What, is it a fucking race?

A couple minutes while the water heats up to undress and brush tangles outta my hair.

A couple minutes to rub in shampoo, massage into the scalp, and rinse.

A couple minutes to rub in conditioner, brush it through my hair, massage into the scalp, and rinse.

A couple minutes to scrub my body with soap and rinse.

A couple minutes to enjoy the warmth of the water and make sure everything is fully rinsed off.

A couple minutes to rinse stray hairs and soap suds off the shower walls.

A couple minutes to dry off, maybe 4 or 5 if I really wanna get my hair dry.

A couple minutes re-brushing the tangles outta my hair.

A couple minutes putting oil in my beard/hair, then coming/styling my beard/mustache.

A couple minutes brushing my teeth.

A couple minutes putting clothes on.

At minimum it’s a 22-minute affair, but let’s round up to 30 because it’s the first thing in the morning and I’m not moving as fast as I could be yet. What’s the problem with any of the stuff on that list? What am I doing that’s too slow for the 10-minute showerers (whom I never question for taking 10 minute showers, btw)?

Ah yes, correctly highlighting the megalopolises of Yuma and Mexicali, and excluding backwaters such as Los Angeles and Miami

But we do have evidence that a lot of chemicals in the PFAS family stick around for a long time, and we have evidence that they’re harmful. That’s enough for me to be wary of anything in that group, especially when there are easy alternatives.

It’s hard to rewrite the past if someone’s keeping receipts

That’s not true, there’s definitely ways to render the skin to the point where it’s all crisp, no slime, without burning it. It’s hard to do when oven roasting but possible, but it’s pretty easy to do when pan-searing.

Not really. Case in point - the Moon. It’s absolutely massive, like several orders of magnitude larger than any satellite we’ve ever launched, and when it happens to line up just right between the Earth and the Sun, the umbra is only like 150km wide.

I try to plug it in without closely inspecting the port because I can with just about every other type of port. It’s easy to plug in an HDMI, Display Port, or Ethernet cable on the first try because of the asymmetrical shape, and things that use barrel plugs like headphone jacks just don’t care about orientation. USB-A is one of the few port types that combines the worst of both worlds.

You can also get a roll of like 50 reusable microfiber cloths from any home store for less than ten bucks. They work just as well as any overpriced branded duster wipes, and are washable/reusable as an added bonus.

You mean, the couple of seconds it takes trying to plug in a USB-A the wrong way, having to flip it over, discovering you had it the right way the first time because USB-A ports are bastards, and having to flip it over again?

If it had been anyone else, they’d have been named a grave threat to national security and it’s pretty likely they’d never be seen or heard from again.

Engaging with the text the way a believer does means having blind faith, which, as a non-believer, is difficult for me to do.

I think it’s silly for a loving, forgiving God to curse anything, whether that’s a single tree, or an entire country, or whatever else. I think it’s totally valid to point out the hypocrisy of this allegory, regardless of what you think the subtext may be. It’s an easy example to pull up that demonstrates a contradiction in the Bible, that’s all.

Also I’m not dunking on anyone. I rarely talk to anyone about religion because it’s such a sticky subject with so many people. Just trying to give some context and maybe a little justification for using this particular allegory to poke some fun at believers.

That’s sort of the while point of pointing out the silliness of the fig tree story though. We poke fun at it for being ridiculous because, well, it is ridiculous, and religious people are in turn ridiculous for following a supposed holy text with such ridiculous parables in it.

If I’ve replied to you once why start with this:

Because your one reply to me claimed that I was saying a bunch of stuff that I never said in my one comment?

Like, it should be obvious what’s going on here

My account is over two years old with thousands of other comments. My writing style is vastly different than anyone else’s in this thread. I’m not creating new accounts to avoid blocks. I’m not out to get you. I’m flattered, but it’s not that serious.

My guy, you wanna stop putting words in my mouth and have an honest, productive discussion, I’m all for it. Otherwise, don’t bother replying.

Also, pay attention to usernames when replying. That was my first comment in this chain, but I have a feeling you thought you were replying to someone you’d already been talking to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

What you’re talking about, with using IVF to reduce the chances of genetic conditions, is called prenatal screening. And while it relies on genomics, and even borrows some concepts from Eugenics, it is not Eugenics, at least as far as most people understand and use that term. Eugenics is widely understood to be the pseudo-scientific shield fascists frequently hide behind to justify bigotry, forced sterilization, genocide, and other atrocities. You may think this is just a semantic argument over an umbrella term that can cover anything to do with improving the human genome, but modern geneticists are very careful to disassociate anything they do with the term “Eugenics”, due to the authoritarian implications it carries.

Plenty of anti-cheats work on Linux, and the ones that don’t are probably borderline malware anyways, so it’s really a win-win

Sure, yeah, that’s all well and good, but like, the dude has said multiple times that things worked for him and his partner, and there’s still half a dozen people in the thread assuming the worst and telling him all the ways he should have lived his life. It feels like some sort of moral superiority contest, and it’s gross.

Is it? I was just in London a couple months ago, the amount of people smoking and vaping there was honestly shocking.

Why are there so many people in this thread telling this guy what his vegan gf actually thought

Stop projecting. You don’t always need to be right. It’s ok for other people to have different experiences from you.

There’s an opportunity there to invent a homoerotic subplot and use it in a sequel to The Producers.

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