Vanth @ Vanth @reddthat.com

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My sister's network is named:

Ce n'est pas un réseau

I'd not want Aus to be judged on Fosters for instance..

Hate to break it to you, but in the US, Fosters is absolutely marketed as the Australian beer 😂. I think the Foster's in our stores is brewed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin under license though.

I've never seen stuff like Toohey's or VB here. Next time I go to Aus, maybe I'll do a cheep beer swap and bring cans of Keystone Light, Natty Light, Miller High Life, some of our other "sex-in-a-canoe" beers, as in "fucking close to water".

(I'm in the US). I've been told by multiple friends in multiple countries that they appreciate Reese's Pieces peanut butter candies. The salty-sweet combo is unique and they don't get them often in their countries.

My other go-tos depending on who I'm visiting would be a locally roasted coffee or an over-the-top flavor bomb craft beer. Like my local brewery has a seasonal on rotation right now, "Sprinkled doughnut double spiced oatmeal stout" with a bright, colorful can. My German friend is offended but intrigued by the beers I bring. Usually he gets playfully wound up insisting they don't count as real beer.

Free Fire (2016). Not my jam. It felt like a fan boy attempt at a Guy Ritchie story. And the shots of the main location, which takes place in a big warehouse, don't contain enough reference points so know where all the characters are at in any given moment. It was disorienting and made the fight scenes that much more difficult to follow.

Big World (2024) Chinese drama about a young man with cerebral palsy. This one is a tearjerker.

Shrek (2001) to celebrate its 25th anniversary a little early. Still such an impressive movie, I think a small, B-run studio would still be happy to put out that CGI work today.

I upvoter things I like or unique takes I disagree with that still seem interesting and in good faith.

I intentionally joined an instance that disabled downvotes.

Cremate the remains, use the ash as media for sculptures of people enthusiastically fucking. Let them end up a part of the fun.

I am unaware of a way to turn human remains into plastic. You can make hair into something like plastic though, by using lye to break it down. We would have to find some other environmentally responsible thing to do with the meat and bone bag part of the capitalist remains.

Flavored sparkling waters. My kingdom for a La Croix.

By all appearances, she is in control of her narrative. She can do as she likes.

The system that profits off of women expressing anything sexual is where any judgement should be cast.

Faithfulness to the accuracy of "chicken", however, did change with time.

45 minutes until the guests arrive and she had just one prep task left

She looked out the window to watch the houses pass by

I read about the Fediverse years ago and opened a couple accounts across a couple platforms. As I expected at the time, too low volume of people to really keep me engaged.

I stayed on reddit until same as everyone else here; they killed 3rd party apps and mod tools. I was a mod on a small, friendly little niche hobby sub. It started getting overrun by bots and MAGA types who wanted to make every post about guns and women staying home to serve their husbands. Good members started leaving the sub and I turned from having fun to loathing it very quickly. I created some fresh Fediverse accounts and made the move for real.

Lodged in a place a penny should never be.

Yes, I moved a couple years ago as one small step to remove Amazon in my life.

I know there are other alternatives, but StoryGraph met my needs and I never looked further.

Upon switching, they have import tools to help transfer your GoodReads read history and your TBR list into StoryGraph.

Once there, they have recommendations and giveaways, and challenges, similar to GoodReads. I'm by no means a power user but have not found any features missing from StoryGraph that I care about.

Imma need that on a Valentine's Day card to send to my sister. Matches her feelings about the holiday pretty well.

Anyone I've ever heard talking about the non-aggression principle spat red flags faster than a machine gun.

At best, they're truly so dense and unsympathetic they don't recognize actions that aren't directly or intentionally causing harm do still cause harm (example, the free state project people leaving food out for black bears "because they can" without thought for their neighbors who then have to deal with more bears). At worst, it's rape apologia (crap like statutory rape doesn't exist because that minor "totally asked for it" and the rape didn't cause physical damage).

What a fun read, ty. I went to the Talk page hoping for some back and forth about ensuring the description of the project was unbiased. Nope, nada, surpised there aren't any free state project fans within the ranks of Wikipedia editing volunteers who would have something to say.

White Zombie. It was fun seeing the low-budget combined with filming, acting, and dialogue that still hailed back to the silent film era. And for how racist it could have been in 1932, it really wasn't. Misogynist? Yes.

Ah, thanks for the explanation.

I would guess the next set of features "missing" from the Roku app have similar reason then. 1) I use a plugin to search and download subtitles from the browser interface; it would be great to be able to do that from the Roku app too and 2) once subtitles are available, easily adjusting the offset.