And none of them are orange, you say?

Is that what they mean by Mental Floss?

He picked his side

Real talk, I suspect most of us, had we been born in the South in the 1840s, would fight for the Confederacy. We are products of our environment, upbringing, and experiences after all. There were abolitionists in the South, but they were few and far between. And as much as the war was actually about the institution of slavery, to the average southerner it was about freedom and state’s rights and shit because that’s what they knew and were told. People were loyal to their state before they were loyal to their country because they didn’t have much knowledge of the world beyond their towns.

What’s more, conscription meant that even men who didn’t want anything to do with the war were fighting in it. In a particularly bitter bit of irony, if you owned twenty or more slaves you were exempt from being conscripted to go fight for slavery.

I will say firmly that the cause of the Confederacy was evil, but I can’t find much more than pity for the average schmuck fighting for it.

Statistically speaking he was a poor man simping for slavers, not a slaver himself. But I suppose you could philosophically say that as someone who participated in (and indeed defended) a society built on slavery he was a slaver in effect if not literally.

I’ve had to put letters on signs like this before. You don’t get equal numbers of every letter, less-frequent letters have fewer. And if they get broken or stolen or blow away or something, that can seriously limit you. So you figure out ways to make up for it, like flipping M upside-down for W.

God damnit, Donut.

Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he is getting old.

Such a fun book.

That one took me a beat. Love it.

Same exact reaction.

“At least I don’t wear a hat.”

Except for that blue cadet-style cap you got in Colorado that you liked because it, combined with your beard, made you look vaguely like a train conductor or a maybe a Union soldier and also expressed your love of mountains which you wear almost every morning when walking your dog to hide your bed-head.

“Fuck.”

So then I got put in catholic school, and without knowing what sex was, began to ask the church if Mary had baby Jesus, through God, so God is the father, why wasn’t Peter pissed that his wife was having a baby with another man? My friends parents split up, because she had a baby from another man. Logically I thought Peter should have been pissed, but he wasn’t. So I asked why.

Joseph, not Peter.

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From the middle out, that does make sense.

Thanks for the reply! I hope something similar gets developed. As much as I like multi-toolhead solutions, the nozzle-changer seems so much more compact.

Thank God the progress understander has logged on to explain why it was good, actually, that the Democrats banned gay marriage

You clearly need to work on your reading comprehension if that’s what you think I was saying.

No, it was fucking horrible that Democrats banned gay marriage. It was fucking horrible that our society was okay with that. The entire point I’m making is that thirty years later we are living in a completely different WORLD on that front.

I would argue that Vorons are more capable than say a Baubu, but I digress.

Depends on the Bambu and what capability you’re after, doesn’t it?

I know Bambu is evil, but I have to admit the H2C with its nozzle-changer is sexy. Give it a couple of AMSs and you get 7 materials with no purging. That’s a capability I don’t think a Voron has (though please, correct me if I’m wrong).

I think the argument is that voting for status quo candidates aren’t actually getting us those things, either. And any small incremental gains are quickly reverted the next time republicans are in power.

And you can only believe that if you ignore every bit of progress that has stuck around in the last thirty years.

Progress isn’t a straight line up. Like anything else it dips and wobbles. But it consistently moves upward.

Yeah there are always going to be things to make progress on. But to pretend that we are not in a better place on some of those issues now than we were thirty years ago is bafflingly silly.

As an example: In 1996, support for same-sex marriage was so low that congress passed and Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, allowing states to ignore same-sex marriage licenses from other states in direct violation of the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution, and this was widely supported by the American people. In 2023, over 70% of Americans supported gay marriage while only 22% opposed. That number has dipped since, but not by much. In 2025, it was 68% support (88% of Democrats, 76% of Independents, and 41% of Republicans) while 29% opposed it.

That is an issue on which the American people have made significant progress. That progress hasn’t evaporated with alternating administrations. It ebbs and flows like literally everything, but over time it has improved.

Most are like this. Not all! Certainly some things consistently get worse, like wealth inequality. But to act like everything simply flip-flops between parties and that the Democrats are simply a ratchet that maintains the status quo and doesn’t let anything change just to let the next Republican make it worse is flat-out wrong.

Are Democrats largely spineless corporate shills? Yeah. But are they just as bad as Republicans? Fuck no. Go vote in primaries. Support candidates who will actually push for change. Giving up is pathetic.

Testicular torsion is one of my greatest fears.

Sounds delicious though.