Dharma Curious

… DAMMIT

Don’t forget the discrimination and frequent unreported assaults on queer folks and people of color!

Tennessee: The volunteer (to give up any reasonable expectation at a decent quality of life) state!

Any suggestions on a different instance to move to? Preferably something smaller. I switched from world to this one because of outages during the Rexxit or whatever the hell it was called.

The scene with the wounds on his hands, something like:

“does it hurt?”

“Not really”

Pours salt in wounds “Does it now?”

“No”

Breaks thermometer into the wounds “how about now?”

“A little”

“Aww! Poor baby!” Bandages wounds

That scene has played on a loop in the back of my brain for decades. It’s fucking hilarious. That and when the evil master reveals his name is Betty, and plays Big Butts. I loved that movie before I started smoking weed, and I loved it even more the first time I watched it stoned.

I forget who it was, but according to ancestry, I’m related to an old US president 3 different times (dad’s great grandad, dad’s great grandma, moms great, great grandma). And similarly related to one of the singers of the declaration of Independence, I think from NH on both sides of my family. By marriage I am also related to a couple figures that are very famous in my local area, but I’m not gonna name because self doxxing.

But for real, my family tree has no branches, apparently.

One from my childhood in the south, would occasionally hear the adults say “my ___ hurts worse than a whore’s knees on nickel blowjob day”

I love the idea of an officiant with total free reign. “You may now kiss… The grooms mother on the cheek. … Just playing, y’all. They gonna dance. Dance, boys!”

Good use for it! My best friend is a former Baptist preacher who still occasionally preaches at different churches, and he likes to use it whenever that comes up.

Mind if I ask if it was a religious ceremony?

Question. I am a computer dumb. Is this scary for me? Lol.

Came here looking for someone to have quoted this. I quote it to bigots all the time and it straight pisses them off.

I don’t have an ew response here. There’s a long history of preserving body parts. There are books in libraries bound in human skin. Y’all will sit bare assed on a leather couch but get grossed out by this? I mean, I guess I understand it, but I just don’t have that reaction.

I do want to know why they chose those three tattoos to showcase, because there had to be something better…

There’s an excellent video by technology connections in which he mentions this. Turns out, sort of not true. That said, in the modern day, that 100% is gonna be the case, IMHO. Porn flows like wine anymore, and people aren’t going to want to adopt some weird pornless tech.

As a confused American, why does 187ml size exist? My confusion is not with the metric system, I’m fluentish. But… Why so small? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bottle of wine smaller than 500ml, and even that is pretty teeny. That’s the size of a water bottle. Am I just not shopping at the right liquor stores, or is this a British thing to do shots of wine?

That’s really cool to know! I doubt I’ll ever get the opportunity, but it’ll be something I try if I ever do!

Good catch. I genuinely don’t know if that was me or autocorrect 😄

It does make me wonder where they swiss government will acquire their coke. With weed, it’s fairly easy to grow it wherever you need to, but with coke, you pretty much have to be in certain regions, yeah?

If that’s the case, is this still going to be supporting those same cartels? If more countries legalized, we could maybe hope to see legally grown, harvested, and processed coke without all the slave labor and shit. Could be a real boon for South American countries, too, if the cartels lost power, and the cocoa plantations could be nationalized.

I just woke up, so I may be just talking out my ass, though

I use subtitles for everything, because I’m hard of hearing, but thanks for the warning!

And that sucks. It’s based on a book series, yeah? If I’m super invested, hopefully I can get my fix like that.

I really need to watch the expanse.

Kinda related, I’ve been saying for years we need more “the gravity plating is out” episodes where everything is floating around, bumping into shit, causing problems. We got one scene in enterprise and that’s it. :/

Started the first book. Just finished the chapters Clear Air Turbulence. I was hooked from the prologue!

It also occured to me, I haven’t read much scifi. I watch a lot of scifi, I read a lot of fantasy. I haven’t read much sci-fi, so it’s kind of fun that it’s something new to me that I’d never really considered was missing until now. Thanks for the rec!