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this fetish stuff is getting out of hand what the fuck is word play

ok i promise this isn't parasocial but "i miss werner herzog :(" is a real emotion that can easily be experienced after watching some of his movies and then not doing so for a while. You'll be experiencing something and then suddenly find yourself thinking i wish mr. herzog was here to comment on this. I wouldn't necessarily agree with what he'd say i would just like to hear it.

My partner’s dad is exploring Italian citizenship and interestingly enough his grandfather had to renounce his Italian citizenship when he was naturalized an American - but his grandmother didn’t have to because she was a woman. If your ancestor renounced citizenship you can’t claim descent but if they didn’t you can. So currently the family’s citizenship case rests on a sexist legal loophole from the early 1900s.

Ah, citizenship law. I hate it so much.

I wonder if that 'Only men' rule had something to do with conscription, since only men could be conscripted, what if they had two citizenship from opposing countries? But just a wild guess.

There’s actually an ongoing issue regarding a Togolese family descended from a German man married to a Togolese woman arguing the family isn’t entitled to German citizenship because Germany didn’t recognize interracial marriage at the time.

You know that’s a pretty bad look for a country supposedly trying to restore citizenship to as many people as possible to correct their past wrongs. I mean Germany does plenty of other stuff to have a bad look just like any other country but this is definitely one of them.

Oh btw I forgot to mention. If any of y’all are descendants of Jewish holocaust survivors, whether your ancestors were German citizens or not, you might qualify for German citizenship so you might wanna look into that to see if it applies to you. Doesn’t matter the gender of your ancestors either because they’re working on restoring citizenship to people who lost it because of the stupid woman rule.

This is painfully American

when we say "it is functionally impossible to parody Americans in a way that will actually insult them" this is the sort of thing you're up against. is your sick burn funnier than corporation burger clown sing national anthem baseball game? no?? of course it isn't.

Holy fuck

If you live on the west coast of the United States, fire season is coming and this is vital.

We’ve been using one, and they’re great. Might try to make the double filter version this year.

I’ve personally used both the flat single-filter version AND the triangular two-filter version, and based on subjective personal experience I would argue that the benefits from the second filter, both in terms of airflow and filtration, are absolutely worth it. If you need a makeshift air filter and you have two filters to work with, build the triangle (if not the box, i have no idea how good that one works but based on the info here i presume it’s a fair bit better.)

This trick works. We use it in my house.

If anyone wants aesthetic inspo or design ideas check R/CrBoxes

a warthog is a thog specialized for use in war

Like some weeks back a white coworker called a raccoon a "coon" and instead of jumping to racist conclusions I was just like "oh you can't say that it's an old slur for us" and we was like genuinely sorry. Like. People make mistakes. Not everyone on the internet is going to be like. Evil.

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When I got my first debit account (I was 19 and this occurred during COVID, if that adds any additional context), I had no clue what ‘cash back’ meant, I thought it was ‘cash back’ in the loyalty rewards way, I was curious about the ‘DO YOU WANT CASH BACK?’ screen with all the pre-programmed money amounts. Instead of looking it up, I clicked the $20 option at Food Lion one day and I was completely astounded when the cashier pulled a $20 out of the cash register and went to hand it to me. This is the opposite of the natural order of things. The cashier was the same age as me and visibly baked so for a fraction of a second, I was wondering if our wires got crossed somehow. I just stood there for a moment staring at him in confusion while he stared at me in confusion. Then, I took the $20 and gathered up my groceries and left. Luckily, $20 didn’t put me into overdraft. No harm done, just a very embarrassing moment. Anyway, if someone comes into your retail job behaving like it is their first day on earth, it is probably because they feel like it is their first day on earth. We’re all just trying to figure this bullshit out. Amen.

I know it feels good as fuck to cast spells from up there

I know it's not great from, like, a Being Functional Or Secure standpoint, but aesthetically I kind of love how websites for banks and universities and government agencies and such just sort of accrete layer upon layer of technologies without ever taking the lower layers out of the stack, and if you need to do something sufficiently obscure eventually you'll break through to some Web 1.0-looking form with a "Last Modified" footer whose timestamp isn't part of this millennium.

Tabletop RPG where taking damage in combat is represented by physically setting the target's character sheet on fire. Different damage types specify different parts of the sheet where the fire must be set (e.g., top-right corner, etc.), and the amount of damage is the number of seconds the player has to wait before stamping it out. Any physically destroyed traits are disabled until they fill out a new sheet.

(I'd also like to highlight Shreyas and Elizabeth Sampat's Mist-Robed Gate. Escalation in conflict resolution involves something called the "Knife Ritual", in which the state of an actual, physical knife lying on the table is manipulated: covered, uncovered, etc. The penultimate stage of escalation entails snatching up the knife and stabbing it through your opponent's character sheet to stick into the table below; arguably this doesn't fit the brief, as it's the act of stabbing itself which is mechanised, with the particulars of how the character sheet is damaged being irrelevant, but I thought this blog's followership would appreciate it!)

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY