• dumbass@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    The elite must be shitting themselves about how much joy us poors are finding out of this.

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      2 months ago

      STOP CALLING THEM ELITE.

      The word ‘elite’ implies they are societies best. These rich dregs keep dragging us down.

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        Whenever I hear the rich described as “the elite”, my brain immediately converted it to ThE eLiTe

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          My brain converts it to lowers. Their only advantage is their ability to screw people over without it affecting their personal health. Whereas the rest of us would lose sleep being that much a evil shithead.

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        Meh, the connotation is still clear.

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        2 months ago

        True, if you look at people taking power and control in MAGA America, many are there because of their white skin and not resume or skill

        Edit sorry if this comes across as racist, the intent is more to highlight how some of these people bring nothing else to the table

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        Elite in this case refers to the ability to exert power and privledge. Everyone who is in a society does so to some level. (Obviously much less)

        It is not a term of adoration.

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      If corporations can convince people that Coke is better than Pepsi … or vice versa … then it will just take time to make people forget about all this. They can market and promote any idea … just some ideas are more expensive to promote than others … and it will take them a lot of time and effort to spin this story in their favour … but eventually, they always do.

      I don’t like to admit that people are complacent … but hell, we’ve all got a great track record for it … I hope not this time, but I’ve been disappointed far too many times before.

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            2 months ago

            I do my best and buy about half my food from local farmers (and that isn’t easy in northern Ontario, especially during winter) … a bit expensive, but so is buying from the grocery store too, so it works out.

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              I live in the suburbs so Sprouts is the closest I get to “local”. I keep chickens and a garden but most of my food comes from Kroger. It is what it is.

              I gotta go to work.

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            You can still take steps to undermine the system while your forced participation is taking place. You could try local farmers markets, used goods, and the always fruitful five finger discount.

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            Every year I grow more food than the previous year. Someday I’m hoping to grow most of my non-meat items and then fork over the money for local organic meat and freeze it.

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              I’m no good with crops, but our salad/salsa garden is successful.

              If you’re allowed them, laying hens are stupid easy to keep. I don’t do roasters because we have a 5 bird limit in our suburb and honestly harvesting chickens is messy and time consuming.

              E: oh, and free range eggs will absolutely ruin you for regular eggs. It’s like the difference in one of your tomatoes and the ones from the grocery.

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                I’ve had multiple unsuccessful attempts at a garden but two successful attempts with livestock: Pigs and chickens. It’s helpful that they make noise when there’s something wrong.

                +1 for free range eggs. Plus there’s no bugs in your yard. Where I live now I can’t keep chickens but I’m allowed to have ducks, so I think I’ll do that in the spring.

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                  We ended up with some Easter ducks and now everyone prefers duck eggs. They are more consistent winter layers too.

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                  Gardening isn’t all that complicated. Plants need water, nutrients and sun. The chicken manure you have is great for a garden. If you have clean wood ashes, scatter them around. Timing when you plant is also important - too early, when the soil is cold may prevent germination, while planting too late may put plants into a dry spell. Above all, visit your garden for a few minutes each day to see if it needs some action like watering, weeding or bug remediation. Finally, keep your soil loose. Don’t over-till though.
                  BTW, I do not plow, till or do much weeding because I use a sand and mulch approach. It can sometimes be tricky.

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                2 months ago

                It’s like the difference in one of your tomatoes and the ones from the grocery.

                Many people do not know this but it is true.

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            2 months ago

            I also like food, which is why I hate capitalism

            (Under capitalism it’s profits over people. Profits over feeding people. How could you ever justify food insecurity in a country like the US otherwise?)

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      2 months ago

      I keep scrolling the news to see if they know anything new about him, and they know absolutely nothing. It’s amazing.

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          Which would mean either they don’t want to catch him (because even the police hate CEOs), or what they do know makes them look even worse (because he’s mocking them, or should be easy to find with what they know).

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        They ran around in a town outside groom lake and never really approached the base because they wisely understood they would all be killed.

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          People gathered to take pictures in front of a bunch of cringing guards and no one was angry about anything. Everyone is actually angry over this so I’d say people may show.

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          It was a big IRL shitpost and it managed to draw a couple hundred people to the desert. Actually wholesome all said and done.

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          I don’t believe so, but that was in Navada. It was just a big alien themed party. People had fun and left.

          In NYC though…people + fun???

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    2 months ago

    Looks a bit like Will Smith to me.

    Or, maybe, Lucy Liu.

    Or, maybe, Patrick Stewart.

    Or maybe, Elmer Fudd.

    Hard to pin to down. Sorry. No, I probably couldn’t pick him or her out of a line-up.

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    2 months ago

    The backpack is the Everyday Backpack from Peak Design!

    I need help identifying the jacket though. I wanna cosplay assassin-kun!

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    2 months ago

    This is clearly Måns Zelmerlöw

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    2 months ago

    Im a 200kg non electromagnetic inflammable pasteurized bio-hazardous kosher neo-green hair colored gal but Ill still attend.

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      2 months ago

      Naw, it’s James Franco!

      But also this guy in the pic has been shown to be the wrong guy. Smile guy is wearing totally different stuff.