if any of you dip your toes into the bourgeois decadence of true crime reporting, one of the under-reported aspects of the recent ruby franke case was how she, as a mormon, broke apart from the interdependent shell game that mormon housewives play via multi-level marketing scams by creating a successful mommy vlog. the community resentment and ostracization that followed partly explains how she ran headlong into another mormon influencer's circle and then even deeper into child abuse
coworker walked in with a 444 tattoo on his arm. i was worried it was some 1488 white supremacist bullshit but it turns out it just some megachurch angel bullshit.
i hate to hand it to him, but give peter thiel credit for being the first of the ai grifters to figure out the perfect customer for a product that doesn't work and costs a lot of money is the dept of defense
i recall one of the specific differences between the sanders/warren m4a plans was the snake's exclusion of mental health coverage.
obviously, the first reason for this was the profession made up a substantial portion of her donor base, but the deeper reason was that the american service economy cannot function if low-wage workers (or unemployed people) are accidentally provided with the same psycho-babble tools to cope with their workplace tensions than the bougies enjoy.
it's one thing for the pmc class to rely on therapists to reconcile their alienation and get back to "the grind," but these tools and strategies ring pretty hollow when dealing with the physical destruction of one's body on a daily basis to just barely get by. such circumstances would be radicalizing for many people. and i say this as a person who has actually seen some benefits from talky-talks, meds, etc.
if you have a second-hand shop or a classifieds listing for your area, you can likely find an instant pot very cheap. they were the standard wedding present for about a decade straight and the old ones still work as good as ones fresh off the assembly line
edit to add: here's a website with a list of recipes divided by how many "steps" they take to create.
there's a conversation to be had regarding the convergence of vocal transphobia, criminalized abortion, underfunded healthcare, and invasive tech surveillance living comfortably in a usa where our betters see us as merely renting our own bodies
i totally understand what you're saying, same with kissinger. i feel it. however, the sun rose today and we're above ground and they ain't. it's not much, but it's something. pour the drinks!
i will give snyder this, he delivered on his promise of pure, uncut objectivist fables the likes of which haven't been seen since rand novels. and, happily, since a general audience had to sit through them instead of self-selecting rand readers, they were rejected as inhumane and garbage. kudos.
they were on the boat the night natalie wood died. scuttlebutt has always been something nefarious, but nothing definitive. maybe it was an accident or a classic hollywood "clean up job" for an established actor (wagner) and a rising talent (walken).
her death coincided with the beginning of the "summer blockbuster" era for the big studios and a departure from banking on stars, so there's a better than average chance her death was just an accident and gossip reporters were merely overlaying their assumptions about past clean ups, of which there were several, onto the current story.
credit where it's due, dude is living up to being a liberal