feralrobots.bsky.social
Cis straight borderline-elderly middle-class white man.
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I haven't made butternut pie but I can totally see how it could improve the texture. (& flavor for some folks like my wife, who's not crazy about pumpkin.)
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Lived half block from Cab Calloway Park in the South Wedge. Also, he received an honorary degree when I graduated UR; led us in the call-response from Minnie the Moocher.
...anyway, Gap is definitely better-known than Chuck.
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Frankie Yankovic & NIN? Yeah you can stop there, we can work with that.
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Willfully.
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i think this is an important note for selling food at protests too.
for white people, food isn't as central to gatherings. for most non-white people, it's pretty rude to bring people into spaces and not feed them.
selling food doesn't make the protest less serious. it makes it more accessible.
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Given how you characterized Morris, guessing you've seen The Unknown Known? Similar problem.
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TRUMP [told of a lawsuit to stop him sending marines to raze Compton]: I am literally Jean Valjean, unjustly victimized!
TRUMP [5m later, judge has upheld a stay on deportations to Salvadoran slave labor prisons]: That Javert, he got such a bum rap! All he wanted to do was Make France Safe Again.
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So what I hear you saying is that chocolate shops start with commercially available chocolate of some specific "brand", manufactured in volume by a corporation, then "refashion" that cholate by melting & molding into things like truffles & Dubai bars.
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I first read _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_ & _Catch-22_ in the 70s & both were marketed as 'comedy.' Yes, they have humor in them, but I'm gonna start from a place of profound distrist with someone who tells me they think of them first as comedy.
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I wouldn't bet on it. I'm not sure what it is, but people are not gonna stop wanting bootleg Mickey Mouse ware.
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So your boosterish, irrelevant claim is based on a heavily qualified example that you can't say for sure you remember correctly. Got it.
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This is what we get for moving away from professional soldiering and into the stupid Spartan warrior bullshit.
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""What I think is so remarkable about Bragg is that it's really a breakdown on the military side," Risa Brooks, an expert of civil-military relations at Marquette University, told Military.com.
"It shows it's possible -- that the military's professional ethics could fail," she said."
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Just like their daddy done.
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Also Paddy MacAloon is a wanker who just happens to have semi*-accidently written one of the most beautiful pop songs ever by completely misunderstanding a (different) Springsteen song.
youtu.be/jEJdfDD4dVg
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*only semi 'cuz Paddy honestly was a brilliant songwriter.
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I always heard it as being worse than a lie - that the dream is (or should be) true, & their lives have become lies.
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I would argue that it was the most brutal song he'd done up to that point. & it still might be - there's some dark stuff on Nebraska but it's all somehow stylized; "The River" just lays it bare.
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I get this is a rhetorical proposition, but there are very real practical reasons they'd want to keep local law enforcement - most of them go back to local LE being a cutout, that can do horrible things not traced back to the regime. (I'm assuming they'd co-opt it, as fascist regimes so often do.)
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Bingo: Trump Fort Bragg speech was just a political rally in front of a Potempkin crowd of filtered white mail pro-Trump soldiers. The point was to scare us into thinking the regular military was all-in for Trump. (It could still work.)
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at this point you haven't done much to build credibility so you'll forgive me if I don't give much weight to your unsupported denial of a vague referent.
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...nevermind, I see you're going there.