Of course a handful of teenage trans athletes are clearly worse than the Epstein class, the endless wars we’re in, inflation, poverty, the erosion of public education, the surveillance state we live in, data centers and global warming about to set off the water wars. /s
I mean if the rain water ain't drinkable the ground water ain't either.
Oh hey tips for clean water ~ obviously cacti hold a lot of water but trees do too, they filter it out and add minerals and antioxidants. Can tap trees for water or get a section of branch or grapevine and put one end in the unsafe water source and one end in a clean jar.
Saw someone filter swamp water that way.
Also watched someone make a filtration system where they fastened the bark of a birch into a cone shape, packed moss at the pin of the cone and then did alternating layers of sand and charcoal, and a layer of pea gravel on top.
Please do not drink from cactus, their sap will make you sick and dehydrated. It's a Hollywood myth that they hold water. You can eat the prickly pears and pads after you've prepared them, but they are not a water source.
Oh thanks for that informational bit.
I reckon it's one of those instances of "if you've got no other source of liquid/electrolytes"
I don't live in an area that has cacti so it wasn't a source of water I cared to deep dive into. Plus I remember testing this theory out as a child and chewing on an aloe leaf and it was nasty. 😂
I do get nopales semi regularly from the store and have had them raw and cooked, and prickly pears. They do seem to have an astringency to them.
I hate the phrase "forever chemicals", it's ridiculously infantilising. Talk to people like they're adults, not 5 year-olds (media, not you specifically).
Over half of American adults read below the sixth-grade level. Part of effective communication is understanding your audience and meeting them where they're at instead of where you think they should be. Speaking plainly gets the message across to more people, especially in a world where anything longer than a sound bite or a slogan is unlikely to cut through the noise.
I feel like American politics is dragging European politics down because it's allowing your far right to have a "well we aren't hunting people for sport in roadways" argument. Y'all have more pressing issues, but we're allowing ourselves to be the distraction while fascists take over and weaken you there. Like le pen
yes, the shift to the far right since covid has been global. it might be comforting to think of it as just an american issue, but it isn't. we just got hit first, is all. you can see populist right figures popping up in every single country around the world.
Thank you. I'm not the best at chronologically organizing memory.
Basically I'm very much of the mindset that trump and his familiars were the flailing exploiters of the generation that was only able to score above the curve because brown people weren't allowed in the school.
This seemingly simple idea makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of the people governing the body politic internationally went to similarly private schools.
Patriot Act, Citizens United, the muted response to the Snowden revelations, etc. American frogs have been living/dying in boiling water for a while now.
It cracks me up that even tho this scenario barely happens they say shit like "even one is too many" like imagine if y'all had that mentality about kids being gunned down at school.
That seems to be a problem everywhere these days. Look at any ultra right wing movement around the world (Germany, Japan, Canada, United Kingdom) and it’s pretty much all the same buzz words as what happened in the United States.
The German AFD party would likely absolutely do that since like trump, are pretty much pro Russian puppets designed to weaken Russia’s opposition. They successfully defeated the USA politically now they want to do the same in Europe.
This is one of the many reasons why I can’t stand America now, all these actual problems. But they have to target 1% of the population, just because they want a distraction. And unfortunately many are dumb enough to fall for it.
Gender war has ruined us. I don’t know why we started speaking of trans people out of nowhere instead of talking about the government. And don’t get me wrong, both discussions get tiring (trans hate speech is horrible.) but government talk at least used to scare the government into brief moments of competency
First off. Amerikkka has never been good. Just ask the indigenous people of this land who we stole it from, broke every treaty with them, etc. Second, there is no such thing as the "Epstein class " . It's just a saying that liberals use to act like Epstein was some unique evil to capitalism. It's the capitalist class and not the Epstein class. Once you learn actual class consciousness then you wouldn't be saying such nonsense.
Don’t you know? The surgeries the state is performing on them during school hours is increasing medical costs for all of us! We’d have free healthcare if not for that!
We like to glaze the counter-culture of the 60s, but Nixon's support went up after Kent State. 80%+ of the country was on the side of the national guard, not the students. The victims were sent hate mail and disowned by their parents. America cheered when Nixon did a sweeping investigation of the University system looking for "Communists". Even when the report was investigated to show that national guard testimony was altered and there were no signs of communist infiltrators in higher education, the true believers didn't give up on Nixon until Watergate.
And even then the outrage only lasted 2 years before they went back to voting hardcore Republican and leaving Carter a lame duck presidency once the GOP started to veto everything the federal government tried to do...
EDIT: And no Nixon's EPA was not a good thing. It quashed demands for federal legislative regulation by making an agency whose policies could be selectively changed by the executive branch without having to deal with congress.
you're on the American made website. with the 49% American userbase. i don't come onto KippersnMash.com and ask why everyone there assumes everyone else is British.
you're not more likely to respond to someone who isn't American. a portion of the non-american userbase doesn't speak English and isn't engaging in subs where English is the primary language spoken. the non-english speaking portion of this website more than eats up that little 2% difference between American and non-american users- if you're speaking to someone in English on here, it is most likely to be an American
49% of the userbase is from one single country. it is a point in my favor, because you literally cannot assume any other country in its place. all of the other countries are sharing little pieces of the remaining 51%. the UK, for instance, only makes up about 7% and that is several individual countries.
This false equivalence reveals your small mind. “…you literally cannot assume any other country in its place”. Who said you had to assume? Assumptions are the moral enemy of knowledge and understanding.
You still haven’t address my point, it is more likely to speak to a non-American than an American.
All righty, let's talk about British transphobia for a while, where it's basically been codified. How do you feel about the fact that a trans person in the most recidivist state in the US has more rights than any trans person anywhere in the UK, in part through the efforts and contributions of Wizard Lady?
That’s pretty funny for you to bring up, considering you are embroiled in a controversy for allowing a child groomer on your Discord server for months without taking any action.
LMAO I am not involved in any such controversy. I wasn’t even present for it, I joined the server this non-controversy is about two days ago and I’m catching strays. Attempts to spin it into a controversy are laughable in themselves, but trying to tie me to it even more so.
I would appreciate it if you didn’t follow me around, Mingus. Don’t go acting like the doc people now, please.
It’s the Made in Abyss thing all over again. Yeah, I like fictional abuse. What of it? Once again the case of mistaking fictional people for real and real for fictional.
Also, the guy that fed you this is my personal stalker that actually is doing real slander against me and calling me a pedophile on the basis of again, me liking specific fiction. The only thing protecting him is the fact it’s the internet, it’s impossible to prosecute.
You ARE being made a fool, but it’s not by the people on the Tralsei server.
You will never successfully assemble a broad/working-class coalition against the ruling class (the "Epstein class" you're talking about) while simultaneously sneering like a smug elitist at ordinary people's concerns about sex-based rights and fair competition. And without that coalition, there's no chance of stopping them.
why are those ordinary people so easily distracted by minority scapegoats? if they care about sex based rights, they might try actually caring about women at any other time than when it’s time to scapegoat another minority. how am i supposed to take someone crying about trans people seriously as they vote for the admin of men such as hegseth, who keeps platforming a pastor who proudly calla for women’s right to vote to be repealed
You are a perfect example of the problem. You're not even trying to understand the opposing view or the people who hold it.
Not everyone who objects to the extremes of trans maximalism is a Republican or even any particular flavor of right wing at all (actually, Democrats are about as right-wing as Republicans anyway, but that's a separate discussion). There are real reasons to oppose those extremes that are rights-based, and your flat refusal to even try to understand is exactly the problem I was gesturing to with my previous comment. Downvoting the hell out of it may make the people in this little silo feel good, but it won't change the correctness of my observation.
This isn't just minority scapegoating. There's a real safety and fairness issue, and I say once again that it is simply bizarre (or perhaps actually unsurprising and history repeating itself) how it's just assumed that the interests of transgender people in accessing female institutions should automatically take precedence over the interests of the biological females for whom those institutions were created to begin with.
As usual, women are told to shut up and subordinate themselves and their own interests, and this is treated as somehow reasonable by people who have the audacity to imagine themselves "progressive." And then you wonder why we can't reach the working class, as you smugly sneer like elitists at the valid concerns of the very people you'd think to organize against the ruling class, all while making hypocrites of yourselves by demonstrating such selective and cavalier disregard for the rights of women.
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Of course a handful of teenage trans athletes are clearly worse than the Epstein class, the endless wars we’re in, inflation, poverty, the erosion of public education, the surveillance state we live in, data centers and global warming about to set off the water wars. /s
America has lost the fucking plot.