Fair but also their post history makes it seem like they’re behaving for once, soooooo who knows?

Whoa Universal Monk found an instance where they haven’t made an account yet.

Always a surprise

That’s interesting context to consider. I’ll admit that my hackles got raised here because I noticed a park named a non-English name being replaced by an English one and assumed the original name was used by First Nation’s people. Also, the girl they’re naming the park after is being used as a martyr by the GOP in their anti-immigration rhetoric. Because of that, I’m still suspicious of the intention here.

Adding bugs into food products purposefully creates issues with large numbers of people who follow religious diets. Jains, Buddhists, Muslim and Jews all have religious restrictions on which bugs, if any, are fit for consumption.

While I agree moving away from fossil fuels is important, I think it’s important to make accommodations for people’s cultures and try to take actions that wouldn’t alienate them. One doesn’t have to share another’s cultural beliefs to understand they should be considered and respected. This isn’t to say we should continue using petroleum based dyes, but that the search for alternatives shouldn’t end at insects just because it could be a cheaper option for the business owners, which, I’m sure we know, is the real reason that any large industry will shift to an alternative dye.

Subtle way of replacing First Nation’s influence by replacing their names and words with those of the people that displaced them.

This has been the (sometimes not so) unspoken platform of the GOP for a while now, so, I’d say yes

So IRC is really cool huh

Headline writers going a little far into the whole trade war rhetoric

Thanks! I read far too quickly

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Another fwiw I’ve gotten two crap products off Ali Express, a set of bubble floats that were clearly manufacturing defects and a glasses cleaner that was just a box with a motor, but I had no issue returning either for a full refund. Got to keep the bubble floats, too, which was nice since in the set of 5, two worked. I don’t think I’ll buy anything that uses electricity off the site again, but for solid goods? Just fine.

Fwiw, I get all my fishing supplies off Ali Express and that’s been a great way to get everything I need at a far lower cost than I could locally. I can get products meant for the Japanese market that simply aren’t available here. It’s literally the same stuff otherwise, just cutting out the big box store middleman.

Even if it is “knock off”, I’ll tell ya with confidence the fish don’t give a fuck.

Really misread that hat and thought it said “End this fucking wet ass pussy”

Oh, yeah, I’m thinking of drawers with metal tracks. Forgot about wood on wood drawers.

Thanks for all the tips, y’all.

I’ve been using WD-40 for this. Is there a reason to use soap over WD-40 or is it just cheaper?

How is this news?

Its an article about a social media post and the article is riddled with errors. They can’t even get the name of the posters account right despite showing it in the images.

Why’s this look like AI slop?

Gah you are so right with that. Between the first Trill episode and the non-binary planet episode… just a rough time for queer Trek. At least we got some good stuff with DS9, though even the head writer wishes they pushed the envelope a little further.

I’m hopeful we can get some better stuff out of Strange New Worlds. While Disco had more representation, I did not care for that show for a myriad of other reasons.

Yeah, that line always felt kinda strange. I rationalized it by thinking in the Star Trek world, there was no violent revolution, but more of a pseudo-Posadist realization of global unity in the wake of the third world war and First Contact with the Vulcans, thus Mao’s axiom being less applicable.

Or, more realistically, Standards and Practices needed them to disavow what was being described as terrorism in that particular episode.

I mean, it’s cool as hell, it’s just unlike Captain Jean-Luc Picard to make quips like that or for Star Trek characters to so blatantly advocate socialism. The UFP is certainly a post-scarcity socialist utopia, but I think the conceit in the writers room is that they are so established in their utopia that they don’t speak of it in such direct terms because it’s established. That, and the sensibilities of the late 80’s would make such a statement provocative on network television. Heck, Jean-Luc even at one point refutes Mao’s idea that political power stems from the barrel of a gun.

But I could see them having more leeway in a video game.