I love the incredibly fair and functional justice system in Ace Attorney

It was written as a parody of the fairly corrupt Japanese legal system, exaggerated for both humour and gameplay reasons, giving us such lovely gems as:

Guess who's about to get tased and robbed in the police precinct evidence room by a highly respected and successful prosecutor!

Guess who didn't make photocopies of the evidence that's about to get stolen!

Wait wait lemme add some things

"Republicans don't have consistent morals"

Yes they do. It's just that their morals are rooted in "protect the people and things closest to me at all costs". Their values are extreme tribalism. They also believe those outside the group are constantly threatening the safety and prosperity of the in-group.

This is why so much of what they do seems contradictory and hypocritical. Yes, they want prosperity for those they consider "like them", but they are also willing to do things that harm themselves if it harms the "enemy" more. And, they blame the enemy for that harm, not themselves.

It's literally "this is why we can't have nice things". It's your fault.

A conservative may think, "welfare might be nice, and it's true all my neighbors depend on it, but those welfare queens are stealing it, so we can't have it. Public pools might be nice, and they provide a safe place for my children to play, but people I consider unclean might use them, so we can't have them."

This is how a conservative woman can justify an abortion for herself, but not for others, even though anti-abortion laws make it harder for her to get that abortion in the first place.

What needs to be done will morph and change, external influences will change what they think are important values for the inside group to have to some degree, but at the core it's always about protecting their own.

When I was in highschool, I had a conversation that truly made me understand how conservatives think on a fundamental level. I was discussing with a conservative family friend an essay I was writing that was arguing for the decriminalization of sex work and I spent a while laying out my various arguments and why this issue was important and at the end she said to me "okay, but I don't want my daughter to think that is an acceptable thing to do".

I (being a teenager) was confused by this because this issue is so much larger than just her daughter. So I tried again to explain how many people are harmed by sex work criminalization and how decriminalization would decrease sex trafficking and she repeated again, with a smile on her face: "I don't want my daughter to do that and decriminalization would signal that that is an acceptable thing for her to do".

I was struck with a moment of realization that the way I see the world is the exact opposite of this woman. She fundamentally saw the world as centered on her and her loved ones as individuals, and was completely unconcerned with how it would affect society on a larger level. To her, the material harm that was caused to thousands of people is completely inconsequential when compared to the imagined possibility of it signaling something to her family that she personally disagrees with. That is, at it's core the conservative mindset.

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

in my defense:

and:

its very hard to tell for someone who only kind-of reads Japanese and just saw the component for "sake flask" (酉) and, rightfully assumed, that the bottle that said sake was probably sake.

No no, you don’t get to hide this in the tags

Summary: no one involved was drinking sake.

I don’t need to go out and get “turned up” to have a fun time!

Damn and how many Timelords have you made?

tags before and after doctor who fans got their hands on this post

[ID: 1. A box with a gray outline titled “My idea of a perfect night!” in red, with a pizza labelled as “‘za”, sweatpants labelled as “sweats”, and a textile loom. At the bottom is red text reading, “Who else like to stay and use Loom!!!”

2. Screenshots of Tumblr tags. The tags from before doctor who fans found the post read “#textile art #use LOOM” “me rn…” “me and my knitting”, then after “haha loom” “looms are canon” “Rassilon made this post”. /End ID]

Make sure pizza and loom are separate activities! You do not want to get pizza on your loom!

I need mayonnaise for the egg salad I want to make but I'm putting off making mayonnaise because it is such an oily process. Cleaning fresh mayonnaise off your blender etc. is just. The worst.

You can just put a little bit of dish soap and water in the blender and run it after, ya? You can even do it multiple times if the first time doesn't quite clear it. Then just rinse it and wash the outside.

I know how to clean a blender.

You are rightly annoyed Derin but actually I'm 42 and I have never realised I could clean a blender that way. Like I cleaned them but that could have saved me a lot of time when I had a normal blender

(now I have a smoothie blender and it's a lot easier to clean)

That reply hit the wrong adult

The fun part is that I make mayo with an immersion blender. Fresh homemade mayo is unfortunately sticky gooey bullshit on any tool you use, no matter what cleaning tricks you use. Cleaning the jug also sucks.

#my Dad washed his blender by running it with soapy water and then washing the outside before he met my Mom#when she disassembled it it had an ungodly amount of mold on the inside#take that blender apart to properly clean it sometimes

Yes good point you should also disassemble all disassemblable parts of a blender to clean them. The rule of thumb is that any kitchen appliance you own that's designed to be assembled by you for use (as in, stuff with lids or blades that screw in or handles that clip on, not stuff like taking a screwdriver to your saucepan's handles) should be disassembled and all parts washed separately. Yes, this includes the removable rubber rings that come in some food storage containers.

Anything that can be disassembled but isn't expected to (can openers, the aforementioned saucepan handles, etc.) should be checked regularly and you should be prepared to disassemble and clean it if it proves necessary, but you shouldn't have to do this often.

I think Beezle meant to run dishwater through the blender before disassembly to get rid of most of the gunk, and then disassemble and clean it properly. This is my go-to method for cleaning blenders as it keeps your sink of water and your cleaning tools a lot cleaner, maximising the amount of dishes you can clean with one sink of water (can you tell I grew up with water restrictions?). Simply blending dishwater should never be your whole blender cleaning process. Even ones without removable seals, like smoothie or immersion blenders, need to be cleaned properly under their blades and soforth; ones with removable seals need the seals removed and cleaned. Anything screw-on needs to be screwed off so that you can clean the threads; spilled liquids often get trapped in there.

You should also, obviously, not reassemble your device until all parts are completely dry.

I need mayonnaise for the egg salad I want to make but I'm putting off making mayonnaise because it is such an oily process. Cleaning fresh mayonnaise off your blender etc. is just. The worst.

You can just put a little bit of dish soap and water in the blender and run it after, ya? You can even do it multiple times if the first time doesn't quite clear it. Then just rinse it and wash the outside.

I know how to clean a blender.

You are rightly annoyed Derin but actually I'm 42 and I have never realised I could clean a blender that way. Like I cleaned them but that could have saved me a lot of time when I had a normal blender

(now I have a smoothie blender and it's a lot easier to clean)

That reply hit the wrong adult

The fun part is that I make mayo with an immersion blender. Fresh homemade mayo is unfortunately sticky gooey bullshit on any tool you use, no matter what cleaning tricks you use. Cleaning the jug also sucks.

take a few moments to think about the fact that every person on this planet looks up and sees the same moon and how fucking wonderful that is

this is wrong each person on earth has a differentmoon that follows them and at the end of your life it comes down to earth and squashes you and kills you

“you can’t hate ICE agents for wanting a fat paycheck” ah yes. people who are willing to disregard all morals for cash. congratulations you played right into their hands you uneducated piece of shit

you couldn’t pay me an amount even feasible to do this evil shit. you are lower than dirt

This. You can and should judge people for working for ICE, they're people who willingly signed up for an American secret police force that's violating the rights of people constantly in order to act as enforcers of a fascist government.

Basically everyone is not an ICE agent. Like, virtually all of us, the entire population, are not ICE agents. No matter how steep our bills are, very nearly every single American is not an ICE agent.

We can, and should, judge them forever. It should be the sort of thing their grandkids are ashamed to discover. The sort of thing that hamstrings a career forever. "What were you doing in 2025-26? Oh, you were with ICE? Thank you for your time, get out right now."

They should all be judged and shunned for the rest of their lives.

The funniest thing I've learned in the last day is that the "$50K bonus" only pays out after 5 years of service.

Like, lmao, you thought Trump was gonna give you a big chunk of cash? Silly.

I wonder what the actual pay is, and whether that additional 10K a year makes it a livable wage.

99% of them will never get that money regardless bc agents are washing out and quitting faster than they can handwave more through because, well...

Also, there's nothing preventing a massive layoff in 4 1/2 years. It's not like we have a President who has a history of not paying for shit.

I need mayonnaise for the egg salad I want to make but I'm putting off making mayonnaise because it is such an oily process. Cleaning fresh mayonnaise off your blender etc. is just. The worst.

You can just put a little bit of dish soap and water in the blender and run it after, ya? You can even do it multiple times if the first time doesn't quite clear it. Then just rinse it and wash the outside.

I know how to clean a blender.

how it's done