So I’m your worldview women are inherently in need of protection from men, who are inherently predators? Yeah, maybe go read some feminist texts before making broad generalizations like that…

Another strawman… Are we talking about all men? When did I say all men were predators ? We are talking about a 50 year old man who’s been married several times and has defended the abuse allegations of his good friend Marilyn Manson?

Yes, I would apply considerations of wealth imbalance far before applying considerations of gender imbalances, as wealth imbalances tend to create much more oppressive conditions.

And you aren’t doing it in this case because…? Also, how often do you see a relationship between an old man and a teenager where there wasn’t a wealth imbalance…it’s almost like that’s inherent to the problem.

Now whose strawmanning? Should every relationship need to conform to your notions of “normal”?

Still you. How is being able to relate to someone not topical to relationships?

Why couldn’t anyone use that same rationale to broadly criticize mixed culture relationships, queer relationships, or any other form of relationship?

Lol, it’s telling that you are equating all of these to a 50 year old millionaire marrying a 19 year old. True ally.

What exactly is the through line between mixed culture, queer relationships, and “any form of relationship”? And what prevents them from relating to each other? Oh, I’m queer and so is my partner…we obviously don’t have anything to talk about. What are you talking about?

The dude is from an entirely different generation.

The fixation on the 50 year old millionaire and not the specifics of their relationship erases the woman.

That’s not a specific of the relationship?

What’s the millionaire’s partner’s name? Who is she as a person? Has she spoke about abuse, coersion, or grooming?

The whole point is that the power dynamic is obvious and can be abused to control the relationship. Including talking to people about the relationship.

Do old men always groom young women? Are young men impervious to grooming, coersion, and abuse from old women?

Is there not an established enough history of that happening coming from rich, powerful, and famous men?

Did I say anything about rich powerful and famous women not being able to do the same?

Do you think that narratives that place women as innocents who need to be protected are useful in pushing forward feminist golas of sex/gender equality? How?

That is the narrative you are attempting to represent this as. Women are systemically disadvanged on both a legal and economic scale that makes it easier for wealthy and powerful men to treat them as sexual objects. Attempting to ignore the systemic history of misogyny and then declare that if you don’t think women are capable of being invulnerable to these forces is misogynistic. Feminism not just about equality, it’s about equity and recognition that the patriarchy is maintained to isolate women from the equity that would free them of another avenue of control.

think that empowering women to understand they are individuals who can make choices for themselves and who can hold otherwise in positions of power to account is a much better approach.

How exactly is the 19 year going to hold their powerful partner to account if they are abused? Choosing to be controlled by a much more powerful man is your version of feminism?

I guess if you do not have the ability to recognize that people can use experience and material resources to manipulate…

You sound exactly like a conservative saying “Imagine if your daughter came home with a woman!”

Ahh yes, homosexual relationships are exactly like a 50 year old millionaire dating a 19 year old. It’s so obvious!

Is your premise that 19 year old are not adults? Or that there ought to be caps on age differences written into law? Or that women should be infantilized until they lose any notion of being “young”?

Are these all strawman arguments? Are they made to hide your lust beneath a thin veil of feminism? Does your faux feminist view actually help protect women, or does it help protect the men who prey upon them? Does your analysis account for material and social power dynamics?

find it incredibly weird how much effort and criticism is placed on individual relationships based on age-difference alone. It screams Puritan ideals of feminine innocence and the evils of sex.

I find it incredibly weird that anyone is immature enough to date someone half their age. As someone quickly approaching their 40s, I have nothing in common with someone in their late 20s, let alone someone who’s 19.

If there is evidence of coersion or grooming, let’s hear it. Otherwise all I see are efforts to undermine the notion that a woman (especially a young woman) is capable of making “good” romantic decisions.

Do you think evidence of grooming or coercion is often exposed before the damage is done?

It’s hilarious that you are trying to act like you are defending the woman in the relationship, while simultaneously assuming that anyone is criticizing the woman and not the 50 year old millionaire…

If you want to keep it basic you can buy the bokashi bran online. I just use a 5 gallon igloo water cooler for fermentation.

Do you do direct burial or use it to heat up a heap?

Just bury it after fermentation. It becomes really rich soil in like a week to two weeks. The worms love the fermented scraps, so it really gets broken down by them before it fully decomposes. No heaps or heating required. You can also just buy it directly under what your planting and it will feed the plant for at least a season.

Basic guide for the type of composting I do.

You can also look up guides on YouTube or online to make your own inputs by searching for KNF or Korean Natural Farming. It will basically teach you to run an fully self sufficient garden/small farm

Another benefit of gardening is a lot of organic waste reduction. I started to do composting using lactic acid bacteria and it reduced the amount of stuff we were throwing away to the point where we only really need to set the trashcan on the curb like once every 4 weeks.

You basically inoculate your food scraps, paper, and cardboard with bacteria that starts breaking it down before you put it in the ground. No more flies, smell, watching what you are putting in the compost, or having to turn it over all the time. Once you fill your container you just set it aside to pickle for a week and then bury it, two weeks in the ground and its good to go.

Having watched that interview, they are either having a manic episode or are on a bunch of amphetamines. She was blinking like 3 times a sec throughout a 15min interview, it looked like they were attempting to blink out a message in Morse code.

Some people are just truly shitty people willing to do anything to stay relevant or make a buck. You really don’t need to have some alphabet man with a gun to a head to get people to do objectively horrible things. It’s why it always upsets people to see how little it actually takes to bribe a politician, they don’t really have any foundational beliefs, so they sell for cheap.

Luckily mine was fairly temporary, but for a good year or so I was pretty antsy around any kind of compressed gas.

I know from personal experience that if you have ever been injured by an explosion, these do tend to be a little spicy to open for a while. Didn’t know I even had PTSD from my accident until I was suddenly made aware via biscuit tin months after my recovery.

I had to have a bunch of hardware installed in my hand after being involved in a workplace accident involving an explosion caused by compressed air.

I didn’t think it left anything but a physical mark until I opened a biscuit tin a couple months after recovery…Took about a year until opening crescent rolls and biscuit containers didn’t tickle the big PTSD nerve.

Yellow onions aren’t usually better for cooking, especially for caramelizing. White and red tend to be better used fresh or pickled.

That sucks… COVID made onions and garlic taste funny for like 3 weeks and that almost ended me.

Do you make the same claim when the DNC runs center right candidates year after year despite a large portion of Democrats constantly begging for more progressive candidates?

Do people really dislike onions that much? Like, I throw diced onions on a ton of different things and usually have to pay for it. I feel like eating a whole onion would just be something I’d do if I was drunk enough and didn’t have anything else in the house.

Protein tip, diced/sliced onion with a little sugar diluted in vinegar is a great refreshing side dish.

Nice, I think I was in my early teens when we left as well. I’m sure my dad has a box of old photos in it somewhere, but his last few years of service kinda soured any fond memories he had left of his time in the Air Force. Though I think that’s kinda common place for senior NCO, I haven’t met too many dudes above Master Sargent who I could claim were jolly guys.

No worries, same here. We were there from 96-00, there’s a good chance we’ve run into each other before! There’s an even better chance that our fathers worked together in some capacity, it was a relatively tiny base and the U2 program was pretty small.

I think Beale was one of my favorite bases I’ve ever lived on, I used to go hiking in the foot hills basically everyday during summer. I feel like it was small and remote enough where you could get into a lot of shit as a kid without ever really getting in any trouble.

By chance did you guys ever go to one of the Christmas parties in the old skunk works building?

Oh nice, were you guys stationed out at Beale AFB?

I mean, it’s not that old of an airframe. I’m only middle aged and I saw the last time it flew in 1991. My dad just retired from the FAA a couple years ago and when he was in the military he maintained the flight suits for the SR71 and U2 programs.

The original engineers may have passed, but the crew and engineers responsible for the huge amount of maintenance for the airframe are still around and probably have more functional knowledge about the airframe than the designers.

Edit: 1999 not 1991.