Just because the Democrats didn’t want the embassy in Jerusalem, I don’t think they are full blown Nazis. Also, I think the Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar stuff about denying the Holocaust was debunked but I could be wrong.

That’s wild. Other than that conversation, the only time I ever seriously spent 15 minutes (literally 15 minutes) reading about it was 2007ish when Ahmadinejad got accused of Holocaust denial. He walked back his statement to say it was a bad translation and what he was trying to say was that more research should…

I don’t think you’re comparing apples to apples. My kids know that the US has long turned a blind eye to humanitarian crises. Without trivializing anything else, the fact that our own government stole land and almost exterminated a whole race seems like a more important historical fact to work in to the limited…

My parents are complex folx (truly radical progressives yet two time trump voters). They used to speak and show books ad nauseum about the Khmer Rouge and the Trail of Tears. I don’t think we learned about the Holocaust until 4th grade in school and was a lot less shocked. It’s always better to hear the bad parts of…

Donut cheeseburgers were a thing in Ohio/PA for a few years about a decade ago and I think I ate one every time I saw it on the menu. Some were really great but a lot turned out overly greesy and I always wondered why they didn’t glaze as the last step in the process. I think not using house made donuts was probably…

I thought the right wingers who push that stuff say it was just fewer people not that it didn’t happen. I could be wrong, not something I read a lot about but there’s a lot of diversity of ideas in Portland and someone explained his position about it once and it didn’t seems AS RADICAL.

We purposely don’t talk about or consume holocaust media in our house because public schools where we live seem to do a really good job of covering it adequately. However, there was a much more devastating and longer lasting genocide in our own country against the Native Americans that seem to get barely covered. We…

Please don’t forget the time cost of walking dogs (especially big ones). I walk my goldendoodle 4-5x per week for 60-90 minutes (weather permitting) and I feel like that is the bare minimum for his size to give him adequate physical and mental stimulation. I love my dog so much but I will forever resent the time suck…

We’ve always taught our kids from the time they could talk that race and gender are social constructs and that racism and sexism were the result of people still living with these ideas was the same as believing in vampires. I know it sounds silly but it really helped them while their vocabulary wasn’t developed

I really struggle with this myself. I have a trans kid (just turned 10) who is very obsessed with religion/Christianity and I don’t want to expose them to some of the bad stuff/people that comes with some of it. They go to church on their own with a neighbor and never miss a Sunday or Wednesday that we’re in town.…

You cook like my dad (I mean that in a good way). He has some faults in his kitchen game but for someone who has never worked in a professional kitchen, he has the timing, temps and cadence of meal preparations down to a science.

Thanks for the tips, I totally underutilize the microwave. I never would have guessed you could do a potato in there, that may be the idea I try!

We had three under three at one point and there’s no way I’d have done another if the oldest had made it to the point of potty training and putting her clothes on herself. I try to do everything really efficiently and not having to stop everything to change a diaper or put shoes on was a game changer for my happiness…

We had three under three at one point and there’s no way I’d have done another if the oldest had made it to the point of potty training and putting her clothes on herself. I try to do everything really efficiently and not having to stop everything to change a diaper or put shoes on was a game changer for my happiness…

Always undercook but I’ve never cooked them at over 350. I’ve never got sweet potatoes right and the only time I ever had success with baked potatoes was on a camping trip where I wrapped them in foil and injected them with clarified butter. I’ve tried to recreate the clarified butter trick so many times but it…

This goes for home buying too. When we bought out first house, I had big aspirations of having a fun garden to grow the staples. 3 month later when it was time to start planning, it dawned on me that the front yard was the south facing portion and my partner (for good reason) wasn’t keen on me tilling up the front…

I will follow exactly next time and see how it goes. I can do some pretty cool stuff in the kitchen but I’ve never had any type of baked potatoes to turn out. 

I related to this so much. I’m over 30 and still shop at Hollister for jeans and shorts because they fit my thighs correctly. I’ve never found another brand that fits me like that, no matter which cut/fit I get there. Abercrombie is similar but not quite the same, probably because they are made by the same folx. My…

This reminds me of all the stuff folx are posting trying to demonize MLK ahead of MLK day. For once can’t we just be proud of other people of color instead of the constant crab mentality? Someone at a community meeting zoom call last week casually threw out “MLK is cancelled” and my head almost exploded. How can you…

My partner’s family have come unhinged to varying degrees. A lot have been or are currently successful in corporate America and the main thing separating them in terms of public posts is if they are retired or not. They have all become super conspiratorial and come up with religious and Q based justifications for…