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And if you want John K Samson doing indie rock with alt-country influence, the Weakerthans are fantastic. I highly recommend listening to Reconstruction Site straight through.

Windhand. Sort of a psychedelic doom metal with groovy elements and a haunting, ethereal female vocalist

The Paradox of Tolerance writ large in real time

I thought Prey would be great for pre-teens, but my wife hasn’t seen it and was super skeptical (and she didn’t want to watch it, which was probably more of the issue), so… shrug. Next time she’s having a night out, we’ll probably do it.

Tangentially related (since this is our go to when the wife is out of town), all 3 of my kids have loved kaiju movies since the oldest was in diapers, so if you haven’t watched Pacific Rim and the modern “kaiju-verse” (or whatever it’s called), I highly recommend it, ideally from a pillow fort on the couch so you can play act being kaiju and knocking over your own city if it gets slow.

No, it’s just I don’t think many of my IRL friends actually would know the term “hentai,” but I do live in a pretty isolated, technology-averse town in the mountains, so it’s probably just my circumstances

That’s a pretty narrow slice of Venn Diagram where you can actually tell that joke, though

Really? I always heard/read that it was as a response to Alien getting an R rating.

And actually, Alien is not a bad answer to this question. It was my 9yo and 7yo’s first R rated movie and they absolutely loved it. Plus, it sets them up for more good sci-fi down the road. My kids just watched Interstellar at 11 and 9 and really enjoyed themselves

He pardoned the conscientious objectors and draft dodgers, gave the Panama Canal back to Panama, founded the Super Fund to prosecute polluters and clean up spills, lifted the military ban on LGBTQ people serving, etc. Sure, he made some mistakes, particularly as it applies to deregulating numerous industries, but in general, he was reasonably close to progressive in numerous ways.

A strong argument could be made for FDR’s government at least making steps toward leftist goals, and Jimmy Carter was a lot more progressive than a typical liberal.

I think you’re mistaking “conservatives and centrists” for “American government”

Not an expert in Eastern religions, but it looks more like Shinto or even Hindu than Buddhist.

NGL, you had me in the first half

The burden of good taste is always knowing that nobody you met will ever know what the fuck you’re talking about when it comes to music.

It’s less of an issue with true hardwood like maple. For all the talk of bamboo dulling knives, I think it’s actually fairly soft in term of porosity.

But the place I always notice it is in pancakes, for whatever reason. My partner will make a big mess of pancakes for the kids on the weekends and stack then up on the cutting board, and if I grab one off the bottom of the stack, it very noticeably will taste of onions and herbs.

Good advice. It does depend on your environment, though. I live in the mountains where it’s super dry all the time, and we basically never get mold on anything. As long as it’s not literally dripping, I can put a cutting board away in a cupboard still wet and it will be bone-dry in an hour.

For real. Our bamboo cutting boards are ok, but after a few months of use we can only use them for savory dishes, because everything tastes like onions

Yeah, I put mine in 8.5 years ago, and with a large dog, 2 cats, and 3 kids, it’s held up remarkably well. The only problem I’ve run into is some of the tongue-in-groove connections have pulled apart over time creating small (maybe 1/4") gaps, but the planks themselves have been great. And frankly, that is probably a combination of installation error (by me) and us living in a pretty harsh environment with a huge number of freeze-thaw cycles and lots of snow every year (with a shitty insulation job in our crawlspace).

Is that treated/engineered bamboo laminate flooring? I think I have the exact same stuff from Home Depot.

I’m partial to Nazi Punks, Fuck Off, originally by the Dead Kennedys. Napalm Death does a great version, too, if you’re more into grindcore

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