The new Nazi swastika pin

Read the end of any research paper and it indicates any possible conflicts of interest. Youtube isn’t a reliable source.

It also depends on the tone of the social media site discussing it.

And you just know the second someone got hurt they’d turn around and sue you because you didn’t tell them not to do that. Even people who know better will cut corners “Ehhhh, I don’t need to find my safety glasses. I’m just grinding this part for a second…”

Then there are the situations where you think “Why the hell do I need a hard hat? I’m jut walking around with a clip board.” That is the day Steve loses his hammer off of the roof and it makes a 1 in a million bounce directly onto your skull and now you are in the hospital getting a hematoma drained off of your brain.

They also need to be reviewed on a regular basis. If the reason for the regulation is gone it should be dropped. I think every law and regulation should have a nonbinding statement describing the motivation behind it.

And lawsuits

Saw dust was also added to flour. Various heavy metals would be added to food to enhance their color.

Old saying “Fire and flight regulations are written in blood.” Food regulations are likely written in various excretions?

I used to work with a guy from Syria who had US/Canadian citizenship. He said every time he crossed the border he budgeted in 3 extra hours while he was detained.

People in border towns are always on alert for people walking remote roads, hitchhikers, etc. The border strip itself is cleared and monitored with remote cameras, drones, patrols on horseback and ATVs, etc.

My wife and I were bored and it was raining in northern NH so we decided to explore the far north end of NH. Then we decided “Since we are this close to the border lets go to Canada.” We told the border officer that we were going for the day for lunch and he paused for a sec then waved us through. lol We ended up eating in a Greek restaurant and found out they still smoked in restaurants in Quebec.

“Pssst pssst, I’ve got Shaoxing wine, Three Crabs brand fish sauce…”

“What are you in for?”

“Smuggling dark soy sauce.”

Volcanism

Some kid tried that from a rooftop already

Keep sending him burgers and fries. Fried in lard too.

Shitty people seem to be indestructible, like Hitler and the bunker bomb. Stalin died of a stroke (probably).

What really matters is the next election cycle, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and gaining control in state govs.

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2026

If I’d known it was going to be this bad I would’ve shifted my assets but now I’d just lock in the losses.

Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.

If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.

The wiki page does a decent job of explaining it.