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Jingthing

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  1. Probably about the 25 mini wheats. More often I do 5 tablespoons if puffed rice or quinoa in which case I don’t count the grains.
  2. I vary the fruit. Not often melon. Always banana but sometimes blueberries, apple, mango, or papaya.
  3. 1/2 cup no sugar mixed grain muesli 25 pieces no sugar mini shredded wheats Tablespoon pumpkin seeds 5 Almonds 1 Brazil nut Sliced cantaloupe Sliced one banana In a mix of plain yogurt and cold water Mug of black coffee
  4. This is I think a brilliant analysis of the phenomenon of this song. Incoherent populism. Even of you don't agree with the article it provides lots of food for thought about issues raised by the song. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/08/oliver-anthony-and-the-incoherence-of-right-wing-populism.html Over the weekend, an obscure Virginia country singer became a conservative folk hero and progressive hate object. Oliver Anthony’s overnight transformation into the bard of red America has already attracted a great deal of commentary, some of it worthwhile, much of it not.
  5. You can probably come in with a printed list of all your medications and dosages with a note to the effect of what you want to say and any cheap clinic might sign and stamp it. Will customs accept that? I don't know. Technically they want scrip bottles with your name on it.
  6. There is an irony about this song. IF he had deleted all the weird stuff (pedo island, trashing obese "welfare cheats", civil war glorification) would it have still been such a massive viral sensation? After all it is a good song as a song, and lots of authentic emotion, even without the weird stuff. Maybe but not nearly as much as the song is mostly being pushed by right wingers.
  7. Yes, Richmond, Virginia served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. TRAITORS! Funny song. He's whining about REBEL statues going down as if rebel statues have anything at all to do with American patriotism.
  8. Instead of irrationally bashing obese people, slipping in far right wing Q conspiracy theories, and stealthily inciting a new civil war, how about some actually UNIFYING pro worker folk songs? The USA is more divided than it's been since the civil war. Oliver Anthony's viral song is not helping.
  9. Go ahead. See what it does for that weakling. Or another all hat no cattle trumpublican. How must it feel to be a cuck to the likes of extremist lunatic Marjorie Taylor Greene?
  10. If you haven't seen it yet, you will, so you may as well get it over with. It's very understandable that it's gone so viral. It's a catchy tune, the singer clearly has very authentic deep emotion coming from his difficult life experiences, and it certainly has a message. But what is that message exactly? Remember when songs celebrating the exploited poor came from the left, were pro union, and didn't attack other segments of poor Americans? This one is clearly different. Rich men north of Richmond? (Virginia.) Huh? Civil war redux or what? Shades of Q pizzagate conspiracy theories / Jeffrey Epstein with it's reference of minors on an inland. Attacking obese people on welfare?!? That's probably the weirdest thing here. The singer comes from Apalachia. That's a region with a huge percentage of people on assistance, yes sometimes with bogus disability claims but also because the region is so economically devasted. Imagine Woody Guthrie pulling something like that. I think this song is going to make a difference, but descriptions of it as "unifying" are clearly overblown. If you want to get what I'm talking about listen to it numerous times. You need to do that to start to get the questionable subtext of this. Likely your first impression (as was mine) will be to be moved by it.
  11. Well, he had the right to object to it but as he objected to it so strongly, he should have just avoided shopping at that private business.
  12. A couple of oddities avaliable on youtube. A Nazi propaganda movie that the Nazis deemed not Nazi enough to release. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Große_Freiheit_Nr._7 Ever wondered about the origin of the term Nancy boy? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nance Video of theater production.
  13. He was fleeing so that part of it is more ambiguous.
  14. Anti LGBTQ hate crime. Sometimes a cigar is a cigar.
  15. A Small Light Miniseries The Anne Frank story told from a different POV. The brave helpers. Turns out this is quite good.
  16. It's obviously a foot long glass of wodka.
  17. Freedom of speech. Won't keep it to myself. Flying a pride flag is speech. Stop victim blaming.
  18. Who? Fascist demagogues such as DeSantis. Blood on his sleazy hands.
  19. I wouldn't be so.sure about that. A good friend of mine growing up was a total chess God who then went on to MIT and being a tech industry legend. At the same time he'd go out at night to bash homos. Many people have great intelligence in narrow areas combined with massive idiocy in others. A more famous example Elon Musk
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