No but like for real? They're just kinda cute
Ah, I've always had a soft spot for Emilio. He was just in so much stuff I watched back in the day. Anything he's in gets an ok from me, even if it isn't that great. đ
Judgement Night is awesome!
Honestly, as someone who largely disliked social media and was typically a lurking doomscroller that was ready to quit social media altogether at the reddit app ban, what made the best change ever was becoming someone who is primarily a poster.
I post what I want, when I want, and I get to start the conversation that way. It's always a topic I want to talk about, and it's something there isn't much to argue about, and all the interactions will be 99% positive.
It's a small crowd here, so you can get people that are ready to talk with whoever reaches out to the masses first.
You can take time replying to people, and if no one is talking at the moment, it gives you time to plan a next post.
Pick a topic you enjoy and make yourself our local expert. That prompts you to keep actively learning about something you enjoy too so you can answer people's questions they ask you.
States were given the ability to restrict or ban abortion access.
The Discussion portion of the paper was pretty interesting. It doesn't jump to any conclusions, emphasizing not confusing correlation and causation. It discusses some limitations to what they were able to learn and that the severity of the impact is relative to the severity of both the depression and the dementia.
Being on escitalopram has still been one of the best things in my life. I don't know if I want to experiment with that. If I'm going to be getting dementia, I'm not sure if getting it slightly sooner or later is going to make much of a difference to me. It's working for what I definitely do have now though.
With the administration discussing getting rid of access to SSRIs, I've been trying to build up a few months backup supply, so I don't want to experiment with finding something new that works as well and potentially be caught with nothing at some point. Life right now is already maxxing out how much depression it can help me deal with. đą
I agree with the last part. Putin must have something he really wants though, as I haven't really heard anyone say he looks tough or even on equal footing to Putin in any of their dealings. That's what I don't get about the whole thing. I feel the Russian state has been exposed as a paper tiger and why he doesn't look like the guy to beat the big bad after 80 years or whatever it's been is beyond me. He could be an actual champion, but it doesn't seem to be what he's after.
Lol I look forward to the burly and bearded Cossack women squat dancing with 2 left feet and shirtless Trump riding horses with Putin.
Yes, but do you trust this administration to give a fair deal to Ukraine without exploitation? Turning Ukraine into another Haiti isn't a great deal.
Also at the same time he's promising Ukraine the deal of a lifetime, he's making threats and economically bullying all America's other allies while still trying to be buddies with Putin, Orban, and a bunch of other racists, authoritarians, and plutocrats. None of that screams trustworthy to me.
I don't know. It feels Trump is looking to profit off of that territory either way. I imagine the bigger prize is if Zelensky gives in, but even if Russia breaks him off just a slice of Crimean profits or some of his favorite beach front real estate to develop, I'm sure that'd be enough for him to screw over Ukraine.
I feel he'd definitely rather stay on Putin's good side than Zelensky's also. There's a reason Putin is getting so much more of his time, and it shows which party he values more.
Almost the full 4 years of Trump are left, even though it feels like we're so much further into it and that's a lot of time for him to cause trouble or steal from Ukraine.
Ugh, I can't stand the thought of them signing this deal! I get so frustrated every time he entertains it. I don't want to see them get screwed over while the US still benefits.
The only thing potentially positive is if signing actually gets real help sent there, and the US somehow gets sane people back in power that will repeal the deal or at least amend it more favorably because it was made through coercion.
The lack of a promise to actually send military aid though, plus the profiteering that usually happens when the US "helps" someone makes me really want Europe and friends to come through before he makes a deal with the US.
Any stew type thing is generally easy to scale up and usually follows the "better the next day" character. Goulash, curries, thick soups (beef barley is my favorite), and chillis.
There's no change in texture from reheating, which I think is key to good leftovers. Anything baked is going to dry out yet not be crisp, and anything fried is going to be soft and sad. Applying these principles to other things, and you come across things like lasagna as well.
For stuff that is baked, grilled, or pan fried, if it's something you can cook a bunch of, but pull most of it when it's 80% done, you can sometimes reheat that ok. We'll make 4 burgers out of a pound of meat, and either cook up 2 and just leave the other 2 for tomorrow, or say, pull 2 off when they're pretty rare, and cook the ones we're eating to medium. Then the next day, by the time the patties are heated through, they're to the right doneness.
It's great it's not an all or nothing thing. It lets you see what components make a bigger difference and then you can pick and choose what you do when.
I wish trial sizes were a thing though. GF bought a ton of stuff that either didn't help or made her hair worse, so there's a lot of 90% unused bottles, which at least I end up experimenting with, but some of the styling stuff I don't use so it just sits there forever.
That'd be a good business for someone with more patience than I. Buy all this stuff and sell little travel sizes a la carte. One year I got her a ton of perfume sample so she could find new fragrances without a big upfront expense and she's really enjoyed that, and we learned Kohls sells a few products like that we're you get a few samples for the price of a single bottle and it gives you a code to get a discount off the one you like best.
I always had straight and flat hair and kept it really short for the last 20 years. The girlfriend tried curly girl for awhile and while her hair isn't really curly, it really made the waves much more dramatic and it looked amazing.
We're not big on regimented routines though, so while she stopped it after a while, we still get most of the same products, and even just with that selective purchasing, her hair is still nicer and softer than before, and it made me want to grow my hair out, and now I have very handsome looking waves I never thought would have been possible for me.
The Curly Girls speak the truth, even if cowashing and plopping sound like silly things!
That's very much how I read it. "Be grateful you got what you got, and if you don't kiss my ass and give me a big payment, I'm leaving you and your people to rot. I'm fine either way."
Every day I think it's going to be hard to make me be more ashamed of my country, but they do it with such ease.
Zelensky took it like a champ though, and I got to watch much of the video after my original comment, and while Vance was trashing him for not saying thank you nicely enough, when he mentioned the brave people of Ukraine, that was when Zelensky said thank you again as he was being talked over.
As Zelensky implied, everyone is going to have a price to pay for the result of this, however it ends. Ukrainian ,Russian, and North Korean citizens are just the first to feel it. I don't want any of them to die, but since everyone spent the last 11 years tiptoeing around this issue, now there is a huge sunk cost for those nations, when the rest of the world should have stepped up sooner. After all the death and destruction, why would Ukraine now not only give up to Russia, but now the US also trying to steal their resources? Trump promises to take from Ukraine but will not commit to Ukraine's safety. They've already learned what a deal with Putin means, and they've had 4 years of seeing what Trump deals look like, and what he's doing to Americans right now.
Even with some news agencies being kicked out in the first 40 days of the presidency, there are still good pointed questions being asked. They aren't always the ones making it to the front page of anyone's feeds, which I think is terrible, but I don't feel most everyday people in the US know or care what is going on with all they are facing. We're on political posting space, so we often forget we are way more heavily invested in knowing world events compared to most people, just as near everyone uses computers, but only a few of us know how to build on or program one. We're not prepared in school to follow these events, and our society does not put emphasis on learning them. Broadcast news and for profit media will give what people care about at large, if it's valuable news or rubbish. There are still outlets that deliver the boring plain facts to those like us here though, and I think we need more solidarity for that. Not all media has fallen in line behind Trump or the billionaires, and many are still doing all they can to report on these important issues. If they weren't providing the facts, Trump wouldn't be banning people from press events, Bezos wouldn't be forcing out editors, and Musk and Zuck wouldn't need to spend so much money pushing propaganda. We need to embrace tighter than ever what we do have, even if it is imperfect, or soon we will not have that either.
This article has some of the grossest stuff I've ever heard.
Trump and Vance accused Zelensky of being ungrateful for three years of American support, telling him he was in no position to tell the US how it should feel about it.
Those years of support were certainly due to no thanks to you. You hated every bit of help that was given to them, and now you want them to thank you for it??? I believe the US could go in and do to the Russian occupied territory what the Russians thought they could do to Ukraine and roll them over almost immediately. But instead, this admin is ready to leave them for dead unless they give up their only key to financing their rebuild without foreign "help." This is not seeking cooperation of an ally, it is extorsion.
Trump accuses Zelensky of "gambling with World War Three". He points his finger at the Ukrainian leader.
"What you are doing is disrespectful to the country - this country that's backed you far more than a lot of people said they should have," Trump says.
Zelensky calmly interjects: "I'm with all respect for your country".
Vice-President Vance interrupts: "Have you said 'thank you' once this entire meeting?"
Zelensky replies: "A lot of times".
Vance again says: "No, in this entire meeting, have you said 'thank you'?"
"You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation for the USA and the president who is trying to save your country."
Zelensky shakes his head and looks away, and says the US will also eventually feel the consequences of the war.
Trump appears visibly frustrated, interjecting: "Don't tell us what we're going to feel. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
"We're going to feel very good and very strong."
Sorry Don, I'm not feeling the alliance here. Never seen him once talk about Putin this way. I do think he's working on an alliance in this war, only it's not from Ukraine.
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This is why I've stopped reading much of the content I had been reading before. Unless an article is about what someone is doing to stop what is happening, what is the point in reading it? I don't care so much about the bad, rather in how the rest of us are preventing it.
For all the people complaining, I haven't seen many talking about what steps they are taking to change the momentum. I get why I've may not want to announce what protests they are attending, but I haven't noticed much new talk about mutual aid or volunteering efforts. I know the recent political climate globally is motivating me to be involved in both.
I'm waiting to hear back in a volunteer position helping local wildlife, and once I get that schedule worked out, I've already started looking into local food aid opportunities as well.
If our society is leaving gaps unfilled, as you said, it's up to us to fill them ourselves before we all fall through.
Take a bee, leave a bee?