(iPhone) Depending on the framing of dumbing down, an alternative camera app could be suggested. I use Halide to get rid of all the photo processing Apple does by default (which ruins night photos imo).

Yeah sorry, I wasn’t trying to equate the two words, just the arguments to defend using them. I can agree that the words hold very different weights.

There’s an argument to be made, even though “fellate” might be something that is done by a wide variety of sexualities, it has history and that history is as a homophobic insult. Sure, words can be reclaimed by the gay community, but the metaphor of sucking dick as a subservient action is so fucking pervasive (especially in discussions about politics for some reason) and it points towards unexamined patterns of language that are very harmful. Add on the borderline ableism at the end and it comes across as bad faith at the start, so it’s no wonder a mod responds like this.

This sounds like the exact same argument my ex high school friends used to use when overusing the word “r*ped” when playing video games because it’s apparently “just a metaphor for a power dynamic”.

Your life is nice because of the death and destruction of those who your system deems to be lesser. If you can’t be motivated to change things because you can’t see the issue with the cost of your comfort, you’re going to learn some very hard lessons once people you thought were on your side start fighting you.

Are you the caricature of someone who was given an extra money in a game of monopoly but believe to have earned your winning position through sheer strategy and “working harder”?

I got shadow banned (seemingly site-wide) after pointing out that the Biden and the Democrats’ messaging shifted from “Trump is a fascist” to “we have to think about unity!” after Trump got shot in the ear, which proved to me Biden et al. were either allied with fascists by protecting them from harm or never believed Trump was a fascist to begin with, which pointed to Biden (and his team and the whole democratic news media) being more closely aligned with Trump than they wanted people to know.

The tipping point for me was probably the line “if Biden actually thought Trump was a fascist and had an actual problem with that, he would’ve shot him on stage”

I feel like we would know before any story broke.

Other causes of death would likely look less like spiderwebs since it’s just a population density map by counties, but this one is specifically along roadways. The interesting difference between a population density map and this map specifically is you can see the long stretches of roads in the middle of nowhere and how dangerous they can be.

Just because you can’t imagine getting off your ass and building a better world doesn’t mean that everyone else shares your love for learned incompetence and your defense of fascists.

I see you didn’t even manage to get that lever pulled last election because genocide isn’t very popular regardless of your cheerleading. Pulling the lever would’ve never stopped the genocide, but derailing the train would have. You didn’t want genocide to end, you just wanted to go back to brunch.

You know, at least back when Lincoln was president, voters at least had a spine to do something about issues they were ethically against. They were willing to completely abandon the Whig party to back the new republican party (which killed the Whig party). This isn’t a fundamental change to the system, but even still it is farther than you’d be willing to go to prevent genocide. Perhaps what leftists need is for people like you to be less chickenshit genocidal white supremacist sellouts who hem and haw about the correct way to do genocide to prevent as much blowback to yourselves as possible as you live in the luxury that has been paid in the blood of the global south.

Or maybe ask me which state my “lever” was in and realize how futile your argument is for the majority of states and the majority of the population. Even if we had universal popular vote to determine president, as you seem to assume, that doesn’t remove the fact that the two choices were both supporters of genocide and the train deserves to be derailed and the track destroyed.

there is no option for a magical third choice.

There’s no lever you can pull as a third choice because the lever only operates inside the bounds of the “system” of the rail network. It’s working as designed. So break the rails if it is an inevitability that people get tied to the tracks.

The system is just as immutable as the divine right of kings. Choosing to campaign on lever pulls within the system instead of focusing on systemic restructuring tells me a couple of things: 1) You aren’t tied to both sides of the track. 2) You’re fine with giving validity to a system that bakes genocide into itself because your comfort relies on someone being tied to the both tracks, and at the moment, that isn’t you.

Refusing to pull the lever doesn’t prevent you from working outside the bounds of the rail network. It might be worth considering that instead of the belief in slowly changing the democrats with slow constant pressure, the system is changing you to be more accepting of the unacceptable.

I have been learning vim specifically because of VimWiki. It’s always fun getting a few words into writing a document before realizing I wasn’t in Insert mode, then I have to figure out what I messed up.

Go report the Wikipedia page for Kilroy Was Here for not being complex enough to be culturally significant (despite its actual cultural significance), I guess.

Oh my god look at all the allies hitler had. /s Even the US wanted to help them out with operation paperclip. Maybe the fact that the Soviets killed 75% of Nazis was just a bit of nazi infighting in your eyes.

[edit] lol whoops by the time I found the image and posted, cowbee had already made a much better comment with the same image

Hey maybe stop calling people speaking a language other than their native language illiterate if you’re trying to not seem racist.

(Not that what they said is off topic at all- it just seemed like you needed an excuse not to engage with the points they brought up directly, so you default to smug chauvinism as a smokescreen.)

This is so flagrant it feels like bait.

Hasn’t GM OnStar vehicles had this tech since 2009?

“Either hundreds of millions of people have always predisposed to the lure of the fascist, in which case the entire democratic endeavor is doomed anyway, or something of corporate liberalism has brought us here. Whatever the quality of its rhetoric, any politics that buckles at the prospect of even mildly inconveniencing the rich, or resisting an ally’s genocidal intentions, will always face an uphill battle against a politics that actively embraces malice. “Yes We Can” is a conditional. “Yes We Will” is not.”

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Chapter 3

Wait, when did I leave this comment?

That’s definitely an option, but it makes a bone broth which tastes less “meaty”.

I used to work for a production company that made food related video programming so “food hacks” is something that is burned into my brain at this point.

If you don’t bake bread in a Dutch oven, toss a few ice cubes in the bottom of your oven to make steam while the bread is cooking so it makes a crispy crust.

Pressure cook a whole rotisserie chicken (bones, meat, and all) for 20ish minutes for amazing chicken stock.

Not really a hack, but Beef bullion and sun dried tomatoes in a cream sauce is a lovely combo.

Add MSG to food when you cook.

Toast spices before grinding them in a mortar and pestle to really make the flavors punchy.

When making ramen, I typically make ahead of schedule some spicy compound butter I can add to the top for extra flavor. It includes butter, salt, garlic, Thai chili peppers (possibly even Szechuan peppers) blended and then refrigerated back into a butter shape.

Boil water while you are searing steak so your smoke alarm is less likely to go off (assuming you have an oven vent that blows air rather than vents outside)

You eat with your eyes first, so presentation is actually important when preparing food. It can’t turn around nasty tasting food, but doing a little bit of extra work at the end like adding chopped chives or parsley to a dish without anything else green on it adds a lot.