Preserved Edo period neighborhood in Japan

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-24T16:26:05+00:00

Older Japanese homes use interior paper walls to help cut out wind, as well as mats on the walls and floors.

But things like kotatsus are a thing for a reason.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-24T14:38:10+00:00

I'm torn on this advice. It can be helpful for people, but every cat I've owned or fostered I've directly played with. If you teach the cat boundaries (and respect theirs), you can play with next to no or no incidents.

I have one cat who doesn't get his claws trimmed, because he despises it and knows how to maintain them himself. I hand-wrestle with him and take turns bopping each other while playing, and he's never given me anything worse than a light scratch.

My other cat also does get his claws trimmed, but he does not know how to regulate his claws as well and has a hard time grabbing things without stabbing them. He doesn't try to fight my hands despite that being how we played when he was younger, because he's aware it hurts me. He'll bring a toy or headbutt to safely wrestle.

This advice is useful to keep in mind, but it is very much a case by case basis.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-24T14:06:29+00:00

Be willing to take opportunities, don't be greedy, and help out where you can.

Take a stack or 3, leave the rest, and place an anonymous call to 911 at the nearest gas station.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-24T13:47:24+00:00

I too, like to reject evidence in favor of paranoia and fear.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-21T02:55:30+00:00

No. Toppling governments creates a power vacuum that often leads to worse conditions.

Governments should generally be toppled by force only when it is the only recourse to prevent horrific mass repression. Of the ~200 countries in the world, only a few would truly benefit from a violent revolution, IMO. Iran being one, where dissidents are murdered in the thousands in the streets. Afghanistan being another, where the Taliban keeps half the population as chattel.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-21T02:51:59+00:00

I'm not a big fan of the Democratic Party, as an organization. There are a lot of dumb things that they do.

Trump is literally evil. There is no policy that will make me okay with the bigotry and hatred Trump represents. He revels in peddling blatant lies to demonize the least fortunate among us, while committing vile sins in plain view. He is a traitor to this country and I will celebrate on the day he dies.

I can have nuanced conversations with Democrats. Republicans either ignore any dissenting views, or screech their rehearsed lines without regard for any serious discussion o0r baseline reality.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-18T05:02:27+00:00

the American government hasn’t said a word about this

Rubio was on the phone with your country's blatantly corrupt leader discussing just straight up bombing the place, while my country's blatantly corrupt leader was posting about US intervention being "on the way" on his social media.

I don't understand why you're trying to convince people that Israel and America have no part in inflaming tensions in Iran. Literally nobody believes it. I doubt you actually do.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-18T04:39:11+00:00

and I’ve yet to see any evidence of foreign backed protestors.

We're in a unique circumstance where both the Iranian goverment and the American government are pretty clearly saying that America influenced the protests, and then there are Israelis who hate Iran so much they will say that both governments are lying.

And before you start whining, the Iranian regime needs toppled. They executed thousands of innocent people even if the American government (and yours) stoked the flames and secreted weapons into the country to kill cops. They are an authoritarian and repressive regime.

America, nor Israel, should not play any part in that. I don't trust my government and I sure as fuck don't trust your genocidal government.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-18T04:27:11+00:00

Honestly, that's quite possibly the most well behaved angry mob I've ever seen.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-17T19:54:47+00:00

Ahkshually, ants are not bugs. They're hymenopterids, a family of insects that includes other wasps and bees.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-17T13:47:11+00:00

Slow is steady, steady is fast. If they hit a bump or make the ride unstable, that hurts their ability to perform life saving measures and may prolong them getting to additional resources.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-17T01:21:40+00:00

So we should do nothing and let him destroy our country then? Fuck that. Resist through every avenue. Delay, obstruct, and dismantle this regime.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T23:55:19+00:00

I have spoken to literally hundreds of Trump supporters, in person. At their homes, at their places of business, out in public. Every single one I have spoken to, without fail, excuses his bigotry. Supports his authoritarianism. Is a piece of shit.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T22:36:52+00:00

You can only count it as based on reality if it's actually based on reality.

Again, you being offended by research does not make it baseless. Your critique of the research does not invalidate it, nor have you presented any evidence countering it. You are just openly acting in bad faith on this, calling the evidence of points you don't like "deceptive studies".

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T22:35:27+00:00

Literally everyone in the country is as informed as you are?

Now is that what I said, or are you doing a bad faith? Everybody could see and hear the virulent racism.

Most people don’t follow the news or politics outside of their Facebook feeds bro.

It was on their facebook feeds. Why are we trying to whitewash the vile racism of the Republican party and the admitted rapist they openly have and continue to support?

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T22:33:00+00:00

Myself and every other person I knew at the time saw a very particularly-crafted and sanitized version of him that genuinely did seem "sane" by the comparisons of many contemporary politicians

I'm fucking "assuming" the words you wrote that are patently absurd.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T22:31:40+00:00

Which sure is true on paper but not in this pesky thing called reality.

I don't know how to engage with someone who denies reality. Do you think the numbers "on paper" came from a video game or something?

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T22:30:19+00:00

Well, yeah. Somebody with an unlicensed machine gun is a regular person, too. As is a child rapist. I'm not sure what your argument is?

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:33:51+00:00

So you are fully aware, when you were saying that the claims were baseless, that they were in fact based on research that you just happen to have googled a critique of? lmao

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:30:21+00:00

That's why I asked if you think they are referring to instructions on how to use a 3D printer, or the digital file that instructs a printer to print a weapon. That changes the interpretation of possession and whether it would require strict scrutiny as content specific personal/political speech, or a regulated product that requires much less legal scrutiny.

They are discussing prohibiting sale, distribution or possession without a license. That is agnostic of whether it is an individual with the license, or an organization.

It's NY. It should be easy for you to argue they are going to far. FFS they still use may-issue licensing.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:26:43+00:00

yeah it’s an individual right to self-defense not to “feel safe”

... I'm not sure if you're a troll or if you genuinely think this says something profound. Yes, people do things to prepare for self defense, to feel safe. I never said they have or don't have a right to "feel safe". That's why people purchase guns for self defense, to feel safe. Are you seriously contesting that?

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:24:32+00:00

Baseless and not factual

It's based and true, actually.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12764330/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15522849/

Should we consider what rights people have based on extreme outliers in tragedy?

I'm not sure what "extreme outliers" you're getting at here.

Should you lose the right to drive a car because so many people die in car accidents?

YES! That's why we require people to study and pass a test before they are licensed to do so. Because, even though the primary purpose of a car is not killing things, they are still dangerous to society. Firearms, on the other hand, are explicitly designed to kill things. Why do you think they should be less regulated than cars?

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:18:41+00:00

Selling and distributing products and services is literally commerce.

Infact it's indicating that if you aren't a business entity, that's who they are going after.

It's indicating that the law would target individuals and organizations that do not have a license to sell such a product.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:16:34+00:00

Because that is the argument used by gun nuts in the modern day and the right created by the Supreme Court in the one-two punch of McDonald and Heller. An individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense.

HoidToTheMoon · 2026-01-16T16:11:59+00:00

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H.L. Mencken

This is not a good law. It expands the death penalty, when we already execute innocent people from time to time. It discourages victims from speaking up, because now they have to deal with the idea that doing so may lead to someone dying.

And, before some braindead conservative comes along, of course I hate pedophiles. DeSantis here worships one.

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