Brilliant. This should be a cover!

I think I figured out the mentality. It’s Barbie dolls. They all still subconsciously want to look like a barbie doll. and this is some DEEP subconscious conditioning too. (Exception for folks with alopecia, of course)

TBF, the structural differences if the protestant faith and the catholic faith were viable at the start. The catholics had a reformation and because they actually looked at the protestant doctrines and were like “yeah, ya’know, fair” to a lot of them. Meanwhile, Protestantism got popular with the the elites because they misinterpreted Martin Luther’s philosophy to basically say that just paying lip service to God can still get you into heaven and so they could save a bundle on tithes and treat faith a performance art. Which is how you got assholes like the Calvinists.

In case you were thinking I was feeding into the thesis of the thread, neither of them are wholly correct, which is true of most religions, but if you look at the them purely objectively, Catholicism is “more correct” than Protestantism, as Catholics at least expect their practitioners to perform “good works” in their communities as a requirement rather than a strong suggestion.

Users. While niche communities are good, the real numbers need to come for the regulars at r/movies, /r/politics, r/news, and r/funny. If you can get an entire fandom to quit and switch to lemmy that would be an absolute death knell for Reddit.

Bold move in a nation that treats firearms target practice as a sport.

Right. Because what people are just clamoring for is MORE draconian over sight on their public video platform.🙄

Real talk: I heard somewhere that this is Jack Black’s Mom.

I feel like this need a spokesperson. Is John oliver available? No need to pay him; He’ll do this shit FOR FREE.

Case in point: I absolutely LOVE The Lord of the Rings films. Absolute masterpieces that haven’t aged A DAY.

Tolkien’s “The Fellowship of the Ring” had me asleep in 25 pages.

People are Strange by the Doors “Streets are up when you’re going down.” I.E. “The whole world is happy when you’re depressed.”

I actually think doing a theme is probably the best way to go about it. Like, if you are into thorned roses, or tribal patterns, or stars, riff on that shit. At least that could be generously called “body art,” and I have no problem with that.(because “art”) think the giant panel work people get on their backs.

that’s just eggs, bud.

As a person who spent many years in the culinary arts field, I can assure you that most professional bakeries use the same mix you can buy at the store, just shipped in 50 pound bags. The difference is that they use butter instead of oil, heavy cream instead of water, more eggs, and brown sugar instead of white.

your tattoos “telling a story” is like a mandatory meeting that should have been an email about something I’m not involved with, and in fact, couldn’t care less about. You think enduring pain makes you seem tough, but it just makes you seem like someone who makes poor fiscal decisions in this shitty economy. And, (as an aside) ink was supposed to make you stand out because it was supposed to be a rare thing than not many people did. Now not many people have no ink at all so, if you were looking to be “unique…” (I mean, just sayin.')

https://youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

The issue is that the powers that be did learn their lesson and they learned it well. If you keep the masses JUST sufficient enough that they still have something “to lose” they’ll be to busy chasing that to be able to mount any kind of resistance to their exploitation. It’s the splash and dash mentality. It’s also why they are so against abortion. they frame it as a moral issue, but it’s really about ensuring a good crop of fresh people to exploit when the current crop wears out. It’s a common fascist tactic: Concentration Camps were usually billed as “work” camps where people would be set to menial or meaningless tasks, so they would waste away on purpose, and the deaths could be logged as “by natural causes” and not murder. (only what the regime defined as “undesirables” were sent to be euthanized.)

Competing Lords owned the land and extracted labor from the peasants, and this was feudalism. Then peasants overthrew the lords so they could seek ownership of those lands, but that only benefited those who already had the means to fill the vacuum left by the lords. Capitalism only shuffles the deck of Feudalism. it doesn’t solve the underlying flaw in the game, namely that there will always be someone with more means than you extracting value from people whose only asset to sell is their labor and time. Eventually a group of gentrified individuals will emerge that fill the rolls that the old lords did, and given that nepotism is rampant in industry, it’s not even really that different at all from feudalism. The idea that a CEO should be president of a democracy is such a perversion of the idea of public rule that it is anathema to it. Extreme wealth should be disenfranchising in of itself, as if you are that wealthy, you no longer need the protections of a popular government, but rather, you are what that kind of governance is supposed to be protecting against.

In ancient times when planes had a simple stick for controls, you pull back to go up and push forward to go down.

careful. this may be the first confirmed photo of a negative fuck

someone wants to be covered in melted butter sauce.

If you imagine their catchphrases, this is even better.