Green chili flakes are cool. They're milder than red chili flakes, so you can get more of the pepper flavor for the same amount of heat.
Freeze dried shallots are also fire. A little expensive, but it's a good lazy source of allium flavor.
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"Oooh, put your willy in my box, baby"
"willy" is pretty silly, too.
I don't think it's funny, fwiw
Health scaremongering used to be mostly targetted at women, but now it's muscled gym bros telling you to be afraid of using dryer sheets, and that spinach shrinks your balls.
I guess it's not surprising. Gym bros are suckers for pseudoscience. You can get them to believe anything if you just link a scientific paper that is even tangentially related to the subject, they won't read it.
That was my experience with therapy. The only thing I ever got from it was someone to talk to when I was completely isolated. Everything else felt very unsuited to the seriousness of my problems.
My guess is that they just don't have the tools to really help with serious mental health problems. I have no real knowledge of what therapists are taught, but it seems like therapy is really more geared toward helping with less serious issues.
One thing I noticed is that there is no kind of consistency of treatment. They all seem to be just trying different unproven things and deciding what they think works. I've had therapists that want you to find some kind of spirituality, want you to try some weird device, want you to fill out worksheets, even had one that wanted me to smile in a particular way. It's the wild west out there.
There's a huge difference between personal politics and organizational politics. There's massive inertia and the fact that it's by definition a democratic socialist organization.
There's value in joining if there's no other org you can be a part of, or maybe to poach people, but you'll never drive them significantly left.
This pdf has his manifesto with footnotes that explain everything and a lot of good research into the stuff that led up to it.
It's a good read, it changed my opinion of Dorner. I still fully approve of his later actions, but his motivations were basically all personal.
I recently bought a cool looking 1920's copy of State and Revolution from eBay for $15. I've had good luck buying used leftist books from there, especially the ones that were printed in large numbers.
To add to the ebook recommendations, Anna's archive has the biggest pirate collection of ebooks online.
Turn an orgy problem into an orgy opportunity
It's hard to finance a car that old, although you'll probably have trouble financing anything right now with limited credit. A buy here pay here lot will get you into a car, but you really don't want that.
Only thing you can do is try to build credit. Make a credit karma account, it gives you instant credit reports updated every day, and they have a tool to suggest credit cards you qualify for. Then use them each month and pay them off when the statement comes, it doesn't have to be a lot, just enough that it shows up on your credit report. You can get a pretty good score jump in a few months.
Also, you can absolutely lie about your income to credit card companies, they don't check anything. Just don't lie to any other lenders, because they will check.
When I was in 5th grade a kid let me borrow a cassette tape, that I then lost somewhere. He started leaving messages on my parents answering machine like, "You better bring my tape tomorrow, or I'll beat your ass". My parents were always on me about losing stuff, so I felt like I couldn't tell them I lost the tape, so I lied and said I never had it. I wasn't being bullied, but my dad thought I was.
My dad tried was trying to get me to stand up to the kid, but I wasn't equipped for that. It made everything worse. I probably could have talked my way out of it or avoided it, but my dad was insistent on meeting violence with violence. He basically bullied me to make calls to the kid and threaten him back. Of course it was completely unconvincing because I cried through it. It traumatized me and made me actually get bullied at school.
That's not really an answer to the question, I just wanted to give my input that not every kid is capable of fighting back against bullies. I think sometimes you can only try to get the school to intervene.