I’ve been trying to find one. There are not a lot of resources here - to the point where the DOJ is investigating local lack of access to mental health care as a statewide civil rights violation.

This is all I feel capable of doing, but I don’t know where I can get help. I tried going inpatient and got physically assaulted and then fired from my job.

I grew up in the kind of place where conservative fundamentalists still identified as Democrats into the 90s - Dixiecrats were alive and well. Heard rants from relatives about the monstrous government overreach into the ‘10s as they’d refuse to put their seat belts on.

The problem with freestyle machines from what I hear is that they are basically impossible to clean, so they just don’t.

(This is true about the ice makers in 90% of restaurants too, admittedly…)

They are still buttmad that Jimmy Carter asked them to not use up gasoline like toilet paper after a day of chipotle and Taco Bell. Its oppositional defiant disorder as politics. Remember how absolutely pissed people were about seat belt laws?

I can’t see any evidence of 小红书 being used to described the Quotations. The term for that book I see being used is 红宝书 - “treasured red book.”

It seems like literally every Chinese person I’ve talked to is absolutely delighted when a westerner is interested in Chinese culture. I remember being assigned a trip to a buffet for a high school Chinese class, and my atonal 你好 got about as much praise as a baby sputtering out “da-da” for the first time. I posted some calligraphy on 小红书 a couple days ago and I am getting gassed up for it.

I think discussions on the qipao are more concerned with it be sexualized/treated as a fetish costume. It’s formal wear.

And then of course, they named the main university’s mascots/fight song/etc after the “Boomers” and “Sooners” - people so eager to steal indigenous land that they couldn’t bother waiting for the government to make it legal.

There was a group that tried to get them to change it, but culture wars crowd absolutely pissed and shit themselves - they were already pissed after the chemistry building stopped being named after a Klan member.

Unless I linked the wrong breakdown, he goes into examples in the Bible of when feet are euphemistically, and compares those to the descriptions of Jesus washing feet - that they had dissimilar language and don’t match. I don’t think you can gloss what he said as “people who study the Bible don’t agree on it” - he’s an academic, and academics couch their language. I thought it was clear that he was mildly entertaining the idea more out of amusement and to give some context as an educator.

Like, so ridiculous a suggestion that you would need substantial evidence for it be reasonable. The symbolism behind the act of service seems fairly clear - washing feet is placing yourself in submission to someone. Aligns with more explicit textual things: “turn the other cheek” etc.

Also a convenient place to dump non-inheriting sons.

Dan McClellan has a good breakdown of why that is extremely unlikely.

Mainly I’m going to slave these bitches […] I’m going to make them work even more hours and hours and hours… I work these bitches like slaves. […] SLAVE work. Minimum 10 or 12 hours a day."

“I don’t want to tell them that they have OnlyFans, I want that money to be used by me and you, screw them…”

“I don’t want them to have the passwords, I don’t want them to have anything.”

The death penalty is kind for men like this.

Also helps them get away with hiding shoddy/cheap parts.

~2018-2020 Hondas have defective air condensers. They aren’t rated for the refrigerant. They are basically guaranteed to fail. You also have to go to a dealership to get your AC serviced. There’s a warranty for the AC, but it’s that dealer that checks whether your AC meets the warranty or not (amazing how easy it is to find bits of debris and deny the warranty when no third party can double check.)

You could crack open an original Xbox and do a lot of modifications with it. The Xbox 360 was designed to be as annoying to take apart as possible, possibly to hide the cheap components that lead to the red ring of death…

Reminds me of the Dustmen from Planescape: Torment. Maybe in our future, even death won’t be a retirement.

It’s Route 66 memorabilia - shit like “oh shit this is an oddly round barn” is considered notable. There’s also a whale that looks like a fifth graders paper mache project.

Here’s Mike Pence’s reaction to Mulan, when it came out I could dig up some similar Limbaugh guff. Peterson is not that original or smart.

Just spent a memorable Fathers Day, like so many other all American Hoosier dads, with my kids at the new Disney film entitled, “Mulan”. For those who have not yet been victimized by the McDonald’s induced hysteria over this film, Mulan is a fictional account of a delicate girl of the same name who surreptitiously takes her fathers place in the Chinese army in one of their ancient wars against the Huns. Despite her delicate features and voice, Disney expects us to believe that Mulan’s ingenuity and courage were enough to carry her to military success on an equal basis with her cloddish cohorts. Obviously, this is Walt Disney’s attempt to add childhood expectation to the cultural debate over the role of women in the military. I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan’s story will cause a quiet change in the next generation’s attitude about women in combat and they just might be right. (Just think about how often we think of Bambi every time the subject of deer hunting comes into the mainstream media debate.)

The only problem with this liberal hope is the reality which intrudes on the Disney ideal from the mornings headlines. From the original “Tailhook” scandal involving scores of high ranking navy fighter pilots who molested subordinate women to the latest travesty at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, the hard truth of our experiment with gender integration is that is has been an almost complete disaster for the military and for many of the individual women involved. When Indiana Congressman Steve Buyer was appointed to investigate the Aberdeen mess, he shocked the public with the revelation that young, nubile, 18 year old men and women were actually being HOUSED together during basic training. Whatever bone head came up with this idea should be run out of this man’s Army before sundown. Housing, in close quarters, young men and women (in some cases married to non-military personnel) at the height of their physical and sexual potential is the height of stupidity. It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Me thinks the politically correct Disney types completely missed the irony of this part of the story. They likely added it because it added realism with which the viewer could identify with the characters. You see, now stay with me on this, many young men find many young women to be attractive sexually. Many young women find many young men to be attractive sexually. Put them together, in close quarters, for long periods of time, and things will get interesting. Just like they eventually did for young Mulan. Moral of story: women in military, bad idea.

There’s also the original 1940 version of Fantasia.

That Dumbo has a crow named “Jim” in a group of three behaving remarkably like minstrel show characters is also… unpleasant.

The term woke is at least around 100 years old.

It was specifically a reminder to stay “woke” (awake) of the threat of lynching.

Disney made Pixar remove a trans character from an upcoming TV series.

They also pulled an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur which had a trans character.

How many gay characters have there been across mainline Disney films? They shoved some token representation into terrible films that weren’t going to be successful anyway (live action Beauty and the Beast and I guess there’s lesbians in Lightyear? As a gay trans man, I can shut Mulan off halfway through and pretend) Make some shitty movies (because why let a queer sully a good movie?), get some notoriety with the backlash, and then say “movies with queers in them don’t sell! Nothing for it!”

These are the same people were throwing fits about teenage girls talking about periods and boys in Turning Red. Maybe it’s time to stop listening to them.