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I imagine the expensive ones are human-sourced and cheaper ones probably synthetic.

That's Jesus's revenge for taking the piss.

Apparently, Trump has just joined TikTok. I guess they will become a "GREAT, AWESOME CHINESE COMPANY!!!!! GOOD FOR AMERICA!!!!" if he gets back in.

Probably synthetic preservatives.

I suggest shaving your head to stubble or bare and then letting it grow to a point that feels ok to you. Once you've found a length you can live with, maintain it at that and accept this is the new 'you'. You may feel your present hair pattern is an elephant of a problem, but it's just your mind hyperfocusing on it and making it the only thing that matters. Trying to fix it with wigs and combovers will just savage your confidence in the long run. Yul Brynner and Telly Savalas seem to have had a happy life without hair on their heads. Although I still have hair, I go Kojak quite often. It's an alternate look, not a worse one.

If it's heat-treated prior to filling whilst hot, the partial vacuum in the residual space after cooling will arrest the spoiling process for some time. This is lost once it is open ed. This is how the general canning process works as well. I'm guessing that peanut butter in plastic jars are chemically preserved, since the container would deform with heat.

Could it be a laboratory specimen sample of some sort and IPA is being used as preservative/carrier?

Only if they agree with said 'free' speech.

Actor Robert De Niro isn't pulling his punches in his comments on Trump, is he?

OK.

If this is because you think Jews are historically maligned, Zionists are gradually being cognitively separated from Orthodox Judaism in public discourse by practicing Torah-respecting Jews and other objective historians. The focus for the dischord is gradually on the latter who, in the opinion of many Orthodox Jews, are the prime instigators of the geopolitical issues since the 1890's. On the OP, it is probably because there was cultural disposition towards academic pursuits.

I actually started to have a modicum of respect for Hayley when she stood up to Trump. Seeing her sign US bombs on a pallet in Israel, and simultaneously seeing children in various states of bodily mutilation from US weaponry, has put her down the ethical toilet, as far as I'm concerned. She's on par with the worst Zionists. This is not intended for the conversation to segue into that debacle.

In a sophisticated society, ostensibly the most advanced country on the planet, having an openly partisan judicial system should not be leader of the free world. It seems, even as a convicted felon, he could be POTUS. That is a travesty.

That's good to hear, Seth. It's how people say things and in what context... it can be done to any description. Tone matters. 'Bushman', 'Aborigine', 'Bedouin' et al are never used by me in a negative context. I have great respect for those that function in harsh environments, productively using what they have available. If you see me using them, it is always with respect. I do not consider those groups as lower in social status that have less resources available. Mongolians have the same problem, it seems. I don't ever want them to stop calling themselves 'Mongolians' because it is seen as derogatory.

Absolutely. When we finally fuck it up, we'll be asking these people how to work with these incredibly fragile environments. They are not wastelands. I've never considered 'Bush Man' to be derogatory term and wasn't aware it was such until now. Sad.

OK.

How do we think the GOP side of the SC will be feeling? I think Allito and Thomas will be pissed off, being cut from the same cloth as Trump.

At this point, with no precedent, it's hard to say, isn't it? This is new territory. Top result, so far for commonsense and justice. So far, the ordinary people that are the jurors have done us good.

@toucana He has indeed. Justice has prevailed, so far. I really didn't think he'd get the full set. He didn't help himself with his out of court antics denigrating court officials.

"The jury has found former US President Donald Trump GUILTY of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment made to former porn star Stormy Daniels. He becomes the first former president to be convicted of a crime. This is for the first count of the 34 charges in total. There are more verdicts to come." This is current. He is guilty on the first three counts, so far. I thought it might be worth its own thread. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-69069142

Buy a 'burner phone'. This is a cheap phone with a PAYG sim card, call, than smash it and sling it.

You enjoy your Big Macs and help to turn the Earth into a polluted shithole. Don't forget to tuck your belly in your trousers.... or is it 'pants' in your language. Where are your compatriots dumping your excess rubbish? In "bushman" country and the like, of course. A manual reciprocatory motion to you, racist.

Brave (Chrome variant with Google's tracking elements removed) is my go-to browser with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin extensions. It has a bult-in optional browser-level VPN. That works pretty well for me. Just got a new i5 Win11 laptop, W11 is a bit of a privacy nightmare in terms of MS putting ads in the new Outlook email, I'm seeing. Seeing the email-tyle ads as the last straw, I've just bought Proton VPN and email app services. It works at whole-system level and, apparently, '5 Eyes spying cartel' snooping resistant as well that US/UK are part of, so hopefully, it's up to the job at the lower level I want it.