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me: Storytime—I Bought That Mysterious Amulet You Said Was Cursed ‼️‼️

my apprentice: why are you talking like that

me:

my apprentice: is it the curse

me: My Apology Video (I F*cked Up!) 😱 Should Have Listened To My Apprentice 😭

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New fear unlocked.

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I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why

I wasn’t born then.

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There's trash in every city

In the trash cans. I've never seen anything like this anywhere in Denmark.

Berlin is maybe the only city I've been in thats in the same natural category as nyc. I feel like by the numbers london deserves to be on the list but it is a truth univerdalky acknowledged that London kind of sucks (possible explanation: the British are a fundamentally provincial people and only developed a true metropolis by aping America)

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i feel The Pull

time to reread silent partner

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I have a hard time picking between snow and sand tbh

Ouch oof my legs. Hiking in snow is bullshit.

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> > Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war > It was very much implied in the whole "we were stabbed in the back by politicians who ordered us to surrender when we totally could have won" narrative.

It's just straight up not true. Hitler did that. I mean to be clear so did Churchill but he's excused on account of being on the defensive.

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

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I believe the word for “un-cure” is “infect” or possibly “inflict”, depending on details.

You know what, you're right - he did proceed to severely un-cure it with a chef's knife. (all knives are chef's knives when you're a chef)

Chef John: "And pancetta is simply a rolled and cured pork belly"

Chef John: "so to prep this we will un-roll it"

Me: "...and un-cure it?"

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...can't tell if sarcastic or not

Since 2018, things that previously used to work no longer work in Ubuntu, and packages that used to work in Ubuntu 18.04 no longer work in the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 24.04.

It's weird. Ubuntu ships packages that are just broken. There are snaps that are just broken. There are applications that don't work correctly with Ubuntu that used to work. It's like the maintainers don't even try to run the packages they maintain!

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Chef John: "And pancetta is simply a rolled and cured pork belly"

Chef John: "so to prep this we will un-roll it"

Me: "...and un-cure it?"

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Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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losing my mind at this

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bret is so good :D

really enjoying this series