Has there been a real life kissing booth? Always seemed fictional.

Tapping into another response her but adding on: there are a lot of bits of werewolf media that make little jokes about ‘the time of the month’ for werewolves. It’s an easy little joke to make. (Angua from the Terry Pratchett novels) But the other elements of werewolf tales are far less feminine. #notallwomen and all, but there isn’t a very prominent portrayal across all of fiction of women’s anger as savage or brutal the way there is with masculine anger. The most common portrayal of an angry man is shouting and open violence. The most common portrayal of an angry woman is the silent seethe or the shrill read-to-filth, rarely with open violence. The only sector I can think of that portrays women’s cycles as turning them into something to be feared is boomerhumor comedy about how wives and girlfriends become scary and irrational every month. There are older ladies who might have internalised that enough to identify with it but targeting them with that portrayal would be at odds with the demographic that seems most interested in supernatural fiction which trends young.

This just in: business releases commercial for itself. More at 11.

Do they still make the ones you warm up in water and push in to custom fit your ears? I knew someone who had one like that and it was apparently quite comfortable.

So if you are in Ohio, you can marry kids but not lock them in a room. It’s an oddly placed line, but it’s at least a line.

Two guys in overly complicated clothing fighting over who’s the daddy? What is this, Thursday night at the BDSM club?

Have you ever heard the phrase ‘walled garden?’ Apple makes their products to work very well together and with anyone else’s products they work in a way that is intentionally functional, so they can’t be said to be actually blocking interoperability, but mediocre, so you’ll get a better experience with their products. If you care about price, you aren’t using apple anyway, so it milks their price-insensitive customer base for more money while only really bothering the people who wouldn’t buy them anyway.

Splinter sect? Are we about to get some great schism in our historical shitshow soup?

Palm oil isn’t the drug we’re all addicted to.

There does seem to be a kind of ‘big hat=important’ idea that might be kind of innate to humans. It’s a problem.

I suspect the influencer type wouldn’t know there was more than one kind of can opener. The well-off influencer lifestyle is a consumer lifestyle, paying others to handle work. The person they pay to make the food probably knows all about it, but their focus is on how best to make shocked faces for thumbnails.

Not totally sure what you mean. What effect does the strata outside the pipe have on whether the pipe itself is in flux? Or are you describing a pipe carrying water vapor?

I would say it depends on whether the flow is part of the carrier or not. A conductor carrying a flow of electricity is in a state of flux as the electricity that moves through it is part of it. A pipe carrying a flow of water would not because the flow is not part of it, merely limited by it.

Bees or ants. I wish to taste the hive mind.

You’re still doing jars? Why not order from the manufacturer and get an IBC for over your bed?

I’ve always enjoyed it on honeyed brown rice cakes. There’s something to be said for the textural contrast of crispy vs unctuous.

Part of it will be the ‘blank canvas’ look. When people want to sell a house, they are told to remove any trace of personality or uniqueness. It presents the idea of a ‘blank canvas’ onto which prospective buyers (if human) can project their imagination, saying ‘This grey is dull. I’d paint it blue.’ For some reason, painting walls, say, red tends to lead to them thinking the room is ‘finished’ with the red colour, so they think ‘I don’t want this house. It has red walls.’ You can paint both, but the unconscious brain is incredibly stupid.

The other element is imitation of wealth. Wealthy people have ‘clean’ (can be read lifeless) space as a show of wealth. Many people, especially Western European and American people, have a bit of a Calvinist bent that leads them to imitate the wealthy. Knockoff luxury items is a big industry.

Shareholder profits cannot be allowed to fall. The price will increase, first as a way to make the same profits from a shrinking market, then as a disciplinary measure to teach those poors what happens when you let your friends stop buying product.

All the dots. . com would become com. 192.168.1.1 would become 19216811. All mentions of dippin dots would be affected across many different areas, though no one would be able to see it. Take all the tops off lower case I’s. It’d be fun.