess.

Thank you for the explanation, it now makes sense.

Nah, I think I’ll just continue to smoke and vape to an unhealthy degree in order to disassociate from the banal horrors of modern day. If I keep myself mildly baked and consuming a steady stream of star trek and Stargate, I’ll keep myself from having thoughts.

I actually did a report on this during a Vietnam era history class.

The assignment was to choose a Vietnam era piece of anti-war art, a song about war, or if we could make a convincing argument to the teacher it could be something tangentially related.

I chose this song, even ran the lyrics by the teacher beforehand, and halfway through the song he realized it’s got gasp bad words in it and tried to actively censor it, which I thought was pretty funny.

… Genuine question: what was the pun?

I have been considered an honorary dad due to my DadHumor, and I can’t find one.

Ah, the cycle continues.

I want to get a new computer/parts

begin looking into pricing

Find out something happened recently to spike the price of the thing I want to get

Decide it’s too expensive, get something cheap and inadequate

Time passes

I want to get a new computer/parts

Canon: they’re brothers

Fanon: THEY’RE LOVERS!

I’ll lift a lamp by the golden door.

Maybe I’m just too autistic to understand, but why are all these “gender-swapped” movies going from men to women leads?

I understand that there are far more male-led movies to pick from, but I have not seen any movies that “go the other way”.

Personally I think going in with the intention of gender swapping the male roles for the sake of gender swapping alone is a terrible premise. And the thought of watching The Sound of Music but with a male version of Maria is just weird. Or a male in the lead of Alien.

Granted, there are a lot of movies where the entire direction of the story, while not dependent on the person’s gender, they aren’t conducive to the opposite. Using my own example, Maria was a nun who became a governess, who became a step-mother. The swapped version would have to be a priest who became a (I don’t know if there’s a name for a male version?) live-in childcare provider, who became a step father. While not impossible, or even that wild to think about, it’s not typical.

Is it just one of those “it’s good to have representation” things? Like I personally know someone who thought black people couldn’t be royalty because until they saw princess and the frog, there wasn’t exactly a lot of diversity in Disney’s princess catalogue (with apologies to Mulan and Pocahontas) so clearly there is something to be said about representation in media.

I am definitely over thinking it, but I really don’t get why anyone wants, or thinks audiences want, gender swapped stories from 20/40/60+ years ago.

Thank you for coming to my TEDx Talk. Sorry you can’t get the last 3 minutes back.

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it was a poor choice.

I work with adults that mentally never left middle school. They already tell crass sexist jokes that make HR cry. I can only imagine the shit they’d come up with for something like this.

Having never knowingly committed war crimes, or killed children looking for food, I’ve never once felt so guilty that my sidearm looked more appealing than going to work tomorrow.

Crazy how “not committing genocide” does wonders for your mental health!

So theft and extortion. I remember when those were crimes.

I suppose my comment could be interpreted as “why are EU countries sending so many poor people”

I figured with the title it was just understood…

I mean, half of my hammers have had their handles remade with whatever hardwood was closest. So I’m gonna go with those.

However, the most complex thing that I can repair with sourced parts would be either my truck, or my truck. I’ve had to fix it with “close enough” parts before, and I will fix it until the frame rusts (which given Northern states and salted roads probably won’t be more than a few more years)

There’s a smattering of electronics that I’ve seen mentioned multiple times as well.

One thing that is theoretically repairable, but is hard to find parts for, my washing machine. It’s a old 50s model with a lever to engage the motor, a roller on top to squeeze water out, and a simple steel gear system to drive everything. I should be able to open it up with a crescent wrench and flat head screwdriver, but I doubt I will ever be able to find ready-made parts (I have looked briefly when I thought I had a problem with it that sorted itself) but I might be able to bodge some things together if needed.