SwingingTheLamp

~~Cowards.~~ Nazi collaborators.

FTFY.

I always wondered if female centaurs had horse teats, in addition to their human breasts. Or maybe teats, like, all the way down? If they're not mammals, though, problem solved.

The wheel of the metaphor-of-thing-as-wheel exists and is widely understood, but apparently needed to be reinvented as a metaphor involving a roughly rollable shape?

Challenge failed.

False? We employed that strategy, i.e. voted for Democrats multiple times over decades without demanding that they do better, and now we have fascism. That's not to say that the strategy caused fascism, but self-evidently didn't stop it.

The crux of the issue is that we voted for Democrats "for the time being" multiple times over the past 50 years, and this is still what fucking happened. But, ignoring that, the big idea here to save our hides is that a Democrat has to win every single election from now until the sun goes super-nova? That seems more than a little unrealistic.

The optimal strategy remains to vote for neoliberals when the alternative is fascists because that is how to create time for socialists and progressives to primary neoliberals in the Democratic Party and win general elections.

With all due respect, that strategy got us fascism. The terminology has changed, but I could tell close to 30 years ago that this would be the result. Is three decades not enough time for socialists and progressives to "primary" neoliberals? Apparently not, because socialsts/progressives/leftists are lazy, good-for-nothings who are simultaneously powerful enough to swing elections, but too inconsequential to talk about their issues or court their votes.

In other words, maybe these vaunted "centrists"/liberals should've stepped up to stop fascism. (And, it's not leftists who say that Harris "went too woke" and now want to throw trans people under the bus.)

I'll go further: It wouldn't be enough to simply reform one political party, anyway. The U.S. Constitution is a dead document, and its system of government is obsolete. The black hats have discovered the exploits, and everybody now knows how to game the system. We can't repair the system from inside the system, since it at the bottom line it runs on trust, and that trust in the system is gone. Just like in any relationship, it takes some material change to get people to trust again.

Lots of Christians believe that, come the end times, they will be bodily taken up into heaven. (That's the reason for embalming, to preserve the body for judgement day.) Since, of course, they'll take their trucks with 'em, they don't use the bed now. It'd suck so much to spend eternity with scratched paint.

Indeed. Simplified, skin is kind of like a building: collagen fibers (rebar), bricks (cells), and mortar (sebum). All of them are necessary.

Hot showers strip away the sebum, letting the skin's moisture escape, but also leaving it vulnerable to bacteria and fungus. The latter is why the armpits and feet pump out substances which feed smelly bacteria— to ward off infections. Post-shower oils, as recommended in the article, are good, but even better is not stripping the natural oils in the first place. If moisture escapes, then you have to exfoliate to remove the skin cells which died, and follow up with "moisturizing" lotion with urea to break down the collagen strands.

The whole skincare regimen is a scam to get you to buy more, expensive products. All you need is lukewarm water, and a spritz of mild soap for pits and crotch. Amazingly, once you establish a healthy skin microbiome, your feet and pits don't stink, and you no longer reek after 3 days of camping without a shower.

Goddammit, THIS is why I said that supporting the genocide in Palestine was a line I couldn't cross to vote for Biden. Always stand with the oppressed, and never, ever, ever throw anybody under the bus, no matter how politically expedient. Evil is a cancer which will metastisize around the world, and now where's our moral clarity? Instead of a simple, powerful "ethnic cleansing is bad" to move people, it's, "ethnic cleansing is bad here, but okay there because reasons."

The reason it was okay there was "brown people," and now the regime is going after also brown people, too.

"Carbrain" is a real mental disorder, though. How else do you describe somebody who looks through a windshield and sees a long line of idling cars into the distance, and thinks, "clearly the problem here is bicycles."

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FWIW, I know several developers at Epic who are happy with the job, the work/life balance, and have been there for years. OTOH, I know several people, too, who were project managers, and that's 110% true. Epic is big on academic performance. It wants people who can put their heads down and grind, without asking questions or sticking up for themselves.

Until they burn out...