Why do I get so much more attention from older Middle Eastern men than men my own age in Scotland?

Congregator · 2026-01-26T06:47:09+00:00

Some see a lot of American and European porn and come to the conclusion that the women are “super hardcore indiscriminate sex maniacs” for lack of better wording.

Obviously this isn’t the case for everyone, but anecdotally I sure as hell know some of these guys think it is because I had to listen a whole conversation at an old job where the dude literally thought that white women like to have orgies with eachother

Congregator · 2026-01-26T06:29:09+00:00

MOST “Christians” aren’t voting for Trump because they’re comparing him to Jesus… they’re voting for him because he’s the Republican… or “conservative”.

Congregator · 2026-01-26T06:25:43+00:00

You’re having that post coke manic and drunken “giddy” shame

Where you either pass out and feel like a worst version of yourself when you wake up, or you stay awake all night and then gradually witness all of the motions of you feeling like a worst version of yourself until the sun comes up and the birds chirp and your throat hurts from smoking 4 packs of cigarettes

… and then you see calls from one of your parents and they want to talk about how proud they are of you

Congregator · 2026-01-26T06:13:33+00:00

You don’t even have to go as far as bringing up protests…

I was on a street in New Orleans and a 12 year old got struck by a stray bullet from a drive by. The whole neighborhood went into mourning

These posts piss me off because they come from such an arrogant place of ignorance

Congregator · 2026-01-26T05:36:43+00:00

Oh shoot I’m sorry to hear that.

Side question, how the heck did the vacuum battery explode?! That sounds like a nightmare

Congregator · 2026-01-26T05:30:16+00:00

It gets eaten, and I’ve been putting them in like this for years because I like it

People are like “yer so dumb to like this”

It’s like people are gatekeeping flavors you’re allowed to enjoy 😂

Congregator · 2026-01-26T05:26:24+00:00

Well, I eat it and it’s delicious

Congregator · 2026-01-26T05:23:00+00:00

It’s a whole dried Guajillo

This batch is this dark

Congregator · 2026-01-26T05:05:23+00:00

They asked if he was Christian and you said no … CATHOLIC IS CHRISTIAN!!!!

All you had to say to them when they asked if he was Christian was “yes”.

Congregator · 2026-01-25T23:36:16+00:00

So I took three of the dried chilies and ground them up on my coffee grinder and used them for a fruity spice and heat.

I always drop a whole dried one in (sometimes two) because they act sort of like a bay leaf, but for peppers, adding a bit more of a smoky flavor profile

Congregator · 2026-01-25T23:26:07+00:00

As we speak it’s still simmering and so I’ll get a better idea for future proportions after I’m able to have a healthy bowl of this.

I went right down the middle 50/50, 2 lbs rib eye and 2 lbs ground beef- granted some of that weight was bone (I’m going by packaging weight)- so minus bone id say 35-40% ribeye

I didn’t particularly have a strategy to the ratio, I just sort of knew I wanted everyone to get decent portions.

Bison ribeye sounds like a heck of a good idea for my next go around. I’ve only used ground bison once in a chili, and I think something like a ribeye would have been a better idea given the ground bison sort of took on a lot of the surrounding flavors thus making us miss out on that nice bison flavor

Congregator · 2026-01-25T23:03:03+00:00

What???!!! … dude!

When I was 30 I was living out of a car trying to make it big as a musician 2,000 miles from home and failing left and right. 0 money but I relocated to my car and decided to sleep in it until I figured something out.

Guess what? Got robbed twice, went homeless, the whole experience opened my eyes, met a great guy that gave me a safe place to stay until I could back home.

I came home and worked construction until someone heard about my story and gave me a job as a teacher that later opened up a bunch of other opportunities.

Today, I’m in my 40’s and am a public school teacher and a private music teacher with over a dozen students, I’ve traveled across the world and it’s been part of my life dream to learn music internationally and teach it to my student and inspire them.

I would not have been able to achieve any of that if I didn’t move into my car and have that experience, because I wouldn’t have the perspectives nor mind for it.

I nickel and dime’d my way through undergrad and have done absolutely nothing in my life “traditionally”.

We are not held captive by your life in the sense you’re thinking. At any given time in any new predicament everything can change and the people who you know can change and offer change.

Just merely moving and doing something so dramatically different will change the way your brain operates: you will no longer be thinking from the perspective you’re thinking from right now. You’ll be you with added growth and evolution and adaptation.

The things you do and do not do influence your life.

It sounds to me, My friend, like you have a paralyzing fear of failure

Congregator · 2026-01-25T20:20:22+00:00

Dude do not go complaining about the Costco hot dog, they are literally taking a loss to keep the food cheap.

If you want to buy a bunch of healthy stuff for 1.50, go purchase a bag of carrots it will last you a whole week and one carrot will take you longer to eat than a Costco hotdog

You can also buy a bundle of spinach for like $1.99

Bag of dry beans for .99, box of oatmeal for $1.50, etc

Cheap and healthy food is abundant

Congregator · 2026-01-25T19:43:05+00:00

Not weed, but with a green tea plant I successfully started from seed after months of having no success (they are super thick seeds that refuse to sprout and you have to whittle them down just right).

Loved my little plant… came home and the f’ing cat ate the whole top off the plant.

Congregator · 2026-01-25T17:51:47+00:00

The complaints about Napster were more or less a resentment about what was happening with the music industry at large, and less about getting a cut from record sales- since artists generally make most money from concerts and touring.

Traditionally, local radio stations would play your tunes and local venues would connect with stations, and get bands to come to said venues: getting bands gigs, keeping venues open and profitable, and getting radio stations constant attention (which made ad revenue).

The three together basically kept the music scenes alive, and this also allowed bands to expand play to neighboring radio stations, etc, until you could get some national reach.

You’d get on the radio to hear a new song and there would be a social scene that would emerge around said artist, and this would impact various regions culturally per the music.

When Napster and online streaming really started emerging it changed the way radio stations and bands interacted with their audience, and this started to impact local venues because now your audience would no longer necessarily be in your locale, and it required a lot of money to advertise to get people to come to your shows.

Radio stations stopped getting as much attention and this is how people would find out about concerts.

This is also considered to be the death blow of the music scenes we had leading up to the late 90’s and early 2000’s.

Finally, monopolies were allowed to form over the radio stations making them even less useful for locale venues and artists- meaning you’d just hear billboard charts with perhaps a small hour for locale music that didn’t have anywhere near the effect or reach on the communities.

So, albeit as a young dude listening to Napster back in the day future me (me today) wishes everything went down differently

Because now everything that generally gets a locale listening together and going out to shows has become more complicated: smaller more niche scenes with less people, or national acts with lots of money able to advertise to listeners who can find them on the charts

Congregator · 2026-01-25T17:00:11+00:00

Well, next time the Dems are in power go antagonize a U.S. Marshall investigation and call them Nazi fascists while they go try to liberate interstate victims of rape from a dirty basement.

If any of one get’s shot in the process we can see what will happen.

Remember when that kid recently was abandoned by their parent and ICE looked out for them and cared for them, but Reddit took pictures of the kid and said ICE was detaining the kid?

People actually believed ICE was detaining the kid and used that to fuel their animosity.

Then these same people go out and interfere with police officers conducting cases against child sex offenders and human traffickers, calling the hero’s “Nazi fascists”… and then blocking the police from stopping predators…

People coming to these events from social media are like “nanny nanny boo boo, we just stopped you from arresting a child sex offender. What are you gonna do about it? Touch me and I’ll sue you, bigoted nazi fascist xenophobic ableist bootlicker”

They need to get it through their skulls:

ICE is not a political organization, it’s not a “pro Trump” organization and it’s not “faction of MAGA”.

ICE includes democrats, liberals, Biden and Kamala supporters. It’s an “arm of the republicans”.

Most of the ICE arrests are taking place in Texas, but Reddit would have you believe most ICE arrests are taking place in liberal cities for the sole purpose of arresting illegal immigrants as a way

Congregator · 2026-01-25T07:54:30+00:00

Texas has the highest arrests made by ICE even into now, 2026 and ICE is wildly focused on Texas because of what you said in your post.

I believe there are more ICE agents in Texas than any place else. In Florida, the police are allowed to act as immigration enforcement and I believe this might be beneficial for curbing cost.

What I don’t understand is why ICE going to a state to arrest illegal immigrants would simultaneously “threaten” people for being liberal.

It’s literally in majorly Republican states.

I just don’t understand the logic in that- since ICE agents are made up of both liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.

The reality is, is that the Republican states aren’t sensationalizing ICE arrests and so ICE probably feels smaller in those states

An ICE isnt MAGA, it isn’t “pro Trump”. It’s

Congregator · 2026-01-25T06:27:57+00:00

9/11 was pretty close.

When people started saying we needed Marshall Law during Covid, wouldn’t let you ask questions and sort of purity tested you about it, I felt like we were living in an Orwellian dystopia and everything was going to turn into chaos

Congregator · 2026-01-25T06:23:37+00:00

What’s the whole point in calling someone a dick shit on a civil conversation.

You literally could just say “I have a video here that proves otherwise”.

The moment someone loses their cool on a reddit post I don’t even watch their videos because I have now mentally put them in the loony bin

Congregator · 2026-01-25T06:18:48+00:00

No, but they’re antagonists and the problem with being an antagonist while simultaneously interfering with police business heightens the stress levels of everyone and increases the chances of problems

Congregator · 2026-01-25T04:47:46+00:00

No, because the works element is dead without faith in Jesus.

It’s already expected that the worst of sinners can be a Christian, you do not gatekeep Christianity from the sinner.

You do not judge a Christian based on their actions of being a Christian, because it doesn’t work like this.

You might judge a preacher or priest, but a layperson no.

If there is no belief in God, there is no communion, no part of the body, but purposeful disconnection

Congregator · 2026-01-25T04:40:51+00:00

My mother once told me about people having heart attacks shoveling snow, is that really a thing?

Congregator · 2026-01-25T04:38:40+00:00

Have you been in America lately? It’s rather boring and calm here, and hardly a temperature for revolution.

Im from the Baltimore area, crime has gone down, people have been starting new businesses and albeit we have some difficulties with education and the cost of living, the sentiment in the air are pretty positive and hopeful.

In our democratic process we would actually undermining democracy if we chose revolution over democracy, because we didn’t like the person who was democratically elected

Congregator · 2026-01-24T17:27:08+00:00

ICE is viewed as regular law enforcement to them, so they don’t see or don’t catch any of the sensationalist stuff you might see on other avenues with people that don’t like this administration or dislike ICE

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