I_Fart_Glitter

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

My car makes it slightly difficult to change lanes if I don't signal, some resistance on the steering wheel and a warning beep beep beep that I'm "drifting." There are some terrible roads around here that confuse the sensors so I do a bit of steering wheel arm wrestling now and then just to keep going straight.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I had no idea they were still on the ship.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/18/us/baltimore-bridge-dali-ship-crew/index.html

TLDR: the ship has minimum staffing requirements, even when stationary, the crews visas expired while they were trapped, the investigation is ongoing and the FBI took their cell phones.

And Baltimore attorneys don't want any of the crew to leave the country until the investigation is over, which may take two years.

https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/06/20/attorneys-for-baltimore-seek-to-keep-dali-crew-members-from-returning-home/

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Omg. I googled the vine that grows in my driveway and makes little tiny plant seed versions of this device and learned that it is in the Caltrop family!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

I literally salt and vinegar the ground after ripping it out. I don't burn it, since I live in California and burn piles are generally frowned upon (but are allowed a few times per year). I send it off to the municipal compost, where it does at least get somewhat cooked. Then I go over it with one of these bad boys to get any stragglers: https://stickerburrroller.com/product/sticker-burr-removal-tool/ Doesn't matter, they come back strong several times per year.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

(You can have kids without getting married)

I_Fart_Glitter ,

The death penalty is always more expensive for tax payers than life in prison. Just be honest and admit you enjoy your blood lust fantasies. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/costs

I_Fart_Glitter ,

What the actual fuck. He "doesn't remember" making the rambling phone calls where he graphically threatens the lives of house members of color, because of his bipolar disorder and his PTSD, and when capitol police show up at his house to politely ask him to stop doing that, he offered to let them take his guns away and they said "No thank you, sir! You keep those bad boys!"

I hope, but don't believe that he will get the help he needs while incarcerated.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

If Jared Kushner is not a vampire then modern media has lied to me about the signs to look out for.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Also, chips make you fat now.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

My apple watch has alerted me to the fact that if I eat a really salty meal- like a burger and fries, or a whole bag of kettle chips- my heart rate increases by about 40 beats per minute. It's like "Hey... you don't seem to have moved and your heart is going bananas. You ok bro?"

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Normal blood pressure, I get it checked every two weeks for an unrelated thing, just salt sensitive.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

That does seem like something I should look into..

I_Fart_Glitter ,

because it aggravates you?

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Ickplant moderates and is the main poster for !otters , !bats , !opossums and !beavers which, together are about half my Subscribed feed. BonesOfTheMoon fills my feed with !poetry which is nice.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

About 110, but most are not very active. I do tend to go through my 'subscribed: new' feed pretty quickly and then switch to 'local: active.'

I_Fart_Glitter ,

IQ tests are about reasoning ability, not nitpicky grammar rules.

Prescriptive grammar is useless and often racist. "Use to be" and "Used to be" are identical when spoken. There is no practical reason to know the difference or to care about rules regarding past participles and their relationship to the word "did" unless you are grading a paper or jerking off to your own superiority complex.

If language conveys meaning, it is sufficient. If you can't understand the meaning of a sentence with this kind of error, you might be a poorly programmed AI.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Oh honey.... I'm sorry you don't have better ways to interact with the world.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I use Mlem on iPhone, but I can’t send private messages, I just get an error message every time. I have to use voyager if I want to do that. Otherwise it’s a very good app.

I_Fart_Glitter OP Mod ,

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

A friend of mine told me he went to a concert that was “so loud it physically hurt his ears.” He thought I was looking at him like he had two heads because that was such a strange experience until I told him that voices at normal conversational volume often “physically hurts my ears.”

He never knew why I was always asking him to lower his voice, he thought it was just a weird thing I did.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Businesses are also required to post a notice of the testing kit availability in a prominent, conspicuous location, with the words: "Don’t get roofied! Drink spiking drug test kits available here. Ask a staff member for details."

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

Oh, I'm not complaining about the signs, just the need for them. I thought that image was fitting because Jake (a police officer) says that line after he chases a woman he thinks is doing crimes, then asks her why she ran if she wasn't doing anything wrong and she says "Because a strange man was following me to the bathroom?!!" He feels bad because he was being completely insensitive about the realities women face at social events. But it's a comedy show, so he says it in a "Derp, whoopsie!" kind of way.

My wildflowers were mowed down!

Last week my landscaper mowed down the mostly perennial, but a few annual wildflowers I was growing from seed. The landscape thought they were weeds because they were mostly not flowering yet (and there were a few weeds in there as well). So now what do I do? I have been watering it every day to see if I can grow some of the...

I_Fart_Glitter ,

A lot of them will consider it a good (if early) deadheading and come back, if it's not cut all the way down and there are a few leaves left. What did you have growing?

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Hard to say without knowing which flowers. I can say from experience that California Poppies, buttercups, chamomile, vetch and salvias will come back after mowing. They will be shorter though- they learn and try to avoid the mower. If you're in a zone with mild, late winters you can probably start new seeds now, if you can keep watering daily.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I feel like not enough people know why we're even hearing about this issue. In 2019, a conservative think tank did focus groups and figured out that trans women and girls competing in sports against cis women and girls would be the most upsetting social issue for middle class suburban women and conservative democrats. It did better at swaying votes than any economic issue, and tested well in local elections, so they took it to the national scale. It was never about the athletes.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/07/wedge-issue-dividing-trumpworld-392323

When Schilling considered the range of issues making centrist voters and suburban parents uncomfortable, the one that stood out to him was transgender rights: an issue that had largely been absorbed into the Democratic platform, but which he suspected many Americans were still processing themselves. But what was the right angle to take? Earlier that summer, American Principles Project had partnered with a behavioral science firm to assess whether focusing on transgender issues could turn educated suburbanites into Republican voters.

APP and its data partner, Evolving Strategies, analyzed how thousands of registered Kentucky voters reacted to different messages about what they described as Beshear’s “extreme” support for transgender rights. Should men be allowed to participate in sports events for women and girls? Andy Beshear thinks so. Should men be permitted to use women’s restrooms because they identify as transgender women? Andy Beshear thinks so.

“What we found was the sports issue got the most powerful response from people, specifically conservative Democrats and independents,” Schilling would explain to me later.

“We wanted Bevin to win, but more than anything, we wanted to test this out before trying it at a much larger scale. Now, donors understand that although we came up a few votes short in Kentucky, this can still work. This is persuasive,” Schilling said.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

The language they use there would be hilarious if it wasn't, you know, horrible. Men against girls. Like there's a bunch of surly 35 year old men, absolutely dunking on a team of 5 year old girls just doing their best!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

They gave them the ecstasy.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rolling-under-the-sea-scientists-gave-octopuses-ecstasy-to-study-social-behavior/

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Naomi Wolf (The Beauty Myth)?

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Anybody else get vertigo from ceiling fans? 😂😵‍💫

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I live in Northern California and every time articles about Cascadia come out I have nightmares for a few days. Then I forget about it again. Unfortunately, I think this is also the attitude of the people in charge of infrastructure and earthquake resilience. To be fair, they've got their hands full with wild fires and like, being baby sacrificing socialist pronoun witches or what ever us Left Coast-ests are getting up to these days. We have a good time though.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

It's simple. If The Jews don't reside in The Holy Land, then Blue Eyed, Capitalist Jesus won't come back to gather up his American Evangelical Flock into his sinewy, shirtless embrace, while the Heathens are Stomped On Like Grapes In A Wine Press by the Very Angery Angels. I'm not exaggerating. This is what's happening.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/truth-many-evangelical-christians-support-israel-rcna121481

https://apnews.com/article/evangelical-christians-israel-volunteer-trips-462329e04459191fd6ae061e722cae30

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2023/12/26/why-do-evangelical-christians-support-israel

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Well, shit. I was excited about how pretty it is. I thought it would be some cool optical phenomenon. No, it's "Stripes of existential dread."

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Or platelets every two weeks, woo!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Looks like that one hasn't been specifically researched. But where I go they do "Platelets Plus," so as you're eligible they take an additional bag of either red cells or plasma. So, unless the all toxins are all in the white cells, it should do the job.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Another way of looking at it is, the US military budget is $825 billion and USAID budget is $50 billion. (Already looking bad, USA..)

0.018% of USAID’s budget went to help Gaza, while 1.05% of the US military budget went to destroy Gaza. Congress doesn’t even give 1% of a shit about helping Gaza.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy24_defense_bill_summary.pdf

https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

I_Fart_Glitter , (edited )

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

This ladle is reinforced silicone in the back half of the scoop, and soft, flexible silicone on the front half, so you can scoop into corners easily. It's very nice, even for cylindrical containers because there is still a corner where the wall meets the bottom.

https://gir.co/products/ladle

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Oh, SatansMaggotyCumFart. Just keep being you. 💖

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Tranquillus... 💖

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I’m getting texts about every 12 seconds saying TRUMP IS GUILTY SO YOU SHOULD GIVE MONEY TO THIS PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE. I can only imagine the campaigning that is happening for people that actually like him.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

“Welcome to my Ted Talk. It’s about what I would like from the fridge, and why you should give it to me.”

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Fuck that guy.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

while the USA depends on keeping some people so poor and their prospects so bleak that joining the military starts to look like a relatively good option.

Yes, that and also more than half of our military personnel are not enlisted soldiers, they are hired contractors. Half of those contractors are not US citizens, but "host country nationals" or "third country nationals." The latter are migrant workers who suffer the worst working conditions with no recourse and very low pay. If the US did not depend so heavily on contractors, conscription would be necessary and people would get upset and start to question why we need so much military activity in the first place.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/corporate

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I get why people are nervous about prescribed burns, even though they are the answer. Yesterday there was a plume of smoke from a barn fire in Petaluma that was extremely visible three towns over. People were pulling over to the side of the road to get out their cars freak out and stare at it and ask each other if they knew what it was and check for Nixles and Watch Duty alerts. We're a bit jumpy about smoke around here.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Yikers.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

You're not posting memes. You're posting links to a blogspot. It's not the same thing. And you're cross posting them to so many communities. Please stop.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

It was pretty tough working at a bakery stall at farmers markets when people were just starting to jump on the gluten free train. I'd have folks come up to me and start screaming at me that they needed spelt bread because of their celiac disease, and I was a heartless bitch for not having any. Explaining that spelt actually has more gluten than regular wheat was not a good idea, nor was explaining that to be safe for a person with celiac disease, bread would need to be 1) free of gluten containing grains, not just wheat and 2) baked in a facility where the air is not thick with wheat flour dust, depositing itself on every surface. "Give me my special bread! IT MAKES ME FEEL SPECIAL!!!"

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