Need to get a better shower curtain then! Or swap the rod for a curved one, or both

Just wait till you learn how cold shrinkage affects the peeing experience for un-cut folks! Let’s just say it doesn’t all shrink uniformly…

The rinse also gets rid of any bugs that might have hitched a ride. There’s some nasty parasites you can completely avoid just by rinsing your produce

Listeria can’t survive cooking so just fully cook any food you get that’s RTE (Ready To Eat). Examples of high risk food included frozen pizza and corn dogs since there’s both meat and bread coming together, each having its own food bourne illness risks. So yeah, fully cook your food.

The good news however is that the FDA takes Listeria very seriously and will stop production at a plant until a battery of thousands of swabs all come back negative. Plants don’t want to be shut down by the FDA so they do their own swabbing very frequently and often have private contractors who also swab very frequently so that they can identify contaminations before they get to the FDA

More good news is Listeria really struggles to compete with other food bourne illnesses, so in a facility that’s really poorly cleaned and maintained, it’ll most likely be a far less deadly pathogen because they beat out Listeria in the competition for resources to grow and spread

The thing is, the military is America’s largest wellfare program. Reducing or cutting the military could directly lead to a localized demand-side recession in areas with large numbers of military recruits and/or contractors

True it is generally regarded as ineffective from a public health perspective. I have known people who relied on it though with some success (in both cases it was a committed relationship and they just relied on it as a temporary stopgap while between birth controls) I’d hazard to say, pulling out is an option if your risk tolerance is high enough, but it’s risky as hell since precum often contains sperm as well

I read it more as they’re open to having kids but not open to having an STD, which honestly is a pretty sane headspace to be in

Not all men, but always men

“Not all X but it’s always X” is a common neonazi saying. Using it in a different context can even be a dogwhistle in some cases

It’s my personal opinion that having sex with a condom is worse than not having sex

Hard disagree. Good sex with a condom is still good sex. Plus if your reason for using a condom is birth control you only need the condom for PIV, and everything else can be completely unwrapped. I don’t know about everyone else but I fucking love foreplay and just worshipping my partner’s body while they do the same to me. Honestly it’s the best part of having sex

Plus there’s something super sexy about getting all hot and heavy, teasing and playing then grabbing the condom and unwrapping it. The moment you or your partner break that package open there’s a commitment that this thing is going on thos penis because this penis is about to go into this vagina, and it’s happening right now, not in 20 minutes after more play, it’s happening right now.

Or don’t just take my word for it, take GirlOnTheNet’s word for it (obviously NSFW!)

The unfortunate thing with birth control is there’s always tradeoffs with every method. IUDs can cause intense pain which may or may not go away after a while, the depo shot can cause a loss of bone density if used for a long period of time, condoms are less pleasurable and depending on the specifics may cause additional discomfort. Pulling out requires you to trust your male partner (a huge ask most of the time) surgical sterilization is basically permanent and requires one to undergo and recover from surgery (and for women an extremely invasive one at that)

I’m saying different tactics work in different places against different governments.

This is self-evident. Different forms of protest can be more or less effective in different contexts. But protest in general has been effective the world over for many centuries

Having protests banned isn’t a sign of it being effective.

If protest was ineffective the government wouldn’t be trying to ban it, they’d be saying “oh there was a protest? I didn’t notice!” instead of passing legislation to stop them

What is the goal/point of No Kings and 5051?

Rejection of the manufactured consent that Republicans have been trying to pass a guise of. Protest creates unity for those protesting, encourages further action and increased political awareness and participation. It breaks media narratives. A protest with hundreds of events spread across 50 states with 7 million participants shows a strong rejection of the actions of the federal government and completely breaks all talk of the Republicans having a “clear mandate from the voters” like they were trying to claim at the beginning of 2025. These are not tangible effects but they are extremely important when the federal government not only fails to represent its population but turns its guns upon its own people

Absolutely not. And so they are ineffective. The answer is not more of the same.

So what are you doing then? At least we’re out here protesting and not taking it lying down. Change doesn’t happen overnight and it takes work.

What is the argument that you’re trying to make? First it’s “protest isn’t effective” then it’s “protest doesn’t work anymore” then it’s “protest doesn’t work anymore in the US” and now it seems to be “but protest can be slightly dangerous sometimes?” Your arguments are disingenuous at best.

If protest wasn’t effective the governments being protested wouldn’t be attempting to make the protests illegal nor killing protestors and civilians.

So…you’re saying that protest which has worked and is currently to effect change in other countries, and which has worked previously in the United States, can’t possibly work right now in the United States as we enter an election year?

Enjoy licking those boots!

You say this as mass protest is currently forcing change in Iran. Mass protests directly led to multiple regime changes around the world in just the last 6 months.

The only ones who don’t want you to protest are those in power. Hence why places with less well enshrined rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly keep passing laws to try to ban effective methods of protest

I really think social media algorithms+profit motives are a big part of what did it. Suddenly there’s both the desire and the means to manipulate users into whatever pattern the business wants. Engagement-based algorithms pushed incendiary content creating a feedback loop of more and more extreme and hateful views being normalized, but also engagement-based algorithms plus monetization encouraged new forms of farmed content like brainrot and AI boomer slop which has zero (or realistically net-negative) value to society as a whole.

I’m really hoping the analogue/physical media trend continues because that might actually be what breaks the cycle. Normies may have simply had it with social media platforms owning them…I write on social media at midnight instead of going to bed on time…

except in specific niches like in digital note taking/drawing, or industrial cases where it becomes a glorified HUD.

The one niche that they’re probably the biggest is the “I just need a public facing web browser in this spot”

Its really hard to beat a locked down iPad for that usecase, both from a financial perspective (~$250 hardware cost for a lowest-tier iPad was the price I was seeing when ordering and provisioning them for this usecase) and from a management perspective (join it to the MDM and by nature of being an iPad, even if they get out of the browser window its really hard to cause trouble, basically 0 malware risk and iOS has far less obtrusive updates than Windows) plus from a support perspective you can simply walk users through rebooting them and swap the hardware if it needs more than a reboot

Many kids now grow up only interacting with touchscreens and assume they’re the default. I genuinely wonder if the average 18 year old knows how to use a standard PC now, given they’d be interacting with almost exclusively with chromebooks, ipads and smartphones throughout school

I thought the idea of a tiny computer that you carry around with you would have taken off more too. Whether a CPU module like with the flopped EOMA68 project (tl;dr for those who don’t want to read the whole mailing list archive, repeated manufacturing challenges caused the project to run out of money before products could ship and the guy running it seemed to have a mental health crisis not long after that) or in the format of the Intel Compute Stick or an all-in-one computer built into a monitor or keyboard.

As a side-note, I briefly worked at an MSP last year that used whatever scavenged computers for employee computers instead of actually spending money on its employees. I was initially given a single 20 year old VGA monitor to work from, and was tasked with pulling drives from computers to prepare them for recycling. I spotted an all-in-one PC with a decent 1080p display (it ran an i3-6100m and only had a single SODIMM slot for memory, so not a very cost-effective option for a Linux PC) and noticed that it had an HDMI input port, so it got a second life as my main computer monitor for the 5 months or so that I worked there. Honestly 6/10 monitor, there’s some really good 1080p displays available for about $100 these days, and being not primarily designed as a monitor, I had to hit the button use the passthrough mode every time I booted my work computer (and after every power loss the embedded computer would try to boot and kick off the passthrough mode), but it was a very acceptable display for the circa ~2016 it hailed from

I thought for sure autonomous war drones would have become way more prolific by now

It just took until recently for a war to break out with the right conditions for drone warfare to actually make sense. I posted this photo in another comment:

This is the city of Lyman following a battle. Those are fiber optic strands, used for long distance wired (therefore can’t be jammed by radio signal) control of the drones by their operators. Every one of those strands had a drone at the end of it.

Ukraine has also made significant headway damaging major military assets via drone, sinking a significant portion of Russia’s navy as well as basically making tanks obsolete in ground offensives. Flame throwing drones, drones that launch other drones to attack drones, etc. The cyberpunk future is here!

I think what drives it is probably the general prices of games on consoles. The prices just don’t really drop from the launch price of $60+ (plus indies are far less prevalent) so the math starts mathing up pretty quickly, especially if you’re one to sell your console when you stop using it