rootsbreadandmakka

Made the mistake of browsing Reddit at work and I see a thread where OP points out that the google overview lists Napoleon as “king of Italy.” Cue to all the comments calling OP an idiot because “technically he was!” So we’re gonna introduce Napoleon as “king of Italy” now without even mentioning France? Redditors love a technicality.

I’ll start:

Idaho - when people think “racism in the United States” their minds go to the Deep South. The Deep South is absolutely pretty bad, and there’s of course the whole history with the confederacy so it makes sense that’s what we think of, but Idaho is let off the hook way too much given that it’s a hotbed of Nazis and Christian nationalists trying to form a white ethnostate. Idaho needs to be more closely linked to virulent racism like the Deep South currently is. And tbh I’ve been to the Deep South, I like it down there, it’s actually pretty diverse in many areas, if I had to live there it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. You couldn’t pay me to set foot in Idaho.

Gen X - look, if we’re gonna do generational warfare gen x needs a lot more hate. Sorry to any xers out there but boomers have been punching bags for a while, millenials are starting to get a good amount of hate, and they’ve always been made fun of for their Harry Potter and office love, tbh a lot of millennial shit is just considered cringe these days, gen z obviously gets all the “ugh what’s wrong with the youth” hate and this new media cycle has them being portrayed as pretty much the new hitler youth. Gen x needs to start getting some more hate, especially now with all these weird gen x venture capitalists influencing the trump admin trying to realize their vision of a neo fascist network state

I’ve been buying this really nice fresh bakery bread on occasion recently. It’s good, but I don’t go through it super quickly so it’s sitting around for like 4 days give or take. I’d like to keep it relatively fresh for as long as possible and I’m wondering the best way to do that? Right now I keep it in a zip loc bag just on the table which seems to work okay, but I’m wondering if there’s something else that would be better. I’m not too worried about it going stale so much as I am about it getting moldy - especially as we move into the summer months. It gets quite humid where I am. Again I don’t need to keep it fresh for like, weeks and weeks, but just for like 4 or 5 days, something like that.

If you’re not a communist when you’re old, you have no brain (and also no heart)

There’s a ton out there about his anti-vax statements, promotion of raw milk, opposition to flouride in water. But a lot of people seem to just not understand him. They’ll say “well there’s a lot I actually agree with him on” since he’ll say oh I want healthier school lunches and I want to have food standards similar to Europe, so people just think he’s a well-intentioned guy who just happens to hold some way out there views. They think he’s illogical, when really there’s a very dangerous logic going on here, and that’s that he doesn’t believe in germ theory.

This was really annoying me today at the hearing, the dems (the only people who would attack him save for one or two republicans who offered slight pushback) were so entirely focused on vaccines and Medicaid that Kennedy’s entire outlook on health went over their head. There was like one question rushed at the end where someone asked do you believe germs cause disease and Kennedy just said yes and that was it. Kennedy doesn’t believe in germ theory, not really. Maybe he’s not the most vehement germ theory denier but he’s not really on board with it. And private healthcare loves this because it blames the individual for health. You brought this upon yourself by having diabetes, by being old, by being immunocompromised, by having a bad diet etc etc, and so why should private healthcare pay. Explains why Kennedy kept going on about how people have to take responsibility for their own health. Feel like this is going over people’s heads as he’s portrayed as just some weird eccentric, rather than pushing what is fundamentally eugenics wrapped up in germ theory denialism. Anyway that’s it, rant over.

Yeah, so my phone is pretty much breaking and I need a new one. My mom convinced me to upgrade from my iPhone 8 to an iPhone 15 because we got a really steep discount, but goddamn I fucking hate this phone. I’m still using my iPhone 8 just because I really can’t stand the 15 at all, and the 8 was already a downgrade from the phone I had had before.

Well, I’ve wanted to get out of the Apple ecosystem for years and I think now might be the time. I feel okay about it since I really did get this iPhone 15 at a really nice discount so it’s not the hardest loss (also I’m pretty sure I can still return it, but even if not). But I know nothing about non-Apple phones. Is it possible to get a Xiaomi phone in the USA? Does Samsung still have issues with their phones exploding? Any insight is appreciated.

Obviously there are the climate change denialists who think “global elites” have paid actors setting forest fires around the globe, but there are also reputable people saying this. When I hear arson, I hear a person starting a fire with malicious intent. Are there really massive numbers of malicious firestarters around the globe, or does arson also cover things like recklessness/carelessness, like if I burn trash in my backyard or start a campfire on the woods and it gets out of control?

fucking bleak

Guess this is November now

Are there any positives to fireworks? Got a ton of them going off near my house. Some people say it’s for Diwali, some people say a town near us is celebrating some anniversary. Both seem equally unlikely, but in any case, it’s just loud as shit, fucks up the air quality, scares all the animals, every fucking dog in my neighborhood has started barking. Subjective I suppose but they’re really not worth all the negatives.

Edit: turns out that some dude around here, his dog had a seizure bc of fireworks tn. I think the dog is okay but yeah, fuck fireworks

Northeast USA. And next week it’s supposed to go up to 75. Good thing climate change is a hoax though, cause then I might be worried!