Random thoughts

Guys please all say a prayer for Matt over at


As he is having surgery on his leg.

He is a nice guy and good retailer to a lot of us over in EU so please thinka dn pray for him

Thnx

As someone who was born into Catholicism, I've long been creeped out by adult converts. I don't mean for marriage. There are mixed Catholic/Jewish marriages on both sides of my family. I mean weirdos who feel drawn to Catholicism in their 30's.

Now that the only good Pope we've ever had has been murdered by an adult who converted in their 30's...complete and total vindication

I buy lipton green tea for the bottle and to use a bit as sweetener for my own sun teas, re-use the bottles dozens of times, more durable than most water bottles.

Why is this thread so depressing?
Cheer up Charlie and vape some weed.

budski said:

I buy lipton green tea for the bottle and to use a bit as sweetener for my own sun teas, re-use the bottles dozens of times, more durable than most water bottles.

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We do something similar, but with Trader Joe’s ginger beer (glass) bottles. They work great for syrups and storing home brewed alcohol!

I’ve been replacing my current plastic bottles with insulated steel ones as the plastic ones wear out. They’re a little heavy but having fridge cold water always on hand has helped me pretty much entirely cut out single use plastic bottles.

Kleen Kanteen on the go.
Glass swing-top bottle for water at home (I have the chance to live in a place where tap water is cleaner than bottled water).
And most of wine and beer bottles that I like are returnable to be washed and reused.

Honestly it's been years I haven't bought a plastic bottle. Even organic orange juice comes in 5L Cubitainer nowadays...

It ain't America any more folks. It is rapidly becoming something unrecognizable. Well, not actually unrecognizable, but not as America...

And this here is a really good explanation of how we got here and why. Don't tell anybody, but it's also a description of how we fix it.

I get a little dizzy listening to and watching those sisters...

I wanted to make an announcement

I AM SOME STONER ON THE INTERNET

Don’t sell yourself short. You are an exceptional stoner on the internet. 🫡

In spite of my 50+ years on this planet, I just can't help hitting that whippet at the end of the whipped cream can.....

Vaped some Toasted Strudel with the LSV and I am baked.

mephisto said:

In spite of my 50+ years on this planet, I just can't help hitting that whippet at the end of the whipped cream can.....

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Me too

mephisto said:

In spite of my 50+ years on this planet, I just can't help hitting that whippet at the end of the whipped cream can.....

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I never tried this yet - sounds wonderful

would you use this one to make cream with ?

I've never made whipped cream in my whipped cream maker.
It's as dry as the day I got it 50 years ago.

Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis

2 worthy popes in my lifetime, extraordinary.
that said, a person in between you and god is an abomination designed to suck gold out of your pocket, the kingdom is within
I love that Francis shunned the finery and waste that is pomp.

There's an old programmer joke that goes like this:



Related question. What if Red-40 is the only thing keeping the microplastics from killing us all

This was pretty much off topic for the tariff thread so I'll answer here :

bellona0544 said:

I would challenge you to do some research into sustainable local agriculture and what would be involved in a transition to an ecoharmonious world.

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I am a farm worker. Organic extensive practice. All the farmers I know work like crazy. No exception. Even the most innovative and extensive. And all the extensive organic farms in my area only feed a very small portion of the population.
Do you actually know how much work it is to kill, cut and dress a steer ? To smoke it ? Do you know all the process involved in cheese making and how time consuming it is ?
Meat and fish, as well as cheese, are part of a sustainable agriculture in a lot of places that are not hot enough (yet) to grow things during winter. (I'm living in the mountains and livestock farming also allows to make use of the steep and rocky lands that you cannot use to grow vegetables).

I mean... producing cheese exclusively locally and extensively would ask for quite a few people waking at dawn for milking, working in the lab to actually make the cheese during the day and others people to milk at night. And yes if you want a cow to produce enough milk in order to produce cheese, you have to take his calf and turn it into meat otherwise he'll drink it all. (And you'll need his stomach to curdle the milk anyway). Extra work to kill, cut and dress the calf... you'll need to cook some part of it as well if you want to preserve most of it. Etc...

Sure if you're living in pre-Colombian America you'll grow the three sisters and you could probably flood your land to water everything easily. And I think pre Colombian America was really a thriving land. A lot more thriving than Europe was at the same time. But mankind is all over the planet earth and not all places are equally cultivable.

mammaries on a male bovine, seems there is an old proverb regarding such