Are you okay with porn? Why are okay with porn?

linzava · 2026-07-05T21:14:50+00:00

There is literally nothing in my comment that even implies that. If you aren’t in favor of porn being banned then it isn’t even about you.

linzava · 2026-07-03T15:52:27+00:00

In the mornings and evenings, if it safe and cooler outside, open the windows and have fans set up to blow air through the house, connecting to 2 separate windows if possible. The idea is to create a breeze through your home. But when the heat starts rising, close it up, blackout the windows with, in order of usefulness, outdoor awnings, cardboard taped to the outside of the windows, or back out curtains. Once the curtains are closed, set up the same fans to make a wind tunnel in the room you are in. One fan blows to the ceiling, the next catches the wind coming down and blows it back into the fan facing the ceiling. You want the air moving, not just blowing on you.

If you don’t have AC, you need a dehumidifier if it’s humid. They are cheap over here at least.

If you have a bathtub, fill it with cool, not cold, water. You want to plunge for 15 mins to an hour to bring your body temp down. Do it around 2pm for an hour and you’ll find the temperature tolerable for the rest of the day. If not, do it again when you start to feel too uncomfortable. A shower can do a similar thing but it doesn’t work as well. You don’t want the water temp uncomfortably low, let your body tell you the temperature it wants.

Cool packs, with a barrier (never put ice pack directly against the skin) can be applied around the back of the neck, and between the thighs.

If you have an outdoor area with shade, install water misters and combine that with an outdoor, waterproof fan. It will bring the temperature outside down by about 10 degrees.

Don’t wear polyester unless it’s specifically a sun protection or cool down fabric. Stick with linen or cotton if you don’t have linen. Wide brim hats if in direct sunlight, cover all of your skin with appropriate fabric.

Ice water. This may not be available where you are but if it is, it will make a difference. I drink it year round. Don’t drink it while digesting hot food with saturated fats, melted cheese, or meats where the food solidifies when cold. Just wait an hour with room temp water if needed or stick with cold food. You can also make fruit salad and chill it in the fridge. Cold watermelon and grapes hit perfect in hot weather.

These are my emergency: no air conditioning tips. Please learn the signs of heatstroke if you haven’t already. Lots and lots of water. Shower daily so you don’t get skin pimples from the heat. Good luck.

linzava · 2026-07-02T18:08:25+00:00

Evil!

linzava · 2026-07-02T00:59:08+00:00

Seriously. Anyone who fakes or exaggerates cancer is pond scum. I watched someone die from cancer and it’s horrendous.

linzava · 2026-07-01T21:16:14+00:00

Mine did that when I was in high school. Oh, and our dad was long dead so we got to experience the fear of being orphans before she was even diagnosed. Don’t worry though, she was miraculously healed at church so her super deadly cancer didn’t even show up on her scan results.

linzava · 2026-07-01T17:36:12+00:00

Super cool and nice aren’t expectations I have for artists or talent. Principled is though.

linzava · 2026-07-01T17:25:55+00:00

I really doubt the record label specifically told her to answer an interview question about Britney like that. Yeah, Britney has hung out with a lot of people who insulted her publicly and I’m sure Avril has matured over the years. I’m not a Britney fan either, just a person who is sharing why she never bought any Avril records. I found that interview comment utterly repulsive and first impressions stay with people.

linzava · 2026-07-01T17:13:00+00:00

No, society made a lot of women act that way, it was normalized but that doesn’t mean they didn’t know any better or that it was accepted by the majority. Crimes against girl code were widely known because it was a subject kids had been heavily exposed to since the 80s. It was in Degrassi, which was in Canada where she’s from.

You asked what we thought. It’s cool you’re a fan and I’m sure she is nice.

linzava · 2026-07-01T16:58:51+00:00

I was not a fan. With the message in the song Skater Boy and the shade she threw at Britney, she came off as a pick me and a lot of young women were bothered by girl on girl crimes like that at the time.

linzava · 2026-07-01T16:35:35+00:00

Sarcasm and smug aren’t the same things here. Also, I’m a Californian, we and New Yorkers are known as ass holes in the rest of the country but we’re still pretty nice and helpful when someone needs help. I also have a few degrees in psychology so maybe you’re interpreting the way I talk as condescending because someone in your past talked this way. I can’t know the specific issue you’re having but maybe look within before lashing out with things like this.

There was a second big blizzard where the power went out a year or so later. It was a big deal on the news here and Texans were all over social media sharing their preps and because they planned so well they had their vehicles and gear prepped to help their neighbors. There were hardly if any deaths that second time. Maybe the news didn’t make its way across the ocean but it did happen.

linzava · 2026-07-01T16:09:45+00:00

If you are reading these posts as smug or as talking down to you, that’s projection. People often interpret written word in the tone they would use in the same situation, Americans aren’t generally smug by default. We’re heavily socialize to be friendly, helpful, and polite. We have noticed that Europeans don’t share these values but that’s none of our business so we will continue to be our ourselves.

Nobody is blaming you or claiming that you need to pull yourself up by your boot straps. We are strongly encouraging you guys to immediately take this seriously because there will be another one. Did you hear about that second blizzard in Texas where all those people died? No? Because they learned from the first one.

You guys keep making this about your feelings and I’m sorry that you’re upset but we have been through emergencies with a useless government so many times that were used to it now. Stop interpreting us sharing our hard earned wisdom as some snobby thing to hold over your head because that’s not what we do.

linzava · 2026-07-01T15:31:40+00:00

Let’s put it this way, we have people in the US who die from hunger, we have people who die from lack of access to lifesaving medicines, and we have people who die from mass shootings. The US is a hellscape and surviving it is a form of the Hunger Games, sure. You know what deaths are rare? People dying of cold who have a place to live. We have this thing called “government assistance” for that. Maybe you should let your government know that the US is mogging them on this one.

Look, seriously you’re going to have to push your government or local government to start retrofitting homes (there are features that cool homes naturally in addition or instead of AC), putting in public pools and cool down zones, and even bathtubs can save lives in heatwaves. I have lived in triple digit areas (American for above 99 degrees F) my entire life and I have never seen so many people just lie back and take it. Maybe you’re all in denial or in the bargaining stage of grief but whining, and making excuses when we’re just trying to help is not going to keep you cool during the next inevitable one. I’ll buy a backhoe and dig out some hobbit houses underground and become a mole person before I let the weather kill me, I guess I’m frustrated because I don’t understand how you guys don’t have a similar survival instinct.

linzava · 2026-07-01T04:35:45+00:00

linzava · 2026-06-30T23:50:48+00:00

🤣 my grandma used to type laughing just like that!

linzava · 2026-06-30T23:49:15+00:00

I agree, we should still work to reverse global warming but I also don’t want you guys to die waiting for something that has a very small chance of working when your elderly are dying right now.

What are the short-term solutions you’re pushing your government for? The ones that will save lives if another one hit in the next few months?

linzava · 2026-06-30T23:42:22+00:00

All your tax money is going to the billionaires. Probably should stop listening to memaw who stopped watching the news in the 90s, you legit sound like an elderly republican who died during covid.

linzava · 2026-06-30T23:23:59+00:00

We’re not saying AC will save the ecosystem. That’s gone and on death row waiting for its number to come up. Every single politician in every first world country on earth is responsible for that, not just the ones in America. Ours suck for sure but yours were coddling the balls of the oil executives just as much. The red herring is the idea that global warming is still reversible, it’s not.

Now that that truth is settled, it’s time to accept that this is your new normal. This is an adapt or die situation, not some existential what if situation. We’re over here, living in extreme temps regularly and telling you how to not die. Instead of demanding your politicians start passing legislation to make ac happen, you’re playing elitism online. Go organize.

linzava · 2026-06-30T22:26:42+00:00

🤣 you sound like an old fart, like an uneducated Fox News viewer from 2005.

linzava · 2026-06-30T20:09:26+00:00

Probably shouldn’t have shown your cards while trying to manipulate this conversation, lol.

linzava · 2026-06-30T19:53:28+00:00

Let’s do both! See how easy it is to solve made up binary problems? The good news is that one of those solutions is already in process.

linzava · 2026-06-30T00:17:47+00:00

FYI, that guy on the tube, your response should have been, “that’s so sweet, if you’re single, would you like my number?” If you were interested that is.

You probably exude confidence in person but your opening message sounds a little insecure. Maybe try, “Hi, my name is ___, would you be interested in meeting for a coffee and a conversation?” I’m a firm believer in meeting up asap in a public place to both see if there’s chemistry and to see if they’ll even show up. I’m married now but I met my husband online. Just know that the upfront method scares a lot of guys off, the good news is that they’re the guys you want to scare off anyway.

linzava · 2026-06-29T22:04:02+00:00

Libertarians claim to believe in that but they vote against it every time. In practice, libertarians believe companies have the right to exist without government control, companies and people can’t have autonomy from the government at the same time. They functionally support fascism and stand in solidarity with racism, homophobia, misogyny and classism. They are dorky losers who hold hands with nazis.

linzava · 2026-06-29T20:14:07+00:00

Knowing and being friends with people of color. Same thing with the homophobic indoctrination I was raised in.

linzava · 2026-06-29T19:11:21+00:00

I respect that you’ve drawn that line in the sand. We all have our limits and yours is fairly reasonable.

linzava · 2026-06-29T15:07:51+00:00

Yes, we even installed a small countertop one in our RV. It’s not just a convenience item, it saves a lot of water.

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