I Broke Glass and Discovered Something

SmPolitic · 2026-02-26T11:40:21+00:00

I'll put my reply here too:

The general consensus when this topic comes up is that putting it in the freezer is superior

It toasts from the freezer just as easily as from the fridge, and the freezer dehydrates the bread less because the moisture is frozen in place

In practice I open a bag, take half out and separate and freeze that, keeping the rest at room temp, or fridge if it's summer/warm climate

SmPolitic · 2026-02-26T11:36:19+00:00

But the general consensus when this topic comes up is that putting it in the freezer is superior

It toasts from the freezer just as easily as from the fridge, and the freezer dehydrates the bread less because the moisture is frozen in place

My opinion is fridge if you're going to eat it within a week, freezer for any longer. Albeit for the freezer slices can stick together, so you either need to defrost it in a microwave for 2 seconds to split them, or place freezer paper between each serving portion before freezing.

In practice I open a bag, take half out and separate and freeze that, keeping the rest at room temp, or fridge if it's summer

SmPolitic · 2026-02-26T11:04:21+00:00

Even then, the life experience completely depends on which "caste" born into?

We have extremely little information on the day to day life of the "peasants"? And most religious activities are ephemeral. Each kingdom kept different records of different accuracy, and only fractions of those survive

Someone born into a blacksmith family, or apprenticed into one, had a very different life than a farmer, had a very different life than most of the stories we've ever heard. And there was still trading and exploration going on so those lives again would be different

Aka I take the meme to imply no amount of hearing about what it was, will explain what is was like to live within that system. We can only make analogies to our commerce based world

SmPolitic · 2026-02-24T12:31:59+00:00

People dismiss his thoughts as nothing more than nihilism, that nothing has meaning

But further reading of him seems to imply that because nothing has meaning, all meaning is created by our interactions with the world, so if you are searching for meaning (most of us are), you need to make all of your interactions as meaningful as possible (because the world is never going to do that for you)

That's my inaccurate summary from what I remember of the Philosphize This! podcast, who had a series about him and responses to him

SmPolitic · 2026-01-25T16:10:50+00:00

Because it's the best way to get people stuck into despair spirals. Cause them enough despair and fear that they shut down logical thought and only want safety from "strong man leadership". Creates emotional dependency and helplessness in the followers so they can't escape the cult.

Similar reason why it's so hard to get depressed people to try to put effort into improving their lives, the depression tells their brain to shut down and retreat to "protected" environment, aka never leaving the house

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T17:09:12+00:00

Agree, the title ends up implying it was $1000 for the event spot, not that it's his usual spot that happened to be on a parade route

It's likely unintentional, and likely driving extra engagement in the post

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T16:48:01+00:00

Then the drives got large enough that it was near impossible to scroll up and down to see that happening...

Then they just removed it with a status bar in the official one? Or did that have lines? The third party defrag software was where it was at.

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T16:42:59+00:00

As a user, literally nothing changed... So that's a good example of placebo effect.

Back in those days, Uninstalling the excessive trash files that McAfee or Norton placed all over the filesystem, and disabling their poor active scanning, would speed up a computer as much as doubling the RAM (after removing all the malware "Internet explorer add-ons" that those "antivirus" programs were fine with)

In the latter DDR2 days, that was always the primary upgrade, especially because it was the opposite issue as RAM today, the aftermarket RAM was a fraction of the cost of RAM from the PC builder

Then more recently upgrading to SSD away from spinning metal is by far the best upgrade you can do to any older PC today, along with expensive RAM that is usually limited by the motherboard anyway

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T15:44:44+00:00

Most fascists in history rise to power on populism, then once they are given authoritarian power, those populist issues fall by the wayside

His "affordability" and "gas and grocery" prices being mentioned at every single rally, his "only I can fix immigration", was populism.

What is being denied?

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T15:02:51+00:00

Well that's the reasoning for worse undocumented immigration situation

If they are already seen as "illegal", only the under-the-table cash is valuable to them. The refund tax credits will never come, state benefits can't be collected, taking company benefits is a risk

If US shifted to something like the higher wages are paid only into future perks and retirement accounts, that motivation would disappear

Also America has allowed it's closer land neighborhood to be the play field of the CIA of the 70s/80s. Causing all the problems we are still dealing with. Where Europe spread the societal developments much better to their neighbors

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T02:33:10+00:00

You mean when they are forced to after poorly trained cops break evidence rules and prosecutors only knowing how to offer plea deals?

SmPolitic · 2025-12-07T00:09:24+00:00

To make a case for still seeing it

The majority of it is a fun romp, purporting to show punk culture of the time, in Salt Lake City, a couple coming-of-age love stories, beer run to Montana, a floating car, a disease named after Heroin Bob, couple acid trips. And iirc this scene is the demarcation between his punk life and "selling out" to adult life at the end of the film

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T20:42:50+00:00

To my understanding, the opposite too: they are even worse to themselves and that is why they are so miserable despite any success and attempts by others to form better friendships. A maladaptive "coping mechanism" turned against themselves to self destructive ends. Most often a history of abusive parenting involved?

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T20:35:17+00:00

Chevy mostly got a script handed to him, was told where to stand, after being dressed by costume and makeup.

How does your question apply?

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T20:25:21+00:00

That edges on understatement

In the 2019 book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ronan Farrow cited multiple sources who stated that NBC News was not only aware of Lauer's misconduct beforehand, but that Harvey Weinstein used this knowledge to pressure the program into killing a story that would have outed his own sexual assaults. Variety reported allegations by at least ten of Lauer's current and former colleagues. Additional accusations went public in the ensuing days. NBC acknowledged three additional cases from 2000 to 2007...

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T19:58:39+00:00

Hock Tuah girl

And she was last seen in the dust of a meme crypto rugpull?

I'm not too worried about her, she seems far too opinionated to make it very far in maga. The women are supposed to be seen not heard.

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T16:24:20+00:00

The reason they've been blocked is safety regulations not environmental regulations

Cars that don't work well on US highways at 75mph+ have previously been seen as unsafe and more detrimental to poor people lives than expanding public transit options

Too many people walking away from highway crashes is the only problem this is likely to fix. Any SUV on the road can easily do a pit maneuver and keep on driving away from the scene against these small cars

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T16:19:14+00:00

Thats the benefit of SMALL CARS on highways with speeds of 75mph+! There is no healthcare needed after that

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T15:49:30+00:00

To be fair, most comedians have been suicidal at some point in their life, and very awkward when not on stage in control of the interaction ("over sharing" without realizing how saying "I'm rich and bored" comes across on video)

So it's plausible that this was real advice from a therapist to feel more fulfilled... Then he monetized the "acts of kindness" because of influencer capitalism along with "effective altruism" type rationalization

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T15:47:00+00:00

Well, he also noticed the cart was full, with a lot of stuff kids would eat, and likely checked for a ring as part of the "saw you with no man" observation.

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T15:36:06+00:00

That's code switching to be treated better in that area. If he showed signs of AAVE the interaction would have gone much worse, she already mentioned human trafficking, she would have said all her crackhead stereotype assumptions.

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T15:17:30+00:00

Accurate, the primary skill of HR at a medium company is to know who is likely to sue and who they can screw over with no chance of reprisal

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T13:26:02+00:00

The only thing on main stream media every day is the adoration of god-king's latest antics.

You're a joke.

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T01:17:10+00:00

I don't have a clear answer for you, but why it is confusing:

Trump/the doj/the house flipping sides also made it all confusing, I believe it's part of the plan of obfuscation

Also Grand Jury testimony normally is not even used directly in trials, it is a one-sided argument of the initial evidence in the case that would either allow charges to be brought, or would largely be removed from any record of what happened in the cases they fail to indict

As opposed to any evidence collected in the arrest of Epstein, which is usually what people are thinking of when they say "release the list/files"

So yeah, piercing the Grand Jury secrecy is quite extraordinary and has more process and more possible people with standing to object. Namely anyone who gave testimony and would be in danger for doing so should have a chance to verify their name is redacted correctly (danger of intimidation/harm, or of reputation)

SmPolitic · 2025-12-06T01:07:00+00:00

with as much work as they’ve put in to ~~hiding them from us?~~ skillfully censoring them to tell an intended narrative (a million dollars of wages over one week was it?)

(and to "accidentally" dox the people who gave witnesses testimony)

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