oh I must have missed that they were anchored into the ground.

I thought they were just standing on little platforms.

I’m good with anchor points.

jerky is one of them make your own foods at this point. none of the US jerky tastes like meat anymore for less than 50 bucks a pound.

so for the mad jerky heads:

1. 40$ countertop deli slicer.

2. buy the largest cheapest bulk beef, the cut doesn’t matter.

3. Slice up that beef

4. soy sauce+brown sugar marinade for 1 hr+

5. dry the meat on a tray over a box fan (3 hrs+ depending on how thin you slice the meat and how dry you like jerky).

I have made a lot of this, tens of pounds.

you’re going to cut out most of the cost and you get a much higher quality jerky that you get to flavor.

for a long time I had one of those big glass old timey candy jars, but I had pounds of beef jerky inside instead of candy.

paranoia. I am familiar.

you get a confirmation email in the states I know about after your vote is counted early, so you know that your vote was received and recorded.

how would voting in a person make it more difficult for the non-federal employees to throw away your vote versus federal employees in a federal building?

or does it just feel-better-in-person?

I’m just curious about personal experiences here, you should definitely go in person if you prefer that.

oh, cool.

that makes sense.

i’ve usually lived in busier places, so there was always long lines and just everything was a mess.

and I’ve never lived close, so it was always a chore to get there in the first place.

nice!

“He was more conservative than he let on.”

no he wasn’t. or at least there isn’t any evidence of that.

he was a private person and was exactly as conservative as he let on publicly.

norm occasionally publicly talked about his politics, and also how he didn’t like to talk about politics in general.

that article is about how he was anti-political and didn’t like to disclose personal beliefs, not about how he was a secret conservative.

it’s a little gossipy, but it’s pop-culture spin on a few off-hand public comments over his entire lifetime of public appearances, not private, new information that changes anything already known to the general public.

looks like it went up a couple weeks ago.

doesn’t look super robust, but it’s better than chain link

I’m glad there’s something, since there was a violent coup, but I’m also glad they didn’t go overboard and get like electrified interlocking metal gates.

I mean, there was an attempted coup.

some additional measures should be taken.

I asked about Egypt specifically and the rise and fall of empires in general, but apparently that was “not the same thing”.

civilization advancing, stagnating, and regressing is not the same as civilization advancing, stagnating, and regressing.

his main stumbling block was that there was still birth control that he understood 200 years in the future.

he said there shouldn’t be any pills anymore, because there’s no way there would still be pills in the future.

I was like well there were pills 200 years ago from today.

but apparently “that’s not the same thing”.

so similar medical technology existing 200 years apart is not the same as similar medical technology existing 200 years apart.

and I was like maybe they put all their innovation into creating new materials for spaceships and they had a ain’t broke don’t fix it attitude toward birth control.

He’s like yeah, but there’s no way that any sort of technology like that could ever really go backwards.

and I had just watched this video about this specific diaphanous fiber weave that was like the most popular and technically advanced weave of all time that only the wealthy Romans wore, and it was due to a specific weaving technology for these super delicate fragile fibers, and that technology was not funded as rome went bankrupt and then was gradually forgotten and lost for centuries as the local weavers died out and didn’t pass on their knowledge, so instead of some insane thread count, the leading weaving expert from that region of the world today can still only match like 30% of the thread count with modern technology and techniques.

and he was like “that’s not the same thing”.

so technology going backwards is not the same as technology going backwards.

how dull and bewildering an exchange that was.

but riveting to read and write about!

“Increasing the tipped minimum would do more.”

n-n-n-NOPE.

paying workers a livable wage is the real answer.

as every other country with a livable minimum wage can attest to.

“…argument about what is and is not written for teenagers.”

still not at all the point.

you’re mistaking premise complexity for reading accessibility, neither of which make any sense in context.

“if i were to guess…”

your foundation is assumptions based on the opposite of what Norm said and wrote.

you can read the article I posted above so you don’t have to keep guessing outside of the thread’s context.

you posted a non-Summarized PDF for people who are too lazy to Google?

you do not know what you’re talking about.

dumps is a 34-time felony convict from just one case and is facing many more convictions, He’s liable for rape and half a billion dollars, he’s already paid 100 million.

He’s been challenged as to his presidential eligibility in courts, and that’s still going on also.

there have been consequences for his actions, and more are coming.

they’re literally deciding those consequences and employing further legal actions leading to more consequences right now.

“…that he could have criticised”

Norm took belief pretty seriously and didn’t seem interested in the criticism of religion in general, and frequently stated he didn’t like wasting time, so I doubt he would have read many books he didn’t find interesting, while we know he read atwoods the handmaid’s tale.

“…it seems unlikely”

that someone who took religions seriously openly talking about Christian faith and his respect for Christianity around the same time he began vocally persecuting an author and their work that criticized the Christian faith specifically?

seems pretty likely.

“It’s basically YA…”

that describes accessibility to readership, not the nature of the premise.

The premise of religious extremism infecting and overthrowing government, leading to the gendered elimination of civil rights and bodily autonomy.

that the book is accessible to young adults does not make its premise juvenile.

those are exclusive characteristics.

maybe you didn’t read this book? or you don’t understand the difference between a literary premise and a reading level.

sources:

"On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/04/trump-has-spoken-privately-with-putin-least-times-heres-what-we-know-about-conversations/

On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin, Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-asks-for-list-of-top-intel-officials-amid-intelligence-shakeup

-By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being .murdered.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/#:~:text=Leading counterintelligence officials issued a,were being captured and executed.

-During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of US informants on them.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/mar-a-lago-search-informant-documents-donald-trump/index.html "

yup, dumps talked about most of this publicly, and the rest is confirmed by intelligence agencies and news outlets.

"On 7/31/2019 Trump has a private meeting with Putin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/10/04/trump-has-spoken-privately-with-putin-least-times-heres-what-we-know-about-conversations/

On 8/3/2019, just 3 days after his private meeting with Putin, Trump issues a request for a list of top US spies.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-asks-for-list-of-top-intel-officials-amid-intelligence-shakeup

-By 2021 the CIA reports an unusually high number of their agents are being captured and/or being .murdered.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/#:~:text=Leading counterintelligence officials issued a,were being captured and executed.

-During the search executed at Mar A Lago the FBI find more documents with lists of US informants on them.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/mar-a-lago-search-informant-documents-donald-trump/index.html "

i’m pretty sure it’s an open case that prosecutors are looking into.

also, Trump is a rapist.

norm’s own autobiography is a collection of fictional stories auntie joked about literature, I see no evidence he gets particularly outraged over every novel following this standards and rigors of classic lit and this is the single offender he chooses to attack repeatedly?

I don’t see how you can label the premise as even somewhat juvenile.

The premise is about women losing their civil rights in a society run by religious extremism.

gendered oppression based on religious extremism was part of the founding of a lot of countries, never stopped happening and now is happening even more, globally.

there are also books far less subtle with far more ridiculous premises that he has never commented on, although he chose this book and this author specifically to consistently sincerely lambast and insult.

The only way that makes sense as the only literary object of his unhumorous ire is that it offended something deeply personal to him, like his newly strengthened Christian sensibilities, which apparently he took seriously, even when talking to people in interviews.

Norm macdonald was somewhat inexplicably outraged by this book and Atwood in general, and constantly trashed her and handmaids tale on Twitter.

https://www.thewrap.com/norm-macdonald-handmaids-tale/

I think he turned a little more toward Christianity near the end of his life, so maybe that explains why the book made him upset.

he almost never posted anything very seriously, or really ever presented himself publicly in a completely serious manner, but every time he talked about Atwood or hating a handmaid’s tale, which was many times, he sounded dead serious.

at times he was explaining how ridiculous the premise of her book was, before The Supreme Court struck down female bodily autonomy and health care.

I had a personal friend do the exact same thing, explaining to me how he thought sci-fi novels were ridiculous because you can’t have oppression in the future since progress is always moving forward.

first, I tried to explain that history does not precede solely in a linear fashion, which he disagreed with.

then The Supreme Court and State governments outlawed medical care for women and I was like “this is kind of what I was talking about”.

progress not being guaranteed with time passing.

The suburbs of cities are where I always go. nobody in the city likes to drive for 30 minutes to a neighborhood theyre unfamiliar with, and everyone coming from outside is just trying to get into the city, so there’s always good stuff around the rim.

I will say I got lucky one time jogging and I turned back on the final block before my house and there was a pretty big flat screen just sitting on the sidewalk with a sign taped to it that said free.

so i picked that up and hauled it the last block.

lucked out on that one.

pretty cool, i highly recommend.

all the people saying"hungry" are incorrect, your body locks into new eating patterns pretty quickly.

if you start OMAD, one meal a day, after a couple days you don’t get hungry until the food window you normally eat at.

fasting gave me a sense of control over my body that I hadn’t really accessed before.

I also just felt a little high after a few days, so things are a lot more interesting in general while fasting.

I like fasting, I do omad everyday, 2 days every now and then and I’ll fast 4 days to a week occasionally.

you know what else is really cool about fasting, my runny nose and all the little itches and all that stuff are gone.

I should stop talking, I can talk about this forever.

give it a whirl, fasting is fun.

saves a ton of time too, once you realize how much time you spend commuting to/from or consuming food or using the bathroom because you eat three or five or seven times a day.

Time that could be spent on lemmy answering questions about not eating hahaha.

lying on my back, relaxing all my muscles, calmly, slowly “repeating” sleep in ny mind until i fall asleep

oh, and I resisted using eye masks for years, but blocking out as much light as possible helps so much.

blackout curtains are amazing and worth every penny.