. It’s not really visible apart from the shine, but I list it as the third ingredient in the recipe. It’s more of a content warning for that part.

They list eggs and cheese as well.

Just following the rule about tagging animal products.

BREAKING: An entire gang of collaborators with Israel who steal aid were eliminated today in Gaza.

In the image before you, in the blurred part, a Palestinian resistance fighter launched an anti-armor shell at a vehicle carrying members of one of the largest crime gangs managed by Israel in the southern Gaza Strip. This gang was responsible for stealing 109 out of 150 aid trucks yesterday.

Everyone in the vehicle was eliminated by the Sahm Unit [Arrow Unit].

22 members of these Israeli-backed crime gangs and war profiteers were killed by the Sahm Unit [Arrow Unit] last night.

Twenty-two members of these occupation-backed crime gangs and war profiteers were killed by the Sahm Unit last night.

The ambush was carried out in cooperation with tribal committees and endorsed by Palestinian factions after monitoring communication between the gang and the Israeli Shin Bet.

One of the dead was the top leader of these gangs in the south and was inside the targeted vehicle.

[picture of a blurred fighter in a street and a fire] [picture of three corpses in a morgue]

At that temp/time, smaller chunks might overcook. The sweet potatoes especially have a tendency to dry out a bit.

Those are usually the scary ones to piss on, unless it’s a tree frog in which case you have to factor in the dexterity.

I never knew pregnancy tests had frogs in them. The sticks seem so small.

DPR Sashatown is a perfect example of democratic centralism. I get a vote, Sasha gets a vote, and his vote wins because he has a knife. My house serves the interests of the underclass and he can lay on the couch even if he’s big.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/

Particularly the chapter where Lenin critiques the German communists- https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch05.htm

I think your friend’s main flaw is flattening what a bourgeois dictatorship looks versus a proletarian one. If everyone has access to literacy and education, the intelligentsia isn’t a walled garden. I’ve yet to meet a Marxist who told anyone to read fewer books. The people I loan my books to are minimum wage workers without degrees, and I give them the books with supplemental podcasts so there’s no barrier to understanding them. I want them to absorb and consider those ideas so that we can debate them in a union. I want that union to grow larger so that people like me have a voice in government. I want those unions to be united by a vanguard party so that we can maximise our power and use it effectively at any level it’s challenged. That inherently represents my interests better than any existing party and my democratic participation in society is much greater than I currently have regardless of my demographics. That dictatorship of the proletariat is a transformative process, not swapping out one boss for another.

Attributes the fall of the USSR entirely to the democratic organization of the government.

Your friend should really read Blackshirts and Reds- https://welshundergroundnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/blackshirts-and-reds-by-michael-parenti.pdf

The flaw of their understanding of history is that it’s undialectical. The Soviet Union somehow exists in a vacuum where they spontaneously make bad decisions because they’re elitists until finally they shoot themselves with the hubris gun. If only Lenin had described communism as “Soviet power and the electrification of Russia”, if only he hadn’t made an immediate priority of universal literacy, maybe the peasants would have fixed everything instead of just making their grandson the first human in space.

Everything is an interdependent relationship between organism and environment. You can’t study your own body unless you know how its systems work together and how it shapes/responds to your surroundings. You can’t study the Soviets without also understanding the Germans, Americans, or Chinese. You can’t understand Chinese development without seeing how they were shaped by the British, Soviets, Americans, and the modern global south. The Soviet Union existed under siege by the world’s superpowers for the entirety of its history, with thousands of nuclear weapons aimed at it by the only country to ever use one in a war. They faced a war of extermination and lost 20 million people along with their industrial and agricultural base, fighting off the vast majority of the German army while the allies debated marching on Moscow after the war. Liberalisation was a regressive economic war imposed on them externally and after it your friend gets to pick which alternative Russia they prefer- pre-revolutionary imperial Russia or post-Soviet Putin’s Russia. If neither of those are better than the Soviets, if the only existing global alternative to what the Soviets achieved is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie we can all agree serves none of us, your friend is just debating which wheels and accessories they’d like to put on their grandma to make her a bike. I don’t care about baseless idealistic speculation if I have tested theory which created two superpowers out of ruined countries. If the most marginalised person in society wrote that theory and it’s still based on observation, it’s just as valid and intellectual as a PhD writing it.

I have a bottle of Dr. Bronners soap that I use for everything

Cyberdengism 2077

Yep. Working in emergency I’ve seen three important things:

1. What can technically qualify as “surviving” the sort of injury that would make me a candidate for organ donation. I don’t want to be a prisoner in my body and our MAID laws require that you can physically lift a cup of poison and drink it. Every part of that process seems unimaginably painful if I’m even capable of processing pain.

2. How bleak nursing homes are. If I survive that injury, the only place I can afford is one where a CNA makes near-minimum wage to handle 20+ patients with complex needs.

3. How hopeless being on the transplant list is. Organ failure seems absolutely torturous. With lung failure they come into emergency drowning on room air. With heart failure their legs swell until it’s like they have gout. Dialysis and liver failure are horror shows. Those people are forced to play a pain lottery to survive. If I go to my grave with my organs like a pharaoh I’m just killing X number of people arbitrarily as the last thing I ever do.

The Jake Paul 1 Million Grandpas Challenge

No grandpa is safe. Fans will throw their own grandpas into the ring. He will defeat them one-by-one.

Liberals when they find out their liberal funding base also gets delisted:

Objectively the right wing of the moderate wing of fascism.

I think he’s still destined for a spectacular crash and burn.

2025: his obnoxious bullshit and ego make Trump hate him even more. DOGE proves to be one of the most unpopular things about the administration and it cuts the social programmes that are lifelines for the average republican, maybe fucking their chances in 2026/2028.

2026: They have a big fallout, maybe in response to backlash over him cutting like a third of the federal budget or him trying to play shadow president

2027: Trump sabotages his federal funding out of spite/dislike for EVs. Tesla by this point is a MAGA hat you can drive and its share price is corrected to reflect the lost subsidies/sales. Maybe the economy is so bad by this point that Tesla can’t even afford to import components for cars that people can’t afford to buy. All the while Chinese EVs continue to get better and cheaper while the US market stagnates and ICE cars only become more expensive

2028: Ketamine overdose? By this point he’s probably dead, bankrupt, or did a Business Plot to try and overthrow the government that betrayed him.

I’m still ridin’ with Biden for 2028 though, can’t convince me otherwise.

Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm. He’s the only leader I trust to put country over self in 2028/2032.

I can do all of those things and I’m an adult.