The wheel, the steam engine, the lightbulb, the aeroplane.
Marvels of engineering to be sure, but all were put to shame when Otto Frederick Rohwedder (blessed be his name) invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine.
No longer would man suffer the long indignity of having to slice their own bread!
It proved instantly influential and in a few short years 80% of the bread sold in the United States was sliced!
Unfortunately, like all true visionary undertakings, the forces of reactions would soon emerge in a vain attempt to halt man's progress and in XV Annus Panis Nostri Quod Est Divisa a ban would be placed on the product.
U.S. officials cited "war time conservation measured" but the brave people of the land quickly rose up in outcry and the ban was rescinded.
Today people from all around the world are free and able to enjoy the bounty of bread that is already sliced.
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I've noticed that in a lot of liberal arguments, imperialism is always a verb. It's something that a country does, and it can distance itself from the descriptor by simply 'stopping'. As in, "Joe Biden stopped American Imperialism in Afghanistan" or "how can we be imperialist when we keep loosing conflicts?" as though you make an Imperialism Check to see if you get to 'do' an Imperialism. "Putin is doing an Imperialism right this moment! Why are you talking about things that happened ten or twenty or thirty years ago?"
They talk about imperialism without ever saying the word Empire. It's like talking about bricklaying without ever acknowledging a house has been made. We've done imperialism - but that was in the past. To suggest the endeavor has changed us, that the verb 'imperialism' ends in the noun 'empire' is simply not thought.
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When your cat goes to sleep and curls their paw up right in your palm :meow-melt:
Trying to reconcile being queer with Islam. It is not going well :shrug-outta-hecks:
Implying bisexuality have double the sez instead of just being double frustrated.
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FROGSPOSTERS GAYOmg you're not ashamed 2 B gay? How am I supposed to do my le epic trolling now?
lifes going pretty great, been way happier than usual the past few days. Just in a good mood and it's fantastic :stalin-feels-good:
Just found out my friends have been hanging out without me and not telling me.
Feels shitty :deeper-sadness:
yeah that is pretty shitty tbh, you should say something
I don't want to be a bad friend apologist here but sometimes something that started as just a couple people hanging out turns into a whole thing without prior planning. Make your feelings known but keep in mind it's possible it wasn't intentional or out of a lack of caring for you.
I could also be wrong but idk
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Sorry, comrade. I know how that feels. You've got friends here, though I know it's not the same.
Want to pet a cute rat :rat-salute:
I like rats
no, it really is like a year or two on average. I've had friends that kept them, and a cursory google also says 12 months - 2 years, though in some extreme cases they could live to 5 their quality of life is extremely reduced
Oh shit, my pet rat must have been really healthy. I had no idea they were supposed to live so short.
They're worth it but it is a tragically short passing. Rats are super awesome pets tho, you can keep em in your pocket and go everywhere with them.
Dude, I had rats as pets when I was a teen and they rule. They're like tiny dogs or cats. You can even train them to use litter boxes.
Get one and name it Gaston
Fun lil train based story for you sickos. Today I had a doctor's appt in the suburbs and so I took regional rail, but it's about a 20 minute walk from the station to the doctor's office. This being suburbia, only about 50% of the walk has sidewalks, and the entire trip I felt like I was breaking the law by not being a car. Peak environmental hostility to human beings type stuff.
BUT. As I'm about to walk under an underpass where the speed limit is 35 and there's no sidewalk - the most dangerous part of the journey - what do I hear? You're god-damned right I hear a train horn blairing from the station I just got walked away from. This brings traffic to a halt obviously bc they have to wait for the train to pass. So in the exact moment I am about to cross the underpass, there are no cars moving on it bc they're waiting for the train. I make it across safely without so much as a single car coming near me.
Then, on my way back from the doctors to the train station, the same thing happens again! I walk past a line of dozens of cagers and arrive at the station having never been in any danger at all. I'm currently :comfy-cool: at the station waiting for my train home. My guardian angel trains really saved me a lot of stress today, in addition to getting me where I needed to go.
TLDR: traiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnn gaaaaaaaannnnnnnnggggg
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I don't know why all these years I hyped up chicken katsu as something special, when it turns out it's just breaded boneless fried chicken :cowboy-cri:
I think my brother has officially become a liberal, if not somewhat fash, down from a demsoc position
You hate to see it
Doctors and stuff: People need more vitamin D, which you get through sunlight. Bu also, exposing yourself to sunlight will age your skin three decades and also make you die of cancer.
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Can't believe I got my first dev job offer... will make a post/comment when I'm sober. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to ask for more money than the bare minimum lol.
