and that’s fine. good for you. you don’t have to buy a dipper if you don’t feel like. i like mine because it’s easier and i was tired of using the edge of the jar when a dipper costs a few cents (i think i got mine for 75 cents)

i have and that’s what i’m comparing against. thank you for your unconstructive input. with the teaspoon you can’t twist it to break a run before putting it in your mug and adding the hot water. so the teaspoon ends up being messier.

also what… did you think i was comparing against? my hands?

the honey that comes in the squeezable bottles is lower quality and the bottles themselves are wasteful. i’d rather pay a little extra, get honey from a beekeeper, know my local agriculture is being pollinated by a local beekeeper, and deal with a little piece of wood i have to rinse a little bit.

the convenience is distinctly not worth the degradation in all of the things i like about honey

it’s the easiest tool to use to get the honey out of the jar and into your mug for tea. i got mine at the farmer’s market because local honey is thicker than store honey, but even stores that sell local honey don’t sell these. highly recommend one if you’ve never seen one. it makes making tea so much easier

now get me pictures of spider-man!

me and my wife have this dynamic. i’m from southern appalachia and she cannot understand the shanendoah or allegheny accent at all. if i say something particularly idiomatic she’ll ask me what i mean because our verb syntaxes carry a little extra information AND we have tonals

with enough concern they’ve lost the populace and enough of the military and they’ll perhaps consider impeaching him. if they don’t fear that enough work towards organizing your community to be robust to hardship because a storm is a gonna come

ah! my mistake. i get this stuff mixed up sometimes

yeah you’ll have to install some helper scripts or switch to either fish or zsh. bash is nicer than bourne shell, but it is VERY basic in features by modern standards

(originally debuted in the mid aughts)

The thing is, whiteness isn’t about melanin, it’s about belonging to a purity culture in a color coded society. In a white supremacist culture, you will never be white so long as you identify as having some connection to a culture that does not simply label itself as “white” (or whatever the supremacist culture in that domain calls itself). In most of the western dominated world, “white” is really “white-anglosaxon”. Anyone who doesn’t carry those cultural markers and behaviors gets denied access to whiteness in some way, shape or form. White supremacist fascism plays an interesting trick where it tricks people into joining the coalition of hate by covering up what whiteness is long enough to get people to act against their own best interest. It’s the problem with sublimating into the white culture: no one will ever be white enough, and eventually the purges will reach everyone but the aristocracy.

So almost no slavs, celts, or even nords get access to whiteness even if they’re pale as hell. They can be deputized into whiteness if the coalition of hate doesn’t have enough access to power to gain control, but once control is gained, they will be purged.

This webbook does a really good job of explaining the elements of a white supremacist culture. It’s also important to understand that I am speaking on western white supremacy as that’s the kind I’ve spent a lifetime trying to burn down, but other empires also engage in their forms of white supremacy. They just don’t call it white supremacy. What you need to look for are the signs of white supremacy:

• Are people treated differently in the empire based on their looks?
• Is there a culture within the empire that is elevated above all others to an extent that it has achieved hegemonic status, and everyone is expected to comply with that culture’s aesthetic ideals such as way of dress, style of hair, and skincare routines?
• Are there re-education camps intended at “civilizing” the “savages” who don’t comply with the hegemonic group’s ideals?

If you see any of those, dig deeper, look for:

• Terror based mechanisms for control
• A single right way of doing things
• Mechanisms for encouraging or even enforcing binary thinking, stripping all nuance from any situation
• Quickness to defensiveness (ie: I can’t be X because I do Y) (for example: “I’m not propagandized, I’m above that!”)
• Right to comfort (in the west this is frequently in the form of people wanting protests to be clean and easy, or in other words pacifism as a virtue to be signaling rather than a framework of thinking and acting in order to bring about a peaceful world)
• Rampant individualism (whiteness rejects the notion that anyone comes from a people because that would require the white man to analyze that they come from a culture, and whiteness roots itself in believing itself free of culture, and that culture is some sort of trickery of control)
• Valuing progress via objective measurements rather than emphasizing the quality of relationships to others
• Worship of the written word (de-emphasis of oral traditions grants the aristocracy more power over the shared cultural understanding of history in a group)
• Urgency (this is common amongst all forms of Ur-Fascism, everything is always an emergency and the power of the people must be centralized in order to respond to the emergency)

Please god someone tell those Kentuckians. They’re so deeply propagandized by big coal telling them that the only value they have is retrieving the black rocks beneath their feet

it reduces the risk of missing because the target bent over to pick up a quarter, or stepped to the side because they saw something interesting. the knives in question are basically swords that deploy radially from the missile body like an umbrella.

okay? good for you, i guess. i think that’s well within your purview since the voting system is meant to grade relevance, not agreement. this is also really standard practice so i don’t know why you brought attention to yourself doing it. once i’m back at my laptop i’m going to block your communities because i don’t want to see or participate in them. save you some effort

yeah which was a key in that this was who this poster meant

the knife missile is so emblematic of the entire military industrial complex. can’t stop engaging in unnecessary resource wars due to unnecessary casualties. instead, the military industrial complex will develop and sell a product to allow the killing of specific people in public spaces. and the more you think about the idea of being at a produce stand and someone standing next to you turning into a fine red mist, never to exist in physical space again, the more distopian it seems.

it reminds me of the episode of star trek where they encounter a planet that has eliminated war via coordinated computer simulations and voluntary genocides.

the romans didn’t convert to christianity. they converted christianity to romanism

the difference between Virginia and Philadelphia has never been so succinctly summarized

personally i chose the word based on russian president vladimir putin’s stated war aims of annexing Ukrainian territory to seize natural resources and ethnically cleanse the seized lands.

i felt it matches closely to former German chancellor adolf hitler’s stated war aims of annexing Ukrainian territory to seize natural resources and ethnically cleanse the seized lands.

the apostle paul is a major component of the new testament as, canonically to the catholic church, he was the first pope and his letters giving theological advice to early roman churches are the backbone of catholic teachings. however, most biblical scholars find the epistles canonized as the pauline texts to be disjointed, and likely a mishmash of paul’s writing, other authors writing as paul, and even marginalia that simply made it into the bible as paul’s teachings, even if they actually contradict other things he said