(2) My spouse hand-made my birthday present and I am gobsmacked.
He made it by hand. Hand sculpted the goddess statue. Hand painted, hand stipled, everything. He bought the greenery but the wood is bark from our wood pile and he painted and assembled and sealed and and and idk I'm knocked on my ass.
Please help me praise him, he's an incredible artist and doesn't think highly enough of himself.
So there鈥檚 this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof鈥檚 friend (a doctor), it鈥檚 all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.
It鈥檚 easy to take the magic words as superstition, but they鈥檙e important.
government is trying to ban tiktok meanwhile millions of poor and disabled americans are about to completely lose their internet access at the end of april because congress wont renew funding for the affordable connectivity program
just an fyi, those european countries this person is talking about are super capitalist. and while capitalism is terrible, wasteful, inefficient, exploitative, in need of dismantling, etc. even things like public healthcare and livable wages and vacation time can exist within capitalism if capitalism is properly regulated.
america just chose the route of not allowing for those things by deregulating and selling everything off to private capital. which, as a failed experiment in free market economics, should be a pretty obvious lesson to the rest of the world of what NOT to do.