Comes from corn usually

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythritol

It’s fascinating!

I would totally use it but my cat thinks it’s fun to lick it and then run to me to scrape it off her tongue. Then go back and lick it again.

My dad referred to all fast food as KenTacoHut. Trucks as Pick-em-up-trucks. I know it’s a thing, but I don’t really hear anyone saying “a month of Sundays” to mean “a long time” since he passed.

No, 2000 national guard members were removed, 2000 remain. From twelve hours ago ⬇️

https://abc7.com/amp/post/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-pushes-remove-national-guard-troops/17226449/

So, you said you’re about 60ish. The rules have absolutely changed in even just the last 20 years. It is rude to compliment someone on something they don’t have control over, i.e. their height, their face, their figure, anything like that. It’s fine to complement people on things they do have control over: tattoos, clothing, hairstyle, a talent they’ve obviously been working on.

You were maybe not aware that it’s no longer OK to comment on peoples bodies for any reason, so it didn’t occur to you to be careful with your language when expressing that you liked the tattoos that were visible when she was unclothed. And also that even though the combination of body and tattoos is what was particularly striking that that’s not an OK thing to talk about in any context really, especially in a setting meant to be a safe space for people to be nude.

This reminds me of a time in a social activism space when a dear sweet gentleman in his 80s was making a very good, valid, thoughtful point but unfortunately, used the word “Negroes” when he obviously should’ve said Black people. He was corrected in a very unkind manner and it became a whole thing. He felt terrible, he meant no harm, but he said the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It doesn’t make you a bad person. It was a social faux pas. You will cringe when you think of it, but who doesn’t have those little gems stored away in their pockets.

It can be bad for some people. They take antivirals. Those aren’t without their own risks.

Life is not without risks. You could leave this opportunity on the table because of the risk and catch it from a one night stand who didn’t even know they had it. What then?

They meant that most people who have herpes don’t know it. It’s very common to have it and never have noticeable symptoms. You can find it with a blood test, but most doctors won’t give you the test because, what’s the point?

67% of the world population has HSV1 and 13% of the world population has HSV2. HSV1 is usually oral, but can cause genital herpes HSV2 is usually genital but can also cause oral herpes. That’s 80% of the population so yeah pretty much everyone in their cat. Also, cats can get herpes but that’s a different thing.

*didn’t

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Non-nutritive sweetener is the more correct name for it, since some are somewhat natural, like stevia.

Sorbitol (the one that’s famous for releasing hellspawn from your anus when you eat to many sugar free gummy bears) is actually naturally occurring in small quantities in most fruits and larger quantities in prunes (why they make you poop).

He had the power to sit his ass at home and not join the Russian military. But his homophobia drove him across the world and into Putins meat grinder. Sucks for him and his family, but he had every opportunity to not make that decision.

Well that’s the problem! What is California doing helping immgrnts when they could be sending all that money to pay for the freeloading south?

To the tune of the chicken dance:

Kitty kitty kitty kitty

Kitty kitty kitty kitty

Kitty kitty kitty kitty

CAT CAT CAT

I have both of those sliding styles in my house. Kitchen windows are all side sliding, and are as wide as all other vertical sliding windows in the house are tall.

Except the bathroom, that one is half as tall as the tall ones/half as wide as the wide ones, it slides vertically.

All vertical sliding windows have the opening at the bottom, all horizontal sliding windows have the opening on the right.

West coast, USA.

Also the H2A workers are not enslaved, they are taken advantage of, and regulations should be updated, for sure, but they are documented, have rights, and the H2A National average minimum wage is about $17 per hour.

https://flag.dol.gov/wage-data/adverse-effect-wage-rates

I like @MacNCheezus@lemmy.today

Hey name sibling!

Is there a ren faire in your area? Maybe you could find one to work at, or like, a magic shoppe. It will be better received if there is a reason for you being in character.

When lavender infused foods got trendy twenty years ago, the first time I tried some lavender pound cake I spit it out because it tasted like soap. But I kept trying it, lavender tea, white chocolate, cakes, cookies, coffee. Eventually, lavender soap started to smell like tasty treats.