“I’m sure they were just good friends”

I’m pretty sure the person you responded to was shitposting about the snow being a spoiler, including implying they’d be going by at 120 while other vehicles struggle on the ice

The snow can blow off and affect visibility or even throw projectiles for multiple truck lengths. Plus it won’t just stay in one lane. If an uncleared vehicle passes you in another lane you’re still on danger.

So drop the “everybody is a terrible driver except for me” arguments

Wow getting back into the whole “everyone is a terrible driver except for me” again

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