On FaceBook, someone commented that anyone who believes in any conspiracy theories has to have a single-digit IQ, and I wrote out the following comment:

Too many conspiracy theories turned out to be true for all of them to be wrong. "The CIA is performing experiments on people to try to turn them psychic" was a conspiracy theory until the government ( Read more... )

Writer question: what was the Los Angeles transit system like in 2005? I have a character who is lost in LA in 2005 and tries to ride the bus. Did they take cash back then like Portland buses still do? Did they have bus passes? She's from an alternate universe, only has money and/or bus passes for her universe, but I need to know how things were in ( Read more... )

"Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
C. S. Lewis

Yes, but let them also hear of the power of individuals who are not trained as heroes to be heroes, fighting against oppressive enemies without ( Read more... )

Okay so apparently intersex people don't like anyone using the term "hermaphrodite" unless they're intersex themselves, they claim it's "reclaiming a slur" like with "queer." The problem is, "hermaphrodite" isn't their word to reclaim. I know the term means something similar now because some scientist along the way was an idiot, but "hermaphrodite ( Read more... )

Remember, everyone:

Landlords are parasites!

For those who doubt that claim:

Landlords squat on land that could otherwise have been sold to decent people and then hold it for ransom, forcing people living in poverty into desperation to keep their shelter, going so far as to cut back on food and other necessities to give 30% or more of their income to ( Read more... )

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I want to contact Michael Reeves and commission a robot that can autonomously go around town scanning people's faces, and when it detects an unmasked face, it shoots a mask onto their face and screams "WEAR A MASK, PLAGUE RAT!" at top volume from a pair of loudspeakers built into it.This was cross-posted from Read more... )

(This is in no way endorsing one method over another. Just an observation of differences. Especially since there are some foods that just should not touch, ever. It all depends on the foods.)

Other autistics: "These foods must not EVER touch each other!"
Me: "These vegetables are bland as heck. Gonna grab a glob of mashed taters and gravy and dunk it ( Read more... )

A lot of anti-maskers like to compare the covid pandemic to the SARS thing, saying covid is as overhyped as SARS, but things to keep in mind:

1. The SARS thing could have been much worse. It ended up being overhyped only because it was largely a false alarm, in that it wasn't nearly as bad as scientists feared it would be. But that's just the way ( Read more... )

Got some peppers from the food boxes. Need help identifying them.


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