I bought a bike online that came with some of those hex keys to assemble it the last bit. Turns out, having the hex keys for the most important bits of my bike is pretty handy and I carry them around in my bag now when I ride.

Punching holes in poison ivy leaves sounds like a good way to get a rash.

Every gun in a movie has to have metallic click clack noises so you know there’s a gun involved. A gun with no hammer will be drawn and a hammer cocking noise will play. According to movies, guns a made with the tolerances of a fencepost and are all rattly. This is part of my larger complaint about foley in movies. It often sounds very separated from the action on screen. Not always. But sometimes it sounds like the leather and metal sounds of the cool hero character are as loud as the vocals and have perfect clarity.

That makes so much sense I’m mad I didn’t think of it first. I’m so used to brushing a juicy knot into my hair and picking it apart for a minute.

👀 brushing from the bottom up, you say.

I don’t necessarily mean more maintenance as in more washing/conditioning. I mean that you have to more carefully consider what your hair needs. You actually need to wash your hair more often with short hair since the grease has less room to spread out. When I was growing my hair out, I knew I didn’t want to look like the long-haired metal-head with a big frizzy mess. I gradually started washing it less and conditioning it more. Now I don’t condition but I oil it after washing. That seems to keep the split ends at bay and give some nice locks without too much greasiness. If I still washed it every time I showered like I did with short hair, it would look like brittle shit.

Are you suggesting that 6-in-one product has fewer chemicals?

When your hair is short, you can wash it with Gatorade and it’ll look acceptable. The longer it is, the more you have to maintain it. I’m a guy who grew his hair out.

-my neighbor who is into essential oils

I have nice knew a girl named Amanda Goodenough. I wonder what she got up to.

Any electricity used for electrolysis came from gasoline. If you turn on a bunch of electronics in your car, your alternator gets harder to spin and your engine consumes more fuel to do it. Then you’re putting energy into breaking bonds which is energy you will partially (but not fully) recover by burning them. It’s impossible for this system to result in a more efficient engine.

Pitching them as cowards implies that they are afraid to do what they want. I think they actually don’t have any sense of morals at all and are happy to signal that they are on board with American fascism.

Damnit. That includes me.

I’m also a Trump hater in the USA and I wouldn’t support it. I don’t think a military occupation is a good start to a bright future, even when compared to US fascism. Militarism and imposing your will through force are not suddenly better because the leader drinks wine.

I think you’re overestimating how much support there would be for the invasion. I think even the Trump haters would not be in favor of a foreign military taking over.

I don’t think even the US could invade and occupy the US. If all of NATO (including the US somehow) attempted to invade and occupy the US, it wouldn’t work. The US is too big. The US military is too powerful. Sustained operations that far from home is logistically difficult.

NATO doesn’t have a military. NATO has member countries with militaries. None of the NATO member countries have the expeditionary capability to invade and occupy the US. That’s before we bring in the nuclear risk.

During the talk, I think they said it was about 85% men.

Disclaimer: not qualified to talk about this with any degree of authority.

I thought species were most commonly defined as naturally producing viable offspring. Animals that can produce fertile offspring but only in captivity were lumped in with mules and other hybrids.

I’m now reiterating the disclaimer that I shouldn’t even be allowed to speak on a public forum about this subject. It’s amazing I haven’t been arrested.

Do they do that naturally?