Maybe they mean “the man” as a colloquialism for patriarchy?

Not necessarily “a man”. Not like “You’re the man now, dog”. More like how the world is run by the Man.

The Man, oh, you don’t know the Man. He’s everywhere. In the White House… down the hall… Ms. Mullins, she’s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he’s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock ‘n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome ’cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!

That’s not really back…that’s more to the right.

We are but a product of our upbringing. At least you’ve since learned better. That can’t be said for everyone, sadly.

Mr. Information’s ex-wife, who kept his name for the sake of the kids and hasn’t remarried since, is completely in her element, though.

If it’s good enough for motor oil, it’s good enough for vegetable oil.

/s…it’s not good for motor oil. Well, it’s not good for the environment. Motor oil couldn’t care less.

Star Trek did the “Simpsons did it” before the simpsons was even conceptualized.

Counterpoint to your counterpoint: we do not refer to BCE dates by the calendars of their time…the original date as it was referred to then may be documented, but everything from our time referencing them is converted to the BCE/CE scale.

And for good reason. Could you imagine if we still referred to events that happened > ~1400 years ago as “the harvest season of the second year of king Louie”?

As contemporaries of the stardate era, only a total nerd would know how people of a given historic era would refer to their calendar. Most people, assumedly, would have learned from resources scaled to a stardate calendar.

For any non-trekkies still living in New Zealand…you may wish to relocate.

I actually misread at first and thought they were talking about a furry, so potentially 5?

Ice bath. Needed an ice bath for sure. Put some salt in the ice water…get it frigid.

I do mine in instant pot now. I take a dozen of my older eggs (from backyard hens), on the rack with a cup of water, 5 minutes high pressure, 4-5 minutes natural release, 1 minute quick release, and then an icebath…at least 5 minutes, preferably longer.

Most of them come out perfect but my olive-egger is always a pain to peel. Not as bad as this, though.

I had a hard time finding a decent vegan wallet that held up…I had a knockoff Ridge for a while and liked it…eventually my SIL got me a real one for my birthday.

If you don’t carry much cash and just need to carry a few cards and ID, I can’t recommend it enough.

Dress shoes that are vegan and ethical/environmentally sound and hold up and fit my bigass US 14EEEE feet is actually impossible.

They aren’t for safety…they are totally for revenue.

With regards to school zones, specifically, if they cared about safety, they would be putting in mechanisms to slow traffic naturally. Raised crosswalks. Rotaries. Narrower lanes. Crossing guards.

They don’t put any of those in.

A couple towns over from me, they just put a brand new highschool right on the intersection of two major state highways, about 1/4 mile from the interstate. If they cared about the kids, they’ve put the school in a less busy area to begin with.

But instead, they demo’d an old pedestrian bridge that was keeping kids off the road for crossing, and set up a speed cam and issuing tickets in the spring before the school even opened.

And of course the school zone creates a bottleneck for people exiting the highway in rush hour, with ripple effects well down the freeway.

Fucking assholes.

But at least Theil gets paid. Most of the money doesn’t even go back to the city. What a ducking ripoff.

Alt Universe: “All right, people, let’s do this one last time. My name is Peter B. Parker. I was bitten by a radioactive spider, and for the last twenty-two years I thought I was the one and only Spider-Man.”

Tbf that venn diagram is basically a circle.

I’m almost starting to think that pedophillia may be a symptom of being ultra rich.

Like, you’re that level of status, and you want to tuck a beautiful woman, they can just send out a text and have a harem of legal-age beautiful women delivered in 30 minutes or less.

When you’re a star, they let you.

But where’s the fun in that?

I imagine having lines of beautiful women waiting to bed you may get somewhat tiring after a while. They need some forbidden fruit.

I’d rather have a meth lab in the basement. I imagine the smell to be better.

But they taught almost nothing about Asian Americans… :(

Same. Except for the Japanese Internment Camps…which was covered in English Lit for some reason.

As far as my high school history curriculum went, Asia , South America, and most of Africa simply did not exist. Africa only got mentioned for Egypt and slave-trade. South America because of the conquistadors and stopping there.

TSC won’t sell you fewer than 6 chicks. You have to go to better places if you need fewer.

And hell no to having chickens in the basement. I had my newest chicks in the office for a couple of weeks and it still stinks in there…they’ve been out in a brooder in the shed for a couple weeks now. And there is no controlling the amount of dust they manage to throw around.

Born around 1985 here and…same.

I think the biggest disservice regarding the Civil Rights era is talking up MLK every year…and not once mentioning Malcom X or the Black Panthers.

MLK would have accomplished nothing if the alternative wasn’t them.

It paints the picture that hippies and marches are all that’s needed. It’s not. The oppressors need to feel unsafe.

There are waterproof notebooks…I saw them in the screw aisle in the bigbox hardware store.