Random Thoughts

[brewer]

I just found out they still make Jiffy Pop.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I just found out they still make Jiffy Pop.

Measure out the oil.
Measure out the corn.
Find a skillet with a lid.
Dump that shit in there.
Don't burn.

Way to much.

[brewer]

I just found out they still make Jiffy Pop.

Measure out the oil.
Measure out the corn.
Find a skillet with a lid.
Dump that shit in there.
Don't burn.

Way to much.

This is more about childhood remissing. But thanks for the directions.

[Rev. Rye]

I recently remembered a passage from a Richard Roeper book of listicles I read long ago:

Monkeybone (2001)
Brendan Fraser’s Stu temporarily occupies the corpse of a recently deceased gymnast played by Chris Kattan (don’t ask), whose organs burst from his body, fall from the sky (again, don’t ask), and land on people’s heads and on a barbecue grill (please don’t ask).

Now, imagine what you'd think such a scene would look like. At a minimum, you'd imagine something out of a Cronenberg or Hennenlotter movie. Maybe something like Society.

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Gee, it's almost like a PG-13 movie that Cartoon Network saw as okay to advertise in prime-time before they created Adult Swim could never do justice to such a description.

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[Angrboda]

Why is the donkey important to the story?

[Ahriman]

Why is the donkey important to the story?

What donkey?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Why is the donkey important to the story?

What donkey?

Boru

[Angrboda]

t’s hard to believe sometimes that smartphones and social media haven’t been around forever — but for one generation, they have. Gen Z doesn’t know a time when they weren’t ubiquitous. This cohort also happens to be the generation with the worst mental health in America. Is that a coincidence?

The social psychologist Jonathan Haidt has reams of data to argue it’s not. And in his new book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, he is launching a shot in what he hopes will become a full-scale war against social media and smartphone use by kids and teens.

“Our children are going on a conveyor belt,” Haidt tells me. “And a lot of them are getting shredded.”

Through his research, which he also highlights on his Substack, “After Babel,” Haidt found that teen mental health has dramatically worsened after iPhone usage became widespread and Instagram was created. While he blames Instagram for causing the most initial damage of the new era — particularly in fueling declining mental health for girls — he now sees a new, graver threat. “TikTok is arguably the worst consumer product ever invented,” says Haidt, who’s a strong supporter of legislation targeting TikTok in Congress.

Without action — from parents, lawmakers, schools and tech companies — the youth mental health crisis will continue unabated, he warns. And there could be some unexpected political fallout. As Haidt puts it, with a growing sense of anxiety and dislocation, people may become more open to an authoritarian leader who promises to stop the chaos.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2...a-00147880

[Angrboda]

Food and drink are a big part of the festivities. Vendors in parts of India sold Thandai — a traditional beverage prepared with milk, dry fruits and can sometimes be laced with cannabis.

Another tradition that marks Holi is Bhang, a paste made by grinding the leaves of the cannabis plant and is used in drinks and snacks. It is connected to Hinduism, particularly to Lord Shiva, and is eaten during some religious festivals in the region. The paste’s sale and consumption are permissible under Indian law, although a few states have banned it.

India celebrates Holi, the Hindu festival of color, marking the reawakening of spring

[Ahriman]

"the re-awakening of spring".....definitely too fancy wording for something so mundane.