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...competent? The man sleepwalked his country out of the EU 🤣

I mean, give the guy some credit, he actually managed to get it inside the pig. I'm not sure relevant entities in the current tory party could do that with any consistency :V

Eh... where I'm at it's about 7 bucks for a 200 count of pads. Even if you're using one every shit and every shower it's also going to last a month or two or whatever, heh. But yeah, it's a bit more expensive for a bit more convenience. Not bank breaking either way, just depends on preference.

Wait, why? You can toast naan in a pan. Can toast most bread-stuff in a pan.

Somewhere in the recent information about Gaza, I'd heard/read that 50% of the population is 18 or younger. There's going to be a cultural difference between what a child and an adult is, but...

The median age in the strip was (probably still is, even with over ten thousand new corpses) 18, yeah. Which means half of its population is 18 or younger. Basically the entirety of them would have few to no memories of a time when gaza wasn't under blockade.

It's one of the myriad tragedies about the whole thing, really

I mean... one of the problems I often have with the whole design thing is design is shown by what is done -- a machine does what it's designed to do, and what it ends up doing is what its design dictates. That's not always what a human designer intended for it to do, but... most conceptualizations of a creator god doesn't really get to have that excuse.

If we're built by some sort of god (or at least common conceptualizations of them), we're very intentionally built to do great and often far and away excessive harm to all sorts of things, and some of that is difficult or outright impossible to avoid. Our "design intent" is kinda' fucking horrible if you look at how we function; jackass should have built us to photosynthesize and probably reproduce by parthenogenesis or something, just as a start. Maybe put some more effort into quality controls because holy good goddamn shit do we have problems on that front.

Hell, basically everything living has problems on that front, fucker shouldn't have pushed out a release build while nearly everything still got cancer, good gods. QA team for that one needs to be fired, possibly into the sun.

... but yeah, it's one of the reasons I kinda' hate the whole intelligent design thing, personally, and basically everything adjacent to it. If something designed mankind (or most everything, for that matter) the bastard was bloody malignant. If there's no god behind that, I don't have to live with the knowledge I have a great need to hate the divine with basically every fiber of my being, and that's a much more comforting world, t'me. I can live with uncaring better than I can malice.

having no internal organs became associated with sex work.

I mean, for what it's worth, that connection actually kinda' exists? Or at least improbable internal structures of similar intent; you can see an example in Baltimore Whores (song's mostly lacking in outright vulgarity, but it's definitely NSFW), which culminates with a prostitute boasting about a fleet of ships sailing in to her nethers and getting lost for several months.

General concept is explaining how they take so many varied things into varied orifices, basically, with missing organs being a partial justification. Could swear there's some weird demon-type critters leaning into that in real world mythology, even, though I can't remember anything specific off the top of my head.

There's definitely some feels in state republicans chucking out nearly 30k voter registrations the day before the vote and then still losing on both issues by about half a million. Sadly not supermajority support, but a ~13 point margin is still pretty damn clear about the voters' general sentiment on the subjects, heh.