The Sun Won't Rise

i havent seen people talking about this here yet just on twitter but before people misinterpret specific student groups demands to cut ties with zionist organizations (including hillel) i want to give some info for people who dont know. hillel is a zionist organization. they exclude anti zionist students and student groups as part of their policy. if universities had jewish centers that were run independently of groups like hillel it would be hugely beneficial

just going to put some other peoples experiences with hillel

this is literally why i joined jewish voice for peace in college. i wasnt adamantly anti zionist i just wanted to be part of jewish life on campus and went to our jewish center to find basically this, which is, as many said, pretty alienating. after i met other like minded people and we formed a chapter of jvp we found out that we could not be registered as part of the jewish center anyways because of their policy on bds and anti zionism!

The Zionist movement is absolutely desperate to conflate Zionism with Judaism in general, so they can describe any criticism of Zionism as being antisemitic and morally equivalent to Nazism.

They are so adamant on this that they will literally call Jewish people antisemitic.

For the curious, this chap is processing flax, then spinning it into cordage, then twisting those cords into rope.

I think you'll find this man is torturing grass into agreeing that it's string

The grass is cut. It’s dead. He’s just necromacing the plants.

Honestly, though, I love that rope-making mechanism. I told my scoutmaster we could make rope with only two people, and he did not believe me.

thank you doraemon <333

Powerful magic. Not to be trifled with.

Was. Your. Fault.

(Source)

The wink at the beginning.

"Sure, I know you said 'don't hit your brother with your good paw'. I get it. That's why I have the cast."

Things RFK jr cannot say.

05/08/2024 We’ve been house hunting for about six years. We’d like something with a good school, a back yard, within our budget, and isn’t falling down. We’ve found houses that have three out of four. https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16134

This just reminds me of something I’ve been wondering about.

About, oh, 15 years ago my then-partner and I were thinking about buying a house.

Based on our incomes and other circumstances, we decided we’d look for something around $300,000 with a hard upper limit of $350K. (If you think this is ridiculous and means I’m The Rich, you really don’t get things like “cost of living” and “regional differences in economy”)

All the houses we could find which vaguely fit our needs were right at $400,000. The only house we saw which was under $300,000 was four rooms on a lot which was exactly the size of the house - a big step away from any wall put you over the property line. Also it was next to a cemetery and in such disrepair it should have probably been condemned. But I digress.

Point is, at that time two people with decent salaries and no kids in the DC area not only couldn’t find an acceptable house within our means, all of the houses we might want were very consistently one solid step outside our means - not “Oh we could stretch it and maybe negotiate the price down” but rather “That is more than we can afford. Not a lot more than we can afford, but very clearly more than we can afford.”

Fast-forward to about six years ago. My spouse and I was looking for houses. We decide we can comfortably do $450,00 with an upper limit of $500,000. Seems reasonable, right? Right?

Guess what!

All the houses we could find which were vaguely okay were right at $600,000. A few were $550,000. The only ones we saw which were below $500,000 were either terrifyingly infested or definitely not up to code and unsafe to enter. (We did find a house, but it was more than our upper limit, we got it for less than asking due to personal reasons, and we still Got Lucky).

What I’m wondering is, is there some actual mechanism which governs this? If the average income in an area goes up by 10%, do the house prices also go up by 10%? Is there some law of economics which says “Decent housing will always be beyond the means of working professionals in their area”?

“Decent housing will always be beyond the means of working professionals in their area?”

That very well might be the case.

All I can really speak to is what housing is like in the Bay Area these days. I don’t own a house (don’t make me laugh). I can only just afford to rent.

Anyway. A couple of years back my old landlord was looking to retire and wanted to sell the house as a rental property with tenants. At the time the house was appraised at just over $1mus (yep, one million US dollars). And it sat on the market for over a year because, apparently, that just wasn’t high enough. So, after a year or so he delisted the property and a month later put it back up around $1.2mus. Only then did anyone come sniffing around to see if it was worth buying.

I don’t remember how much it went for but it was pretty close to re-list price.

The thing that still gets me is that the price wasn’t high enough for anyone to bother looking at.

I mean. When I was looking for apartments in the area I learned Real Quick to put a lower cap on my searches, because anything which looked too good to be true was definitely too good to be true. There were so many "Yes, it's in a gated community and I haven't told the current tenant I'm not letting them renew the lease so don't contact them; I'm away on business for the next three months but once you send me the security deposit I will TOTALLY send you the keys, honest!" scams.

And even looking for a house in this area - if the listing was below $100K it was either an incorrectly listed rental (often on purpose to get more views) or a scam.

I'd say a bit surprised that one million would be the lower end for that, but where you are... it kinda makes sense.

What I'm musing is, there's some economic feedback loop where if people can buy houses, the price goes up to where they can't. But the only way that would be possible would be if there were some other buyer whose business model was consistently buying houses just above what the typical buyer could afford, or someone deliberately causing prices to go up for "some reason".

Oh, wait. Those both exist. Motherfu-

That gazebo is so fucked

Are you sure gazebo is the correct word?

Are

you 

sure?

idk why you’re confused, that poor gazebo needs help

This has hit my dash three times… that final reblog made it worthy.

I only liked this for the gif

Finally we know the home biome and predators of the Dread Gazebo.

They're not normally dangerous, but without any natural predators to keep them in check, they can grow unmanageably large - so large they can kill a paladin!

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ABOUT BISEXUALITY

that purple in the middle is not the right saturation, it doesn't fit with the other two colors and it drives me crazy.

all right, I think I got this, I've got dual citizenship and I have another flag we can borrow from:

step 1

step 2

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This is true bi/ace solidarity.

holy shit

This is the only correct way

[Patchnotes]

this is so heckin great. truly proof that love is real

Oh no.

You mentioned color theory.

On Tumblr????

A conversation about assorted Mega Man villains during a stream led to someone mentioning ‘paper clip man’

And I was “Lmao like Clippy?”

Then I had no choice from there 😂

This feels like a case where the quote "Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?" would be exceedingly appropriate.

new states just dropped and white supremacist sharks live there

Is Oorth Carolina in the Oort Cloud?

It’s the furthest of the Carolinas

Might explain why I've never met anyone from there.

Are people with large beds not afraid of a ghost crawling in with them? I would be

I forgot this was monsterfucker emporium

I mean. Mostly we want our cats to join us in bed. If one of the dead ones should happen to swing by, well, they're still welcome.

Wait a minute.

You mean that not everybody has a ghost cat?

Apparently!

*gives those people the side-eye*

new states just dropped and white supremacist sharks live there

Is Oorth Carolina in the Oort Cloud?

Told all my life that raw chicken = salmonella poisoning like that's just natural but no, it's just because it's not something food companies are legally required to control at their end and America is only NOW considering classifying it as a "contaminant?!" Meaning it would become a violation of federal law to sell meat with any detectable presence of it?? We could have fucking done that all along???

Egg-laying chickens in the USA aren't vaccinated against salmonella. That's why you're told not to eat raw cookie dough or cake batter.

Egg-laying chickens in the UK started being routinely vaccinated against salmonella in 1997 - and food poisoning cases dropped noticeably.

The vaccine costs $42 for 5,000 doses, or 8.2 cents per dose. The cost per dozen eggs would be less than 1 cent.

I GET IRRATIONALLY ANGRY ABOUT AMERICAN EGGS AND CHICKENS.

SO IRRATIONALLY ANGRY

I used to be able to buy a dozen eggs at room temp and keep them on my counter for a week! And then eat the left over cake batter!

But noooooooo, we can't just VACCINATE THE DAMN BIRDS because vaccines are bad or some shit; i don't know. Stick your damn chickens america.

And then. AND THEN, Americans had the nerve to invent OVER HYGIENE in which something is washed TOO MUCH so it becomes a health hazard again.

Like eggs. Which shouldn't be bathed in chlorine and stripped of their extremely effective anti microbe membrane. That you then have to keeo them refrigerated after you remove or if they get condensation in them BOOM, FOOD POISENING.

I now have to PASTEURIZE MY DAMN EGG YOLK IF I WANNA MAKE MAYO. IT IS VERY BORING!

I hate it so much.

So much.

So, I was told that the issue with cookie dough isn't the eggs, but the flour. Because flour is, you know, a Very Fine Powder and thus is the ideal environment for all sorts of contamination. Which means one part of making safe cookie dough is to sterilize your flour.

I'm not sure if you should also pasteurize your eggs; it's probably a good idea. But if you're going to eat the cookie dough without baking you should also sterilize your flour. Or so I'm told.

Kawase Hasui Kohan no Ame, Natsue (Rain Falls on the Lake-shore, Matsue) 1932 Color woodcut sheet 9.5 x 14 in.; 23.d6 x 35.4 cm., comp 14.375 x 19 in.; 36.5 x 48.3cm Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin