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[Ganymede]

@derp

I've seen that research. The sample size is way too low to make any reasonable conclusions.

If avoiding certain foods make you feel better, though, I don't see the harm in supporting that choice. Like, I'm not a big fan of soda any more, so I generally don't drink it. And adopting a gluten-free diet will probably help a lot of people kick their high-carb-eating ways in favor of less-processed, fresher food, which will likely cause some weight loss.

What gets my goat is when people try to foist a lifestyle on me that, in their opinion, is "healthier" and "better." Like, get out of my fucking face with that shit, I like soy sauce.

[Derp]

@ganymede said in Random links:

What gets my goat is when people try to foist a lifestyle on me that, in their opinion, is "healthier" and "better." Like, get out of my fucking face with that shit, I like soy sauce.

If someone tried to get between me and soy sauce, I would cut a bitch.

Also, yeah, it needs more data to form any real conclusions, but it is a promising start.

[Auspice]

When the internet gets collectively angry

[Arkandel]

When I went to this Slashdot thread this morning I expected to read about dish-washing robots: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/23/1723256/googles-eric-schmidt-says-people-want-dish-washing-robots-to-clean-up-the-kitchen-more-than-any-other-kind

Instead I learned way, way more than I wanted about sex dolls and how they are modular enough to have 'removable parts' so you can share your sex doll with your friends without it 'feeling gross'.

Yeeeah that boat sailed.

[Thenomain]

@ganymede said in Random links:

In case anyone wonders why I suddenly disappear in a few months.

GODDAMMIT I CANT AFFORD A PLAYSTATION YET fucking hell grr.

[Auspice]

@thenomain said in Random links:

@ganymede said in Random links:

In case anyone wonders why I suddenly disappear in a few months.

GODDAMMIT I CANT AFFORD A PLAYSTATION YET fucking hell grr.

Welcome to the club. We can commiserate together.

[Deleted]

I want a PS4 for Dragon Quest Builders 2.

I'm probably the only person in North America who feels this way.

[Sockmonkey]

@arkandel said in Random links:

When I went to this Slashdot thread this morning I expected to read about dish-washing robots: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/23/1723256/googles-eric-schmidt-says-people-want-dish-washing-robots-to-clean-up-the-kitchen-more-than-any-other-kind

Instead I learned way, way more than I wanted about sex dolls and how they are modular enough to have 'removable parts' so you can share your sex doll with your friends without it 'feeling gross'.

Yeeeah that boat sailed.

In no world is sharing your sex doll with your friends not gross, removable parts or not.

WTF.

[Ganymede]

@thenomain said in Random links:

GODDAMMIT I CANT AFFORD A PLAYSTATION YET fucking hell grr.

The fuck, dude, you live an hour away.

Drive down, camp in my basement, and you'll be fine.

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@Auspice

Just tell me when the crackers arrive.

[Auspice]

@ganymede

Just got home. Nothing yet.

[Tinuviel]

@ganymede said in Random links:

@Auspice

Just tell me when the crackers arrive.

They arrived in 1607.

[Thenomain]

@tinuviel said in Random links:

@ganymede said in Random links:

@Auspice

Just tell me when the crackers arrive.

They arrived in 1607.

Some studies suggest closer to 1000 AD.

[Tinuviel]

@thenomain Those were Vikings. Do you want to call a Viking a cracker?

[Thenomain]

@tinuviel said in Random links:

@thenomain Those were Vikings. Do you want to call a Viking a cracker?

I don't want to call anyone a cracker, but if you're going to call pillaging and raping Conquistadors "crackers" then why back out now?

[Tinuviel]

@thenomain I was referring solely to the foundation of the first English colony, which happened in 1607.

[Thenomain]

@tinuviel

Then only the English are "crackers"? Or it's okay to call them crackers because they weren't so likely to beat you up and sodomize your ass so much as look at you.

I'm really sorry, my understanding of racist slang has been off-kilter for over a decade, ever since I realized just how much divisive language that our US Politics uses just to try to get us to hate.

That's just why I personally don't see the joke.

[Tinuviel]

@thenomain The term cracker meant poor white people in Virginia. The colony founded in the year I mentioned. it was typically associated with poor Celtic (that is Irish and Scottish) migrants of the period. The term itself comes from an earlier Shakespearian source.

ETA: So, yeah. Only white people in or from predominantly English colonial areas are crackers, if you want to be technical.

[Ganymede]

You people, I swear.

[Misadventure]

Love my ignore list.

[Faceless]

This damn link made me not scowl for a couple minutes.