Just like a coka cola funded paramilitary organisation quashes a union by killing its members, a crisp sip of coke will quench your thirst like no other

And since all of those are videos without me realising

I know we’re living in the backward world, but this isn’t satire, its pretty much historically accurate.

https://dn710009.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-ultimate-encyclopedia-of-knots-and-ropework/The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework_text.pdf

Fill yer boots mate!

Top three that I use on a regular basis

Bowline (quick knot that’s strong, a common error is that when you try to pull it tight it falls apart, dont panic, you just went the wrong way through the loop you make in step 1)

Sheet bend (a bowline that’s gone horribly wrong somewhere (you’ll get that joke after a bit of practice)lmao but theknot can attach two completely different ropes together)

Figure 8 loop (like a bowline but no matter how much weight you put in the loop it’s still easy to undo)

Reef knot - the most common way to tie two ends together

Monkeys fist (impractical unless you’re throwing ropes into trees, but real fun to make out of old climbing rope if you’ve got pets.

If you want to save your hands and your floor from being shredded and filled with tiny shards of nylon fiber, pick up some of the stuff that has a core and a woven cover from a local hardware store or talk to an outdoor shop to see if theyve got any unusable lengths.

I picked up some Dyneema offcuts dirt cheap from a local sailing chandler’s on ebay (Dyneema’s the brand name for an often overpriced rope made from UHMWPE - “Ultra high molecular weight poly ethylene”, same material as plastic bags but DENSE and as a result hilariously strong- my 3mm thick rope can pull 1 ton before breaking, shit’s WILD)

If you’re making a decision for yourself, because you feel better for not doing something, where the alternative is to do it out of habit or some form of compulsion that makes you feel bad or like it’s a waste of energy, then you definitely don’t need strangers on the internet telling you anything about it (doubly so if it doesn’t hurt anyone.)

And by the sounds of the olympics, good luck getting the athletes from around the world that you put in one place to stop finding other athletes attractive XD

The commander in chief can’t even bother to sit through briefings, I’m now under the impression the guy doesnt have any strategy at all, and instead thinks that all is well and Iran is just another stretch of desert that he can bulldoze like Israel did Gaza.

<3 o7

In related positive news, Iran just hit one of the facilities used to produce white phosphorus

Going to refer to my favourite meme of the pandemic and say masks work both ways

Hard to find one small enough

WEARING A MASK IS LIKE WEARING A CONDOM.

Would you risk a permanent disease for the sake of “ehh I dont like how it feels”?

Stopping the digging up and burning of carbon fuels is a start.

It took the planet literal hundreds of thousands of years to get the carbon level of the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels, and we’ve undone that in the past near 200

It’ll take a lot, but it’s not impossible to increase carbon capture, use ground based solar to give shade and re-green some desert areas (proven to work) we can easily provide the entire earth’s power requirements while also increasing the carbon sequestration.

“The 1948 Palestine war[b] (30 November 1947 – 10 March 1949) was fought in the territory of what had been, at the start of the war, British-ruled Mandatory Palestine.[16] It began as a civil war between the Arab and Jewish communities following the United Nations Partition Plan and became an international conflict with the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel,[c] the termination of the British mandate, and the entry of the armies of neighbouring Arab states into Palestine. During the war, Zionist forces[d] conquered about 78% of the former territory of the mandate causing the expulsion and flight of over 700,000 Palestinians.”

No, that one’s on the british for deciding to divvy up land that wasn’t theirs.

“Although the Jewish Agency accepted the partition plan, it did not accept the proposed borders as final and Israel’s declaration of independence avoided the mention of any boundaries. A state in part of Palestine was seen as a stage towards a larger state when opportunity allowed. Although the borders were ‘bad from a military and political point of view,’ Ben Gurion urged fellow Jews to accept the UN Partition Plan, pointing out that arrangements are never final, ‘not with regard to the regime, not with regard to borders, and not with regard to international agreements’. The idea of partition being a temporary expedient dated back to the Peel Partition proposal of 1937. When the Zionist Congress had rejected partition on the grounds that the Jews had an inalienable right to settle anywhere in Palestine, Ben Gurion had argued in favour of acceptance, 'I see in the realisation of this plan practically the decisive stage in the beginning of full redemption and the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine.”

I take issue with the MEANS by which the state of israel invaded, and the fact the state agreed with the original plan with the undeniable intent to further invade.

And with Israel’s continued actions after the UN agreed to give israel more than half of Palestinian land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cast_Thy_Bread

“Funny” you should bring up 1948 specifically.

What specific event happened in that year?

Ah, yes. “Israel declared independence” … right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

The original creator of the 40 beheaded babies propaganda lie also tried to hang himself after being caught raping kids

I’m by NO means a normal person, but I can have full conversations with imaginary people, and if I try, I can put that part of my own thoughts I’m ‘talking to’ into either a setting or a person I know’s body, at which point the me in my head talks to them like I would talk to that person. It’s like rubber ducking but in my own head.

But in terms of arguing with myself about things, I do it a lot when I weigh up pros and cons of doing something, different ‘parts of me/my brain’ giving differing opinions to come to a decision.

I mean this with no jokes or puns, but I can’t imagine having aphantasia, though that’s partially because my work and hobbies revolve around (that pun was intended) a lot of mental manipulation of 3d objects to understand how things work.

MAGGOTS

“In the time it takes to argue with yourself about doing it, you could have just done it already.”