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sick of hearing about "healing crystals" that "cleanse your mind and body of negative energy" i want to know which rocks can hurt you and fuck up your vibe so bad

everyone suggesting uranium isn't wrong but anyone who said "literally any rock if you're willing to resort to violence" are the only people who can get on my level. you're hired.

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okay which fandom that sprung up out of nowhere overnight like mushrooms after rain is this a reference to i can't keep up anymore

oh you meant like. that guy from the bible who invented murder. right.

"ingredients you can pronounce" learn phonics. coward.

In the early twenty-first century, there is a common marketing trend to sell processed food with a minimal number of ingredients, forgoing preservatives. Processed food is required, by law, to list out all ingredients. It is common for many preservatives and nutritional additives to be included in food, so ingredient lists can be quite long and can include the specific organic chemistry name.

For example, Sodium benzoate is an extremely common ingredient in acidic foods like salad dressing and soda because, in such an environment, it inhibits bacteria and fungal growth. Sodium benzoate is a naturally occurring substance, found in cranberries, dairy, and seafood. It can be made cheaply and drastically increases the safety and longevity of food because of its properties. And its safety has been studied extensively since the late nineteenth century, where it was one of the preservatives studied by the first commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. However, because there is no common, household name for the substance (other than benzoate of soda, which is no longer a popular name), it is seen as somehow unnatural and scary as a "chemical."

Thus, some companies, as part of a marketing push, deliberately omit ingredients like "sodium benzoate," implicitly labeling it as an unhealthy ingredient and one that people would have trouble pronouncing. People who can only read words they are familiar with, like small children, and only partially literate individuals, might have trouble saying the chemical's name.

There is no correlation between simple names and health. Some artificial chemicals are very unhealthy, unlike sodium benzoate. And some "natural" substances are lethal. But some people like to only eat things they are familiar with and do not wish to look up information about ingredients.

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.

"Demonstrators investigating the abandoned ICE vehicles apparently retrieved these “challenge coins” that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people. This “coin” is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death."

hello whta the everloving fuck is this are ICE just cult members who believe themselves to be some kinda assassin creed shit?

It’s Nazi paraphernalia

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards

The White House just launched a “Media Offenders” list.

On the official WhiteHouse.gov website.

Not a campaign page.

Not an RNC graphic.

The government’s actual website.

They’re listing reporters by name.

They’re accusing news outlets of “offenses.”

They’re stamping “EXPOSED” over every independent newsroom.

They built a leaderboard for “repeat offenders.”

Like journalism is some sort of crime and sport.

This is not “messaging.”

This is not “spin.”

This is state-run media targeting,

and we have never seen anything like it in the United States.

Ever.

They’re calling Mark Kelly’s PSA “follow the law” sedition.

They’re calling journalists who report it criminals.

They’re building narrative infrastructure for repressing dissent

All while a former TV host is being accused of unlawful killings.

You don’t put reporters on a government enemies list unless you’re planning to do something with the list.

This is authoritarian architecture.

And they just published it out in the open.

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