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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • What in the actual fuck are you on about?

    They genuinely believe some random guy is god incarnate so they tormented him his entire life to try and get him to kill himself,

    Nothing in wicca allows any of that, so far as I’m aware.

    That’s SO far off base with what I understand of the basic tenets of wicca that it’d be like an humanist atheist vegan suddenly signing on to work as a halal butcher and then deciding animals aren’t enough, it’s time to butcher people instead.



  • would say that Morton is not at all deranged in creating this especially considering I’ve got a container of it sitting on my spice rack right now.

    It has an additional use, too.

    The non-“salt” ingredient here, potassium chloride, is the “harder to find” ingredient in a simple four ingredient rehydration solution.

    The other ingredients are sodium chloride, sugar, and water.

    So equal parts this and sugar in a glass of water and you’ve got yourself the world health organization’s answer to dehydration.





  • Why do you think a different word is needed?

    Because the word has been largely washed of all negative connotations, at least across the minds of the majority of the populace in the U.S.

    If you are trying to convey what the word settler means in a dictionary by using it in casual conversation, you are likely to find that it is not carrying the full weight of its intended meaning in the mind(s) of the listener(s).

    This makes it a FUNCTIONALLY inadequate word despite being a technically correct one.



  • I ALWAYS skip enterprise, I never skip the others.

    I get that they were trying for something different, I can even appreciate using a folksy ballad that doesn’t have all is the “formality” of classical music the same way Starfleet of the time doesn’t have all the formality of later treks. I even personally find it to be a cool idea on paper, but for some reason it just didn’t land with me.

    It’s jarring when it SHOULDN’T be. Even the closing credits get a "WhoOoAawhatthefuuuuOh."reaction out of me every time the music starts. Like, it takes until almost the fourth note on the credits before I go "oh yeah, they do this.

    I still watch the credits, though.


  • The kicker there is … Nobody I know is going to think “wow, playback on this video sucks, I should disable my ad blocker”.

    Like, it wouldn’t occur to ANYONE I know that a piece of software we consider necessary could be the problem, ESPECIALLY if everything else is working fine.

    That’s not even number ten on the list of troubleshooting steps and most people don’t make it past one or two before giving up.

    WTF were they thinking?






  • I don’t believe so.

    As I understand it, he was an actually recovered addict, so it would be “fueled by the damage drugs had already done to his brain before he quit”.

    And I think it was crack.

    Not to defend the guy, but for a while there pre COVID, while I was doing some volunteer work, I heard from a connected volunteer that Mikey was donating cases upon cases of pillows to rehab locations in his home state, which, speaking as the bleeding heart liberal that I am who wishes we provided more for services like mental health and addiction, is pretty awesome.

    A tax write off is possibly just a tax write off, but for a while, at least, it’s possible he might not have been totally reprehensible.

    I mean, he also professed to be Christian and there was a stink about him not paying employees like four or five years ago too, so since the Bible has specific things to say about THAT behavior too, it’s pretty easy to draw conclusions but even people who behave like shit bags can perhaps sometimes be nuanced.


  • Suffering is completely normal and a true necessity if you are striving towards any sort of development of “self”.

    Most of what’s commonly referred to as “western” society does not typically see things that way, though. That’s part of why I personally think normalizing therapy by suggesting it regularly to people, even ones who don’t currently have “serious” problems is so important.

    Many of us did not get the “tools” necessary to deal with simple normal every day parts of life like suffering (in any degree) from either our parents, from people around us, or from society at large.

    That also means stuff like

    A therapist, really?

    Might deter someone who could otherwise benefit.