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17 days agoStatues of Herman Cain all over the place! I’m sure they’d all love statues of a black man who died from COVID in every major thoroughfare along with parks and streets named after him just so everyone remembers.
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34·1 month agoFind a hobby you’re interested in if you don’t have one already. Find a group in your area that meets up to discuss or engage in that hobby in person. Make friends with the people in that group by just existing around them and talking about your shared interest. Maybe one of those friendships turns into a relationship, maybe not.
Don’t think of the people there as potential partners but as people you like spending time with and genuinely enjoy being around. If one of those friendships has mutual attraction and becomes a partnership, that’s great! If not, you’ll probably meet other people through them and maybe one of those will turn into a relationship.
Examples of hobbies for introverts that provide more structure for interaction and can have limited talking if needed:
- Boardgames / dueling card games like Netrunner / tabletop roleplaying games
- Pinball
- Video games fighting games or speed running communities are more widespread for in person events
- Book clubs
- Hiking, rolling skating, skateboarding, tennis, pickleball, basketball, soccer, bicycling, running, or swimming if you want to get some exercise
12·1 month agoAdding onto this, it’s also for helping foster community among marginalized groups who are all passionate about the same thing. It’s hard to develop that community when you don’t see other people from that group in the sport or hobby you’re in.
Creating women only competitions is a way to connect people to help them foster that community and bring other women into the sport so that one day, it won’t just be a male dominated sport.
I’d add on that most on the left have also studied enough to know that people love martyrs and that very few deaths of public figures would substantially change our society.
I’d describe myself as a raging leftist, and I can count on one hand the people whose assassination I think would result in beneficial change for our society even with any blowback of support and counter assassinations. MTG has never been close to that level.
Dismantling systems of oppression and changing the way people think is far more effective.
The 24-hour news cycle so they could have a reason to have 24-hour “news.”
Have you heard of face blindness? I have kind of the same thing but with cars. As long as it’s the same color, they all look more or less the same to me unless they have bumper stickers. I also travel a lot for work, so I’m constantly getting new rentals that are all a bit different, so I never remember what I’m driving.
Those factors combined with having a poor awareness of where I am in physical space and time most days has caused me to get into the wrong car way more times than I’d like to admit. I’m just going to say it’s well into the double digits.
It’s kind of surprising how many people just leave their cars completely unlocked. I always lock mine, and when the door just opens after I hit the button to unlock my car, I assume I’m getting into the right one until it feels wrong when I sit down or if I try to put the key in the ignition and it doesn’t fit. The number of times this has happened would be higher if more people didn’t lock their cars. I quickly realize it’s the wrong car if I try to unlock it and it doesn’t unlock.
Luckily there’s a racing game that came out this year that answered this long asked question.
Like the Herman Cain award, or is that too 2020?
Short article below, but there are several long form video essays and podcasts about him if you want to know more.
2·6 months agoHate to be that person, but this one was a pretty prominent one that I can remember in recent history (10-15 years ago was recent, right?) mainly because of his name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner
As fucked up as it is, this case still seems so tame compared to Trump.
Anyway, don’t want to get into the middle of the fun y’all seem to be having nor get stuck in looking up every single politician who has raped a minor. I just remembered this one example.
A yearly meeting with your boss where they either tell you all the things you did great and maybe a couple small things you can improve on while not paying you more, or they tell you how terrible you did and try to pressure you into doing more work by hanging the threat of your job (homelessness, loss of insurance, death) over your head.
The bottom image is Grant Imahara. He was a great engineer and well known for his work on several major movie franchises, mythbusters, and BattleBots. He died relatively young and tragically from a brain aneurysm.
It’s a well known phenomenon that Rickrolling has lost popularity over the past decade. This article covers the issue in more detail.
Van Morrison - Ring Worm
Yeah, pretty much
Yes, but don’t use them because they dull your knives very quickly because there’s no give to them when your knife makes contact with the board like with wood. So all of the force you hit the board with goes right back into the knife.
266·7 months agoIt perpetuates the myth of recycling and puts the onus on the consumer and state to recycle instead of the corporations to stop using containers that pollute the environment, will be in the environment for decades without breaking down, and is likely causing yet unknown harm in our bodies since plastic is inside all of us now.
The first of the “3 R’s” is reduce but instead of that being the focus because it hurts their bottom line, they prop up recycling and sell the lie that we can keep living as is if we just recycle more and get better at recycling.
To me…
Mama! The sun killed a man!
It didn’t mean to make him die.
It was just shining in the sky.
When fruit get to good mushy point, put in fridge to stop from getting bad mushy fast. Fruit then stay good mushy longer and give more time to eat before bad mushy happen.