Cylusthevirus

I’ve heard some good things about fluticasone propionate. Normally it’s an over the counter allergy med (nasal spray), but I saw a study where a lot of people that used it got their sense of smell (and by extension a lot of taste) back in about 5 days.

Worth a try, at any rate. They sell it at Costco and most drug stores.

Nobody ever mentions Africa is what’s weird to me.

I have a theory that moral traits, like many other things in nature, follow a normal distribution. If I’m right, we can make some estimates of who would violate social rules given the chance. The bottom 5% of the distribution are going to do some terrible things. About 45% are going to be kind of shit, maybe not terrible. The remainder will be some level of decent to pretty well behaved, actually. Admittedly, that depends on what we think the mean level of morality really is. Having observed many a group of kids playing, I don’t think it’s that bad. Honestly that’s why so many teenage edgelords and doomers get told to go touch grass; reality will almost never be as bleak as we think it will be. There’s a well documented cognitive bias towards negative events, but it IS a bias.

The Boys isn’t realistic so much as it’s a deliberate deconstruction of the genre and a bit of speculative fiction (“What if Superman was a sociopath” seems to be the question it asks). It has elements of satire too, so it’s not really concerned with being fair so much as creating the story conditions that allow it to show us its narrative.

If you want a more “realistic” superhero show I think the 2012 movie Chronicle is more plausible. And yeah it does go badly for some but not for others.

Aren’t most farms corporate operations now?

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Nothing has ever made more sense. Wander around a college science department during his heyday and they basically wallpapered the place in The Far Side.

Just get a scale and weigh your flour. Much more consistent results. 120 grams per cup.

The straitjackets are the only thing that’ll get them to sit still for the education!

Here’s the bit that chills me:

Representatives from the Kremlin, the Russian defense ministry, and the Russian embassy to the United States did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the issue.

If they’re not denying it immediately that says they think there’s some utility in not doing so.

[Insert lengthy, nigh incomprehensible diatribe on why, well acthually, Qatar isn’t practicing slavery in the very specific and coincidentally convenient meaning of the word I invented 5 minutes ago]

[Insert picture of pig shitting on itself]

[Insert insult and throwaway line about CIA propaganda]

There, I think that covers the bases for the thread, don’t you?

Okay but Obama with Spike Spiegel’s hair though.

Yeah, nobody was a miserable lech who treated women like meat before the porn industry!

You google “wood block style meme print” and find a decent retailer. Bonus points for buying from the artist themselves.

In Japan. One of the least religious nations on earth.

It’s not about the money.

Croc Martens

It’s quite easy to read that as “all of Israel” without the qualifiers, and I’ve seen many people on here saying just that, so please pardon the confusion.

I think the distinction is important though, and it’s why I tend to say “fuck the CCP” and not “fuck China.”

I have no beef with Chinese people, but a lot with the CCP.

It’s for sure gonna get uglier. I’m told Bibi has implemented a bunch of anti-democratic shit to rig things his way but I don’t know enough about Israeli internal politics to say for certain if that’s the case. Him and Trump seemed to think alike in that regard. (To the extent Orange Julius thinks anyway.)

Israel is not the Likud Party or Netanyahu just like Hamas is not the Palestinian people.