Oh my gosh, this is so validating! A few different species of birds will flutter in front of the living room window when the feeders are empty to get my attention. They are smart little things!

I mean, no, but their forehead seems like the more ideal position for the instrument, right?

Rest in piss, scumbag.

When I’m making vegetable soup, I usually add some balsamic vinegar, tomato paste, and MSG. The acid and umami make the soup taste more balanced and hearty. I hope it’s helpful!

The question of how we make empathy universal isn’t the vapid question. Yours that I was responding to was.

Either way, if women can manage the hit in the balls empathy, surely you can figure this out, too, without a step-by-step pictorial diagram and someone to hold your hand.

If I knew how to make everyone empathetic we wouldn’t even need to be discussing this in the first place. What a vapid question.

The same way we trust that it’s really painful for men to get kicked in the junk without having to experience it ourselves.

I don’t know enough about your finances, medical insurance, and/or pain tolerance to answer that question.

I’d probably check the Best By dates referenced in the article and compare them to the date on your package.

The term for this is “trickle truthing”, and it’s a common tactic when someone gets caught doing something terrible.

The term “female” has been used to subtly degrade women in misogynistic circles and conversations for a long time. I’m struggling to believe this is a new concept for most people, but in case you’re being sincere, you can read more about this here..

She was incredibly talented. I loved her so much in Best In Show.

I’ve been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.

I’ve never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we’re at.

We’re living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we’d be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we’ve found ourselves in right now? I’m glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven’t benefitted from the current administration. This is a level of bad I never expected to see in my life, and I think there are a lot of terminally online people who are seeing this in a romanticized way that obscures the severity of the situation we find ourselves in.

We likely would have had more ability to push things to the left without the levels of harm, destruction, and violence that we’re seeing now under just about anyone but Trump and Project 2025. Instead of activism and outreach, now we have to play defense and protect our neighbors and communities. Not to mention the roll acks of rights to the health and safety of women and queer people are more passively costing lives and creating suffering.

Yes, the status quo was terrible. Democrats offer pretty words and little action. They aren’t going to save us or give us the futures we deserve. I’d give just about anything for us to be out of this, though. Humiliation and disgust on an international scale, the daily violence, and reading new horrors every damn day is absolutely the greater of two evils, though. I can’t see a scenario where anything is worth what’s in store.

Non voters aren’t the sole reason we’re here, but I’m sick of pretending that those people’s choices didn’t play a large role in our current situation. These times demand we all do some soul searching, take accountability, and work together to get out of this in one piece. Because, again, we have to live in the reality of where we’re at.

That’s a great point I hadn’t considered about masks. Face paint and drag makeup can help protect from facial recognition, and they’ll also let us speak clearly and emote on camera to make any footage more compelling. I wonder if that’s something that could catch on.

Drag makeup can also be effective!

Minnesota is full of lakes. Cut an oversized ice fishing hole, and a lot of problems could sink away.

Silly string is highly flammable.

Infecting more people in and of itself makes a flu virus more dangerous. Even if, statistically, it doesn’t have a higher fatality rate, if the virus is able to more easily infect people then more will end up dead or hospitalized.

I’m sorry you’re being downvoted. I agree with you. This is our country, and it’s been established that our government isn’t acting to protect it. Ultimately, if we want to keep it, we need to be ready and willing to make sacrifices for the betterment of the future. I don’t blame people for balking at the immense personal costs this could bring, but what’s the alternative?

No one is coming to save us. We are facing a lot of frightening choices right now, but this means it’s the time for courage.

Yes! Our local geology clubs offer field trips for members, including mineral and fossil digs!