No, you were clear enough. "Cannibalism" intrinsically suggests the malicious and/or unnatural consumption of a thing's own species; composting is simply a more directed and intentional method of the natural order.
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That's right, you live in Texas? Sorry they do that over there.
You I'm familiar with. I know you live outside the United states, so it's completely understandable. Still sucks though.
If either you happen to be in Michigan, message me. I recommend you some great pizza places in Detroit and other cities.
Speaking of which, I have Pizzapapalis on friday. We had the seafood Pizza. My older brother got it for us. We also had an antipasto salad that went with it. The salad was cut beautifully and done very well.
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So you're saying you don't also think plants are unnatural deviations of a perfectly ordered and uniform world that drain energy from the sun like reverse vampires?
OT: The big problem with this thread is I always have great ideas for posts when I'm nowhere near my computer, and then by the time I get home I can't remember what it was I was going to say!
I had to untangle that a bit, but no; I do not find plants unnatural for feeding off of each other and the myriad other once living things that die and decay providing nutrition to the soil plants are rooted in as they've done for millions of years.
Same here. I've had many a thought I wanted to bring to these forums only to blank out when actually in a position to do so. Just saying, there's pure gold floating about in the ether thanks to my random musings. Can't tell if I'm sorry, or if you lot are welcome...
When is it acceptable to throw away old clothes?
And I'm talking about the clothes you would wear exclusively at home. I don't know if that's a thing in other countries, but here there is a very clear distinction we have between out clothes and house clothes. The shirt I'm wearing now is practically grey when it used to be white, has a huge collection of stains, and has holes that are slowly growing. And yet it's one of the most comfy shirts I have and I don't think anyone I care about will ever see me in it.
And I'm talking about the clothes you would wear exclusively at home. I don't know if that's a thing in other countries, but here there is a very clear distinction we have between out clothes and house clothes. The shirt I'm wearing now is practically grey when it used to be white, has a huge collection of stains, and has holes that are slowly growing. And yet it's one of the most comfy shirts I have and I don't think anyone I care about will ever see me in it.
I mean, probably as soon as the start getting holes probably. Heck, we live in a material disposable society, it's probably acceptable to throw it out as soon as you become tired of it.
However, I get the sense that you meant more when is it unacceptable to keep old clothes. and I would say probably when the holes are big enough to use as alternative arm/head holes. Although I have one hoodie that I wear all the time around the house that has massive holes in the elbows and I've been doing it up with safety pins for years because the zipper fell off. I'm very close to throwing it out, though, I just need a new hoodie so I can retire my going outside hoodie and shift everything down the line.
That is indeed what I was trying to say, thank you.
That seems a little extreme lol. Any particular reason you stuck with that hoodie for so long?
It's a pretty warm hoodie (apart from the elbows), and I really hate clothes shopping. I only own, like, 2 other hoodies and one is pretty thin and both are starting to look pretty worn in the elbows. All are from before 2008, I think.
You think that's extreme, but I used to work with a guy rebuilding pumpjacks and he owned exactly one hoodie and wore it EVERYWHERE. He wore it to work, he wore it out, he wore it to our company Christmas party, everywhere! It was so disgusting, and had so many holes it was a step away from just being rags at the point I last saw him.
Toilet paper is something we want paradoxical things of. For the all we want it to have tensile strength for the dry work, once it gets wet we want it to become utterly unable to hold together.
Wet toilet paper can be useful, if you get the good stuff, and lightly damp it with water. It's definitely helped me out quite a few times.
I don't know if I'm going to continue with My Hero Academia. I still have not watched season 5 yet. And from what I've heard, they kind of screwed the pooch on it. The story is lacking, and the fact that the animation gets worse. It doesn't help that they prioritize another movie that's basically non-canon or non-essential, over the actual plot that is going on. I hate it when anime does this crap; especially Shonen. I rarely ever bother with the genre, and have even less patience for it now. Plus, I'm just looking at different and other anime features. Or going back to old ones that I have not seen in a long time or have not seen before. And I just can't keep up with overly long series anymore, not that I tried much before in the first place. Also, I hate Bakugo, Endeavor, and Mineta especially. They are the worst.
When I get paid next week, I'll be seeking some African and African-American fantasy literature. Been awhile since I've read something that's a straight-up novel, it would be a nice change of pace. I'm glad there is not as much of these books where blacks are involved and it's either a crime story, the ghetto, da hood, or about some pimps or gangs. Especially in the young adult section. It was getting noticeable in the mid 2010s, and I'm all the more happy for it. Blacks are more than just generic crime, ghetto, slaves, or "da struggle"
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Been having this thought since I started watching the series, though a good portion of that is due to having just finished up an anime that will probably de-throne my current all time favorite Cowboy Bebop (the other part being that this series seems like a collection of my pet peeves with anime).
Which anime is that?
Which is it?
- The annoying midget perv that is not funny, nor cool, and is lame.
- Biatch bully that whines about nearly everything, and we're supposed to see his aggressive and asshole behavior as some weird virtue or sign of "respect".
- The fact we're supposed to be on board with a domestic abuser who has "a change" of heart way too soon.
- This series is basically Naruto with superheroes, and Rock Lee as the protagonist.
- The fan-service on high school girls
- The fact that series is suffering from arc stall, no different than shounen anime from the past where you can't jump ahead from the manga.
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Maybe you could just read the manga. Which is what I'm doing, not even because I enjoy it anymore but because I've read until this far anyway. Yeah, I just have no idea what the author is up to anymore. The art is still amazing, but the writing is all over the place. One chapter you have one of the best fights in the series with some very serious stakes, the next chapter Deku is back to his childish optimistic antics with his classmates. For once, I think this is a series that would have actually benefitted from a time skip. It's ridiculous that we'll seemingly be ending the whole story while the characters are still in their first year of high school.
With a few exceptions, I don't care much for manga reading. Not going down that path again. Not after last time. I am not buying any of those, nor am I gonna go to a manga reading site. So not worth the effort.
Exactly part of the reason why I am not invested anymore.
Pretty much all of that, but with two of my other big irks being 'things not allowed to just happen' and the pacing of the show or rather 'fuck you, it's a flashback'. On the former, it's the classic 'My attack didn't work! They must have...blah blah blah', someone will do something and then cut back to them explaining the plan for doing the thing we just saw them did, that type of thing. My favorite moment of which is when a group mall shopping trip (ugh) is interrupted by the main villain showing up, who was last seen saying he 'needed to take a walk'. Ooh, was this his plan all along? Was he spying on our cast and finding out where their families live? Well, no need to speculate, as we flashback to him moodily wandering the mall before stumbling onto our protagonist.
The latter? My god, I don't think I've ever seen a show with so many flashbacks. In the first two seasons alone I think I saw that "You too can be a hero" scene about 50 times. There are flashbacks to scenes that happened less than two, uninterrupted minutes. There's a moment in the first season where they skip forward three weeks, only to immediately cut back to stuff in the period of time they just skipped. There is just so much chaff and excess bullshit built into these shows with such long seasons, plus they just feel awful to watch in a group due to the constant needing the recap the previous episode every time with all these flashbacks mean there are regularly episodes with about 10 minutes of new material in them. My final straw was when the epic fight between LeMillion (who is just so much more enjoyable to watch than Izuku) and Overhaul turned into a fucking slideshow about halfway through.
Yeah gotta agree, manga reading sites are fuckin ass. But tbh when you catch up to the current issue, it's more or less bearable when you're just reading single chapters.
My favorite part about Mob is how anti-anime it is while being extremely anime. It's the kind of anime that I love enough to not just go and read the manga after finishing a season. Pretty hyped for season 3.
This killed any enthusiasm I had left for the anime. I had been so excited to see that moment animated, and they absolutely butchered it in favor of that awful climactic fight between Deku and Overhaul. What the fuck was that music??? And the animation is a technical masterpiece, but was just executed so weirdly that it's no fun to watch again, similar to the Naruto vs Pain fight. Sigh. I wish I could go back to the days of being able to watch Todoroki vs Deku again and again.
I got to get back in to that. I've only watched 3 episodes so far.
I've been obsessing over Komi Can't Communicate and it has me thinking about a two things.
A) Why is college life in Japan mostly ignored in their media? It's always either high school, or a salaryman's life. Maybe I haven't been reading and watching enough stuff, but I can't think of even a single example.
B) I can't help but still be creeped out at how casual and accepted it is that minors are sexualized and perverts (or really just sex crimes) are celebrated in manga/anime. Even an anime as wholesome as Komi isn't free from the usual tropes, albeit in less volume than other animes. I'm also honestly a little bothered that I don't feel this same disgust the moment I read or watch, instead of a few days later in the shower. I've brought this up before, but yeah. Makes you wonder what kind of people these mangakas are.
A) Why is college life in Japan mostly ignored in their media? It's always either high school, or a salaryman's life. Maybe I haven't been reading and watching enough stuff, but I can't think of even a single example.
B) I can't help but still be creeped out at how casual and accepted it is that minors are sexualized and perverts (or really just sex crimes) are celebrated in manga/anime. Even an anime as wholesome as Komi isn't free from the usual tropes, albeit in less volume than other animes. I'm also honestly a little bothered that I don't feel this same disgust the moment I read or watch, instead of a few days later in the shower. I've brought this up before, but yeah. Makes you wonder what kind of people these mangakas are.