I_Fart_Glitter

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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!!!"

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Well, if that's not terrifying, I don't know what is.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

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I_Fart_Glitter ,

There are definitely areas of California where going less than 10 miles over the speed limit will put you well under the flow of traffic in every lane. If you're not going 80 on 80, you're gonna have a bad time.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Oh Emily....

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Shhhh.... they're raging against the machine. Adults just don't get them, man!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Is this not an illustration? He apparently gained 20 pounds of muscle for the role, but I don't think he actually developed prehensile rectus abdominis muscles as depicted above.

He is pretty ripped though.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e039f2f1-21d7-42d3-8123-f5c1bdc15fa4.png

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Fun fact: Late in pregnancy they actually do just fucking unzip right there on many women.

No spoilers please, but does Old Man’s War get better?

I’ve been really enjoying John Scalzi’s catalog- Started with Starter Villain (delightful!), The Kaiju Preservation Society (Sweet..), Lock In + Head On (fun who-done-its), The Android’s Dream (clever, enjoyable read), Agent to the Stars (funny, creative, pretty good)....

I_Fart_Glitter OP ,

So much so that it turned me from not knowing him at all to getting what ever he writes without question or even reading the synopsis

I felt this way about Starter Villain! I'm curious how you felt about that one, given how different it is from Old Man's War.

I_Fart_Glitter OP ,

Thank you!! I just ordered Fuzzy Nation and We Are Legion (We Are Bob).

I_Fart_Glitter OP ,

That tracks. As someone who takes many steps every day to stave off crushing depression, I try to keep to more fanciful/hopeful fare for my leisure reading. Thanks for your input!

I_Fart_Glitter OP ,

I really like it so far! Very clever idea for the story line. I appreciate that we are made aware of violence that advances the plot without being given a graphic description of every injury.

Thanks for the rec! I’ll keep you posted!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

That looks properly terrifying.

The May 1799 test, above, occurred when a party of investors was aboard the vessel and they nearly suffocated before they could be freed. Work on the second lock was suspended

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Yeah Sonoma State!!

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Neat! I didn't know about it changing when you press on your eyeballs- they really slow down quite a bit! It makes me wonder if there is a name for the dancing green patterns that show up when you squinch your eyes shut really tight.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Neat! Thank you! That swirly checkerboard thing they show is exactly what I see, but in green.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Fast walking home from school to catch Total Request Live on MTv at 3:30, hoping your favorite song didn't drop in the ranking today because that means it will play earlier and you will not get to hear it today (and that song is Objects in the Rear View Mirror by Meatloaf).

I_Fart_Glitter ,

I'm picturing you trying to type this with a green olive stuck on the tip of each of your fingers.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bb7e16ee-2d7c-44fe-bb61-d035e9b81bd0.jpeg

I_Fart_Glitter ,

You know we have an electoral college.. ya?

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Third party voting is a piss poor substitute for voting reform. Your vote is counted but it does not count for shit. Your electoral college delegates' votes are the only ones that count toward who is elected.

I_Fart_Glitter ,

Buffalo Exchange and similar stores like that are between thrift stores and consignment stores, they purchase their products either from customers for store credit or cherry pick at real thrift stores then mark it up to sell at the trendy store. Everything there has to meet a specific aesthetic.

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