Maybe switch fromchilli-based spices to mustards? Why destroy your digestive system when your respiratory system has it coming?

And then everybody clapped

He was no angel

I remember replacing a carberator with my dad on our car as a kid and those 2 weeks were the most fun I ever had with him.

Unfortunately Xiaomi phones almost entirely don't work in Australia anymore for technical reasons.

It's just that to Leftists that have been tech-optimist adjacent "grey-tribe" and "grey-thinker" immediately ring alarm bells.

If your definition of "grey" is the same as those promoted by Scott Aaronson, Less Wrong, etc. I'd suggest that you are falling into the trap of Naive Materialism. Humans are ideological beings and you're likely not engaging properly with the interplay of how material conditions lead to ideological formation and in turn lead back to progress on material reality.

It appears that the union's inspiration through Morales' blood has run.

He's not some Republic Serial Villian, he did it 35 minutes ago.

I love this, Generalised collapse of the entire political spectrum, Anarchists and Communists now looking like pragmatic big-tent types by comparison.

About 30% according to the Actuarial Tables. That said that is a general population measure. Biden has mild cognitive decline which brings is up, but is generally healthy and very wealthy so probably a little less. On the third hand, he's already on all the illegal nootropics that Hunter Biden can smuggle out of Caucasia so...

Guamer No!

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I hate my dad's anti China brainworms and general disingenuous edgelordism (he's an old serious union guy which makes it more heartbreaking). He also went on an anti Palestinian protester rant which is irritating because I know he is quite committedly pro Palestine.

my mum had a nervous breakdown and started ranting about how we have abandoned her alone (we have not) because I told her I needed 10 min to silently decompress after taking too many gigs and getting 6 hours sleep in 72 hours.

My brother immediately started yelling and is also having an extended work related mental health decline. And it eventually degraded into a merciful sullen silence until non-inner-family members arrived.

That said this is as bad as my family gets which means we're more or less okay.

I'm excited about the costuming. The gowns are to die for (literally, I would guess)

Yikes. No one should have to go through that (and I'd point out most Abrahamaic sects expressly prohibit coerced religious participation, not that it helps much)

I have continuous memory and selfhood from a month or two before my third birthday, with increasingly vague flashes going back to I guess 18 months (from external verification of the event).

It's hard to say if I had consciousness in the early memories (though I definitely had some sort of agency) but I definitely had it going into my third birthday.

They really need to kill homelander or make his ascendency to dictatorship complete and they won't fucking commit.

Not to mention, they flee Palestine to escape mass murder by an unjust ruler.

Big fucking sit down party in the town square with free food, singing, everything. Hard to think of something more Culturally Socialist.

There's so much, but I think for Christians a much stronger emphasis on the material actions the Christmas story implies. In Advent a recognition of God entering history to progress a contradiction that we could not, and a reflection on how we might commit to recognising and progressing the issues in our own society.

Societally, I'd like more communal and ecumenical celebrations. Most people of the world celebrate the Solstice and I'd like to see those traditions openly celebrated rather than elided like in current secularism.

For people of the book or other religions that accept some kind of Abrahamaic validity or syncretism I'd love to see how their traditions mix with ours. I have fond memories of a Christmas party with some Palestinian friends, Muslim and Eastern Catholic, singing carols about Mary together.