It’s the origins of it.

When it started being used, it was used derogatorily, so the connotation stuck despite it not being inherently racist to shorten a word.

Tbh, it doesn’t have to be a slur still. But it is still used by racists as a slur because of the origins, so it would take a cohesive effort to reclaim and reframe it.

It isn’t an either/or proposition. There’s multiple ways to both have a viewing and keep a body from getting deep into decomposition, and there’s really no issues with the face automatically becoming grotesque. It really isn’t an every time thing. It isn’t even a majority of the time, when the body is kept cool enough. Pinning isn’t the only option for keeping a mouth closed either.

People have done in home wakes way longer than the funerary industry has existed. There’s plenty of options available.

The goddess of grief

Look, I get it. I read through this thread, and I get the point you’re making, absolutely.

Always, always remember that we’re all human and prone to horrible errors of judgement. We don’t know the dude, we don’t know his story that led up to this.

What you seem to be missing is that a past trauma is no more or less likely than a neutral or positive past. None of those excuse assault and battery. You can absolutely judge a person based on their actions. We do it all the time in jury trials. Him having had some kind of suffering related to Palestine or Hamas wouldn’t mean he wasn’t guilty of assault and battery, though it might mitigate things for sentencing.

Would those UNICEF workers now be justified in going somewhere, screaming at some Israeli bank teller and head butting them? No. And I think you know that.

I applaud your compassion. We should always consider such things in forming opinions. We also do not have to forego judgement because of that compassion.

I think I know his name, it’s right on the tip of my tongue…

Biggus Dickus! That’s it!

Right now, nothing tops paprika.

It’s relatively expensive, even more so if you want it on multiple platforms as each one is a new purchase.

But there’s simply nothing out there better, period, much less on android. Better organization, better webclipping, better editing, better everything.

I tried every android recipe manager, and most of the windows based ones, plus some on iOS since my wife has the one flaw of preferring that (just joking, I ain’t mad at people preferring a brand) ecosystem.

Nothing could do everything paprika could do, and most of them didn’t do any single thing better.

Heh, you said do do

Instructions unclear, brain melting out of nose

Ngl, assuming they had documentation on what all they used to patch this thing together, I would buy this kind of thing if I had the funds.

I generally prefer my little hatchbacks, but this looks so damn neat, and I sure wouldn’t object to the ground clearance lol.

Lmmfao! Gods, I wish I had thought of that. Wasn’t where I was going, but that made me envious of you having caught it.

See, that’s good thinking!

Me? I took my step child in, treated them well, taught them self defense and martial arts, then adopted them. HUGE mistake, now they bloody well know that they’re gong to inherit the house some day, and are playing the long game, waiting for me to die on my own instead of shivving me in the kidney like a proper stepdad should go down.

Such a rookie error on my part.

Exactly!

It’s infuriating lol. One of the rare remakes I am looking forward to, and this happens

Oh, holy fuck, it’s better than good.

It’s genre defining masterpiece of absurdist escapism.

No bullshit, no joking, it’s one movie everyone should see once, even if they end up not liking it because it exemplifies what a B movie can be, and why they’re so fun. And, it manages to be coherent despite the absurdity of the premise and the script. There’s a story there that makes sense, and resonates in the same way Spider-Man does. Again, I’m not joking.

I have to keep saying I’m not joking because Toxie gets pigeon holed as comedy, and it is a comedy as much as anything else, but Ritter and Kaufman crafted a brilliant script in terms of cultural relevancy, plus Herz and Kaufman made it work on screen with a minimal budget. That is filmmaking at its purest. The cast, despite largely being mediocre or bad actors in an objective way, manage to work together to be greater than the sum of their skill.

And yes, I know exactly what I’m saying and how it looks lol. But, again, I’m not joking. I really think the Toxic Avenger stands out as not only the best Troma film, and at least in the top ten of all B movies, and it deserves to be held to the same esteem and affection as more mainstream movies.

I’ll also down vote anyone using up votes as some kind of metric for their post/comment being inherently right/good

Tbh, I tried out a friend’s palma before getting one of their other models. The palma really doesn’t improve much compared to a phone. Yeah, the eink screens stress way better for reading, but the size factor matters a lot.

Reading on a device with phone dimensions just isn’t as smooth. You need more width to give enough room for your eyes to not be bouncing around as much. I thought that it would be easier with phone dimensions because you should be able to take in an entire line without scanning side to side, but it doesn’t work out that way.

That being said, the palma I tried out was pretty damn nice otherwise. A little ghosting, a little lag on scrolling through lists and such, but it fits in the hand nicely, and holds a charge for days of solid reading.

I dunno if the new one has the same situation, but the boox devices I’ve used are set up where you have to actively make the play store available, and it isn’t something that’s obvious how to do. That’s good or bad, depending on why you’re picking a boox over a kobo, kindle, or whatever because it’s android.

Afaik, there’s no apps that do that. You’re likely just going to have to block individual accounts

Being real though, I often have more than 20 comments a day. It really isn’t that difficult to rack up if you’re bored and have the time. I’m not much of a poster, but 10 a day isn’t too far outside of feasibility for a person that’s into memery. So you’d end up filtering out people that would likely be good to have access to over time, even if it’s rare. If you do figure out a way to do it, might want to bump your threshold up a little.

Nah, IDGAF about it one way or another. You run into more jerks there than average, but that’s about it, so as long as block lists function, it’s all good

System on chip.

It’s basically all of the stuff needed to make a device function on a single board. Radios, processors, memory, etc.