But which one is parallel to the selvage

Update: this one is for the two sewing nerds who upvoted this. The warp is parallel to the selvage. Add THAT to your cutesy mnemonic.

This would be a relief. Yes, I am autistic, why do you ask?

Picture it: “hi I’m Hedgehog what’s your favorite dinosaur? My favorite dinosaur is parasaurolophus”

Unfortunately now I’m an adult and asking people about their favorite dinosaurs marks me as weird, which in the workplace is not good.

Out of curiosity. Are there any companies that make swords and/or other practice weapons? Wooden or unsharpened metal.

Ikr? Fun fact: cats are extremely effective hunters for animals of their size, and as such can wreck havoc on local ecosystems. I think that people tend to forget this because they’re also frequently adorable derps

I think that they’re implying that people likely to argue that state-controlled stores are socialist are also likely to conflate any service or good offered by the state is socialism.

In the US, “socialism” is both demonized and the actual definition is obfuscated by right-wing (read: most) media in the same way other terms are, such as “woke”. This alienates the average person in the US from movements, policies, organizations, etc that would benefit them, from free school lunch programs to socialist representatives running on taxing the wealthy.

Obligatory mention that Luddites were skilled workers (weavers) whose concern with machines was that factory owners were, with the use of weaving machines, able to churn out crappier products faster, hire unskilled workers, force these workers to work in factories rather than cottages, and most importantly pay workers less.

In other words, labor power was weakened by automation of work. This happens over and over in history. (Read up on the effect of the cotton gin on the atlantic slave trade.) It doesn’t have to; automating manual work could result in shorter workweeks for the same pay. It never does.

Also Luddites occasionally crossdressed. Their name comes from King Ned Ludd, who did not actually exist.

I once explained to a sixty-something-year-old that she could use firefox+uBO instead of paying for youtube red or whatever the hell it’s called Course, then I had to try to explain the concept of browser extensions and I’m not sure she got it

I got an owala at sams club ages ago and the isulation is crazy on those things. I once forgot it at work and it still had ice in it a full day (like 20+ hours) when I went to get it

I don’t know of nonpatriarchal societies, but there have always been women who enforce patriarchy. Consider, for example, “tradwife” influencers. Or look at the moms who let their sons get away with murder with a “boys will be boys” while reprimanding their daughters for not being responsible.

Women are criticized no matter what decisions they make. This is a way that patriarchy reinforces itself.

Edit: relevant essay: https://www.sevanoland.com/uploads/1/1/8/0/118081022/there_is_no_unmarked_woman.pdf

“Bloated” lmao. I don’t think there’s a single school district in the US that has sufficient funding

If they didn’t pay (or “pay” with points/gift cards/etc) for people’s donations, most people who donate blood products would stop. Donation isn’t quick or easy, and most people are afraid of needles. Until somebody invents viable substitutes for blood, plasma, platelets and so on there will continue to be a need for blood products, and there needs to be some mechanism to encourage donations.

If you’re in the US: https://www.pluginsolarmap.com/

It’s about the power dynamic and how it informs the relationship between the electorate and elected (or, for that matter, other hierarchical structures.) The theory is that policymakers treat people better if there are real consequences for not doing so, such as losing their elected seat. (Or more…extreme consequences.)

Another version of this would be a manager giving their unionized employees a raise because of the threat of a strike. Whether you frame it as fearing the employees or frame it as cold logic, the dynamic between a union and their boss is fundamentally different than between a single employee and their boss.

I don’t know if this works for raspberries, because I don’t like and don’t buy raspberries, but washing cucumbers in 10 parts water to 1 part white vinegar does wonders for keeping them fresh in the fridge.

Yeah, that was some ambiguous wording on my part. To elaborate: Americans are told from birth that capitalism is this wonderful system that gives us freedom of choice, and that the free market causes the best products and the most well-run companies to prosper. This belief system is reflected in prosperity gospel, which is the same ideology but coated in a layer of religion. We americans are told that if we just work hard enough, we can be rich too.

But that’s not how capitalism really works. The division of people into working and ruling classes, and the abstraction of value means that the more money you have, the more you can extract from the workers who actually produce the value. This reality is largely ignored, or suppressed, or denied.

So you have these massive numbers of people who were told capitalism will let them be “successful”, ie financially secure and…it doesn’t. There’s only one grocery store in town so you buy what’s available. There’s no bus system so you buy a car and be in debt however long it takes. The so-called “free market” is dominated by actors who can afford to purchase their competition.

Capitalism works as intended by the elite who do more to uphold it than anyone else: they get more and more money. The nominal goal of prosperity and growth for all is never realized, and this is framed as individual failures rather than the effect of the system itself. “Just work harder and your boss will give you a raise!”

And also: capitalism is failing the majority of people by continuing to funnel wealth to those who already have money. Voters are offered a choice between two options, neither of which actually want to solve this, because both major parties are controlled by wealthy corporate donors. The two-party system prevents any third party, no matter their platform, from having any chance at election.

Democratic socialist candidates got elected in NY because Mamdani is demonstrably helping people in actual, tangible ways. The most famous example is fixing potholes. This is a breath of fresh air for voter and is the same “sewer socialism” strategy used in the first half of the 1900s in wisconsin, which focused on pragmatically improving life for the general public…famously by improving the sewer system.

Oh, definitely. The DSA-backed candidates won against a lot of corporate donor spending: https://nysfocus.com/2026/06/24/ny-primary-election-results-dsa-state-legislature-2026

Well yeah, there are two sexualities: normal and political /s*

*this is a simplification of how bigots in privileged groups tend to see the world: “normal”, or the default, and aberrations from the default. Labeling people or things as “political” is a way to attack those who don’t fall into the narrow “default” group in order to enforce their invisibility. (An aside: the negative connotations of the word deserve an essay on their own.)

Thus, women in video games is “political”. Nonwhite characters in TV shows are “political”. Being visibly queer -including posting about rainbow cookies during Pride month- is “political”.

I haven’t heard anything like that?? I use realdebrid. I just renewed my subscription with them.