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doverhog posted:Why? Wouldn't you rather have the beast work for you? Yes? But the beast will devour the hand that feeds it.
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Josef bugman posted:Ultimately, all private industry should be abolished.  Private property also.
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Could always join an Amish community. I think they might be one of those communities where everything belongs to everyone else. Maybe? I could be wrong. Most exposure to them I’ve had is the movie Kingpin.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This has been covered before, but since it's summer: I've never understood the appeal of watermelon; it doesn't have much taste. Journey of the Sorcerer is the best Eagles song. Very nearly used it as our wedding march.
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Elissimpark posted:Journey of the Sorcerer is the best Eagles song. Very nearly used it as our wedding march.
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Robobot posted:Could always join an Amish community. I think they might be one of those communities where everything belongs to everyone else. The Hutterites have communal property to some extent, I believe. The Amish don't, I think (though they tend to be close knit communities in general)
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Can you really join those groups? Do they accept converts? Because they seem pretty insular and caring about blood and inheritance etc. (i'd never wanna join or try to join such a group)
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doverhog posted:Can you really join those groups? Do they accept converts? Because they seem pretty insular and caring about blood and inheritance etc. (i'd never wanna join or try to join such a group) I honestly have no idea. I imagine you could convert if you were really serious about joining the church but I don't know what's involved. Probably convincing the local bishop you were serious about it would be the biggest uphill struggle. My great grandparents were Amish but left the church in their early 20s. The Mennonite church I grew up a part of wasn't really very different from any other protestant church in the Midwest in most ways.
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If there's any hope for the future, it is the rekindled leftist movements in South America. The greatest threat to those movements is America, which crushed them last time. But it seems like now America is too dysfunctional to successfully do coups anymore. All right-thinking people should cheer any event which further weakens America's ability to project power outside it's borders.
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Jul 10, 2022 03:40
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Gripweed posted:If there's any hope for the future, it is the rekindled leftist movements in South America. The greatest threat to those movements is America, which crushed them last time. But it seems like now America is too dysfunctional to successfully do coups anymore. All right-thinking people should cheer any event which further weakens America's ability to project power outside it's borders. This seems like wishful thinking, based on 80s movies or something.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This has been covered before, but since it's summer: I've never understood the appeal of watermelon; it doesn't have much taste. You have covid, or live somewhere that doesn't get good watermelons. The ones we have around here have lots of taste in season, but can get pretty watery off-season, when we're importing lesser goods i guess.
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Watermelon has a like 1:1 weight-to-disappointment ratio going for it. Every single time I look at a watermelon I think it's going to be good, but it's always, at best, okay. Maybe I also only eat bad watermelons, because I sure like watermelon flavored candy and gum and poo poo
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Jul 10, 2022 20:01
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Honestly watermelon is just refreshing. On a hot summer day even if it's not the most flavorful melon it just hits right
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Jul 10, 2022 20:58
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christmas boots posted:Honestly watermelon is just refreshing. On a hot summer day even if it's not the most flavorful melon it just hits right Watermelon, like grapes, is basically a respectable way of devouring sugar water on a hot day.
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Watermelon is something like 93% water, hence its name, so it's a good thing to eat if you're dehydrated. But water (AKA H2O) is even better to consume, and you can eat something better like a burger or even a fuckin kale salad.
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Phosphine posted:You have covid, or live somewhere that doesn't get good watermelons. The ones we have around here have lots of taste in season, but can get pretty watery off-season, when we're importing lesser goods i guess. I actually do have covid at the moment, coincidentally, but I didn't like watermelon before I caught the plague. Your latter point about eating bad watermelon might be true; I don't know whether my state (a southern midatlantic one) is known for its watermelons. Someone mentioned grapes, and they're far better and less disappointing than watermelon, imo. F_Shit_Fitzgerald has a new favorite as of 21:22 on Jul 10, 2022 |
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It feels really good to eat water-laden fruits on a hot day though It's 31 degrees, I'm sorry, watermelon, grapes, sweet tea, etc etc, just feel good in a way that "ice water and other food" don't.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:I actually do have covid at the moment, coincidentally, but I didn't like watermelon before I caught the plague. Your latter point about living in an area that doesn't produce good watermelon could be true; I don't know whether my state (a southern midatlantic one) is known for its watermelons. Even the best watermelon has a pretty subtle taste but there's definitely a difference between it and the absolutely bland stuff it is at its worst. I practically lived off grapes when I was in the hospital last year after some major surgery because they were the only remotely fresh fruit I could get and I didn't usually want much that was heavy.
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Jul 10, 2022 21:22
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I prefer white wine over red wine. I prefer red grapes over white grapes.
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I hate summer. I hate the feeling of melting, I hate the warmth and the too brightness and the feeling of everything being under pressure. I hate and loathe heat.
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they say tomorrow's gonna be hotter
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Josef bugman posted:I hate summer. I hate the feeling of melting, I hate the warmth and the too brightness and the feeling of everything being under pressure. I hate and loathe heat. This isn't the correct opinion thread!!
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I prefer white wine over red wine. I'm not really a wine person, but yeah, I love me some red grapes.
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hawowanlawow posted:they say tomorrow's gonna be hotter I'll call tomorrow
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The grapes they sell at supermarkets are garbage. They've traded almost all of their flavour for size and seedlessness. I often hear people complain about tomatoes, but you can get decent tomatoes from the supermarket if you're picky. It's impossible to get good grapes because they just don't sell the varieties that are worth eating.
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Gaius Marius posted:I'll call tomorrow You’ll call now.
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Josef bugman posted:Ultimately, all private industry should be abolished. all property too its unnatural return to the state of nature
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doverhog posted:Can you really join those groups? Do they accept converts? Because they seem pretty insular and caring about blood and inheritance etc. (i'd never wanna join or try to join such a group) You can definitely become a mennonite which is a bit like being amish in dress at least
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FishBulbia posted:You can definitely become a mennonite which is a bit like being amish in dress at least Eh, some Mennonites certainly, but again, many are just like being a member of any other Protestant church. (E. Aside from us being pacifists.)
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I work at the Mall of America and we’ll get what I assume are Mennonites. They typically just check out our Bible selection and don’t buy anything
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You have to convert to orthodox judaism or Israel doesn't recognize you as a jew. I suggest converting to reform and not going to Israel. It is a bad place.
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Tiggum posted:The grapes they sell at supermarkets are garbage. They've traded almost all of their flavour for size and seedlessness. I often hear people complain about tomatoes, but you can get decent tomatoes from the supermarket if you're picky. It's impossible to get good grapes because they just don't sell the varieties that are worth eating. My neighbour grows both grapes and tomatoes, as well as a myriad of other things. And he is very generous with it all. Dude is cool as heck.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:My neighbour grows both grapes and tomatoes, as well as a myriad of other things. And he is very generous with it all. People lavishing fresh veggies on us is the one thing I miss up growing up in a rural armpit
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:People lavishing fresh veggies on us is the one thing I miss up growing up in a rural armpit He also has the largest marijuana plants I have ever seen. O Canada!
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Steak is weird. It's only uncooked in the US. Real people cook their steaks.
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FishBulbia posted:all property too A state of nature does not exist. But industry directed by its workers or towards the common good in opposition to private profit is always a good thing to aim for. Anything that is described as "natural" needs additional scrutiny, its one of those signs of something being a scam to me.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's only uncooked in the US. Real people cook their steaks. Medium rare is pretty much the standard everywhere, except maybe places where the quality of beef is poor. Or places people don't really eat steaks, it's a pretty western thing to do.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's only uncooked in the US. Real people cook their steaks. Indeed. There's a difference between well-done and burned. Our ancestors knew how to use fire, learn from them.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Indeed. Counterpoint: nowhere I've been in the US can do a well-cooked medium. And this isn't something where I don't know what medium is, I do, the problem is with medium the steak is actually well done and with medium rare it is rare. Give me a good medium anytime.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:It's only uncooked in the US. Real people cook their steaks. Someone is going to say the US doesn't eat raw beef/pork because the quality is terrible, so I'm just dropping my knowledge in advance because this derail happens at least twice a year: After seeing this many times, I started to wonder why it is that europeans who visit the US don't get sick like both euros and north americans often do when visiting poorer countries. I compared to France because that's the other country I've spent most of my life in. It's true France has way less food poisoning than the US, on paper. The actual reason for this is that France only tracks food-borne illness that seriously affects or kills people. The US tracks "three hours of tummy ache." One shouldn't eat raw beef or especially pork of the shelf in North America because the culture just doesn't like raw meat, so it's not handled by most distributors or restaurants in a way that keeps the raw meat food-quality. Steak tartare is commonplace, mett is also around in specialty places. You can also go to a local butcher if you want it from home. It's not hard to find, but nobody wants it. Chicken slaughter in North America actually is a lot grosser than european, but nobody eats raw chicken regardless. If you want to though, go euro. sephiRoth IRA posted:Counterpoint: nowhere I've been in the US can do a well-cooked medium. And this isn't something where I don't know what medium is, I do, the problem is with medium the steak is actually well done and with medium rare it is rare. Give me a good medium anytime. My experience in the restaurant industry (but never at a steakhouse, just sports bars n poo poo) is we poo poo out either rare or well-done because self-proclaimed steak connoisseurs will loudly complain that it's either overdone or too raw. Bad news for anyone who actually wants a medium. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 13:09 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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