Ildsaye [they/them]

My friends seemed alright, but then I continued to be covid cautious

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School Spirit equals soviet power plus electrification of the whole country

Big same. Maybe there is something comforting to my autism that that some people cannot fully suppress their authenticity, lows and all. I feel safer in such company, and hope I can offer similar refuge

TFW no sassy cat

Obama rode in on the H O P E that the Bush admin was but an anomaly, but demonstrated that it wasn’t. Coasting down that hill again would require climbing it, and the dems have no intention of doing that

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I believe WD-40 has wax or something wax-like in it, which can make it good for weather resistance in cases like outdoor tools or maybe a bike chain, but it just hinders things otherwise

My most difficult but rewarding playthrough was a base level starting gear sorcerer. I permitted myself to upgrade the starting gear, and use whatever rings or spells, but couldn’t equip anything else. Maximizes the feeling of being a frail, scrappy trickster

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Plastics are a byproduct of fossil fuel production, and it was and is inevitable (under capitalism) that the overproduction of plastic would lead to the manufactured demand for massive amounts of plastic goods. There was a major marketing push in the 1950s to sell consumers on the disposability of plastic, to create further demand by erasing their Great Depression/wartime-era habits of saving and reusing. There are many examples of successful campaigns to put the masses on cheap garbage, like corn syrup, that people would not have been drawn to spontaneously. These things work.

Fossil fuel companies are major centers of political power, with deep military-industrial ties, easily acquiring politicians and regulators, and encircling any stubborn holdouts. Something major would have to displace them to free up the kind of political oxygen needed for any serious effort to end plastic’s invasive presence in our lives.

A decolonial not-for-profit military answerable to a socialist state could dislodge them, and I don’t think anything less could.

The contradictions are sharp enough that no one can keep the “US democracy” glamour from further unraveling, and those same contradictions have appointed the most ghoulish and farcical as its “frontrunners” again. They wouldn’t be sitting where they are if they weren’t both perfectly suited to lead the death march.

But the liberals who want to see the glamour will continue to see it, no matter how much gunfire demonstrates the real flow of power. didn’t move them, and hasn’t either.

‘Don’t trust what the liberals say about themselves, they will move the goalposts’

People keep asking if I’m back, and I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah…
I, John Brown, am now quite certain the crimes of this guilty land will not be purged away, but with blood

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My first guess is that it’s a pressure cooker, though unlike the Titan, it pressurizes its contents deliberately.

Instant pots seem to have a good reputation, though I’ve seen a former roommate go through a couple of them - they are computerized and can be bricked if the building has unsteady current, as in our case of bad/old wiring. So, perhaps it could also be a play on ‘innovation’ making things less reliable.

We all deserve a little bourgeois class treason this holiday season

Trump committing treason against his people, the developers and landlords, ripping up the urban freeways to make room for subsidized Trumpkas :brutalist-highrise:

Well, what is it?