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Cake day: May 18th, 2025

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  • Conservative religious groups, and Mennonites are part of that, already have a strong distrust of government.

    that’s not true. many governments around the world are substantially controlled by people who are members of conservative religions. and lots of conservative religious organizations are well integrated into their relevant governments. to the point of theocracies, which don’t tend towards being extremely progressive.

    If you hear about a place that the Catholic Church is controlling party of the government, you don’t think “Oh I bet it’s some wild Liberation Theology situation where the women are free and there are land reforms to redistribute the land equally”. You know it’ll be some regressive, repressive backwards ass shit show.

    there were Amish people (a related group) who were charged for not getting a covid vaccine passport

    Where? Where has a “vaccine passport” even been implemented?





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    As of March 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 147 of the 193 member states of the United Nations, or just over 75% of all UN members.

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    A plurality stands with the people of Palestine. 🍉




  • thanks for posting the actual info from the article. For clarity the question was:

    Have you changed your alcohol-buying habits since the tariffs came into effect?

    I am amused by “I’ve been drinking less” because it is not at all mutually exclusive with the 2 “Yes” answer. And some scenarios are not even possible

    • I’m drinking less + haven’t changed what I am drinking
    • I have been buying more American products + any of the Yes or No answers

    I also highly doubt 12% of people are drinking less. I wonder what the baseline self reported rate of “drinking less” is at any given time. I imagine there is seasonal variation.














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    Sometimes big box thrift stores sell big bags (like medium garbage bags) of towels/scraps real cheap. If you have one to drop in at, they are usually in the section with the sheets and other textiles on the shelf in the middle of the racks.

    By shelf in the middle of the racks, I mean like in this photo where the baskets on the right side are. I’m not sure what its called: