And the entirety of Africa is framed as nothing but both of theirs pawn and playground… 🙄

You’re good, no “gotcha” intended, I just think potatoes are too good to overlook 😁

I’m sure all of this is correct, but you’re forgetting one thing: potatoes are the only one of these you can grow enough of to eat at home, as long as you have space for a bucket or sack or two of soil, and which basically require zero processing aside from applying heat to consume.

I agree with you that we shouldn’t actually need to know or use any of this information, and as a poor disabled person I also know that growing your own food isn’t always an option for everyone, but if it is an option, I think it at the very least puts potatoes back in the running.

You guys are terrible.

No, you, bootlicker.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/romeo-kokriatski-respectability-politics-or-you-gotta-be-nice-to-monsters

If this is you, you should be disappointed in yourself. Grow as you age.

Accessibility in general seems to be a huge benefit to automation a lot of people here including op are overlooking, which is a great shame but unfortunately not surprising…

For me it won’t stop it, but pushing my tongue up and forward against my pallet and clenching my jaw will help contain the sneeze (and often also give the sinuses a good clear).

I always enjoy the payoff of Lucky Number Slevin even after watching it a few times.

I know there are more but I’m struggling to think at the moment, I might have to come back to this…

Yeah, I’ve seen One Hour Photo a few times (also Insomnia and The Final Cut), it’s how I know he did creepy so well and probably why I know to avoid that episode lol

Idk if it’s hindsight bias or what, but I feel like if some guy called my place of work claiming to be a cop and told me to rape my 14-18 year old coworker I would suspect something is up

I do too, but then you look at society, and the individual and mass abuses and atrocities that have been and still are committed (or even just not objected to) under the influence of one or a small group of manipulative exploiters (some with little other power, but some who control the very systems that govern our lives), and you realise that if nothing else, you have to be constantly aware and vigilant to their manipulations, and even then, no one is immune.

I think the worst thing about it is that it works every day, in so many different ways. Appeal to authority (not the fallacy, just the act of) is an enforced value in most societies, and it will drive people to do the most horrific shit. Always question authority.

Wait, what? I’ve seen the movie, but didn’t know about this. Will have to look it up.

E: ok so saw Williams plays the caller in it, think I’ll pass, I don’t need that memory of him in my brain lol but good to know it made the show either way.

Guy who is extremely good at manipulating people ends up manipulating like 6 or more … to do all the requests he has.

That reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam, which is so fucked up on so many levels.

It’s the title of the article lol

(I don’t need the rage reading the whole thing would induce, but if it’s in the title, and the sub-header, I assume it’s a key point of the article)

consumer-led recession

Yeah, it’s the consumers that are leading the economy, not those underpaying and overcharging said consumers to exist…🙄

Happy to help! The fandom pages are absolute garbage, breezewiki really is a godsend.

I found out about it on here: https://libredirect.github.io/, I’m not sure how up to date it is, but there are definitely some other useful links to explore

If you’ve ever used a fan wiki for a video game or hobby you have likely experienced how bad a wiki larded down with ads can be.

A bit of an aside, but breezewiki.com is a great open sourced way to get away from this (their internal search doesn’t always work, but a search engine search for fandom name + breezewiki should do it)

The documentary is worth watching if you can access it.

Casio G-Shock

Real nostalgia hit with that one, I’ve never really liked wearing a watch, and haven’t really before or since, but for a few years in my teens, I was a huge Baby G fan, I had to beg my parents to get me one for my birthday lol

I’m going to have to keep this one in mind…