It’s frequently used as an excuse to berate “sinners,” with the excuse that they would want someone to confront them about their sins and lead them to Jesus.

A mandoline slicer makes the chopping much faster if you have one.

I like caraway seeds in mine.

I ferment on the top of my cabinets in a mason jar, then move to the fridge when it starts tasting right.

You’re right.

They’ll Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 is the best book I’ve read for understanding the rise of reactionary dictatorships.

From the reasons why people buy in to why they look the other way when atrocities are committed.

Reactionary ideology is all about hierarchy and assigning everyone to their proper place within it.

They want women to be baby factories instead of in the workforce where men belong.

They want those children obedient and knowing their place in the patriarchal structure; being a woman who wants an education or a trans woman or a man who believes in feminism is a slap in the face to the reactionaries, who think a person’s highest purpose is to stay in their place within society.

In other words, reactionary parents take it personally when you don’t want to be stuck in their assigned boxes.

You denied Musk’s obvious Nazi salute.

You don’t care about the truth or you’d look it up for yourself and find out this is real. Instead, you’ll continue to poison the well.

Have you looked into selling to reenactors?

They seem willing to pay for handcrafted stuff.

German chocolate is like a whole other food than the wax that Hershey’s pretends is the real thing.

Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.

L’homme Arme is such a cool composition. I’d love to hear a more period-accurate version, but this one is pretty great anyway.

Wish I’d bought a bunch when they were on clearance.

There’s another user who replied to me who answered much better than I could.

Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64

LOAD"*",8,1

I haven’t loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I’ll never forget the command.

I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.

I live in Texas, and we focused on the glories of “free-market” “laissez faire” capitalism in our American history class.

Not a word about things like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the Homestead Strike or the Great Railroad Strike of 1922. I’m frankly shocked that we talked about the civil rights movement at all.

Yeah, I’d have left a misogyny warning if I’d remembered that part. Thanks for the note.

Yeah, that’s pretty bad.

I still think it’s an interesting read.

How about HG Wells talking about mini wargaming in 1912? I think it’s fascinating to see proto-nerds inventing the geek stuff that we take for granted a hundred years later.

Little Wars via Project Gutenberg

Go to a thrift store like a real punk and find something cool & unique.

“A team of hitmen” LMAO!

If you want to get better, you have to practice every single day.

You’re going to suck at first, but then you’re going to suck less. You have to learn enjoy the process, which it sounds like you do, so great! I like to break up my play time into practicing something new and having fun; they’re both important.

One thing I’ve found is that keeping my guitar out and on the wall makes it a lot easier to get started playing, even if I don’t feel like it at the time. Once I’m about five minutes into playing, I’m into it.

Oh, and practice with a metronome. Most guitarists suck at rhythm (myself included). Using a metronome beats it into your head.

Scratching paper.

It makes my skin crawl.