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6 hours agoI’m sure you, and many other are OOTL, so here’s a way to connect:
https://www.change.org/p/demand-a-hand-count-audit-of-pennsylvania-s-2024-presidential-election
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My understanding is that one can grow a different variety of grass, which will look different than the original grass, and so a message in contrasting grass colors can emerge over days and weeks. And thus convey a message, e.g. I once heard from a veteran that someone had walked across a parade field dropping seed, and making the letters Phi, Tau, Alpha, i.e. FTA or Fuck The Army, arise some time later. It’s labor intensive to remove it, once established.
It’s a great question. It seemed earlier in my life, e.g. 80s & 90s that people were moving towards greater comfort with nudity, AND have become more prudish about nudity in the 00s, 10s, 20s. When I go to one of the many hot springs that I like to visit in my region, it is often the case that I’m the only one who is nude. I’ve never been shy about my body, but the younger generations seem much more shy than they used to be, back when I was one of the younger generations. I tried looking up some articles to try and find an answer to your question, and most point to religion, and the puritanical origins of the current US culture. But there was a clear, from my viewpoint, decrease in this prudishness from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and a clear increase more recently.
Here’s an article from The Free Library, March 1998 USA Today which delves into the topic: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Confronting+the+public+nudity+taboo.-a020409128
I was at an onsen about an hour’s drive from my home a few months back. There were people of varying genders, and pretty much everyone was wearing some sort of clothing in the water, something that makes no sense to me. And no one expressed any problem with me wearing a hairtie and some water shoes so I got in the water. It was heavenly, and we soaked and conversed for quite a while. Until this one guy shows up, gets into the top/ hottest pool, and a little while later after assessing that I’ve probably warmed up enough for some real heat. I walk up the steps from the second pool to the top pool, and start to get in… But this guy starts complaining that I’m nude, he’s really bothered. I get one foot into the water, but it’s too hot for me. And he looks like one of those red skinned wrathful demons featured in Tibetan Thankhas. So I ask if he’s ok with me getting in the water, and he says, “no”. Since I can’t get in anyway I decide to give him a social “win” by retreating to the second pool. Meanwhile my friend starts lecturing the guy about how he needs to evict the inner cop from his mind. They guy just won’t let up, tho. Since we’ve been there for quite a while already I decided it would be better if we left. Of course this means that to get to my clothes I have to go back up where he is, giving him another gander at my lovely exterior. I put my clothes on, and we left. Friends that I’ve told this story to have wondered if that guy was just one or a few views of the male physique away from discovering his true sexual interests.
And most importantly he’s missing the cue.
What a putz. EU, U do U.
17·3 days ago“We were not allowed to have any messaging apps on our work phones,” said one former top national security official on the condition of anonymity. “And under no circumstances were unclassified messaging apps allowed to be used for transmission of classified material. This is misdirection at its worst.”
The defect he’s searching for is a back door. Not gonna happen. Everyone, please use and support Signal, says the guy who has been getting people on Signal since Snowden rec’d it in 2015 (https://www.tomshardware.com/news/edward-snowden-favorite-security-tools,30507.html). I had to look it up.
The other tools in this recommendation: Tor OTR TAILS Qubes OS
I’ll leave it to others to comment on the viability of the rest, and Signal has gotten an enormous ‘signal boost’ from Signalgate, so I’ll count that as a win.
Treason, convicted for treason, has such a nice sound to it.
People will die directly as a result of the policies of this administration; literally there will be increases in morbidity and mortality. And pyutti could not be happier. It will take decades to recover from the damage done just up to this date. I cannot fathom what 45 more months will do in terms of harm to the US and to the rest of the world directly from these policies. smh.
I saw some of those during the early part of the covid pandemic. It’s interesting, if only we could convince enough people to do less.
If only the US were still doing science, we could study how beneficial this lack of air travel was for the climate.
Congresswoman Waters, thank you very much for continuing to be who you are, and doing an impeccable job.
Yeah, ignoring a judges specific orders and claiming that you didn’t, threatening a judge, that sort of stuff doesn’t go over well.
What a lovely coincidence.
Best news I’ve read all day!
Are we talking Weed Mojitos? M’confusted?
President Mortality and Morbidity.