Naturally occurring sorbitol in prunes is what makes them a good laxative. And honestly, the extreme diarrhea from sorbitol isn’t related to what this article is saying is a potential health problem.

But the amount of sorbitol needed to cause liver strain as described in the article is going to be more than the amount needed to cause diarrhea, so it seems like a moot point.

Well, sorbitol makes you shit like the devil’s own firehose, so if anyone thought it was totally fine they were probably not paying attention.

As a former massage therapist (not “masseuse”)… I’ve encountered dozens of men who would show up with a dirty ass. Skid marks when they get up off the table. WTF. Got expensive throwing sheets out.

I don’t think “Hollywood” has ever done anything specifically for the good of society.

I have that book!

Again, the problem its not “ old and white” that would be stupid. It’s that a majority of the old white people take corporate bribes and care more about power than anything else. This applies to young non white folks as well. They also need to go if they take bribes and care about staying in power more than helping the people.

Not sure why this is confusing…

The problem is not that they are old and white, it’s that they are taking corporate bribes and don’t give a shit about the next generation.

That’s not the case with Bernie. He’s too old now, but ten years ago he was more than good enough to make up for his oldness and his whiteness. Making himself a platform for AOC to stand on was a good thing as well.

I vote in every election, I knock on doors, I phone bank.

But in the end it doesn’t matter. When the DNC decided Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be their guy and rammed Clinton through, they got sued by Bernie supporters for cheating.

They said in court, for the world to hear, that yes, they cheated, yes they broke their own rules to make Hillary the pick, but rules aren’t laws and no one but the DNC can enforce the rules, so fuck all yall we can take your donations and choose who we want.

Everyone knows this now. No one believes in the system. Is very hard to get people to set aside this knowledge and get excited about a candidate that we would actually want, when we know who ever takes the most bribes gets the nomination.

Then nobody wants to vote, the ones who really don’t want republicans do it anyway, but nobody is happy about it.

I live in California (hence the Newsom hate) and it’s incredibly easy to vote here. Even before universal mail in was a thing, I never waited more than 5 minutes to vote. People in red states wait upwards of 8 hours much of the time. No one is standing in line for 8 hours to vote for someone they really don’t want anyway.

Once again, we are allowed to hate the corporate fellating shit heels BEFORE the primary. In two years. We can point out the obvious shortcomings and demand an actual progressive. Right up until the DNC chooses Gavin, despite what their voters want. Then we have to hold our nose and vote for the asshole that platforms Nazis while doing his best Blue Steel in his Gucci suit.

You can’t just continue what you were doing while it rings, you have to freeze and hardly breathe while you stare at it like a deer in headlights so they don’t hear you through the unanswered phone or God forbid you move wrong and it accidentally picks up.

Some would say that was Margaret Cavendish, 150 years earlier. Mary Shelly’s novels are and have been more popular though.

Agree with all of the above, would add T. Kingfisher for fantasy, Iris Murdoch for heady philosophical fiction, Agatha Christie for murder mystery, Clarissa Pinkola Estés for empowering fables and explorations of feminine archetypes, Mary Oliver for poetry, and Lady Margaret Cavendish for a great sci-fi novel from 1666.

FDA, but yeah.

PUT. SOMETHING. IN THE FUCKING CUPS.

Beans, orbies, just make special weighted cups for sets. No actor in the history of acting has picked up an empty paper coffee cup and gestured with it as if it had something in it.

And while we’re at it… in this the year two thousand and twenty five, how do we still not have prop ice that floats?

In the Indian context, the reverse swastika (counter-clockwise, or sauvastika) symbolizes night, the goddess Kali, and tantric practices, while the right-facing swastika represents day, the sun (Surya), and auspiciousness. Both symbols are ancient and sacred in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, but the left-facing sauvastika is specifically associated with the night and Kali in Hindu tradition.

I feel like if this passed we would end up using it as a free pass to nuke certain countries that we (not me, but you know) wanted to nuke anyway.

Caffeine is toxic to most animals besides humans.

I believe we are also including “the fatties” in this group now.

I remember a description of a photo from Epstein’s house where there was an unclothed toddler in the background and barely dressed tweens in the foreground. The 15 year olds are not ok, but it wasn’t just them.