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If anyone is down for a fascinating video essay about this by a textile historian: Standardized Sizes Ruined our Clothing Quality
Have you ever wondered how we let clothing quality get so bad? It wasn’t just desperation for cheaper options- the 18th century consumer would never have been willing to pay so much for such poor quality cloth. And yet, they stayed clothed. Even their cheaper options lasting years of hard wear. But they knew what quality looked like and for the most part, we don’t.
When did we forget how to shop for good clothing rather than just trendy? What makes clothing “high quality” is so complex and nearly impossible to track with online shopping. Even in person, it’s not a simple answer. But it used to be that more money meant more quality, plain and simple. Where did we mess up this system? Turns out, standardized sizing allowed (and even encouraged) far more than just issues with poor fit and body image.
Was hoping to find a Batman commissary link and/or smuggled out hand drawn comics about Batman’s exciting life on both sides of the people’s justice.
I love me some industrial safety, and I acknowledge the philosophical tension between explosion prevention and explosion encouragement. But if I had 458 fire extinguishers, we’re gonna go inspect the lathe of heaven and make sure it’s up to code.
me when I finish a cherry slurpee
CW: discussion of alcohol flavors
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Try tamari if you’ve never had it and you can get down with something richer. Think of how Kikkoman’s alcohol-ferment side is like a crisp fizzy Japanese lager. In a tamari, that aspect is like the flavors of a barrel-aged doppelbock that a monk would drink to get through a fast. But without being sweet or heavy!
I’ve seen it in midrange gringo grocery stores, but it’s worth a trip to wherever you can find it.
Oh well, tamari’s another day
The service of that myth is part of why German support for Israel is so over the top, yes. Actual treatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel could be really shitty, with high rates of poverty and mistreatment by Zionist settlers. A Hebrew slur against diaspora Jews of the time, “sabonim”, was slang for “coward” and stemmed from the use of Holocaust victims’ body fat to make soap.
However, following the money gets to the real heart of the issue. West Germany retained an enormous amount of money and property that Nazi Germany had stolen from Holocaust victims. Monetary support for Israel and encouraging immigration let the state dodge liability for reparations to individuals. Read more here: https://jacobin.com/2020/11/postwar-west-germany-support-israel-whitewashing
3·10 months agozestyyyyy.
Keep those respirators on, cuties 🌹
2·1 year agoA whistling blowgun would be in the spirit of the thread. Some of history’s grandest feminists have been skilled in using poisons
apart from their literal cycle of violence in racking a pump action, shotties have a choke, and thus a tendency to perpetuate rape culture.
they can also dispense hot salty loads, come to think of it
how the hell does a frog do handwraps.
and why are you using fists when your entire body is built for doing sweet jumpkicks
I guess what I’m saying is disregard news cycles and do sweet jumpkicks
Ya just need to hammer these in with a rubber mallet and all yer problems will go away.
HELL YEAH BROTHER!!! ID CRANK WITH YOU BUT MY CRANKSHAFT FELL OFF AFTER THE ACCIDENT