How is this related to power tripping admins/mods ?

Only reason I don’t sleep with my equivalent is that I’ve already had to fix it five times.

The blanket that was my childhood blanket is so fragile it’s not even possible to mend it.

But the pillow my grandmother made for me, that sucker was made of polyester scraps. Which, for all that’s bad about polyester, the stuff lasts. So, over forty years later, I’ve replaced the filling three times, and resewn it fully twice, plus one partial resew. I tend to replace the filling any time I do a major repair, but there’s been three times I needed to specifically refill it.

Back when she made it, it was filled with that loose polyfill stuff. I’ve swapped between cotton, polyfill, shredded foam, and shredded memory foam.

I don’t sleep with it any more, like I said. But it’s right here beside me.

I had even specified being buried with it, but swapped to wanting cremation, and that’s not going to work with the pillow.

See, that’s asparagus tricking you into thinking that is how it grows, by crafty memeing. When we (and by we I mean all right thinking asparaguys humans know it isn’t.

Never fall prey to the bait!

Well, when it comes to video games, despite being foundational, Mario Bros. At the time, it was mids, but there were a lot less truly great games, and less abysmal ones so it looked better than it was. The series got better, but that first one was kinda meh. It’s all timing jumps, which is fine as far it as it goes, but there were both better and worse options on that console.

Away from video game, Life is about as meh as it gets. No real strategy, no depth. But it’s a good time killer and you can play it with a table full of people drinking and not get bogged down or into arguments because of the game (unlike monopoly lol).

Definitely clueless mod.

Not that I can’t understand the confusion if you don’t pay attention, but that’s kinda the work part of being a modk taking a look past the initial reaction.

If my presbyopic, dyslexic ass can parse what you threat meant on the second pass, anyone can if they take the time

Walk away.

People want to troll. Don’t feed trolls.

There’s a few factors.

First is genetics. Not everyone has the same base level reaction to peppers and/or capsaicin. And it can be either of them causing intestinal rebellion. Some people just don’t respond well to even sweet peppers.

Second is habitation. The more spicy stuff you eat in general, the more your body adapts to it.

But, there’s also variances in mucosa. Our guts, the colon in specific, opportunists produce snot. It’s essentially the same as what coats your throat and sinuses. Not exactly the same, but the same basic ingredients and purpose. Separate from how you respond to the food, and how used to it you are, some people produce more than others.

In your case, I suspect that you have a higher resistance genetically, and produce mucous in your gut that protects you from the irritants that spicy foods have.

If you also have a healthy gut biome going, it’ll add a layer of resistance to things being over stimulated.

And that’s what causes the diarrhea and cramping for most people. The chemicals irritate tissues, so your body treats or like an emergency. That means to increase bowel motility and flush the guts with water. Which means squiiirt.

I’ve said it before.

Anyone that’s ever had any long term interactions with people involved in christian music scenes, particularly contemporary christian music, knows that the entire industry is morally bankrupt, and most of the musicians are mid tier hacks using the label of christian to cover up their many vices and abuses.

You will not meet a shittier group of human beings outside of a nazi rally. Since there’s some overlap between christian music and nazism and bigotry, that’s not saying much. Mind you, that overlap isn’t so huge that it’s the same thing, but you’d be surprised how often you run into the nazi memorabilia “collectors”, and folks with white sheets sewn into interesting garments in ccm and even plain gospel.

And don’t get me started on the drug use and sexual abuse that goes on. Some of those fuckers make 80s rock bands look ascetic.

And it isn’t just the big names and big money circles either. That shit goes all the way down to performers going around to perform at churches.

Which, I ain’t got problems with sex and drugs. You do you, I’m fine. Just don’t be a faker. Don’t be getting your dick sucked out back of a church in the tour bus after singing about saving yourself for Jesus. And yes, that’s a very specific thing, and it did happen, and it all got ignored because those were “good christians”.

For real, I’ve known black metal performers into the ugly kind of Satanism that are better people that most of the ccm performers out there.

Well, you run into the trouble of “help with what”

We do still have plenty of treaties, and the allies that go with them. So long as we don’t break those treaties, those allies are likely to provide the kind of help they cover.

If you mean “help us get rid of the fascists”, nobody yet because the fascists haven’t been stupid enough to try and export it in ways that violate treaties, so it’s an internal matter.

Even if the US devolves into civil war, don’t expect to see external military assistance being provided to any sides involved until and unless there’s no other choice.

However, there’s a good chance that US refugees would be welcomed to some degree in most of our allied nations. If refugees could get there. Canada would only take so many, and would otherwise have to play adoption agency, which they might not be willing to do. Same with Mexico. You might see some people fleeing via water, but where would they go that would either accept them or help them to other nations that would?

So, we aren’t without help. It just might not be the kind of help you want.

With all of that in mind, chances are high that at least some of our allies would try to get assistance into the country to back whatever factions they support. Dunno if that’s help or not, but it is what it is.

I’m mostly with you, and I would definitely say this is unpopular on a large scale since so many people will default to that kind of syrup for pancakes (and waffles tbh).

I would, however, point out that what sucks about it isn’t the fact of corn syrup being the sweet part; it’s how they’re flavored that makes them suck. Most of them use artificial flavoring that is completely one note, and overwhelming to the palate.

Plain corn syrup, particularly dark corn syrup, does have its own flavor, and it can be not only acceptable, but preferable, on pancakes that have additional things like berries. Even log cabin (which is the least chemically tasting brand) competes with berries or other fruit. Plain corn syrup, used sparingly, does not and still bring extra sweetness.

You could make syrup from cane sugar, add the same flavorings to it, and the result would suck just as much as corn syrup based brands. Hell, it might suck worse to some palates since the chemical additives aren’t masked as much as with corn syrup.

Whats bad is that list misses so much stuff that’s worse than a mosh pit.

Like, have you ever see a venue after the crowd decides to have an impromptu orgy? Takes days to get the jizz out of the rafters

Wait, so it’s fake?

Damn, that’s so gay

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

That’s what shallow graves are for

Well, it isn’t that punitive measures serve no purpose. They do. But that purpose doesn’t decrease the chances of a given crime occurring by other people, nor does it prevent the same people repeating a crime. To the contrary, the way most prisons work, chances are that anyone going on comes out with less options, and more knowledge of crime, so even if they don’t repeat the same offenses, they’re put in position to do others out of necessity.

But it does seem to make people feel better when someone else gets punished for doing something wrong. Which, in theory, is going to reduce vigilantism and mob justice. In practice? I dunno, I haven’t seen enough data to form an opinion about that specific matter.

Generally, the reason it shouldn’t be the main goal of a justice system is lack of efficacy. It just doesn’t do what people want it to do. So, what’s the point of that?

If your goal is to reduce crime, and reduce recidivism, rehabilitation has shown to do a better job. Prisons should be the last resort for non violent crimes, not the first. Even then if prisons hope to do more than isolate repeat offenders, they would need to have more intensive measures to help people change.

I don’t know I’d call it an accent really, since it isn’t quite the same thing, but I know what you’re talking about.

Oh, ffs, did anyone think they would be sent? They’re fucking useless in a combat zone.

Just because shit looks all military doesn’t mean it is. If they got shipped to Ukraine, they’d sit somewhere unused unless they could manage to throw gunsmiths at the problem, and then they’d run into the usual problems with modified rifles like that and still sit somewhere until there was nothing better available.

Maybe, maybe a few were solid enough to be put to use by snipers; some hunting rifles can get the job done that way. But still wouldn’t be first choices in that setting.

Goats are so fun.

I’ve never had any myself, which may be why I think of them being fun first, but they are a riot

Banana bread may be the best baked good in human history.