hactar42
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- Comment on Moar garlic 1 week ago:
I was making salsa and the recipe called for a clove or garlic. I thought the entire bulb was a clove. After I chopped up and added like 5 or 6 of them my wife came in and saw what I was doing and put a stop to it. But seriously, that was the best damn salsa I’ve ever had.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 week ago:
It’s a really great book that I recommend to even the most casual Superman fan and especially people who think Superman is just an overpowered boy scout. It explores how Superman has evolved over the decades through the influence of different writers and artists and how their personal experiences and cultural shifts helped to evolve the character. He also examines the character’s transformation across other media, including radio, television, and film. Like how the now cheesy sounding, “It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman” originated from the radio broadcasts that had to adapt a comic to a non-visual medium. Or why they didn’t just write a Superman comic in the 40’s where he goes and defeats Hitler, because they didn’t want to take away from the GIs or give kids false hope that Superman could just swoop in and save the day in a real life situation. But they also didn’t want kids to think Superman would ignore what was going on, so that’s when they started introducing a lot of off-world stories.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 2 weeks ago:
Per Glen Weldon in his book Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, kryptonite representing the destructive force of nostalgia and survivor’s guilt, reminding us that clinging to the past can undermine the present.
Siegel and Shuster had created the Man of Steel as the ultimate immigrant, the personification of the promise America represented to them. His abilities are metaphors for limitless potential and opportunity, for new horizons stretching out before us: the American Way.
It seems fitting, then, that the only thing capable of harming him would be a reminder of the Old World he left behind, a past that is irrevocably gone. Only the past—our past—can hurt us.
To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor’s guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we’ve lost, we can kill what we have. - Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 2 months ago:
Yeah because fuck kids, especially ones with special needs, I want to keep my $3
/s obviously
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 2 months ago:
Tums or Pepto will give you instant relief, while you wait for the proton pump inhibitors to kick in.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 months ago:
I was in the military and we had this big conference table that could fit a good 12 people at. About once a month our boss would give us the key for the weekend and we’d play Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, and Red Alert 2 for 12-18 hours straight while pounding back Mountain Dew Code Red.
- Comment on 21 Star Trek Actors That Died in 2024 | TrekCulture 3 months ago:
And so you don’t have to keep clicking
- Comment on I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA 3 months ago:
Have you scheduled your colonoscopy yet?
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 5 months ago:
I worked at a pizza buffet back in high school. There was a guy who would come in from time to time and eat 6 whole pizzas. He would wait for us to put a fresh pepperoni out then just dump the entire thing on his plate.
- Comment on Tough Shit 6 months ago:
For those of us that pooped before smart phones, there was a book series called Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. I could totally see them have a section dedicated to this.
