i mean they gotta be fresh otherwise yeah they smell bad
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Saturday, 20 March 2021 22:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/under-the-yum-yum-tree/
― "Salvation Army FUCK!" (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 March 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link
Male gingko trees, when fruiting, can smell pretty nastily of sex.
As for
It smells good when you're smoking it, terrible when you're not.
This is true of most smokables and most smokers ime. When you're smoking something, it's on fire right underneath your nose. So it smells fine to you because you immediately become nose-blind to it. Everyone around you? Not so much.
Hence, smokers frequently don't understand why nonsmokers are annoyed by the smell of smoke And nonsmokers don't understand why smokers don't understand their annoyance.
― vaya con carne (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 March 2021 01:01 (three years ago) link
i prefer the smell when someone else is smoking it, especially at a distance. it's sweeter? and i love the smell of weed itself (like, not being smoked) best
― flopson, Sunday, 21 March 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
Flopson, in my youth I loved the smell of pipe tobacco, but only when someone else was smoking - when I smoked a pipe myself it wasn't nearly as nice (because of the nise-blind phenomenon). My college roommate and I would sometimes take turns for precisely that reason.
Also I have always loved the smell of cigarettes before they're burned. I used to live in a city where when the wind was right you could smell the tobacco drying in barns and it was lovely.
― vaya con carne (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 21 March 2021 01:19 (three years ago) link
tobacco pre-burnt smells like raisins to me
― flopson, Sunday, 21 March 2021 01:39 (three years ago) link
It's the sweet chestnut that smells of semen. Around June/July, when they're flowering, the woods fair reek of jizz.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 21 March 2021 09:13 (three years ago) link
there are too many people on the planet.
this one really seems to rile up left-leaning people but i just don't see how it's not true. yes, we have immense capacity for reducing our footprints. yes, often the next step taken from this baseline statement is to start talking about how to reduce that population, which is An Unspeakable Sin, Apparently. but i just think it's so hubristic to deny it. we are animals. the same rules apply to us as other animal populations, broadly speaking.
the most egalitarian way to address this would be to start pushing male birth control hard, but since most of the world seems to be driven by men having unbridled access to women's bodies as property, it seems a change of heart there is unlikely. so capitalism interlocking with colonialism and racism is going to do the "thinnning out" in a very not-egalitarian fashion for us.
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
Population decline tends to take care of itself.
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
The reason people yell at you is that any policy measures aimed at population control have a pretty eugenicist stink on them. It's not like it'd be less racist.
It is very funny and strange to me that declining birth rates make economists upset
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
But yeah when the earth's carrying capacity for humans declines you will have fewer humans, also fertility has been declining globally for decades already https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
the malthusian issue will only come into play if we actually make the radical changes to our way of life that are required by climate change and then that's the issue that is left over. as that is not going to happen people should have all the kids they want.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
just be aware that they live til they're old things will probably suck ass (i kind of want to have a kid despite this)
lol map I appreciate you not beefing with me on FB regarding this, I hear what u are saying but yeah fertility just keeps going down, nature bats last, etc.
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Thursday, 25 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Adults shouldn’t use slang.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 05:41 (two years ago) link
that sentence slaps
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 11:50 (two years ago) link
calm
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 12:03 (two years ago) link
I can't enjoy the deaths of even the very worst murderers and the celebrations online make me feel really queasy.
If they are evil politicians, otoh, I can wholeheartedly join in with the fun.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
tbf the worst murderers fail to kill anyone. evil politicians succeed.
― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 7 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
if you want to listen to or watch something on public transport you should wear headphones
ppl blasting stuff out of their cars I'm ok with tho
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
I don't think it's particularly conservative to want people to be baseline courteous when everyone around them is trapped in a tiny box. We even have explicit rules against that behavior on our public transport.
― Gimme some skin! Because I don't have any skin. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Does it make me conservative to say 95% of the time I hate the music blasting out of cars though? I live in a neighborhood where just the worst garbage driveltunes are blasted to the max with an inverse relationship between taste and volume. Coupled with all those modifications to also make the car itself (engine) as loud as possible as well.
― Evan, Thursday, 21 October 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
Yeah this no headphones in public thing is getting horrible
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 October 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
The Guardian sends two people on a blind date to a restaurant every week and then asks them about it, this was this week's
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/16/blind-date-andrew-marta
Any awkward moments?A man on the next table was watching a horror film loudly on his laptop. The constant screams were a tad awkward.
― koogs, Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
was sat at a restaurant once with a guy watching porn videos on his phone at the next table, that was in guangzhou though so doesn't really count
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
We even have explicit rules against that behavior on our public transport.
I wish we had. It used to be kids who did this but, where I am anyway, it's now almost overwhelmingly adults - and I mean people in their 30s/40s/50s.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
I don't like people driving around playing loud music driving through neighborhoods at night (like my son's friends who roll up to the house at 10:30 pm to hang out) but I enjoy pulling up to someone in traffic who has something loud on. It doesn't even have to be (and usually isn't) music I like, but it's good atmosphere for me.
― peace, man, Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
Also wanted to mention that I think people blast music in cars way less than they used to, but it may just be my own experience. Can anyone confirm?
― peace, man, Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
When terrestrial radio was still a thing, I used it as a gauge. The last time I got a thrill was early April 2020 at the peak of lockdown when the car beside me at the stoplight blasted Dua Lipa's "Levitating" and I thought, yeah.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvDazrJuSdA
― John Stockton buying a used car from (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),
Yeah I'm not into that
Also not into those portable blutooth speakers especially in the park, at the beach
Don't really mind music blasting from cars as long as they're moving and not standing or idling l
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, October 21, 2021 12:26 PM bookmarkflaglink
I used to hate Sia's "Chandelier" because before boarding a Megabus, this kid in the seat across from me kept playing the chorus and only the chorus on her handheld device. Loudly. At 6 in the morning.
BLOT: if u don't wear headphones I'll meet you off the bus
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 October 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
actively pro bluetooth speakers at the park, beach, etc, that's literally what they're for, just keep the volume courteous imo
having a conversation over speaker phone in public is absolutely depraved, however
― gbx, Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
park/beach definitely. I have a tiny little bluetooth speaker for that type of thing, was really affordable from Oontz
― Gardyloominati (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 October 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
speakerphone in public i'm tempted to join in the convo but I don't because the person on speaker didn't choose to be on speaker but part of me wants to alert them to the fact that they're on it and their convo isn't private
i probably posted upthread about this but someone at the airport once had a speakerphone convo about their debauched hen party weekend with someone, very loudly, and it seemed pretty apparent that a) the person on the other end probably would not have said what they were saying if they knew it was v much in public and b) the person on my end (in the airport terminal) was enjoying the exhibitionism, she kept looking around to see if anyone was listening
― gbx, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
Think about how they’re not blasting their ears using headphones & feel good for them
― badg, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:24 (two years ago) link
― gbx, Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i'm pretty sure that this "pizza talking" speakerphone thing is 100% the result of people emulating reality tv shows where everything had to be on speakerphone for the cameras
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
C/D: holding a phone in front of your face as if it were a slice of pizza
― mothersbaugh of invention (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 22 October 2021 01:56 (two years ago) link
i was thinking a bit today about the fentanyl flood, mostly because i saw a dude just cold zonk out standing up at the sandwich place and smack his head on the corner of a table.
anyway, one of the fever swamp theories is that the chinese govt is pumping the US full of cheap fentanyl just to nakedly weaken and kill americans, and/or for the money. there's no good reason at all to believe this, but if somehow it turned out to be true i wouldn't be at all surprised. why not? it is exactly what the british empire did to china, and what US intelligence did to americans more than once
the recent nyt story about this (relying on a book by Ben Westhoff i haven't read) only identifies china as the source, or source of the raw materials that go into it. trump pressured china to ban all varieties of fentanyl, which apparently they did, but china is still named as the ultimate source of the ingredients. the nyt story says nothing on this point, but the invitation is there to suppose that if the precursors were still being exported to the same suppliers with a wink, the chinese state would have to know about it
i'm extremely skeptical of major US journalism about china these days. just something that came to mind.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 05:04 (two years ago) link
Probably my most hardcore, far-right opinion:
https://www.methodsman.com/blog/gas-stove-statistics?fbclid=IwAR1ZH3rDX3-f9XFl3CHBcC7jLKNFwsAiGNgkR2TLyFhKgRHSuf19igCEKdA
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1LjDgzntvI
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:19 (one year ago) link
idk you also were toying with the notion of buying guns to defend your suburban homestead from imagined home invaders
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:54 (one year ago) link
pretty sure you're talking about the thread where I was talking about buying a gun because of fear of fascists, but ok
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:34 (one year ago) link
But here, you can read all of my posts about it in this thread, or, if you prefer, just make some up to support your strawman of me
Are you considering purchasing a gun?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:37 (one year ago) link
the gas stove post is completely idiotic
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:46 (one year ago) link
Is this another American thing where gas means petrol
― kinder, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:41 (one year ago) link
it means farts
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
no "natural gas" -- America had a brief post trump stress disorder flashback seizure where some govt agency made a probably misguided suggestion to ban gas stoves, conservatives seized on it as they're coming for arr freedom, and then liberals had to reflexively take the polar opposite position and started throwing their stoves out the window. In reality, there are probably some decent environmental arguments for phasing out gas stoves (assuming we can actually make our electric grid cleaner, which it isn't yet), and induction stoves are very energy efficient and, though expensive, starting to come down in price. However, one of the main "facts" that has been cited against gas stoves is that they are "responsible for" some large % of child asthma cases, and that is just not true, it's based entirely on bad use of statistics.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
America had a brief post trump stress disorder flashback seizure where some govt agency made a probably misguided suggestion to ban gas stoves
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears
in reality, one official (trumka jr) raised banning it in an interview, and in the same interview also suggested that other options, including setting standards on emissions from the appliances.
(assuming we can actually make our electric grid cleaner, which it isn't yet)
by the wording of this, i assume you mean "clean", and it'll never be 100% clean, so that's not a very good goal. if you mean "cleaner", as in, "improving",
https://i.imgur.com/AlfxKTK.pnghttps://electrifynow.net/fact-the-electric-grid-is-getting-cleaner-every-day
that was before the pandemic. but clean energy is now much, much cheaper per MWh than coal, and recently the costs have even dipped below natural gas. and many states have passed laws mandating 100% clean energy by 2035, 2040, 2050, etc. the winning argument, as always, is to be very cynical and say that those states will never get there. but they are doing better and making progress toward it, especially the states that aren't run by conservatives.
― President of Destiny Encounters International (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:43 (one year ago) link