Hey, burnt offerings were made to the gods of old, right?

Avocados aren’t supposed to be sweet. I can’t do dairy, so sometimes I’ll use avocado to get that creaminess I’m looking for, but my favorite way to eat them is in guacamole with some tortilla chips.

That, and the MRFF site uses AI generated photographs, which always makes me question the veracity of everything associated with it. It’s not an unbelievable claim for me, I’ve been hearing people call for holy war since 9/11, but the way it’s being presented is setting off all kinds of red flags.

It just feels like I’m eating the onion here.

Yeah, I agree that the attempt to engage is the most important aspect. What actually constitutes “engagement” is up to semantic debate.

I do think that new arguments should be evaluated, even if it’s presented in bad faith. I feel that the bad faith nature of the argument is a factor that counts poorly in my evaluation, but it’s good to have a solid understanding of the nuance in your stance, even when it comes to the ridiculous.

But by your own admittance, you did think about it once the question was posed, so no, you’re not an intellectual nepobaby.

We have all had past experiences with how hard brick-adjacent substances affect teeth, so it’s not discarding it as a knee-jerk reaction. If you went to a dental college, and the professor made the claim before you knew better, I’d assume you’d be interested in finding out how he came to that conclusion, correct?

For example, should I engage in the “challenging idea” that the world is run by lizard people?

As a counterpoint, you likely have. You’re aware of the position, aware of the proposed evidence, and determined the evidence falls short of proof, which means you’ve engaged with their thinking before rejecting it.

I don’t get it either. I’m 5’4", my first boyfriend was 5’1", and it was fine? It lasted less than a year in highschool, but I remember it fondly.

Schrodinger says “maybe”

Nah, this is depicting animal abuse. Packing peanuts are typically contained in boxes, so this cat was evidently in a box at one point before being evicted into the cruel cold world by uncaring humans. Those mean, nasty humans even took a picture of this poor cat’s suffering to point at and laugh with their friends. They probably even tried to claim the cat was in the wrong, because of some nonsense about the box containing fragile items to be shipped, typical.

I’ve been asking for months and months where the protests are

Both the middle school and the high school in my tiny rural town did a walkout today. There’s a protest every day outside the local ICE facility. There have been soft strikes as grassroots support networks form.

If you think nothing is happening, it’s because you’re not doing anything. Get involved.

If I fits, I sits

one cell phone (ideally live streaming to some private cloud so they can’t delete it)

What app are you using for this? I’ve not had luck in finding one.

They’re just feral false eyelashes

Carolina style, with a nice mustard vinegar base

Yeah, I remember the dotcom bubble. There was absolutely a change once people realized the information superhighway could make them money.

Traditional home cooked soda? You mean like the Native Americans did with pine needles before the settlers showed up?

Spam is just jellied mince, which is also something people have been making at home for centuries. If you look at the ingredients list, it’s actually quite short and nothing unusual. I even have sodium nitrate in my spice cabinet at home for food preservation use.

Candy is mostly just cooked sugar, it goes through different textures at different temperatures. Arguments could be made for the flavor extracts, but I’ve made my own flavor extracts before with regular ol’ everclear.

Yeah, I thought it was Al Gore

You jest, but you can absolutely get food-grade sulfuric acid

We’re running with the Barudan Beky at work. The problem is that we get EMB files from clients, and Inkstitch doesn’t support those.

That’s the only site I’ve found describing DesignSpace on wine, but it just crashes for me. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, or if my ancient i3 laptop is just shitty. The same machine ran DesignSpace okay with windows, but it might just be too old to handle an emulation layer ontop of it.

Ugh. That’s the best option I’ve been able to find, but I really don’t trust Amazon to not just immediately roll over for the feds.