Sorry, I don’t. I looked and can’t find it.

Yup, I was referring to seeing the original post the other day.

On second thought, the fediverse girl one is probably the true first copypasta.

Is this the first organic lemmypasta?

I was there and witnessed the orginal.

This is great info! I use the plain jane P100 instead of dust masks all the time.

General respirator info for all my peeps:

3M 6000 half face and 7000 full face series reapirators are where it’s at. They’re worth the money even if you only ever use it for home repair.

I use one of them with the P100 disks all the time for dust, mold, grinding, drilling into possible asbestos, etc. Also effective against droplet born disease such as coronavirus. The organic vapor cartridge above also does particulate as a P100 (the organic vapor portion has a limited lifespan once opened, IIRC, but the filtration is indefinite). P100 particulate filtering lasts a long time, however, before they clog. Years with normal homeowner use.

Read up on sizing. Most average cis male sized heads will be a large. Average cis female sized head is medium.

If using a half face in an infectious or chemical environment, swim googles will protect your eyes.

Illinois nazis? I hate Illinois nazis.

The racism doesn’t explain it for me.

It’s certainly a contributing factor, and I think it’s closer to whatever venality trump has tapped into in these people.

However, just the way the man presents himself should have been an immediate turnoff for most of these people.

He’s a fop, a dandy, he’s got a swish in his mannerisms that borders queer stereotypes for many southerners. He’s city soft. Which these people hate just as much as they hate black folks.

Personal experience, I don’t understand deacons, colonels, PhDs, and skilled blue collar worshipping the freak. It’s not about policy, it’s that they’re just as bigoted against how he presents himself as they are about race.

I get how the mechanics of it work. That’s not hard to see and understand.

The part I don’t understand is the cult of personality. The personality is repulsive. He violates all kinds of norms the fundies literally hold as sacred. Trump is openly a cartoon of what fundies rail against, teach their children not to be, and consider evil.

I was born and raised southern fundie. A new york city, orange makeup wearing, reality tv, biblically ignorant, multiply divorced, fucktard conman is about the last thing I could see them falling for. That’s the part I don’t understand. Mike Johnson, Bush, Cheney - I understand. Hell, they didn’t like Romney because he was Mormon.

If you’ve ever seen the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales, there is a yankee carpet bagger selling snake oil. He’s comic relief and is an archetype of slimy dandy Yankee sales weasel. There are cultural tropes against exactly the sort of person Trump is including his appearance.

And yet, they fell for it. I don’t get it.

Sitting on the inside here. I’m perpetually astounded as well. Very little of this suprises me anymore but plenty of things shock me.

He’s a stereotypical conman; so shallow, so obvious. And yet, my family and former friends continue to slurp up his bullshit. It’s so fucking stupid. He’s so stupid. On paper, many of these people are smarter than the orange used car salesman.

It’s difficult to describe how astounded I really am. Black magic or aliens would make more sense. I would find a novel or show with this unrealistic.

I wonder if I’ll ever understand?

I really like your analysis.

I really fucking hope you’re right.

Your logic is sound and I’m not heavily disagreeing with you. My gut says the claim is hinky. (Obviously, my gut and hinkiness are the gold standard for truth and reason.)

I’m skeptical but you might be right. It’s real fucked up that we have to even consider bullshit like this.

I’m waiting to pass judgment on the flyover. He’s totally that petty, but, I don’t think he’d plan that far ahead. He’s way more reactive than proactive, especially when it comes to stupid stunts.

While it’s possible the flyover’s purpose was to intimidate the victims, it feels like disinfo or convenient rumor.

I’ve given up. When I realize I’m talking to a MAGAt, just disengage as gracefully as possible. If I can’t get away, try and change the subject. If it’s in a group setting, I might slap a fact-dick on the table once to make a point of opposition as a signal to the group.

IIRC, shingles is the chicken pox virus (which is in the herpes family). Chicken pox goes dormant in the nerve cells. As people age, the immune system weakens, and the virus can come out of dormancy from the nerve cells, causing intense pain. This can occur more than once, like fever blisters or genital herpes. The associated rash is usually on the trunk or sometimes limbs. It has a branching form that follows the nerves under the skin. Rarely life threatening but super fucking painful.

Yup. There’s stuff that pings my radar as well.

However, the technical barrier to actually getting on Lemmy forces a minimum level of intelligence. I. E. the pool of useful idiots is way smaller than reddit. Most tankie wank gets called out.

Doesn’t mean that we’re not being used for training data. I’m also still percolating on what can be done by just posting slanted articles and stifling disent.

Lemmy is better but still totally susceptible to manipulation.

Actually, yeah. Raised fundamentalist.

Cats are animals and don’t have souls, intensely loving and personifying a pet can be seen as sinful. Also, having pets instead of childen is sinful as you’re supposed to be fruitful and multiply.

I’m not sure if there is a particular verse for spicy food, but sobriety in all things. I used to get in trouble for using more than a drop of Tabasco or too much black pepper. IIRC, I got whipped once for too much Tabasco in my grandmother’s chicken stew, (it was seen as an insult).

Gotta go. Saying goodbye to Lulu the cat, who’s a person. Leaving for a clothing optional BDSM weekend and bringing habanero hot sauce for taco night.

YOU’RE GOING TO TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES! AS A MODERATOR!!! 1!!! 1!!!

Op is so fucken ded; they’ll never recover from this.

I’ve actually never tried it, but, it’s described as pleasant. You have to roast the stems and leaves.

Don’t have the freezer space, unfortunately.

Yaupon Holly is a native North American plant that contains caffeine. Was traditionally used by Indians as a tea or coffee. Also used during the civil war as a substitute.

I have found it around old homeplace ruins in the deep south. It is also a common landscaping plant. Need to plant some around the house.

My girl saw where the harvest wasn’t great and we were anticipating tariffs. We stocked up on coffee late last year/early this year.

The useless giant ass gun safe that came with our house is full of vacuum packed coffee.