#NeedsMoreLikes

[Sally_Mahoney]

Read this moving webcomic about peaches as they related to mental health and racism.

In Chinese mythology, peaches are the fruit of immortality. Sun Wu-kung, Monkey, gains immortality and special powers by stealing and eating one of the peaches of immortality and helps bring the Buddhist scriptures from India to China in the novel Journey to the West. Tao Yuan-ming, one of the earliest Chinese nature poets and an inspiration for many of the T’ang dynasty great poets, wrote a remarkable prose poem called “The Peach Blossom Fountain” about a fisherman who travels through a river…

[anon33932455]

I am fond of my Butter Bell

"Butter used to be sold in one pound blocks, wrapped in parchment paper and packaged in a cardboard box, until 1906, when a big buyer of butter from a restaurant in New Orleans asked if the butter company could sell butter in packs of four quarter-pound sticks rather than one big lump. They obliged, and the sticks were a hit. At the time, the town of Elgin, Illinois was known as the Butter Capital of the World, home to the famous Elgin Butter Company since 1871. It was with their Elgin Butter C…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Pepsi launching sleep aid soda

Chamomile tea is for when I’m ill. I mean, like, really ill. As in “Either kill me right away, or get me some chamomile tea. I am beyond caring.” No, maybe an Earl Grey or Assam, steeped for 3 1/2 minutes, with a dash of milk. Tea exists in an as yet unresolved quantum state while you brew it. Whether it is soothing or stimulating is decided entirely by the attitude in which you drink it. ETA: mispeling. Yes, that is how it should be spelled.

[GulliverFoyle]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/bb-caching-update/180055/29?u=gulliverfoyle

[FGD135]

Spaceships with the same ID number argue in "Floaters"

No, it really doesn’t. And I should know, I was elected arbiter of good taste for the English-speaking Internet last January. It’s a 10-year gig and I’m not going let this one pass unnoticed so early in my term.

[Sally_Mahoney]

The Gallery of Trump-Inspired Assholes (Part 1)

So - I’ve been wondering - what if instead of expanding the Supreme Court by two you reduce it by two instead? What happens? Do the two most recent appointments who have least seniority get booted? Bumped back down to a lower court like any government layoffs? Or just retired to make it easier on everyone? Bye -Bye- Bretty!

[anon61221983]

Amazon offers pork spray to protect from "Muslim rape gangs"

I just got off the phone with an amazon customer service rep. She has reported the listing and will also be discussing it at a meeting she has at 10am with her manager. This is disgusting I do not think listing the seller info if anyone else wants to report it is doxxing. If it is, I will remove it. Business Name:Porktector LLC - Aliza Franklin Business Address: 638 Lindero Canyon Road Oak Park CA 91377 US Edited for typos induced by rage.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Libertarian Party Supreme Court shortlist includes Alan Dershowitz

My short list of people I would like to see on the SCOTUS is just one. Get rid of all the others, and just have George Washington decide the cases. Specifically, the $0.25 piece. The lawyers call heads or tails while he’s still spinning in the air (and not his grave which is more likely) then the case is decided when he hits the ground. This probably would have resulted in better outcomes for most (not all) of the cases in the past few years, and it will most certainly result in better outcome…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Zoom meetings are a poor substitute for in-person meetings and a worse one for phone calls

I saw a meme where Zoom Calls are the modern seance. “Jenny… are you there? Can you hear us? Give us a sign you are there.” “Todd… we can hear you buy not see you… Are you with us?”

[beardroller]

Damn good thing Superman’s impervious to bullets because he’s going to be spending the first few episodes of that TV series just convincing the local PDs that he’s on their side.

[GulliverFoyle]

Catholic Priests used to perform abortions, and it was considered a lesser sin than fornication

It’s not “feelings” to say that restricting access to legal abortions and contraception is a violation of my rights. It’s a fact.

[anon61221983]

[GulliverFoyle]

Yeah, I don’t have any patience for even the implication that human rights are negotiable, and 2020 has only made me more Popperian.

[anon61221983]

I FEEL the same way!

[GulliverFoyle]

[Nightflyer]

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/watch-this-video-shows-why-the-word-smart-is-so-painful-for-trump/181564/39?u=nightflyer

Edit: the thread was split, so here is the new link:

Liberal Schadenfreude

I am so sick of this narrative that reduces America to conservatives and liberals who are mean to them for no reason, and ignores everyone else, like children the conservatives have eagerly been putting in god damn concentration camps and blacks the police have been shooting with impunity. Those are the things you’re and faulting people for calling “not okay” and waving off as “cerebral beliefs”. America had segregation within living memory, and no, those attitudes have not disappeared. Pretend…

Really, all @chenille’s posts in this thread need more likes, they’re knocking it out of the park today.

[Ratel]

Trump has COVID-19

All we can do is hope for the best outcome.

[Immutable_Mike]

Trump hospitalized with Covid symptoms

He did say that the Constitution gives him powers that no one knows about.

Trump hospitalized with Covid symptoms

Did it bite him? Or did he get irradiated by gamma rays while holding it?

[FGD135]

Trump has COVID-19

If I could wish any curse on Trump, it would just be self-awareness.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Regulating speech: cable vs. broadcast television

the same bandwidth limitations exist on a wire as through the electromagnetic field in the air it’s like saying they can’t regulate cable because cable is an orc and the legislation specified goblins