Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
Good point! I did forget that one.
Although, I find it difficult to find real hemp products. So many things that used to be hemp are now made of acrylic (drug rugs, mexican-style blankets, etc.)
I think I have a pair of flip flops lined with hemp, and you’re right, it is a lot like linen!
Nice to know, but does that depend on how it’s processed? Like would it still apply to an organic bamboo fabric?
Oh, I don’t actually believe in it either. I just think some of the parallels are uncanny, and I also like to turn the message against maga, because they’ve appropriated so much of the imagery for their death cult.
No grok here, only gork
Birds-including swans- are pretty easy to hurt.
Does that also include ostriches?
How many seats on the ballot in each of those states have a candidate from one of those parties?
Also, DSA are a caucus within the Democratic party. If you think DSA are conservatives, then I might as well put my brain in the microwave for all the good it’ll do trying to reason with you.
Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
A second angel followed and said, “‘Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,’ which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.”
A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.”
Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
Bamboo and micromodal make good underwear. I haven’t tried them in the summer yet so I don’t know how they hold up in heat and humidity.
Linen can be good for underwear. It’s very breathable, but sometimes it takes a few washes before it feels soft. Also, it doesn’t have any natural elasticity, so it needs an elastic waistband to stay up. Sometimes it has a drawstring, but I prefer the waistband personally. It’s also loose and flowy, so if you wear tight clothes and don’t want it bunching underneath, linen isn’t a good choice for underwear. If you wear loose, flowy clothes anyway, linen is a great choice.
If you’re willing to put out the expense, silk undies sound kinda awesome. Never tried that myself though so I’m not sure how breathable it is.
Personally, I love linen in general for hot weather. You can wear long sleeves to keep the sun off, and its so airy that you don’t even feel hot under your clothes. Especially if it’s a light color. It also dries quickly, so it’s not like cotton where once you sweat you’ll be wet all day. Spend thirty minutes in the shade on a breezy day, and your linen clothes will already be dry
I listened to his Yale speech, and a lot of what he said was true, but he kinda harms his own credibility when he glosses over the USSR and DPRK.
He just kinda says “US intervention bad” and implies that there was nothing wrong with those nations to begin with and that everything would be fine if it weren’t for US meddling. A Korean student literally asked him if he wanted to revise that position and he basically says “I don’t care how other nations govern themselves.” Like, dude.
He even insinuated that the current situation in Russia is the US’s fault for defeating the Soviet Union. And he acts like the fall of the USSR was this tragic thing, when people throughout former Soviet states literally celebrated when it happened. He said it resulted in mass deaths, but never mentioned the mass deaths the Soviet Union itself caused.
Most of what he said was okay though. One of the guys who asked a question said he agreed with 90% of it. I’m more like 85% I think, but that other 15% are pretty important. For one thing, he kinda skirted around any mention of Ukraine, even when someone asked about it.
Overall, he seems like he’s done a lot of research, but outside of an academic context and without any serious rigor or pedagogy. Like, he belongs on internet forums where he can debate people and share his knowledge and ideas, but speaking at universities should be for people with higher degrees.
I don’t like when the right-wing sends influencers/streamers to colleges to speak, and since I value logical consistency, I don’t think the left should be doing it either.
Check out the kiwix library, it’s not social media but you can download all sorts of wiki-style sites as .zim files. Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, DevDocs just to name a few. If you have an app that can read .zim files, it’ll open them just like a wiki site.
It’s probably a lot easier than scraping social media. But if you really want to do that, there’s probably a python package for it.
If you have specific DIY projects, you’ll probably find instructions on ifixit, instructables, or wikihow. Or find some really niche hobby websites and browse their forums and tutorials.
People are desensitized. It’s been normalized so long. Slow boil type thing.
That’s gotta be it. Doctors and lawyers might retire with a net worth of $15M.
Billionaire oligarchs make that much in less than a month.
Even before 2021, the disparity was already so great it wouldn’t have fit.
Even in 2019 when I took an intro to ethics class, we read an essay on wealth disparity and even then, the top 1% didn’t even fit in the same graph as everyone else.
Damn, that’s crazy. This shit runs deep.
One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast. People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”
The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
No shit, really? You don’t fucking say…
I’ve avoided synthetic fabrics for years. People used to think I was just being a woowoo anti-science luddite hippy (this was back before microplastics were a well-known phenomenon). But the fact is I just didn’t like the texture of synthetics.
Here are some examples of natural fiber, all of which are lovely:
Non-vegan:
And of course, cotton is versatile and has a wide range of qualities (depends on growing region, thread count, and processing methods. Pima and Egyptian cotton are supposed to be the highest quality, but are also more expensive. Organic cotton is best for the environment).
Here are just some examples of fabrics you can make with cotton:
Be sure to check the tags though: many “cotton blends” contain polyester, and often they label something “flannel” when it’s just polyester with a plaid print (real flannel is a type of fabric, not the pattern on the cloth. If you can’t see the individual threads that make up the pattern, it’s not real flannel, just a print).
Final note: most fibers can be either knit or woven, with textures depending accordingly. There are sooo many different kinds of wovens, each with its own unique pattern. Could write a whole textbook just on different kinds of weave.
Don’t worry, I’ll use btrfs
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The real problem is using hardware that won’t corrupt over time and keeping it out of the elements