Loquat
7mo ago
Fun fact: Onlyfans wasn't originally intended to be a porn site, but rather something like Patreon where any sort of content creator can set up shop and get fans to send them money for content. They just didn't ban porn, so much like the fabled no-witch-hunts-ever utopia, it's got seven zillion pornstars and three principled civil libertarians (and an animal shelter, apparently).
Loquat
7mo ago
Yeah, I've had a similar thing at Japanese restaurants under the name "shabu-shabu". When I was first introduced to hot pot maybe 20 years ago, there was always only one big pot at the table, possibly divided in half so you could have a spicy broth and a non-spicy broth, but the place we went to the other day offered a choice of the big pot or individual soup pots for everyone.
Loquat
7mo ago
I finally managed to get my husband and kids to go to a Chinese hot pot restaurant with me, and now they're 100% on board with making it a regular thing. The basic concept is this: you have one or more pots of broth at your table, with individual burners built in to keep them boiling, and then you have various raw vegetables, noodles, thin-sliced raw meats, etc, which you cook in the broth and then remove to your plate to eat. At the place we went to, there was basically an open buffet with all kinds of stuff to take and cook in your broth, plus sauces to dip your cooked food in afterwards.
Loquat
7mo ago
Article says the guy was keeping a raccoon as a pet too, and neighbors had been complaining to the authorities about the raccoon. And since raccoons are one of the major rabies vector species, I guess the authorities felt the need to come remove it, and the squirrel was declared guilty by association.
Loquat
7mo ago
You all may be interested in this Critical Drinker video: Why Modern Movies Suck: They're Written by Children
Loquat
7mo ago
A humorless pedant explains the joke in excessive detail: the word "viscera" technically refers to the internal organs found in the torso, such as heart, liver, intestines, etc. "Eviscerate" originally meant removing those organs, for example while preparing a freshly killed animal for consumption. The other poster was joking that your use of the word eviscerated implied that prior to your surgery your nose had contained some unneeded heart/liver/intestines/etc.
Loquat
7mo ago
In an interesting coincidence, the owner of the LA Times, who caused such a controversy by telling his editorial board not to endorse any candidate for president, was also born and raised in South Africa.
Loquat
7mo ago
How did it come to be that the LA Times did something similar?
If the owner's daughter is to be believed, he just genuinely believes that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza and doesn't want to help a candidate who won't take action against it.
Loquat
8mo ago
A key HRC quote that was credited with knocking Sanders out of her way
If we broke up the big banks tomorrow (parenthetical about how she would totally do that IF it were necessary), would that end racism? Would that end sexism?
Loquat
8mo ago
Google gave me the below link to a law firm specializing in Disability Law.
Social Security does not have any clear guidelines to distinguish what types of volunteer work are considered SGA (Substantial Gainful Activity), but some circumstances are likely to convince the SSA that a person is capable of working a full-time job:
- Volunteering more than a few hours per week
- Volunteer work that would earn above SGA if the person was paid for the work
- The requirements of the work indicate the person could work at SGA level or return to their previous job
- Volunteering at a business owned by a relative
So a volunteer activity like "No One Dies Alone", where you're basically just sitting in hospital rooms for a few hours a week, should be totally fine.
Loquat
8mo ago
It remains insofar as you can't have an explicitly segregated school any more. If some non-white families happen to move into a previously all-white school district, their kids are going to that previously all-white school.
Loquat
8mo ago
Gay and trans were absolutely part of the same club back in the day, and coincidentally pretty much the only people who wanted to live as the opposite sex at that time were super effeminate gay men and super butch lesbians. Nobody in 1980 would ever have anticipated the modern phenomenon of straight men putting on dresses and calling themselves trans lesbians, nor the prevalence of the religious belief among young women that such men must be respected and treated as women in all ways.
Loquat
8mo ago
I haven't investigated the AI art options too closely yet, but it seems to me that it would be really useful if I could sketch out a composition and have the AI make it look good. Does this capability not exist yet?
Loquat
8mo ago
It's fascinating what's happened with McDonald's over this war. The only pro-Israel action was that the dude who owned all their franchises in Israel decided to give free meals to the IDF, of his own accord with no involvement from corporate HQ, and in fact corporate leadership took pains to distance McDonald's as a whole from this guy's actions, but nonetheless Muslims around the world became convinced that McDonald's supports Israel and should be boycotted, to the point where McDonald's franchises in Arab countries suffered substantial loss of business. Corporate HQ even decided it was worth buying all the Israeli restaurants from the aforementioned Israeli franchisee in hopes of restoring their reputation among Muslims, and apparently that happened in April of this year, but if you're still seeing protestors outside a McDonald's in October I guess that didn't work out as well as they hoped.
Loquat
8mo ago
Nothing about his PhD from Princeton. Nothing about running one of the world's largest hedge funds.
Sound decisions, both. It's almost certainly bad for his campaign if voters think he's one of "the elites", and hedge funds have a morally questionable reputation amongst the commonfolk (see also: Romney, Mitt).
Loquat
8mo ago
Philosophy ain't my strong suit, so I'll just say I don't wanna deal with a a kitchen-implement subscription service every time I feel like frying an egg.
Loquat
8mo ago
A key part of Project 2025 is to convert a whole lot of "unfirable bureaucrat" positions into political appointments that the president will then be able to fire and replace at will.
Loquat
8mo ago
Same here, my husband was grumbling that his iPhone got a better look at the lights than he did.
Loquat
8mo ago
We'll probably hit a trunk-or-treat or two before going trick-or-treating either in our own neighborhood or in a friend's. The various local schools and churches that do trunk-or-treats have realized they get better turnout if they schedule them before Halloween, so kids can do both.
I appreciate that the colder weather is killing my tomato plants so I can stop canning so much tomato sauce lol.
Loquat
8mo ago
Pretty sure it's pierogies, the Pittsburgh Pirates even have a squad of guys in pierogi outfits as their secondary mascot. Wait for the local guy to tell you where to get it, though.
Loquat
8mo ago
I don't have any useful advice, but I just thought I'd say: that sucks, bro, and I hope things get better for you.
Loquat
8mo ago
Whether it's worth it to get a "setup" vs teabags is really more about how much of a tea snobgourmet you want to be. If you try some fancy looseleaf that's a named variety from China and decide you really like that better, go ahead and invest more. But it's okay if you can't taste the difference and want to stick with the teabags available at the grocery store.
Loquat
8mo ago
I don't think taking the fall for Ukraine or Israel is something Biden even has the option to do. Afghanistan, sure, it's our army and we can pull it out whenever we want, but both those others we're just subsidizing a foreign army and ultimately it's their own government that decides when they stop fighting, not us.
Certainly, there's a lot more love for chili peppers in China. I was once told a bit of Chinese wordplay about the provinces of Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan that roughly translates to say the first two don't fear spice, while the third fears what is not spicy.
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