Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]

Amazon made an explicit internal statement that they would never permit import cost listings on their main ecommerce platform.

This was only ever in consideration for Amazon Haul, their Temu clone, and Bezos immediately killed it after a phone call with the White House.

Media circus bullshit, liberals want you to think there are some “woke” capitalists fighting back against Trump, but it’s not happening.

This is grim. Water fluoridation was one of the biggest public health victories the US had gained.

Keep your teeth safe, comrades. Try a fluoridated oral rinse if you have difficulty with consistent brushing.

Chabad-Lubavitch

Every fucking time.

I swear to god, I’m about 5 seconds away from distributing Abraham Geiger Apology Forms.

Me with a time machine at the Hamburg Temple disputes:

איך טראַכט אַ קינד מוז זײַן נאָך אים הייסן, אַבְרָהָם.

אַ קלאָג

That lottery winners typically do become destitute again is true, but it’s not because they blow all the cash.

Lottery winners are subject to a lot of pressure from other people who want that money. Hostile divorces, scams, and familial financial abuse are all really common. Winners are rarely informed of the financial instruments the wealthy typically use to protect their wealth, and thus have a much higher financial attrition rate.

They also tend to be less aware of and prepared for future financial precarity. The concept of being “set for life” seems to result in a really high rate of underinsurance, so when an unexpected financial hardship like a house fire or major car accident occurs, they’re typically unprepared for that hardship.

why are there so few cis women?

The explanation that used to go around was that it was because we started as a lifeboat from a subreddit. Reddit has disproportionately few cis women who are disproportionately likely to only post in female-majority subreddits.

However, it’s been way too long since we were a subreddit for that to still be the reason for the underrepresentation on Hexbear, especially considering that there have been multiple large user influxes since then.

I have some kinda complex thoughts on this, but I think it’s site culture related and there’s been a lot of user pushback to change in that regard.

Eh, I’m not really too worried about it, it’s probably a good thing that she doesn’t want to be outside, so she doesn’t run away.

Yep! Although she was born in a garbage bin, she’s spent her whole life since then as an indoor cat.

The actual answer is Embraer and Comac, which are statistically the safest planes, comparing flight hours and fatalities across all manufacturers.

Interestingly, the Bombardier CRJ models (despite being the plane I hate to fly on the most) had probably the best safety/fatality record of anything flying in the West, with the only recorded fatalities of that airframe being an example of gross pilot negligence in an empty plane back in 2004, and now the one that got hit by a Blackhawk back in February.

https://youtu.be/jYgiV4Iz7I0

They got so close!*

*They did not.

Every time we try to do a Supervised Outside Experience for our cat, she gets scared. She’ll touch one paw to the grass and then look up at us like “can we go back inside mom?”

I just spent like the last 20 minutes ranting about this with a friend, and OF COURSE IT’S WGC LMAO.

They’re entirely worthless for grading, they’re basically a mom and pop that gives almost everything a 10. I was genuinely wondering if he had just gotten one of his kids or some cabinet member’s large adult nephew to put it in a random slab case off of eBay, but he actually found a way to do something funnier than faking it: JDPON Don grifted himself!

This actually seems to be the quiet consensus around town, that something supernatural happened. People actively cross the street instead of walking past it, nobody’s bought the land, and there’s no construction there unlike every single other block in town.

It’s an abandoned piece of prime real estate in the dead center of a rapidly growing and expanding downtown mixed-use area, and even the local porkies and their piggies are scared shitless about it.

They purport to be pretty solidly orthodox Marxist, and are either the official organ of, or are affiliated with the Marxist Unity Group within the DSA.

From a quick scan, they seem to have some neo-Kautskyist/Socialism of the 21st Century elements but are trying to be an orthodox Marxist version of Jacobin.

Several months ago, one of my local weird stores (crystals and witchy supplies) suddenly burst into flame in the middle of the night, didn’t do any damage to anything outside of its store, and the local Fire Department completely slapsticked their response like a Three Stooges movie until the fire put itself out. Firefighters were slipping and sliding down the icy sidewalk and per the local news the fire truck slid away down the street with a guy on the ladder, something that shouldn’t be possible.

There are scorch marks on the still-standing walls that once separated this store from its neighboring stores in the same building. Even the burning roof put itself out before it got to either of the adjacent stores. It screams of insurance fraud, but the ATF sent a bunch of arson investigators that looked into it for like 5 months, couldn’t figure it out and turned it over to some other agency. Literally an actual X-file in my own back yard.

Pentastar mentioned

Ticktickticktickticktick

Interestingly, the 3.0L version of the Pentastar which was seemingly everywhere in the Chinese market is far less affected by the tick of death issue than the 3.6 model and the post-MY2016 “Pentastar Upgrade” engines that were more popular in the US and were in basically the entire affected Stellantis lineup.

The smaller first gen 3.0s are easily million km engines and there are so many Chrysler 300Cs on the road in Russia and China right now with these engines that will outlast the company that made them and the country that designed them.

Legitimately, I think a lot of these cars will be around for the post-oil panic and people will find a way to run these things on cooking oil for a couple decades longer than the plastic covered 2.0L turbo I4s and “little brother” I3 engines that have replaced them in most cars.

Once the Butter of Bitumen is secured from the Ruthenians, it must be taken to the circulus aequator tropicum.

This transition from the Boreal mode to the Austere, and its transference between vessels shall cleanse the Sanctio Maledicto. Only then may it be considered acceptable for transmutation into Naphtha and its pure spirits.

Proving things? That sounds like some kinda woke science.

Space programs should only be for surveillance and indiscriminate global bombing, obviously.

great man theory

shit man theory

History is defined not by great leaders born with innate skill, but by the opportunistic scumbags who just got lucky enough to suck other scumbags into their black hole of shittiness.

Modern commercial fishing net or one of those sport fishing nets anglers use probably would be too fine. I think the older hand knotted style might work, but I haven’t seen it done.