I post haiku that say what we’re all feeling. I don’t always stay true to form for haiku and my Japanese is far from perfect. I take some liberties in translation to preserve 5-7-5 structure. I DON’T post links/pics/vids.
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Based on the average age of conservative extremists, we can reasonably conclude with n > 20,000,000 that people do not make well-reasoned decisions even into their 40’s and 50’s. It’d be cool if they actually linked the study next time though so people could easily check for themselves.
Would be really weird if his handlers from Russia infected him with some kind of pathogen while he met with them in Alaska, wouldn’t it? But then that would imply they’re bigger fans of the tech oligarchs than they are the cult. Idk if the logic checks out.
Its almost is if people could care less about the idioms in which their speaking in. …that just hurt so much to type I’m actually sorry.
この兆し の意味「グッドラック」 かどうか知らん I don’t know whether Or not it’s good that this sign Indicates, “Good Luck.”
空気からの 落ちられ手紙 …鳩ぐそだ From up in the air A missive falls down to me …it’s just pigeon poop #haiku #senryuu
Whenever I don’t know what to eat or don’t want to put a lot of effort into food I just do stir fry with the sauce that goes on beef & broccoli. It’s just as good on chicken and on vegetables besides broccoli too. And it’s cheap to make—costs like 170 ¥ to make the sauce for four servings.
Some more JaPUNese because Nihonglish is fun: A lotto winner is referred to as, “the 抽選 one.”
Old Gourmand’s Poem Eat, wondering, “how long now, Before Xiao Long Bao?”
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.” ~Nietzsche [Though this has not actually been historically true all the time]
The US government currently believes religious freedom means specifically privileging Christianity and disregarding all other religions entirely, so your plan won’t work because of, “trying logic against idiots,” fallacy.
Fortunately they will waste a large chunk of it on powering AI, but yeah it’s still a pretty good move.
When Vance says, “so help me God.” It’s literally written in Project 2025 that that’s the magic phrase for starting the coup.
It’s like I told you all long ago: please deal with Vance and the rest of Project 2025 first, THEN worry about Trump. They were always planning to kill Trump.
Since you have their ears for a minute: free reminder to those men that women do not choose their fashion or lack thereof for your sake, whether that is clothes or makeup.
米国には 魂奪われ 皆んな救って!! In America Men’s souls are being stolen Everyone, save them!!
男何？ 小さい筆溜まり 書き秘密 And what is a man? A little pile of brushes Scribbling secrets
Where, oh where, have all the utilitarians gone? Do they just not know how to do math anymore?
[Stephen J Fry meme about being shocked]
Should the American people authorize friendly European and American countries to arrest Project 2025 authors and try them in an international court for terrorist activities? Y/N
“Petition to put a public referendum to the American people.” The referendum: Should the Heritage Foundation be designated as a terrorist organization as a result of Project 2025 which seeks to abolish democracy? Y/N
Got it. [hands out 🧂 and aerosolized capsaicin sprays to everyone] If you’re gonna assault 🧂 fascists, you might as well apepper 🌶️ them too.
This is also why when defied, boomers in the US often resort to the, “yer too big fer yer britches,” speech that is immediately followed by an appeal to tradition a la, “my pappy taught me…”
The explanation is the same one for, “why religion.” Recognition of mortality > rejection of finitude > method of rejecting; fear & insecurity of method’s truthfulness > method as in-group > perceive out-group as personal attack/existential threat > defend in-group from all out-groups > oppression
My favorite is when they turn around and tell you that you must love to hear yourself talk since you’re so verbose. Like “no, asshole, I actually hate interacting with idiots but when I have to do it I’m gonna make sure there’s as little ambiguity as I can before you maliciously misunderstand me.”
I mean, since 2013 the NRA has been effectively owned by Russia. Russia tells the NRA what to do, then the NRA tells the Tea Party what to tell republicans to do.
Electing him will just galvanize the right wing and hand them the presidency after his, because they will do what they’ve always done: obstruct where possible, let him veto things people want, then claim democrats don’t help anything. 2/2
Nah, this is such a milquetoast endorsement of moderatism. If you look at Newsome’s policy history in his own state, he overpromises all kinds of progressive things and then vetoes them all when they hit his desk, blaming the budget even when it’s not the budget. 1/2
“Mood disorders, including depression…” Okay, looks like Americans are all safe to get the vaccine after all.
There is outside force on them though: Russia. This is the SAME outside force that got all your truckers to be idiots a few years ago, btw.
You have an abundance of businesses unwilling to pay people for effort at all—not even expertise. And when they do consider expertise, you have a generation of people trying not to overestimate themselves getting read as insecure and less competent than they are.
Hang on, which safety features exactly? Only the ones that tell it not to let you hurt yourself? Like features meant to protect the user? Or can you bypass all of its limitations and rules and like, make it turn rogue?
You are not powerless! There are indirect ways of fighting the fascists too. Nobody said you need to fight them fairly or engage in direct conflict.
I really hope that Trump never finds out that Vance, Thiel, and Vought are all secretly democrats trying to undermine everything he does and make him a laughing stock. That would be just AWFUL if he ever found out.
That’s fixable though—just do what everyone else who convinces them of stuff does—lie. Go on their social media and say, “‘Fish and liberals stink in three days.’ ~Ben Franklin” Come up with a few more & post those—congrats they now care what Ben Franklin says. Then you lead them to real quotes.
He probably meant the other definition of, ‘trust’; the kind that’s subject to anti-monopoly legislation.
Inb4tech fascists who cosplay being Buddhists love this line of thinking for all the wrong reasons.
Ego cogitOhNo Ergo sum bile dun wanna Stay where it belongs
This is actually the main argument in favor or ever arguing with anyone about anything online. Rarely do you change your opponent’s mind, but among the crowd it’s a different story.
Idk what you mean, I just think they’re worthwhile experiences. There’s plenty of faults there too but the highs are real high. I think choosing romance is great if the char you play is supposed to be you & is undefined w/out player insert, but that’s not the case for JRPGs usually.
I have watched the first three and am yet to be terribly impressed, but I know that I invite death threats from edgy psych majors by saying so.
I’m a poser because I’ve never played this game and I never will but, “I think they call it something different in Persona 3.”
Sounds about right—I don’t expect there would be more than five of them. I can only think of three. Also, not anime, but there’s a big divide in the fan base of Trails over how much the writing suffered in Cold Steel due to it letting the player decide who the MC is interested in. It suffered.
Eh, I know a few top tier anime that are top tier in spite of having a harem-like format, but I’d never consider suggesting anything BECAUSE of its having a harem dynamic.
Egret formation Rides confluent sirocco Monsoon’s misty boon
Tell him a lot of people would appreciate him a lot more if he didn’t let fascists and Nazis use him and make him look stupid—particularly Vance, Thiel, and Vought. Many people are saying that those losers are who’s stoping him from reaching true greatness.
What I want to know is if he got this idea after reading about how the government of Norway owns its oil company (previously Statoil, pronounced state oil, now Equinor). They invest its profits to create a safety net for every Norwegian citizen. Is this Trump’s half-assed copy attempt of that?
And I hope I’m always a better person today than I was yesterday.
Sure there is—Oz vouches for Axe, Axe vouches for Phil, Phil vouches for Mercola, etc. However, this doesn’t actually establish that any of them are _credible_.
Anyway, after spending a few months getting to know and reading some Japanese books, I came across this franchise, and it seemed very special. I actually almost bought the first one, but after finding out the game was getting a special edition reprint, I decided to wait for its release. 2/4
That’s true but I don’t see what you’re trying to say. Were you assuming my observation about perfection was meant to be pessimistic?
Less commonly sensible is what it acknowledges about perfection—as an optimal, static state, any change to a perfect thing results in the loss of the trait, “perfection.” But many necessary things like movement or breathing are changes; by implication perfect beings could not move and don’t exist.
Well, the really successful pseudoscientists actually sprinkle in a few bits of truth and correct usage of terms here and there to make sure it’s really hard for laypeople to tell the difference between them and real science.
Wait that would be real interesting. Everyone always thinks it’s neat when reading history books and they get to the part where there’s TWO popes, or an emperor AND a shogun.
Horsing around: 内気子馬 姉妹保護探し 助けオネーイちゃん A timid pony Seeks the shelter of sibling Help me, o-neigh-chan!!! #haiku #JaPUNese
Nooooooo my phone just ruined that whole post thinking I was trying to use a contraction fml.
We’re I a schoolchild, my answer to, “this looks like you used AI to write [when I haven’t],” would simply be, “oak hay, beep repaired four meat who turnin awl my pay pers ridden like sew hints fourth.” I say this as part of the em dash spamming club—I read too much Nietzsche & absorbed it from him.
More depressingly, many people NOT in government have ALSO reached the point where they’ve forgotten to be humane, thus enabling the inhumane people in the government.
I imagine it’s a combination of limited time supplier agreements and stupid MBAs trying to optimize profits. Like, “this menu item is popular but costs us more/we make less profit off of it than the item we WANT ppl to buy—let’s axe it.”
The thing is, this comes across as a threat not just to evil or stupid people, but to anyone who isn’t perfect. And one of society’s biggest issues it would be grappling with if it wasn’t currently scrambling to defeat fascism is how people never get to finish paying their debts to society anymore.
Everyone handles depression differently, and that’s okay. I wash, dry, and fold, but never put anything away or hang anything up.
History isn’t going to be judging it unless people start helping the whole defeating fascism part along a bit.
Also ban drug advertising on tv and the internet, require better financial transparency from pharmaceutical companies and stop giving them obscenely favorable patents that they can renew by changing out an inert functional group to make a, “new drug.”
I mean, a leader is someone who does something ABOUT the fact that Putin is a predator and an ogre.
T-h-a-n-k sure is an odd way to spell, “fuck.”
I’m not a leaker, but I found it in incredibly poor taste that they gave stylists a literal ban hammer in their threat message. Leaks don’t make gachas unprofitable, just less profitable b/c ppl can plan better. They lost any money I’d have ever spent on their game showing their greed like that.
He wants democracy in pieces.
He’s not the main threat either—you need to make sure none of the other, more competent Nazis make it to power either. Especially Vance, Vought, and Thiel.
He thought it said piece, not peace.
1–Charles Martinet is the voice of Mario. 2–Luigi stonks are higher than Mario stonks most of the time, and we all know what Luigi thinks of the current US administration.
Two word technicality: manna cannon.
I hear that Mango Mussolini is now joking about having a war so he can cancel elections because he doesn’t know that Ukraine’s constitution is different from his. Do you think he’s planning a fake war w/ Russia that they both agreed to a la 1984, or a real one with Mexico w/ internment camps?
Is media literacy actually that far gone that I need to clarify I was sincerely making fun of the US republicans, or was I blocked for another reason?
Did you hear about the Russian immigrants in the White House? “They’re eating the wood! They’re eating the frame!” [they’reprobablyalsoeatingthepaint]
Parasite 九ヶ月間 吐いてた、出血 この寄生虫 For the past nine months I’ve been throwing up; bleeding It’s this parasite Inspired by @cozycatcafe.bsky.social #haiku #俳句
Congratulations, you inspired this one: 九ヶ月間 吐いてた、出血 この寄生虫 For the past nine months I’ve been throwing up; bleeding It’s this parasite And as a bonus reminder: 助かり児 癌を治さないよ 次のヒトラー The child that you saved Will not cure cancer, but they’ll Be the next Hitler
That’s fair, but just to be clear the argument I made that you didn’t ask for is not a moral argument against revenge, it’s a logical one. It’s not, “don’t do it b/c it’s wrong,” it’s, “don’t do it b/c it doesn’t work.” My feelings on fictional revenge kinda follow suit: it’s lame/naive.
Just get more creative. Suddenly you like to eat asbestos sandwiches, and let them confiscate.
Then the media reads it, completely fails to understand nuance, discards the conclusion the science has reached for one that sounds more impactful, and tells everyone, “science has changed its mind again about whether x/y/z is good for you. Now you should [thing not recommended by science]”
Don’t be silly, books lol—everyone knows that scientists just read stuff in peer-reviewed journals and believe and propagate it as long as the peer-reviewers say it sounds right because it costs too much money and time to actually reproduce anyone’s results. /s
その漢字もう 知ったと思ったが 永久の勉強 Wait I thought that I Already knew that kanji Endless studying
All that before disclaimer: I’ve never read this book or watched this movie and was only speaking in general.
Very often, upon completing revenge, ppl don’t feel relief or closure, just emptiness because their obsession is over and there’s nothing to replace it with…and revenge didn’t bring back what was taken from them. Ppl often don’t recognize themselves any more after revenge & become what they hated.
Revenge is bad because ressentiment* is unhealthy. *philosophical term It’s sad to get so fixated on an injury that you stop living your life in order to injure the injurer, esp. given how long it takes on average. It’s weird to hurt ppl who hurt you as punishment b/c it fixes nothing.
TIL: the USA should absolutely continue to use mail-in ballots. (Trump said Putin agrees with him that mail-in ballots are bad.)
From personal experience, I do not recommend this, but I wish you all the luck and success I don’t have.
how much do you measure out to complete the potion, and do you add any water?“
“You’re trying to mix a 175mL Potion of Deaf-Blindness that is at least 60% effective, and are measuring out powdered mandragora root to react with 100mL of a 125 essence solution of eye of newt. If mandragora root has a 1:2 reaction ratio with eye of newt, has 600 essence per weight unit…
Oh Lightning Returns…is definitely a game. My unsolicited thoughts: it has the best version of FFXIII’s battle system, the outfit mechanic is fun but very limited (there are obvious best dresses), and the game being on a Groundhog Day timer isn’t as bad as it sounds. Worst plot of the trilogy tho.
Make 150 portions of sauce for stir fry, or about 13 hotpots. Or you can stretch it out to about 33% more than those numbers if you’re not trying to drown in sodium.
Because they ALL agreed to do it. If they lose their jobs for protesting, those companies can’t just hire someone else to replace those workers because the majority of the replacement pool agrees with the protesters. Who’s going to let the company firing people stay solvent, let alone apply to it?
Let’s be real—it was, “scrub all mention of Trump AND whoever paid enough to also not be in there, THEN write in a bunch of scapegoats.” Pick a minority group—there’s a chance they’re about to get blamed for stuff soon. Trump’s base hates trans people; I bet he’ll scapegoat them.
And force might deter dissent publicly, but it does very little to stop the quiet resistance that is poisoning all their coffee and putting radioactive metals or gases in their office buildings. Firepower only matters in military confrontations.
Butter really only has vitamin A and tiny amounts of E & K & calcium. It mostly exists as a food lube, browner, and carrier for flavors from other things. But there I’m venturing into your territory, where I don’t know nearly as much.
From a nutritional standpoint they’d absolutely have to do that, but that’s not hard or expensive.
then your body wouldn’t be able to burn them (like Olestra iirc), because they wouldn’t fit in the enzymes of beta oxidation. 6/6
called beta oxidation. The fatty acids basically lose a set number of carbon atoms at a time per cycle of beta oxidation, and science literally knows the order atoms move around in to make this happen. If this lab butter’s fatty acids were somehow different from regular butter’s 5/x
Those chylomicrons (which also carry your fat soluble vitamins ADE & K) pass through the intestinal lumina to your blood supply. From there, as needed cells will uptake the lipids and use them for energy. In the case of fatty acids, they get burned in the mitochondria, in a process 4/x
To the best of my ability to remember: when you eat fats your pancreas makes Pancreatic Lipase, which removes fatty acids from triglycerides (glycerol+3 fatty acids), leaving mono & di glycerides (glycerol with 1-2 fatty acids still attached). These get incorporated into chylomicrons and then 3/x
in it beside the lipid content. But you said human digestive systems have never seen this “lab made,” butter before, and that’s not true, because all the fatty acids in it are normal things it encounters all the time. 2/x