True. But have you ever seen a white supremacist stop at one small ambiguous tattoo? Nazis usually are loudly obnoxious wildly unoriginal twats about their shittyness. They usually hang out with other nazis. They usually join nazis clubs. Where’s that oppo research? It all feels too corpo setup to me.

Everything is a nazi/white supremacy/fascist symbol because nazis/white supremacists/fascists appropriate EVERYTHING. Every symbol they have they stole from someone else because they are lazy assholes and because they have to constantly change the code signals. Normies can’t, and honestly don’t want to, keep up with every frog skull lightning bolt mustache cartoon character hand signal bullshit icon they use to identify each other. Expecting people to feel bad or jump through hoops when it’s revealed that the nazis have “claimed” yet another thing we didn’t know they were using gives them power they don’t deserve.

Sure there is. It’s a pyramid scheme. It’ll work until it doesn’t. The people involved are just really good at moving assets around to give the illusion that line keep going up. To keep it growing they move assets from other safer markets (pensions to 401ks for example) and have lobbied to not be taxed or regulated so more and more capital gets dumped in. But stocks aren’t tied to anything more tangible then trust of the people holding the stocks. So long as the stock holders believe stocks are valuable they are. But like any good pyramid scheme eventually they will run out of suckers to bleed for cash and then BAM pyramid fall down.

Back to Basics. I find copies every now a then at used book stores and online - some cheap, others not so much. It gets reprinted from time to time so there are copies around with different covers. My copy is from the 80s and I think it’s also a reprint. There are also other books with the same title that cover wilderness and survival skills.

Edit: Found one

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/back-to-basics_readers-digest-association/250009/item/4091036/?mkwid=|dm&pcrid=77447028765180&pkw=&pmt=be&slid=&product=4091036&plc=&pgrid=1239149900900141&ptaid=pla-4581046492312222#isbn=0895770865&idiq=4091036&edition=1835466

So I have this book from the dark ages that tells you how to do a bunch of old timey farm things. You’ll never guess what it says to do with raw milk: BOIL IT.

The educated upper class, folks.

Every time I see that response I want to track down the poster and personally yeet them into the sun.

You’all have never seen a chonky horse wearing the grazing muzzle of shame having an absolute bitch fit because they can’t eat fast anymore with it on.

Remember when they initially called the Iraqi invasion “Operation Iraqi Liberation” but changed it because it spelled OIL. Same vibes.

Wait wait wait WAIT. I said skyscrapers can and ARE built out of wood. And your response was to IMMEDIATELY move the goal posts to bUt ThEy’Re nOT tHe TaLLeSt.

To that I say, not yet.

Taller “plyscapers” are being built. Oakwood Timber Tower is currently under development in London and will be 300m tall when it’s completed. A proposed 350m tall project is being designed for Tokyo. Just because something isn’t what we are used to doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try new and innovative things. Trees literally grow wood solely for the purpose of growing UP. They aren’t limited in size because the wood isn’t great at getting big, but because pushing water to the top gets harder and harder. Skyscrapers don’t have that issue. Why would a material that literally evolved to grow tall be a bad for building tall buildings. Concrete is fragile, heavy, and slow to dry, but we still make it work. Saying we can’t make skyscrapers out of wood is both factually untrue and unimaginative. Saying: “we’ve never done it this way and I refuse to consider any alternatives” is how we end up with stagnant outdated dull as dirt infrastructure.

I guess the Mjøstårnet isn’t a skyscraper.

Nor is Ascent MKE.

I’d rather live in a world where we try new things and architecture evolves and FACTS ARE FACTS.

I apologize for pointing out wooden skyscrapers exist, are being built, AND ARE REALLY FUCKING COOL.

You know there are skyscrapers built out of wood, right? And they’re kind of awesome.

In the US 1099 employees can write gas (or miles) off on their taxes (but that’s because they are classified as an independent contractor). I’ve also worked contract jobs (again in the US) where travel was compensated at X amount per mile (no where near the actual cost of gas was but it helped cover travel). But I’ve never been compensated for travel working a standard 9-5 job unless I went to a work event and was offered per diem.

LET THEM FAIL.

Ah that makes sense. They did have a similar vibe so I could have absolutely seen a crossover happening. Maybe if the show hadn’t been canceled.

Thanks for the info.

Your argument is: it’s already gross, so it’s who cares if it’s MORE gross? Personally I’d argue for cleanlier public spaces or antimicrobial surfaces on high contact points but you do you.

Also you’ll definitely notice once you get a fungal infection on your arms, you just won’t know how or why it happened.

Someone will eventually sit there and the airlines (edit: I’m realizing this might be a train but my point still stands) don’t wipe down anything between flights. Which means the next poor soul that sits there is going to have a stranger’s foot funk on their arms.

Not as far as I know, but I’m willing to be wrong. I only ever knew about the TV show.

Ignore for a moment rather this is right or wrong (it’s wrong) but ignore that. THIS is a textbook example of Soft Power. The thing the Trump administration tanked by gutting USAID. The west is still playing old world outdated politics from last century and China is going to leave us and our allies in the dust because of it.

You litterally just asked a community of deviants how comfortable we are with rope.

I think not everyone is out of the closet and we shouldn’t make anyone feel unwelcome. Also anyone you clock as “straight” could be one of those who fall under one of the letters or the + at the end of the acronym everyone leaves off in conversation. Which means they ESPECIALLY deserve not to feel alienated and shouldn’t have to justify their existence in a space that is “suppose” to be accepting of queer folks. So unless someone is being an obnoxious twat (in which case bounce 'em) we should mind our own damn business.

Oh and if you have a “straight” friend you want to bring or wants to come to a gay bar, all of my points still stand.