Cutting up pickles with boxed Mac. and Cheese was one of my favorite go-tos, in grad. school. If not pickles then I used to put canned tuna in; also quite good.

It’s, actually, likely coming from food-handling wrapping (like microwave popcorn or fast-food wrappers), depending on your eating habits.

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

Nonsense. I’ve had to replace every suit jacket I’ve ever owned, so far, but I’ll find one that makes the cut, eventually~

You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).

It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.

That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.

…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.

This; as much as I have no moral qualms about the practice, there’s massive risk that’s not always obvious to see.

https://youtu.be/RPYlJZ34A9k

Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.

Ahhh; now that you point it out, I see it.

I assume you meant “himself” but I am amused by the idea that Tom Cruise’s character nearly kills a single member of the viewing audience, in real life, as part of the movie’s climax for unexplained reasons.

Almost definitely; I don’t know if there’s a degree that’s necessary to qualify as I can still look at it without breaking eye contact (though I hate it). But I have a deep desire to rip that shit up the entire time; deeply repulsive, whatever the reason. Honeycombs don’t bother me, though; I dunno.

Haha; I think the wool’s too fuzzy and not rigid enough to bother me. I’ve been trying to get more into the fiber arts in the last few years, too, so definitely not a problem that I’ve noticed.

Definitely the latter, for me; something about segmented holes just grosses the absolute Hell out of me.

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering [I just made up and is not the reality] of the American people [because, again, – and I cannot stress this enough – I created it and it did not actually happen], then that’s what I’m going to do.”

I’ve somewhat misspoke as they targeted, specifically, Ranked-Choice Voting rather than specifically the multi-candidate part but I feel like the proportional part is missed if you leave FPtP in place without an alternative like RCV so I don’t think that’s still wrong, per se; and I’d fully expect someone who’d outlaw RCV to be against anything fully proportional.

These are the states RCV’s been outlawed:

• Alabama (2024)
• Arkansas (2025)
• Florida (2023)
• Idaho (2023)
• Iowa (2025)
• Kansas (2025)
• Kentucky (2024)
• Louisiana (2024)
• Mississippi (2024)
• Missouri (2024)
• Montana (2023)
• North Dakota (2025)
• Oklahoma (2024)
• South Dakota (2023)
• Tennessee (2022)
• West Virginia (2025)
• Wyoming (2025)

Considering the other side is – in multiple states – outright outlawing proportional representation, voting for the person not actively making that goal more difficult is, definitionally, still harm reduction.

There it is; I was looking for someone to point this out.

You’re also going to keep cutting the sides of your mouth with #2 (maybe not at first but if it’s the only one you can use, forever?).

I had been thinking that very thing.

That said (and I know I’m an outlier because I’ve been this way since childhood but) I don’t understand these seeming resistance to avoid the culture signifiers on periods past.

I always loved being familiar with cultural touchstones of the past (I’ve been working on putting All in the Family on our home media center, recently), especially because it creates a deeper understanding and because as you see how they influenced the ones you grew up with.

Culture is yet another way humans tell stories and how we relate with each other and I truly love that.

Heh, right‽ I was thrilled, the first time I saw it, and it’s lived in my head ever since.