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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • FLuffee Talks. (Hey… What’s up?)

    No particular reason. FLuffee is a major old schooler that’s been pumping out content since the earliest days of YouTube who specializes in pop news and shock-jock content. I used to devour his content when I was like 11-15, and I think I just got overexposed and lost taste for it.

    I’ve gone back occasionally over the years and he’s still at it. If his content style works and he can maintain it even some 16-18 years later, I say more power to him.






  • I just met this lil’ bitch from Arcadia (oh-woah)
    From the planet Nympho, eat my babies up, ooh
    Her mothership got missions on my radius (oh-woah)
    She captured me and left me in a state of awe, doom
    Take me to your universe (yeah)
    Take me to a time where everything reversed, ah, ooh
    I just got this lil’ bitch from Arcadia (oh-woah)
    Intertwine ourselves until we facing our moon

    Is this it? It’s from the song “Arcadia” by the band MDMA.

    https://youtu.be/wahxHDZHtAM

    Edit: hell it probably isn’t it lol based on the time line. It’s the only thing that pulled up when I searched online.




  • Just switched from a 2015 Corolla S to a 2014 RAV4 Limited, absolutely love the feel and I don’t imagine I’m ever going to leave the brand honestly. Toyota just makes damn good cars and they last forever. Look for good used RAV4s or 4Runners in your area pre-2016. My mechanic has swore by the engine Toyota used from 2008-2016, he says it’s probably their best engine they made, and after that they changed styles.



  • Classy@sh.itjust.workstoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    4 months ago

    I disagree. Male/female is used plenty with humans, but it tends to be used in a more clinical or ‘objective’ manner, such as in legal documents, autopsy reports, police suspect descriptions, things of that sort.

    I think the use of, e.g., “Look at those four males over there”, it has a bit of a connotation of separation of the personhood of the people involved. A man is a living, thinking being; he is worthy of dignity, and he has a soul. A ‘male’ can almost be called an ‘it’: it has a characterization of cold, scientific classification.




  • The Revival, Stephen King (×3)
    East of Eden, John Steinbeck (×5)
    Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, H.P. Lovecraft (×2)

    And I plan on rereading:

    The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty
    Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard
    Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy (after a bit of therapy)
    Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurthy
    Ian Toll’s Pacific War trilogy
    The Things Our Fathers Saw, Matthew A. Rozell



  • Wool makes a massive difference and it isn’t even close.

    For one, it has an uncanny ability to wick away moisture from the surface of your skin, away from your body. As it reaches the outside, it more easily evaporates away and minimizes the amount of absorbed and thus odorous sweat.

    Skin also maintains “comfort” at a larger range of temperatures with wool. I have thicker wool socks I wear in summer with tall leather work boots and after 12-16 hours straight of wear my socks typically have virtually no smell and they’re dry to the touch. Synthetic socks like Dickies absorb the sweat and cause the fibers to break down terribly. You end up with crusty, worthless socks.


  • ##3. They will answer to the best of their ability but imagine this is a random person from 2074.

    Oh, I love this rule. Everyone is planning on asking this guy how time travel works and detailed accounts of world history, but if the brain drain we’ve experienced as a society is going to continue, how exactly do you expect an average person half a century from now to answer?

    I’m imagining this exact scenario playing out but instead we are the time traveler, returning back to 1974.

    “Oh wow, so can you explain all the geopolitics of the next fifty years?”

    “…”

    “And this ‘Internet’ thing you speak of? It sounds amazing! How does it work?”

    “…”

    “I’m also very excited to learn about these ‘smart phones’, they sound very powerful. Could you describe how they’re built?”

    “…”