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- Comment on Spokesperson 3 days ago:
Emmanuel Macron enters the chat
- Comment on Oblivion leveling guides be like: 5 days ago:
Sneak is basically useless with the code patch though. Even with max sneak, iirc the max chances of pickpocketing even like a spoon is ~30%.
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Spokesperson 6 days ago:
Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)
Why do MAGAts love fucking kids so much?
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 week ago:
So when the AI bubble burst, will there be coding jobs available to clean up the mess?
- Comment on And the pre-peeled containers for 4x the price are a ripoff 1 week ago:
There’s an interpretation that she did it in purpose to get away from her controlling mother. Kinda like that version.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
The only part of the religion that matters is the part that lets them treat women as sex slaves anyways.
- Comment on JFC, who did this?! 1 week ago:
The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s kinda funny how both you and a commenter replying to you misspell the name in two different ways) is going for a “The Lady or the Tiger” ending. Do you believe that Nick is actually part of the Resistance, or is he part of the state secret police? The narrative tricked us a little with the “relationship” between Offred and the Commander - can we trust anyone at all?
The epilogue also gives the narrative some verisimilitude. It’s pretending to be a historical document - how would the world post-Gilead react to accounts of what happened to women during Gilead? How would you interact with the “Diary of Anne Frank” if you didn’t know that she was killed in the camps?
I fail to see how it’s similar to “The Mist” here.
- Comment on #freepenisman 1 week ago:
Robert Redford in his prime vibes.
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- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 1 week ago:
Islamic socialism is a huge thing. Why do you think the US backed the Shah in Iran? Who was the Shah imprisoning?
The Koran absolutely forbids charging interest (which is why there is an entire alternate Islamic banking system) and one of the five pillars of Islam is zakat - giving money to the needy. Shariah explicitly demands forms of land redistribution and mandates zakat.
If you read Qutb (literally wrote a book called Social Justice in Islam), you realize that there’s actually a substantial group of people who are very heavily inspired by Marx and Lenin, and also believe that apostates should be killed.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Conservatives love playing the victim.
Trans women existing = an attack on all women existing
Not being allowed to pressure children into praying at school = being denied religious freedom
- Comment on Lies, all lies 2 weeks ago:
Mongolian throat singing is nothing.
Gotta whip out modern classical music.
I like studying to Penderecki myself.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 2 weeks ago:
I feel like Disney has internal stuff? I listened to a podcast where an ex employee changed the fonts on a bunch of stuff to be wingdings, etc, and made everything unusable.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 2 weeks ago:
Kanopy is a streaming service my local library has, and it’s great for documentaries, foreign films, and older movies.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
David Irving didn’t invent Holocaust denial. Is he guiltless in propagating it?
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
“Kingsley Shacklebolt” and “Cho Chang”…
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 weeks ago:
She’s literally been denying the Holocaust killed trans people. She funded a court case that made it so that were I live in the UK, it would be illegal for me to piss in any public restroom.
That’s like saying David Irving was “viciously attacked for having opinions out of the mainstream.”
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
It teaches them the thought stopping cliches and mantras that they can use to “own” libs in drive by Facebook comments.
I think about the classic creationist “if we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” It’s not intended to be an actual question - you can try to explain that no, we didn’t “come from monkeys,” that we shared a common ancestor, etc… but they don’t care. It’s just supposed to be a quick catch phrase that lets you not think about the question anymore.
That’s the whole point of all of these right wing “debaters.”
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
“Dr Laura” (receiver of that original letter) is a fucking shit stain of a human being. One of those right wing women that absolutely hates other women.
She’d tell women and girls calling in that they needed to quit their jobs and dedicate themselves full time to their children, when she herself was happy to ignore raising her children to play pundit. A Phyllis Schafly style gender traitor, someone happy to have a full time job and make lots of money telling women that they weren’t capable or deserving of full human dignity.
- Comment on Sweet dreams are made of these? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget when he retweeted BDSM fetish porn, thinking that Chinese men are being bound and “milked” for their semen.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 3 weeks ago:
Eight states have ID verification laws.
Oklahoma has tried several times to make viewing porn a felony.
Everyone laughing this off as impossible is not taking this seriously enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I got my dream job offer rescinded two weeks ago BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I have experienced sexual violence BECAUSE I AM TRANS.
I am terrified of being pulled over by a cop and institutionalized or incarcerated because the government says that my license is wrong now.
The problem is not my mental state. The problem is the discrimination.
- Comment on Give a lil, get a lil 4 weeks ago:
There have always been /leftypol/ threads.
Also, it’s anonymous and anyone can post. You can go there right now.
- Comment on Ditto 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Like a heart 4 weeks ago:
There’s variation between people on how much they menstruate. Some people have very light flows, some people have very heavy flows. It also changes a bit over the course of the period - you might start out with a lighter flow, have a heavier flow in the middle, and then end with a lighter flow. You generally want to go with the lightest one you can for comfort reasons.
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- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 weeks ago:
I paid about $2 for this stack of 10 t-shirts. (Avoid goodwill, go to the mom and pop places). None of these shirts were ever going to be used again. No one wants the t-shirt of a random church or police department, or a stained white t-shirt, or a high school football team.
Instead of buying fabric - buying something new which would encourage a retailer to buy something to replace it - I am repurposing these shirts into yarn (which I knit into rugs), patches for other clothing (which would otherwise need to be thrown away), reusable bags, or scrap quilts (which will mean that I can keep my thermostat lower in the winter).
These shirts are the kinds of things that would otherwise end up as textile waste, a pile of useless clothing in Ghana. “Reuse” in the second R in importance in “reduce, reuse, recycle.”
I think also that the ability to repair clothes instead of throwing them away is a huge part of the equation. I had an ex that would throw clothes away for missing a button. That is not particularly uncommon.
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 weeks ago:
You can cut decals out of t-shirts and use them for appliqué!
- Comment on YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment 5 weeks ago:
There are, but if you get the little plastic thing of assorted needles you’ll be fine. Maybe $1 from Walmart.
I’d grab black cotton thread to start out with. For mending, it’s usually either about hiding your stitches so they aren’t seen at all, and it doesn’t matter, or picking something that matches what you’re fixing.
The thread that comes with kits is usually crappy polyester that will break if you look at it funny - it’s only really useful for “basting” (sewing something together temporarily to hold it in place while you do the more permanent sewing.) The other things in kits (pins, seam rippers, tiny scissors) are usually okay though.
Fixing buttons is a good project to practice on IMHO. Lots of clothes hide an extra button somewhere on a tag inside, but you can also get a nice plastic jar of mixed buttons at the dollar store usually.
Really, don’t overthink it. Even ugly stitches will hold stuff together if you put enough of them on.
