There’s sometimes complaints about “I thought you were dead” when the channel has been uploading regularly the entire time.

Every once in a while, if you have the “notifications” on for a creator it’ll just randomly turn it off. I have a creator that I pay $1/mth subscription to, which you would think YouTube would take as a suggestion that I like that channel and show me when they upload something new. Nope! Instead the algorithm thinks I want to watch a fucking Neo Nazi musician.

That’s Palahnuik’s Rant. His non-Fight Club stuff is pretty unhinged.

I read Haunted in middle school, and it fucked me up, although it was funny to read “Guts” out loud to everyone on the bus. (Be prepared if you are going to read this one - it’s pretty famous for people fainting during live readings.)

Warm Leatherette - The Normal

Everyone is bringing up Crash the novel/movie, but don’t forget this also a much weirder Palahnuik book where the erotic car crashes help a guy time travel and fuck/impregnate all of his female ancestors.

But the definition of a small town in US is much bigger than most other developed places

This is the type of town that I had in mind when I was writing my comment..

Closest high school is Elk City, which you have to drive to, on the interstate. There is no public transit anywhere on this map.

There are enough kids in nearby schools

Maybe in a big city. The district I worked the most for was big enough that most matches were within the district. But when you think about most small towns, which maybe have one or two high schools, that’s not going to be true at all.

Even with that - are the nearby schools the same division? Lots of sporting leagues have restrictions on who can play who (bigger schools playing bigger schools instead of smaller ones, an attempt to be fair usually).

Heck, even leaving sports out I drove an hour out for a FIRST tournament recently.

The thing is, for every story like your mother, there’s ten girls who were married off to their rapist and forced to drop out of school.

Marriage cannot be the solution for child abuse.

“Fun” fact! Marriage is a defense to statutory.

In rural Oklahoma, you can fuck a teenager as long as you put a ring on it.

Hmm, wonder if there were words before the section you decided to quote.

Rapping takes more skill than just saying a bunch of words fast over the right beat. A lot of middle/upper class white kids do not realize this and are not in the kind of environment to get real feedback on their rap.

Made the mistake of buying a HP “gaming laptop.” The goddamn thing chugs if you have five browser tabs open.

Heritage Foundation is working on making HRT illegal.

I’ve been stockpiling books my entire life for such a Fahrenheit 451 or other style future.

My ex was a nepo baby. He had so many speeding tickets. Didn’t give a shit about playing video games on his phone while driving. Fines don’t work when you could spend that same amount on a weeknight dinner without blinking.

There’s a lot of fracturing and internecine warfare in MAGA land. You can see some of this in Alex Jones struggling to figure out whether he’s still cool with Bannon or not.

There’s always been a split between the Nazi wing and the Christian Nationalists who support Israel because of their apocalyptic fantasies. You’ve also got the ones who only care about abortion, and the ones with Q and adjacent conspiracy theories. It’s an uneasy alliance.

MTG is a Q type. Anti semitism is part of it, but it’s more about the insane conspiracy theory world she lives in. She’s not being “reasonable” she just thinks Trump is on the evil Jewish laser team.

The physics of knitting is so complicated that SciShow fucked it up and had a bunch of people mad at them.

Textiles are complicated crazy wonderful things. The drape of a fabric is going to be related to the materials it’s made of (cotton, linen, wool, acrylics and polyesters, blends of all of the above and more to various percentages…) as well as just the process of making.

Woven is very sturdy and doesn’t stretch. You can’t unwind the whole thing by getting it caught on something. Your jeans and slacks are probably made of woven material, because otherwise you’d accidentally lose your pants to the bump of a nail in a chair or something.

Knit stretches, but accidentally bump into a door hinge and you’ve unraveled a good chunk of your sweater. It’s good at moving though. Most things are done on knitting machines in “stockinette” stitches - look for little ‘v’ shapes.

Gotta keep in mind that the upkeep of clothing was something people use to be spend several hours a week on - beyond just laundry. Weaving takes forever and it’s not particularly exciting. Just imagine how many outfits you’d have in 1600 BC or 1600 AD versus now.

It’s just really crazy that we are all surrounded by billions of tiny fibers that were twisted into single strands that then become fabrics that then become clothes. Each stage presents uniquely complex and beautiful physics problems.

Why would leftists or feminists support Christianity either, considering that the New Testament forbids women speaking up in church?

Just like Christian feminists negotiate with the Bible, Muslim feminists negotiate with the Koran. Religion is much more complicated than all of the “enlightened” r/atheism types want to pretend it is.

Mo’s first wife was like twice his age. No age discrimination there.

Are you really comfortable with Meta having videos of your children?

Lemmings are unable to think rationally when someone brings up the fact that porn can be harmful.