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  • Bakers: what's your go-to 9" round pan?

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  • I’m an All-Clad gnome myself, but only because I’m able to pick stuff up steeply discounted at a store nearby. I have several of their springforms and would recommend. Springform is not necessary, but especially nice if you plan on making cheesecake and the like.

    For cooking and bakeware I typically stick with the legacy names (All-Clad, Le Creuset, etc.) and buy the sales, outlets, scratch-n-dent, garage sales, second hand, etc. Estate sales are especially nice for this stuff.

    Edit: I should say my former housemate had a cake business and I believe she used nordicware and uh, she made a fuck ton of cakes.

  • Digital ID laws: What are their potential mechanisms, work-arounds, and enforcement vectors? How should we prepare to deal with them?

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  • It absolutely blows my mind that people still have real corporate social media accounts as their actual selves.

  • How many times a year do you call out sick to work?

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  • I get three occurrences per quarter before verbal warning, four before formal write up. A single occurrence can only last two consecutive workdays before requiring a doctors note or something along those lines.

    That said, I only call in one or two times a quarter because we can accrue sick time infinitely. We get 12 days sick, 10 days family, 3 weather. Family and weather do not roll over.

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  • Tommy Wright III | Boiler Room Memphis: The Legends of Memphis Rap

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  • This is just me kind of shouting into the aether, but I’m reflecting on my youth and specifically my time in various juvenile institutions, largely in rural areas of the Midwest (although I did end up in Minneapolis for like nine months at one point).

    The west vs east thing was really poppin’ at the time, though pac and big had been dead for a few years, but most of the kids I lived with for those years were all on that southern shit. Jay-Z, 50, and Eminem were probably the most popular rappers in the mainstream at the time, Ye and his contemporaries were on the come up, but a lot of that stuff didn’t get talked about. Maybe because we mostly came from poor rural areas, and the country shit resonated with us, but it was a lot of UGK, T.I., Master P, Wayne, Geto Boys, OutKast, Project Pat, Triple Six, 8Ball and MJG, etc.

    I guess I just wonder if the rise of the South in rap music could also have been predicted by analyzing the musical preferences of rural Amerikkkan poors of the early-mid 00s.

    Unrelated Story Time: There’s this one half native half Scottish kid I lived with from Oklahoma who lived and breathed by T.I. One day his mama called up to tell him the dopeman had come and took her car cause of a debt the kid had. He was in the phone room and we could all hear him screaming “The Dopeman come took Mama car?? The Dopeman done took mama car! Mama — mama I’m sorry mama! Mama I know — mama! Ima figure it out ma— yes I know you need the car for work — mama I’m sorry!” in his thick Oklahoman by way of Texas accent and we all thought it was the funniest shit ever and we gave him a ton of shit after that and sang T.I.’s “Da Dopeman” at him any chance we got for like a month.

    In hindsight it’s just fucking tragic and I really hope his mama was able to get her car back from the dopeman :(

  • Tommy Wright III | Boiler Room Memphis: The Legends of Memphis Rap

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  • When I was a kid and the east vs west marketing war bullshit was going on I was always riding for the south despite being from the north. All that Memphis, Houston, Nola, and Atlanta shit is foundational for me.

    I actually got put on to Memphis shit by a juggalo kid I roomed with in a halfway house. Never thought id be indebted to a juggalo, but here we are. My old lady also a bad bitch, and has been to more triple six shows than I have which really makes me proud.

    Anyways, this is a great way to start the morning! Thanks!

  • Will I ever stop having cringe takes?

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  • Yes, I’m in a similar boat. My general worldview has generally stayed the same since I was a child: every human deserves human rights. The vehicle by which I want to see that out, though, is what’s changed, as well as specifically what those rights ought to be.

    I don’t know if this is true, because I’m definitely not a determinist by any stretch, but there is a part of me that believes that those core fundamental bits are fairly well solidified by the time we reach adulthood. Like, the framework stays the same, but what it looks like is what changes. Iunno I’m just rambling.

  • Trying to remember the first website I ever visited.

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  • I was an active forum member in the heyday of &T, and I’ll say that people definitely did get arrested (myself included) but &T was rarely implicated. Post 9/11 there was quite a bit of attention because of antiterrorism propaganda, but to my knowledge Jeff and the mods all stayed out of trouble.

    It really was a fun place with some incredibly cool people. The horseshoe effect in full swing as well; from my memory it was a healthy mix of communists, anarchists, and libertarians. Also it was more racially diverse than you’d think. The text file repository was mostly 90% bullshit, but there were some incredible nuggets in there. Much of what I learned about chemistry came from that place.

    I often wonder what some of those folks are up to these days. Wish I’d been able to keep track of them. I ended up getting locked up for two years for unrelated shit and by the time I got out the place was pretty much dead. Those who remained were insufferable. There are &T enclaves around the internet, but they’re mostly boring and filled with sad people making the same jokes from 20+ years ago. Teehee huff raid teehee skreeeaaawwwww teehee u got belaired teeeheeee.

  • Trying to remember the first website I ever visited.

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  • Rotten, Ogrish, and &Totse pretty much ruined me. What’s crazy is Ogrish was the first site that I’m aware of to break the news about Kevin Spacey being a chomo when they posted a video of him in a hot tub with a Guatemalan boy in the early-mid 00s. I’ve since tried to find evidence to support this claim, but it’s long since been scraped from the internet, but that shit is seared in my memory.

  • Starting to care less and less about cis people

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  • Cismale here (feel free to tell me to gtfo) and I tend to agree with you insofar as many (most? All? Any?) cis allies haven’t done any sort of rigorous analysis on their own gender, socialization, and the massive privilege it begets.

    Before I continue: How do you see us being better allies and comrades? Truly asking.

    Personally I tend towards gender nihilism, but decades of having a penis and testicles, being socialized as, being perceived as, and ultimately “being” male (i.e. internalizing masculinity, patriarchy, binary gender, etc.) — especially at critical points in my biopsychosocial development — give me an unshakeable experience. No matter how much I choose to see beyond gender, to assert its lack of existence, whatever, I still inhabit a male body and feel at home in it and benefit from a society who privileges me as such. I am destined to fuck up, make mistakes, cause harm both implicitly and explicitly. Such is the burden of gender — and I have it the easiest.

    My point is that yes, you are right to be dubious of us, because even the most well meaning are socialized as gendered people, and benefit from the privilege of gender and it’s more work than 99% of us can ever be bothered to do (at least, at present) to actually be the allies y’all need. I wish that weren’t the case, and I hope that it isn’t, but goddam.

    I doubt that’s helpful at all. I dunno. I’m just ranting. Feel free to cuss me out if I’m making useless unproductive noise here.

  • Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, was murdered by a member of his own union (Tim Shorrock)

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  • When he puts respect LITERALLY on the names of Alex Pretti and Renée Nicole Good by doing them the dignity of spelling their goddam names right, I’ll consider it.

    If he lacks the journalist integrity to fucking spell check the names of two people who were executed in the streets by their own government, what else does he get wrong?

  • Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says 'Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting' | Common Dreams

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  • I was in a book club with an Ezra once. Can’t say for sure if he was good, but he didn’t suck which is more than I can say for the aforementioned Ezras

  • Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, was murdered by a member of his own union (Tim Shorrock)

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  • Sure, yeah. Gov’t workers get unions. This is not a surprise. What is a surprise is… how bad this “journalist” is:

    The murders of Perri and Renney Nicolle Good…

  • Trying to make a list of all the libslop documentaries I can find

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  • I had to watch The Cove recently, which isn’t overtly “political” in nature, but it is racist, classist, anti-rural, and literally makes shit up. It’s mostly just lib rage bait.

    Like, yeah, the dolphin harvest in taiji is like, not cool… but you don’t need to be a crazy racist/classist nutjob that makes up statistics and racist jokes to convince people of that… you just do that cause you’re bad people.

    They keep making the claim that “20,000 dolphins are slaughtered every year” and the best info I could find to support that claim is that one year, the Japanese fisheries commission issued nearly 20,000 permits for dolphin hunting in Japanese waters but there’s no record of how many of those permits were filled. The documentary implies — but is careful to never outright say — that all of those permits are used in one dolphin slaughter in taiji. As far as I could tell… maybe 1-2k dolphins were slaughtered in taiji every year? Maybe? Iunno.

    And I’m not defending the dolphin slaughter in taiji, I just know that the documentary is a bunch of white Americans that do literally zero material analysis and do all of the racism and classism.

    Okay I gotta stop before I enrage myself further.

  • pranks be like: yo bro feeling safe?

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  • I grew up in and out of boys homes and shit and man I’ve endured enough pranks to last several lifetimes.

  • Hexbears recommend me your best/fav history documentary. Or any sub-genre. History is my personal favorite but open to others.

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  • Hell yes. I watched a couple last night and they’re excellent. Seems like he’s tight with the Let’s Talk Religion guy as well, so that’s cool. Thanks for the recommendation!

  • Hexbears recommend me your best/fav history documentary. Or any sub-genre. History is my personal favorite but open to others.

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  • No, but I’m gonna check ‘em out. Always on the lookout for this type of stuff

  • Hexbears recommend me your best/fav history documentary. Or any sub-genre. History is my personal favorite but open to others.

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  • Hell yes this looks right up my alley

  • Hexbears recommend me your best/fav history documentary. Or any sub-genre. History is my personal favorite but open to others.

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  • While not necessarily documentaries, and, as much as I am loathe to recommend YouTube content creators, I really like

    • Ancient Americas
    • History with Cy
    • History Time
    • Religion for Breakfast
    • Let’s Talk Religion
    • Esoterica
    • Historia Civilis

    Mostly because I enjoy falling asleep to the sound of men’s voices talking about long ago and not-so-long-ago times. There are others, of course, but these are my favorites.

  • Genuinely curious: when (if ever) do y’all think these people will figure out that ALL corporations are inherently fascist collaborators aka fascists?

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  • Yeah I see that now. Thank you.

    I think one of the ways my autism comes out is just like, not understanding neurotypicals? (No shit, huh? (Also I hate that language but whatever)) And in moments like this, where something is just so painfully obvious to me — something I’ve been shouting about for literally my entire life — it makes my brain hurt trying to comprehend how people can’t or won’t see it.

    Like, I used to labor under the assumption that all people believe, as you said, that capital pushes the state into fascism, but that everyone was just willfully complicit. Then shit like this happens and I’m like, “oh wait… yall like, really thought corporations were like… okay?” I dunno, does that make sense?

    Sometimes I just feel really alien in this world and this is just one of those moments.

  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Genuinely curious: when (if ever) do y’all think these people will figure out that ALL corporations are inherently fascist collaborators aka fascists?

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    I guess all I do here is post stormfront, er, Reddit slop

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    These soulless fucking lib babies can’t even go a few days without their Reddit treats

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Minnesota AG, Twin Cities mayors sue DHS to end 'federal invasion'

    kstp.com /kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-twin-cities-sues-dhs-to-end-federal-invasion/
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    Liberals: Surely, the courts will save us!

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Is this direct action???

  • Chapotraphouse @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    I guess being anti-hate speech and anti-fascist are mutually exclusive on Reddit

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    You gotta hand it to him, Donald’s marketing brain is next-level

  • Slop. @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Oh, shit! Finally found a real one, y’all!

  • askchapo @hexbear.net
    GnomeGodsGnomeMasters [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Hunters of Hexbear?

  • guns @hexbear.net
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    Hunters of Hexbear?