garlipow.bsky.social
small d democrat, socialist, environmentalist, hate war but not a pacifist, support Palestinian rights, pronouns he/him they/them is also OK if you prefer that.
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A sous vide, can heat an egg at exactly 130 F (55 celsius) for an hour which will pasteurize it without cooking it. Don't know if affects the flavor or texture badly. Not a lot of added labor, most time lost is waiting time. Which should make your recipe safe for the immune compromised.
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The sad thing is, if they didn't insist on it being an "invention" there is (modestly) something to eating a lot of soup, at least for overeaters. If you don't go overboard with carb dense or fat dense ingredients, you can fill yourself up without overdoing the calories, and keep hydrated besides.
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Alt Text: Gender assigned at birth is just astrology for genitals. "You were born under the sign of The Penis, which means you will grow up to be big and strong and love power tools."
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Red Dwarf. (Though the toasters did have a better union than the humans.)
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znetwork.org/znetarticle/... also may be of interest to @yuhline.bsky.social
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This may be of interest to @ohrobin.bsky.social @swordsjew.bsky.social @doughenwood.bsky.social
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One problem is that if you read further, and include the Federalist Papers, they feared oppression of "the opulent" by the majority even more. They feared democracy more than kings, which is a crippling flaw in the US constitution.
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One important difference. The church hierarchy then supported or at least appeased Hitler. Having an anti-fascist pope is a huge positive difference from that time. (3 of 3)
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Churchill's UK ignored and worsened famine in Bangladesh. Roosevelt's USA imprisoned Japanese Americans in concentration camps. (2 of 3)
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Battles against fascism always involve coalitions with problematic forces. The heaviest burdens and most effective war against Nazi Germany was fought by the Stalin led Soviet Union. In Italy, the main armed resistance to Mussolini were Communist & parish priests. (1 of N)
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#Bribecoin
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How certain are you that more competent fascist head of state (i.e.e. Vance) and the more competent fascist cabinet that would come with it is preferable? Genuinely asking. I can see the pluses, but do they outweigh the minuses?
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Some systems have recalls. But recalls have 3 flaws. 1) Only possible with first past post, not proportional representation, 2) too easy for people with money to abuse 3) too hard for grass roots to use.
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All forms of representative democracy lack short term accountability. If you hire a plumber who doesn't touch your plumbing, you send them away & hire someone else. But elect a representative, you have to wait until next election if they break promises. 2/n
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100% right on all these. However, note that fascism has come to nations with none of them. Hungary and Turkey had parliamentary systems with Proportional Representation and still got there. At root, capitalism. But also structural flaws in all existing forms of representative democracy. 1/n
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Just to be cleared, I've never cared that Graham was gay, not (given his generation) grudged him the not very effective closetedness. But finding the idea of Trump in Pope's garb "exciting" is just wrong.
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Extremely good news. But it is a reprieve, not a pardon. Housing crisis is growing worse, and the health care system is being hollowed out. And Mark is a freaking banker. Is he (and his party) willing to break with his buddies and massively fund public housing and health care?
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Now that I think about, given that 1/3rd of the comics page in newspapers that still carry comic is 40 year old reruns, I don't see why (at least morally) you should not be paid for a couple of weeks of reruns. Don't know the practicality of course.
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I hope that, even given how poorly freelance cartoonists are paid, you can afford to skip two weeks income. I presume for those two weeks, you either will have guest cartoonist who can use the cash & publicity, or will do reruns. You absolutely deserve time off, and I hope you can take it.
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An acquaintance of mine, whenever he has to do the "sign with electronic pen at the register" thing, signs: "Darth Vader." He has yet to suffer any inconvenience or attract any notice for doing this.
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Sadly, not the first village idiot who was President during my lifetime. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were (are in W's cases) still deeply stupid and detached from reality. In Reagan's case, true impairment. Nixon maybe was not stupid. But he was drug-addled, drunk and paranoid.
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I don't doubt the man's stupidity, though I'm suspicious of IQ tests. But anytime you hear about icing on the cake of a right wing scandal, be triply cautious. False evidence for something that is true is a standard RW disinformation technique. Also false versions of true things. 2/2
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Take care. Back in the days of W, there was a scandal that Bush was a no-show at his US based military gig that got him out of Vietnam, with overwhelming evidence. An internal document confirmed it. Only, the document was a forgery, almost certainly planted by Rove to discredit the scandal. 1/2
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Don't worry; if Trump is not stopped "Show your papers!" soon will be the norm for everyone. I assumed this was coming back when Homeland Security and ICE were first created in 2001. Trump is the USA nearing the bottom of the slippery slope.
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Regional differences. In my area in Western Washington State, donuts are still 2 to 3 bucks each - including for super high quality one.
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You get caught hanging out with friend in an empty lot (trespassing) and you are wearing the wrong clothes (completely arbitrary), live in the wrong building, have the wrong cousin, congrats: your "kids trespassing" charge has just been upgraded to a felony due to "three gang ties." (2 of 2)
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Just to add to list everyone is giving: "gang related" was (probably still is) on a point system. You get "gang points" for living in an apartment building considered gang invested or even on a block. Also for having a cousin in a gang (often by this same BS criteria). (1 of 2)
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One of the major arguments the US has used for decades to block UN resolutions condemning Israeli human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Trump is worse than what came before. But he did not come from nothing.
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At this point, I think we know enough to call it a "death camp" rather than a "torture prison." Limiting prisoners to 1 cup of water daily? Confining them in standing room only cells? No hygiene supplies? No medical care? That goes beyond torture to certain death, especially the first.