southsamurai

I still don’t think that hating a general that would destroy civilian infrastructure and lives is a racist thing.

Defeating the Confederacy wasn’t a one man project. Other generals did their part, without the brutality or wanton destruction. Dude committed a war crime, by modern standards. It’s perfectly reasonable to hate him as much as it is to hate Rommel, or Hannibal.

It apparently impacted your comprehension since you only read part of that paragraph

Really? Really? That’s the best you can come up with?

Wait, why is it racist to hate some general?

They’re all tools of the state, and perfectly valid to hate

Well, kinda.

The problem is that it isn’t a 1:1 thing.

Hormones, insulin sensitivity, neurotransmitters, gut biome, muscle mass, brain activity, there’s a shit ton of factors that go into exactly what that break point is. Worse, that break point isn’t even 100% stable. People like to think it is, but it isn’t it can change as often as daily, and at the lower end of that point, a deficit is extremely difficult for patients to maintain healthily.

And yes, it is sometimes less healthy to eat less than it is to carry some extra fat. It’s not like vitamin supplementation is ideal, even when you know for a fact that what they’re swallowing is mostly bioavailable.

And, frankly, that bullshit of “enough energy on your body to not eat…” is utter bullshit. Starvation does jack shit for a bariatric patient, period. No, the energy burned absolutely is not enough to maintain a healthy body and metabolism for days. I don’t know where people got that idea, but it is malarkey.

I strongly urge people to go and consult with a specialist if they’re having trouble reducing their body fat. It is not wise to believe the random internet stupidity that can’t be bothered to stay up to date on a subject before prattling on. Fuck, I haven’t even worked in two decades, and I’m more up to date than random assholes, and I know I’m behind current bleeding edge in that specific field.

Fuck, I swear, people’s blind fucking cruelty trying to feel superior is disgusting. Fucking h lf assed sound bite garbage.

Thermodynamics my hairy asshole. People aren’t fucking furnaces, they aren’t a closed system.

Maybe boring little anecdote.

The first time I ever ran across “Chinese dragons” was at a local Chinese restaurant back in the early to mid eighties, and the owner/operators were a Chinese couple.

But I had never seen the name for the dragons written anywhere, but in English for sure.

So, until many years later, I thought it would be spelled lung in English because that’s closer to how they said it than long.

By the time I was old enough to be curious about it, the restaurant had closed, and afaik the couple was nowhere in town. So I have no clue if they’re pronunciation was the standard one, or a dialect variation or what, but I’ve heard maybe a half dozen ways to say the word since then, with the English “long” version still feeling weird to me.

I keep hoping I’ll run across a situation where a discussion of that word’s pronunciation will be detailed and I can just sit back and absorb it all.

Lmmfao! Yeah, it never even had a chance, unfortunately

Yeah, as fucky as English is, as hard as it can be to learn, it’s currently the lingua franca ;)

Plus, because it’s a language that loves borrowing words and phrases, it’s already set up with an ease of integration to a limited extent.

At this point, any effort to displace it as the default is going to cause as much trouble and hassle as it’s place as the default does.

That being said, a language like Esperanto would be a better choice overall. It’s kinda like how Latin can serve as a neutral and fixed language because it’s dead. Esperanto isn’t dead, but it’s similarly fixed, and not tied to a single culture, so it would work. Then again, so would Latin

There’s never any guarantee that changing such a thing would result in a better present, but I would sure as fuck be massively different

You’ve already hit on the best use. It’ll replace honey or sugar in glazes, easy peasy.

Secondary to that, as a mixer in sweet cocktails.

Beyond that, it can be cooked down into a syrup and used as such.

Mind you, I only ever tried making mead once, and it was agea ago, and at far smaller quantities. Not sure how well it’ll store at that abv, but it can be frozen in ice cube trays. Well, the stuff I had could.

There was a time in my life when id say “smile” to people. Thank the gods of common sense I never made the mistake of saying anything about “you’d be prettier if” because holy fuck would I need a beating to atone for that level of sheer stupidity

Assuming some underlying truth to it, it makes sense

You see enough shit, you start thinking about how damn brutal the world is.

You start thinking about that, you start struggling to make sense of it all.

You realize you can’t, because it isn’t sensical in the first place.

Thus, you have to face down the screaming in your head just to function

At some point, you either learn to joke about the ugliness, or you eat a bullet.

The “smarter” someone is, the more likely they are to examine things beyond the surface, so the more likely they are to see the darkness beneath it all, and reach that breaking point.

I know which one I’d rather stick my ramrod in

I like my memes like I like my soul

Dark as fuck

Lets see, in terms of the “important” parts, my desktop is something like 14 years old. Ish. I’ve replaced the power supply after lightning, an hdd that died, and I think had to add an Ethernet port after that lightning hit too. But the mobo, pcu, and gpu are all the same.

The last thing replaced was the hdd, and that was….. Ahhhh, maybe five years ago? It was either right before covid hit, or right before it started getting bad, however long ago that was.

If you mean replacing the entire thing, that one replaced one that was around five years old.

In fairness though, the games I was playing back in 2015ish were well within my newer PC’s capabilities. I quit gaming once my back got bad enough that sitting there long enough to do anything fun made fun impossible. So after that, it turned into a music box for all intents and purposes. The various kids would maybe play roblox or something similarly mild on it, but that was it.

So, as long as not everything major dies, I won’t replace the entire thing at all, I’d just replace parts as needed/possible. Unless someone just outright buys me one after hearing me bitch about it being slow to transfer files, or whatever. I’m ata point now where I could game on it again, but I need to add a second drive to it, and I’m lazy/forgetful when it comes to hobby level stuff.

I’ve looked at upgrading the mobo and cpu, maybe increasing the ram too, but I can’t justify the expenditure when I’d have to use a credit card for any of that. Plus, chances are I’d buy the hardware and it’d sit around for six months waiting on me to have a great back day. So, I doubt it’ll happen.

Shit. Mid nineties somewhere? Though I’d had a chance to fuck around before that

In fairness, dogs can still be trained to work in chaotic and dangerous situations, even little ones. It’s harder, but still possible. Not for every dog admittedly, but that was true even back then (supposedly, this is third and fourth hand on my end).

It’s just a matter of acclimation, but it’s like any given dog job. A dog that’s great as a seeing eye might not be right for police work, and a police dog might suck at herding. Not every spaniel would follow you into hell calmly, no matter how much work you put in, but some would. Hunting dogs get trained to be around gunfire, and some of those breeds are high strung.

That being said, the old school mollosoi dogs are a fascinating slice of history, and had a reputation that’s still amazing. Likely over blown, and I can guarantee there were plenty that didn’t make it as war dogs, but the legend of Peritas is a good indicator of how people back then thought of them.

Edit: the mollosoi thing was tangential, not based on the image

Also, I’m not sure what the plural is for that kind of dog, but molossoi weed what I ran into when doing an essay on them ages ago, so it’s what stuck in memory. But as I often do, I did a quick search to refresh my memory and saw multi plural versions, so now I’m wondering if my memory is total bullshit lol

Ima have to just wait until a neighbor gets a machine and rob them the way memory prices are fucking things

I did, and what I saw was an uncomfortable chicken.

They tend to have a lot of difficulty with things that hold their feathers in a given position. Even things designed for them to have on for extended use can take some time to get used to.

But, they have tails. And this would not only annoy most chickens, it would throw them off

Bird is the word

Solid rant!