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  • I have a couple of cheap no-name screw top steel water bottles I bought from a Kroger almost 20 years ago for like $3-ish a piece. I bought them solely because the bottle part was one solid piece, and they didn't have any of the weird plastic clearcoat a lot of steel drinkware has, which meant I could boil water in them if I needed to when I was up camping or hiking. A lot of other more expensive bottles being made at the time were two or three pieces press-fit together, and wouldn't be likely to survive much of that.

    I've been using them daily more or less constantly since then. They're a little banged up, but still going strong. I wish I knew where I could buy more.

  • If you're looking for music like this that's actually based you might check out Pink Williams. He dropped a song called Blame the Poor on Tiktok the other day as a response to Rich Men North of Richmond that's getting shared a bunch on the old site. It's pretty good.

  • My new mattress is getting delivered tomorrow. I've been sleeping on a cheap crappy Ikea mattress for years, and I just couldn't ignore how bad it is anymore. Hopefully with the new one I'll finally be able to sleep longer than six hours without waking up feeling like I've been in a fight.

  • Good for you. Quitting nicotine is fucking hard. I quit smoking over a decade ago, but I finally got completely off nicotine products just last year.

    Just some advice that helped me: keep a zero nic vape around so if you're out drinking (or some other situation where your willpower is low) and find yourself needing to vape you have one that you can hit without backsliding with nicotine. Otherwise you're going to find yourself hitting a buddy's vape loaded with 50mg nic salts or something, and you'll be back to square one.

  • It's worse than that. They're penguins on an ice floe. All the penguins want to get into the water; none of them want to get eaten by a leopard seal. They mill around until a penguin gets brave/hungry enough to jump in (or one gets pushed in), and the rest of them wait to see if he gets eaten. If it survives, all the rest of the penguins jump right in after them.

    With fascists you have a bunch of folks nudging people toward (but carefully avoiding openly calling for) violence. They push right up to the line, inch by inch, as close as they possibly can without technically crossing it. They do it until someone trips over, and then they all watch to see if/how that person gets punished.

    The absolute instant that law enforcement ever stops punishing these people in a meaningful way we are going to see some crazy shit. That crazy shit will suddenly become the new normal, and the fascists will start pushing a new, more extreme line.

    I think there would be a lot more urgency around this if more regular people could hear how conservative gun owners talk to each other when they think no one else is around. There are a lot of real normal-seeming guys who have reached a casual acceptance that any day now it will be time to "do the things." Which is a fun little euphemism for murdering anyone they feel isn't conservative enough, white enough, or Christian enough. They haven't affiliated themselves with a larger extremist group yet, but are none-the-less arming and training themselves toward the goal of joining right in when it's finally time to "do the things."

  • I'm sure this is all about reducing crime in D.C., and nothing to do with putting the Republicans in direct control of D.C. law enforcement when they have themselves a second insurrection if Biden wins another term next year.

  • The Colorado one isn't accurate either. There's one small pizza chain called Beau Jo's that makes "mountain pies" like they show in the video, but they're super litigious about anyone even slightly imitating them. They've actually trademarked the term "Colorado-style pizza," thus preventing Colorado from having an actual Colorado-style pizza. Which is a shame because "mountain pies" are far from the best pizza, and it would benefit a lot from some outside innovation.

    If Colorado has a Colorado-style pizza thing it's probably putting honey on the crust. Which actually may have started at Beau Jo's, but they pretty much have to do it because, for there being so much of it, their crust really kind of sucks and nobody would eat it otherwise.

  • My buddy is a general contractor and actually does need a truck for his job. Ironically he has a really hard time finding one with a large enough bed for what he needs anymore. Most of the trucks being built now are designed with hauling groceries home from the Costco in mind, not hauling lumber and sheets of drywall.

  • I'm not surprised. I've heard stories as far back as 2015 or 2016 about people storming out in the middle of their pastor's sermon because the pastor directly quoting Jesus' sermon on the mount was too "woke."

    Mark my words: if conservatives can no longer advance their cause under the guise of Christianity, they won't abandon conservatism. They will abandon Jesus.