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The IPA craze is such a wild phenomenon. Other culinary trends in America often have an underlying economic cause revolving around agricultural economics--Reagan's sugar quotas along with the corn subsidy leading to HFCS in everything, bacon craze coming out of the pork lobby, the Dairy Council or whatever is called making milk a staple and keeping the breakfast cereal industry ascendant--but IPAs? A bunch of dudes just got together and decided to be wrong.

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Good news for you, this August 23rd.

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James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has just died and I am seeing a woeful lack of crab raves on my dash.

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Hey. Every episode of Farscape is free on their official YouTube channel.

so is every episode of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. Which basically has the best Dark Fantasy vibes ever. Anyway enjoy.

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I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

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Thesis statement for all of USA history forever

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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With all due respect, if an app or website asks me to scan my face so that an AI can check if I'm an adult, I don't care about the claims that they don't use my data or delete any pics I take for this purpose, I am leaving the fucking website and never coming back.

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"Aren't you worried about what illegal immigrants are doing to our country?"

No. Not even a little. I've seen the evil that ICE commit on a regular basis. The nicest ICE agent is more evil than every illegal immigrant combined.

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Super weird to have innocuously added a silly personal anecdote to a post you didn't realize was super popular...

Only to have it cross your dash a week later and find out that like 12,000 people think you're lying.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This was very lovely to wake up to. It's completely legit, in the replies people posted videos and pictures of the 'walk for El Vaquita', the fake protest to get El Vaquita desperately needed medical attention.

The comments in the tweet lead to celebration of a another Chilean comrade doggo named Negro Matapacos. And this is exactly the kind of education I want this month.

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