But the sticker covering up Made in China says it was actually Made in USA. This is why we say USA is #1: it's on the top!

I appreciate the extra effort you made to use profile pics.

@frauddogg@hexbear.net

I concede, Goku was the better candidate. It was your reply that flipped my vote after realizing I was woefully outmatched in DBZ references and had no comeback.

As much as I hate to point to reddit, the r/curly hair sub has a lot of great advice. Curly hair never stops being a pain in the ass, and it gets worse with length. I find somewhere around shoulder blades is where it ramps up even higher for some reason. On the flip-side, everyone will be jealous of your curls/waves, so it's about finding a balance of what you care about. Unfortunately, much of this is related to buying the right things to treat it right, but this can still be done with relatively little money.

• Your comb is generally bad for curly hair. Ditch the little plastic knobs at the end of the bristles. A wide-tooth comb (usually ~5-10 teeth) is necessary, other combs aren't, but can help. If you really need something like a traditional comb, get ones without the knobs and don't get boar's-hair bristles. I bought a Denman D3 for about $25 10 years ago and it's held up well. Looks the same as the day I bought it.

• Don't dry with a towel and don't rub. A soft shirt works well and you can use this to scrunch your hair to help dry. Heat treatment is generally bad, but you can get away with drying to about damp on low/no heat, then let your hair dry naturally.

• Getting good curls is usually about moisture. Good shampoo and conditioner are important. Anything with silicone or paraben will weigh your hair down/straighten it and takes a long time to wash out without clarifying shampoo (green V05 is usually recommended to use once to remove everything). Clarifying is harsh on hair and strips it of moisturizing natural oils. Avoid products with dimethicone (fucking everywhere) or other ingredients ending with "-cone". r/curlyhair used to have links to sites where you could screen products for curly-hostile ingredients in their sidebar.

• Don't shampoo everyday if you can help it. I get bad dermatitis and find I can get away with every other day at most during flare-ups. Some people wash daily with conditioner, some skip their hair entirely on some days.

• If you are going to spend money on product, it's better spent on good shampoo and moulding products. Good conditioner is cheap, even V05 works, just check ingredients. If I want to save money, I'll condition with a cheap conditioner and then use a small amount of more expensive conditioner as a leave-in.

• Finishing products are something that will be more specific to your hair type and partially determine the messiness of the style at the end. Lots of people form a hard "cast" like using hair gel, then scrunch it in a soft shirt or towel to break up the crunchiness and leave the definition and shape without the nasty crunchiness. I think this works best for tightly curling hair, while a curling cream, mouse, or just conditioner works better for looser curling/wavy hair. Just experiment to find what works for you. It's best to apply while your hair is wet. This is where you can comb it in, but finish with a wide-tooth and then turn your head upside down and "scrunch your hair up towards your scalp in clawing/cat kneading motions to help define curls.

• If you must add something for shine, use something like pure argan oil. Most shining products have dimethicone. Argan is closer to natural hair oil.

• When getting a haircut, it's usually best to style it before you go and sometimes you'll get a dry cut. I've had both dry and wet work well. If you cut on your own, the best videos I found were on the YT channel "Manes by Mel" I think.

• If you can get a silk pillowcase or hair net, that will help protect your hair at night. I've wrapped my hair in a shirt before with success. Pillowcases are around $30.

Hopefully that gives you a starting point. I could recommend specific products, but hair varies widely and yours might not respond the same as mine. I've been using similar methods on medium to long hair for ~8 years and they've worked well. I may be able to answer questions later. Good luck!

A simple man who only wanted to capture the beauty of the world on film.

Ironic as he was destined to toil in relative obscurity, his only lasting legacy is a picture someone else took of him! It survives only on T-shirts in Hot Topics and Spencer's within the dying ecosystem of malls across the US.

If the US was to take an isolationist policy 100 years ago, then there is a good chance that WW2 would have been won by the Axis. The Allied forces likely would have put up a good fight, but I'm not sure they would have emerged victorious against the combined Axis forces. The war in the Pacific would have raged on much longer, and without nuclear weapons, there would have been an extreme loss of life invading Japan. At the very least, WW2 would have lasted much much longer than it did. Depending on the outcome, plenty of countries might currently be speaking German and debating if they should tear down 80-year-old statues of Hitler.

The only people who believe this drivel are those who have only learned about WWII via Hollywood and YT videos. Go listen to an actual historian and you will not hear this fantasy. They will tell you that Germany had one foot in the grave by the time the US joined the Western front. The only ounce of truth in this statement is that the Pacific theatre would have gone on longer.

Edit: I didn't touch on this but should have...the whole idea that a nuclear attack on Japan was necessary or even justified in any way is not only incorrect but is a racist, genocidal excuse for not one, but TWO of the most horrific acts in our entire history. You should be ashamed for propagating this tired lie.

In Alien she is the scratched liberal, and in Aliens she is the fascist who bleeds.

So what is she in Alien 3 and Resurrection?

She's so cold and detached throughout Resurrection, maybe something like Fritz Haber?

tert-butyl lithium. Ignites on contact with air. Often used in conjunction with flammable solvents, so large fires and explosions are possible when working with large enough quantities.

As far as safety SOPs go, nearly any chemical spill of a large enough quantity warrants evacuating the area in many chemical safety plans. For some institutions, this is as little as 1 liter or 500g of material. This can obviously be overkill if you spill something that is relatively inert and non-toxic such as water or NaCl.

Ah, I must have misheard it then.

Honestly, Elsevier is the worst. They tease you with those section snippets, so I scroll from the abstract and can start reading the introduction...scroll a bit more and it's unceremoniously cut off mid-sentence. Then I rage because the article is newer than 2022 (no Sci-Hub) and my institution gets cheaper every year.

I can't view papers I've published in some journals anymore. When I see this, I think: "Why don't we subscribe to papers we are actively publishing in?? Why aren't all of the papers I want to read published in open access journals?? Why did I contribute to a journal that wasn't open access??"

Meanwhile the US builds house and sells them to corporations who have no interest in letting someone live there.

Your only source on the DPRK is Radio Free Asia. Go push a train by hand you clown.

Edit: To clarify, the above was in response to the original comment, which was edited to be much more reasonable after my response.

This is the greatest AMV I've ever watched.