Free Broccoli

By "free", I don't mean it in the sense of "free beer", but in the sense of "free speech", or "free thinking."

[blogofex]

[girlnextvore]

When you see a Prep in hottopic

[girlnextvore]

“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”

[girlnextvore]

why are people reblogging this again

this post is like 11 years old

WHY AREYALL DOING THIS

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be

[girlnextvore]

hey

fuck you LOL

[freebroccoli]

There's a banana chocolate chip muffin recipe I make pretty frequently, which calls for 3 oz of oat flour. I don't want to stock oat flour, so I just measure out 3 oz of old fashioned oats and grind them in my spice grinder, which seems to work pretty well.

Recently, my wife wanted to make some kind of energy bombs, and she asked me to buy oat flour. I said "push" and bought some old fashioned oats and ground them up in my food processor.

Well last night I used that in the muffins, and the texture is a lot worse. Apparently my spice grinder is just more powerful than the food processor, which makes sense in retrospect. I might try to reprocess them in the Vitamix. I don't really want to redo almost the whole batch a 1/2 cup at a time in the spice grinder.

[freebroccoli]

120-minute route reduction at work due to poor air quality. wft I suddenly love wildfires.

[freebroccoli]

King David, writing about what it's like when I write a four-paragraph response to some fool's post, and then delete it so I don't get stuck in a protracted argument.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

A lot of people genuinely believe that permanent disability isn't a thing that happens to good people who work hard and make responsible choices. A lot of people genuinely think that we get the life we work for and deserve. And this is definitely part of the explanation for why ableism is so prevalent

[tacocandle]

Needles to say, this is a very christian mentally

[thathopeyetlives]

This is very much NOT a Christian mentality, this is closely related to the heresy of "prosperity gospel".

[lordascapelion]

There are several stories in the New Testament that specifically target this idea and talk about out how wrong it is.

Try again, bud.

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

There's literally an entire book in old testament dedicated to calling this idea bullshit

[cookingwithroxy]

To build off your post on the Trolley Problem, my personal take is that I think the real reason there's been so much backlash and mockery around it as time goes is for three facts surrounding it:

It's so blatantly just a shallow and useless "thought experiment"/clobber line that has no application to the real world (except one very bad one; more on that in #3), rigging up a ridiculous Looney Tunes-like situation that would never happen or work like that even if you tried to make it real. It is functionally the same as "but what if a dying white child wanted to say the n-word" type nonsense.

It has a very obvious and rigged set of right and wrong answers it wants you to pick so you can either feel smart and righteous (if you're invoking it) or be torn down by your opponents (if they're invoking it). As shown by the people on that post who are just stroking themselves off about saying they'd pull the lever as if it makes them noble.

The attitude that it is ultimately championing once you cut through the bullshit - endorsing the sacrifice of the few to benefit the many - is idiotic and heinous and in real historical practice has only ever been used to weakly justify vile acts, persecution, repression and outright bigotry.

It's so shallow that adding even a hint of moral complexity makes it a nightmare to defend.

Like, who do you allow to die, one person or five? By numbers, one is less bad than five.

But removed from the trolly, you have five billionaires dying of organ failure, and one healthy teen who's organs could, if harvested, keep them alive.

Because that's the thing about moral quandaries like this. They're NEVER simple.

[freebroccoli]

All of this is downstream from the fact that the trolley problem is being used in ways it was never intended. The original point of the trolley problem is to present it as people see it, most will agree that pulling the lever is good, then present the second version where pulling a lever is replaced with pushing a fat man off a bridge, and most will refuse to do it. The point of the thought experiment is that people are willing to do the utilitarian thing as long as they aren't killing the person with their own two hands.

The version most people online see was never formulated to do what people are trying to make it do.

[lokh1]

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

[barryogg]

Whatever you probably believe about the psychology of cops, I believe about the psychology of prosecutors. I don't think anyone who chooses to become one is a psychologically healthy person. I don't think defense and prosecution should be separate specializations like they are e.g. in Poland, I think prosecutors should be chosen by sortition and rotated often, to avoid getting stuck in the mindset.

[barryogg]

In light of recent developments on xitter, I now double down on this proposition, also for the psychological health of attorneys. Turns you one can get too into defending murderrapists.

[fnordseer5]

suggest movies for a normie movie night

[anarcho-gunman-g17]

The Man in the Iron Mask(1998)

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

I think The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) is more fun for everyone.

[the-perfect-wagnerite-again]

Clue (1985) is super cozy and funny

[dr-retard]

Airplane! (1980)

Or The Evil Brain from Outer Space (1964) if you wanna not be invited back :)

[takineko]

Hidalgo

[inwardhardar]

Inside Man

Baby Driver

The Gentlemen

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

Evil bong

[freebroccoli]

Fantastic Mr Fox

[homoquartz]

[crazy-brazilian]

[freebroccoli]

I looked it up, and while the argument regarding Disney Plus is definitely stupid, Disney did not kill her, they just rented space to the independently-owned and -operated restaurant that did.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "Decarbonized formaldehyde is great. Just wash daikons with decarbonized formaldehyde and they turn white."

"Decarbonized formaldehyde" (脫碳甲醛) is an online phrase used to make fun of people that blindly avoid chemicals. Formaldehyde (H2CO) decarbonized is water (H2O).

[eng by me]

[twoblogger-deactivated20260714]

Shout out to this tiny yet crucial error on an otherwise actually very informative post about myths about tax returns and the IRS

[daughter-of-sapph0]

oh boy! something in my mailbox from the IRA? I wonder what it could be!

[troubleontriton]

I think it's silly when people try to frame "in many religions the question of If All That is *real* is actually not very important and the question of 'belief in god' is a very protestant thing" as evidence of those other religions being like. cooler. Only american protestants care if The Divine is literally real and does things?? and this is supposed to make me respect the other religions *more*? I can understand being careful wrt polytheism or non-lord-of-creation type gods, and yeah being religious/spiritual ≠ believing in a specific god or gods, but "we have a bunch of personal and social restrictions and norms and rituals based on some shit that may or not be real idk, what i care about is enforcing rules and norms" is not a position I can respect easily...

[feminismisstillahatemovement]