regarding your edit there, I guess most people stopped reading at ‘essential oils’ without knowing where this was going.

this is one (the only?) actual medical use for these things - their main thing is that they smell in a certain way that is consistent, so you use them to retrain your sense of smell. that’s it. no taking internally or applying to skin or whatever. just take the stopper off the wee bottle, sniff and repeat for as many bottles as you can be arsed.

when I had covid-19, I didn’t have so well defined scents on hand, but I did have several colognes I could sniff, and I knew fairly well how they were supposed to smell and could use those to gauge my senses. fun times, they were…

Fully agree with you there. I can never fully relax around family and it’d probably be a nightmare living with them.

Manowar had that one song titled ‘Pleasure slave’, if memory serves. No idea if it was a serious song or not. Those were some weird times for music.

I mean, all life on Earth is basically carbon based and that’s how oil formed in the first place, organic matter burried deep and left there for a very long time. We’d just have to find a way to put organic matter in the places we extract oil from now.

Living things already pull carbon out of the atmosphere (via plants, for instance - plants pull carbon from the air and nitrogen from the soil, and along with water build up all manner of sugars and proteins. animals then eat those and they become the building blocks for the animal’s body). They also put some back as byproducts of metabolism - CO2 for higher organisms, methane for some bacteria. Living things just go through a cycle and none of the carbon remains locked away, as it was in the case of oil deposits. All that oil was at some point huge hunks of living, breathing, eating, multiplying beings. So we wouldn’t actually need to form it into a solid rock before disposing of it.

I don’t know, maybe we can just dig an extremely deep pit and shove all our organic waste down there. Or make some very sturdy concrete tombs (similar to nuclear waste, minus the lead) and just seal it all away, but it’d have to be completely sealed so as not to seep into the environment around it. Or deep enough so that it won’t contaminate groundwater if it does.

it certainly has some ‘war is peace, freedom is slavery’ (and all that) vibes

especially the looting, that was done for the woman and the children. I bet they’ll donate looted items to some charity /s

Huh, I always thought pineapples and tomatoes were canned in non-aluminium tins that also have a coating on the inside to prevent corrosion. Them tins don’t really feel as soft as a beer or soda can.

Remember the pandemic videos about “we’re all in this together” brought to you by the same people?

The results section of the full pdf is an interesting read, though I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. It poses an interesting question and ends on an grim tone (if truly an experiment, it’s probably not the last).

I am confused whether I should put my tinfoil hat on or not.

It’s almost as if the ones that singled her out have no knowledge of history and the concept of martyrdom.

So they’re either stupid or actually agree with her ideas but still have to do their jobs, but in the worst way.

Yes, as others have said, it’s paracetamol with some other stuff.

Something I’ve not seen mentioned yet however is to please be mindful that these do contain it and try to not take additional paracetamol (say, in tablet form) without watching your dose. Paracetamol overdose leads to some very nasty effects. Be careful not to exceed the daily dose of paracetamol, as stated in the product insert.

no, no, no, chuuu-pacabra

Remember when they did this?

think of the highrise-dwelling rooftop farmers!

I also get adrenaline rushes and instinctively angry when loud noises that can be avoided, happen.

I have also developed (without going for it) some very good stealth skills and I am not an especially tiny person.

I also grew up with a fairly short temper, though I wonder if it’s genetics or the upbringing. Learned over time I can control it, but the berserker rage is still there.

I know! He was supposed to go all Yosemite Sam on his ass and yell ‘dance, partner!’ while discharging his firearm at the assailant’s feet very quickly. Hillarity would have surely ensued! /s

I know your comment was light-hearted in nature, but I’d like to point out from the article:

"Investigators say the Rio Preto-Jacunda reserve is >bordered by ranches with a record of environmental crimes, >including repeated encroachments on the reserve.

Razing protected rainforest for pasture is an illegal but >lucrative business in Brazil, the world’s top beef exporter.

The crime often hits remote, hard-to-police nature reserves, >overlapping with other organized criminal activities >destroying the Amazon, including illegal logging and gold >mining."

These are people looking to make a buck with a ‘fuck you, got mine’ attitude. And it’s happening all over the world in grey-areas with regards to law enforcement. Burning down stuff is one of the favoured methods, especially if you can bribe officials to say that it was an accident (as does not seem to be the case here, however so props for that for what it’s worth).

The article also mentions death threats by the ones doing the arson towards those against their interests. People are the reason we can’t have nice things.

Sometimes it’s not lazy, as I see it, it’s just the fear of being wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the processing stops when confronted with just the notion that something one builds their life upon might be wrong. For instance the people that wonder what’s stopping atheists from raping and murdering. Perhaps that’s because they based their notion of good and evil on some supposedly unbreakable laws (lest you suffer eternal torment) versus just pondering about why those laws were set to begin with.

So I suppose it can track back to lazyness, after all. Nevermind, then.

Resource conservation be damned. My grandma used to say don’t mess with an idiot, 'cause his mind is fully rested.

L-Mao?

‘tought it out, buttercup’ and other things along the same lines get (got?) pistoned into boys’ minds as soon as they are (were?) able to understand it. would they even know what being on the receiving end of sexual assault is growing up? high school level jokes say that it’s only assault if it comes from a source you do not specifically approve of. been a while since I’ve been in high school but I would imagine no significant change has happened lately? or, at least there was no significant change for the generations mentioned in the article.

point being, it’s unpleasant, but different realities are, it seems, still a thing. maybe this’ll get fixed in a couple more generations?

I wonder how many respondents of the traditional male upbringing were truthful in their answers (after all, admitting you were sexually assaulted is not the ‘manliest’ of traits in said dogma…)