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Well, I can't say I've ever thought about it before. Which is kinda weird considering how huge the movies were when I was a kid and how much I loved them. I always kinda thought of them as a set; I wouldn't have thought about picking one, it's the synergy that made it work.

I guess I gotta go with either Obi Wan or Han though, with Leia being a close third.

Obi Wan because he was the introduction to what Jedi are supposed to be, and anyone else that came after in the movies had to live up to that because Alec Guinness' performance was so tight. He's still what I think of when the word Jedi pops up. "These are not the droids you're looking for", with a bare minimum of movement and the confidence.

Han shot first. And that's why he's a candidate for favorite. He's a guy that can read what's going on and not hesitate to trust himself. He doesn't pretend to be perfect, but he's got swagger and style. Then he lives up to his own hype.

Leia is not because of the picks obvious reason young men loved seeing her on a leash. Ngl, that scene was.... formative. But the reason the scene happened in the first place, story wise, that's why she's awesome. She chain chokes a giant alien at least three times her mass while barely clothed, and she got there on purpose. She's no delicate flower of a princess, she's a warrior princess, a She-ra or Xena.

Yeah, I was the same. Just pissed me off that people took what was meant to be a humorous rant and pretended it was factual.

When I ran across tea and crumpets' rebuttal, I saved a copy immediately.

It kinda became a thing I did. I was a mod of r/goodlongposts for a while, and the rant copy pasta would get caught by the bot a lot, so I'd post the rebuttal. I eventually wrote my own for the koala pasta, then discovered it had already been done. There's a panda one and a mosquito one as well. I used to have one for wasps, but I seem to have lost the file at some point. Skeeters and wasps were more for those times when they'd come up as beginning being hated in general, as I never saw any copy/pasta regarding them.

But, last time I went to the beach, I actually ran across idiots wanting to charter a damn boat to go throw rocks at the things. Which was stupid on multiple levels. But it shows how bad info can spread, so I always feel justified in pasting in the better info.

Ooooooo, damn! Homie in here looking to fight! Absolutely brilliant unpopular opinion; simple, direct, and easy to discuss.

Aight, I gotta say up front that I am picky about strawberries in general, and it is rare for preserves or jams (I've never had a strawberry jelly, but I'm not that kind of asshole to insist that a pb&j can only use jelly) to meet my standards.

I disagree with strawberry anything being better than grape jams or jellies on two standards. First is that food preferences are always subjective, and thus we can only rarely say anything other than "better for me"

The second is essentially subjective as well, as it goes to those preferences that I have.

A pb&j is on my list of perfect sandwiches (again, for me, but I think it would fit such a description in general) because it provides a balance of sweet, savory, salty, acidic and allows nigh infinite variety with fruit flavors. You can have one and need nothing else to satisfy one's palate.

I think where grape is better than strawberry for those that prefer it is the nature of grape. It is a fairly strong flavor, but also usually simpler in jelly or jam form. The processing of grapes in that way means the potential complexity of flavor grapes can have is subdued. As such, it delivers the balance to the peanut butter in a very accessible way. Remember, we often encounter pb&j sandwiches first in our youth when we haven't developed our palate as much, and often can't appreciate more subtle flavours or more complex ones.

Strawberry jams and preserves are almost always more complex in flavor than grape versions (though I'd argue that a good homemade muscadine jelly belies that). They're also a tad more acidic, and strawberry flavor as it differs from other fruits is bolder as well. So it often stands over the peanut butter, even to the degree of smothering at times.

I believe that's why, ignoring personal preferences, grape became the default and is "better" than strawberry as a default. I might also argue that apple jelly is better than grape as a default for the same reasons; the varieties of apple used combined with the jelly making process make it an incredible pb&j candidate.

I put way too much thought into sandwich theory. I admit that with joy in my heart lol.

But I have tried essentially every kind of jam and jelly that I've run into over the years on a pb&j, as well as adjacent options like apple butter. I maintain that the holy trinity of apple, grape and strawberry should be default. If you open a sandwich stand, one of those three should be what you serve if someone asks for a pb&j without specifying a flavor.

While I prefer apple as my personal default, I think that the hypothetical sandwich shop should likely default to grape as it is the assumption most people make when they ask for one, but I wouldn't be mad at any of them as default.

Now, because I'm picky, strawberry is my third or fourth choice when I'm wanting one. Apple or grape is going to be what I reach for 80% of the time. Damson plum is roughly tied with strawberry for me, and I can never decide which I prefer.

What is straight out is any fruit like blackberry that has the seeds still in the jam or preserves (by definition, seeds can't be present in jellies). It just isn't pleasant to run into those hard bits (as opposed to something crunchy like crunchy pb, or some nice potato chips layered into the sandwich, though that's not a pure pb&j), so they can fuck right off.

I am otherwise very open to fruits in that regard. Even oddball things like pepper jelly, or watermelon rind preserves are worthy on rare occasions. Watermelon rind preserves, btw, are exactly what you might think. The peeled and cut rind of a watermelon preserved by a combination of citrus (lemon), sugar, and heat. Pectin may be added to adjust the thickness as preferred. It is amazeballs, and can go with damn near anything that can handle the sweetness. If you've never had it, find an old southern granny or gramps and die happy after they share a jar with you.

Even things that don't do well as preserves or jams can be given honorary place on a pb&j sandwich. Bruléed banana as an example. Little pinch of cinnamon, a sprinkle of sugar, bake for maybe ten minutes then brule to caramel. Lay that on the waiting pb&bread, then die happy. It isn't a proper pb&J, but it's a spiritual cousin to it.

I have been so happy that on lemmy, the copy pasta hating sunfish gets soundly criticized and rejected as anything resembling reality.

However, I still want to take the opportunity to copy/paste in the rebuttal to that copy pasta an anti-pasto of sorts. A biologist took the time on reddit to write it up, and I have it saved in markor with a few minor edits.

Sunfish

From u/tea_and_biology

Zoologist here; the majority of this is so inaccurate the guy is basically angry at a figment of his own imagination, paha. I mean there's hyperbole, and then there's hyperbole. Yikes!

They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink.

Sunfish are, in fact, well understood and, though clumsy when idly basking, are reasonably accomplished swimmers when diving. They stroke their dorsal and anal fins laterally and in a synchronous manner to generate a lift-based thrust that enables 'em to cruise at speeds of 2-3mph (source), comparable to a whale shark and the perfect speed for suction feeding; ploughing straight into smacks of jellyfish and gobbling 'em all up.

Where they excel amongst fish is their ability to undergo substantial vertical movement in the water column. They possess large deposits of low-density, subcutaneous, gelatinous tissue which, unlike a swim bladder (which would otherwise change volume with hydrostatic pressure), is incompressible, enabling rapid depth changes and keeping them neutrally and stably buoyant independent of surrounding water pressure.

So, yeah, their unusual bodies are basically one big paddle, capable of putting some force behind their swimming to move over considerable distances, descending very deep, very fast.

They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive.

Dumb. Also incorrect. Jellyfish and other Cnidarians comprise only around 15% of their diet; they mostly eat young fish (including conger eelets) and crustaceans (pelagic crab, krill, copepods etc.), alongside squid, bivalves and other assorted zooplankton. They're generalist predators, not jellyfish specialists like sea turtles (source).

They have a particularly rapid growth rate amongst bony fish, owing much to their unique genetics (source).

Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess.

They spend the majority of their time actively hunting in the very cold deep (usually at ~200m, but up to 600m) and, being ectotherms, therefore regulate their temperature by basking in the sun, before pursuing another dive. Think of marine iguanas basking on hot rocks between nibble trips.

And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.

Sunfish have been kicking about in temperate and tropical waters worldwide for around 50 million years and, until humans arrived on the scene, were overwhelmingly successful in their ecological niche. Sadly they're under threat by human activity and human activity alone - frequently caught as by-catch; having little commercial value, like sharks, their fins are cut off before they're dumped, often still alive, back into the sea to die. If one is to start throwing rocks at terrible creatures, perhaps one should look at us humans first.

Or, there's The visual rebuttal, credit to u/iamnotburgerking

I love that metalhead.club exists as an instance

Hell yeah!

Halford has managed to improve with age in a way most singers don't. Richer, better controlled voice.

And the rest of the band is so on point (as always imo).

Fucking preach.

On the cheek

And it depends on the drug, butt most of them won't absorb via the anal sphincter fast, so unless it's just sitting there, the hooker wouldn't get high.

You could snort a line from the crack, if the position was right though. Just need a long though enough straw. But the usual places coke or meth get snorted from are the butt cheeks, cock, and boobs (depending in the stripper or hooker's equipment.

The thing is, it's not a blanket statement of what must be done. It's a principle that is guided by the combination of logic, emotional control, and, as strange as it may seem, empathy.

It stands as a metric to process one's actions and choices. The individual vulcan accepts that the needs of all vulcans as a whole are more important than their own needs. This doesn't mean that there is no debate. It's the framework for the debate.

As the individual vulcan weighs options, they seek to determine what is the most benefit, and therefore the greatest need. They use logic to measure opposing or contradictory options, but they also consider the non physical ramifications.

Expanded into the federation, it becomes a measure for all sapient beings, not just vulcans. And that's where the empathy of vulcans comes in the clearest. They'll weigh the emotional harm to emotional beings as a need that must be factored into a decision.

But it also includes as part of their culture that no single vulcan is perfect, and that logic is a tool that must be developed. They can disagree with the decisions made about what the needs of the many are. It's just that every individual sees the logic of their own needs being secondary.

It's an expression of the vulcan equivalent of religion

Ahhh, 30-06, god's own rifle calibre.

I tried it just for the hell of it.

Your comparison to wine coolers is dead on, imo. It has that same overall profile where it's sweet and easy to drink. It isn't great, but it's not bad, and I could see someone that lollies likes drinking going through gallons of it. I don't like drinking, and I managed to kill a whole glass, which is saying a lot for me.

Damn.

In my neck of the woods, people of her generation just didn't have options. You either left home like she did, or you struggled to survive. I think the first trans woman I met was probably that age; we never got close since I was a damn kid, but she was closer to my mom's age for sure. She had been all over the world trying to find a place to call home, and had some real horrifying stories. And scars, literally and figuratively.

I got the impression that sex work was extremely common in the cities that you could get access to treatments and surgeries. Hard to work a regular job with no ID because you ran away in fear with no documentation at all.

But later on, the trans people I met of that age range all had similar stories, if they didn't have the "luck" of already being close to somewhere that had access to a community and help, or the much rarer fortune of supportive family.

It's infuriating that anyone should have to go through that kind of thing just to be.

I know, even back then it wasn't always the case that people had to make those choices, but it really seems to be a common thread that homelessness, addiction, and sex work were a shared experience for way more people than is even fair.

I enjoyed the fuck out of that. Thanks :)

Ngl, I've had sex with female friends just because they were horny and wanted something uncomplicated from someone they knew would respect boundaries. Most often, that was going down on them, which was fine by me since I always found that to be fun. Sometimes they'd reciprocate, or return the favor later on. Sometimes not, and that was fine too.

If I was bi or gay, I'm fairly sure I'd at least be willing to give hand jobs to bros.

Not all the time, every time, but at that same level of occasional where if the need is strong, but opportunity absent, why not? Doesn't hurt anyone, and as long as everyone involved is on the same page it won't.

I mean damn, I ain't gay, but if it's worth a hundred, I'm gonna try it

Man, that last one brings out a memory of the only visit to a church I ever enjoyed (other than the music, I always did love a choir or a nice singalong).

See, my ass jumped ship from christianity when I was 12ish I had been having doubts before that, but around that age, I was able to read the Bible and start thinking about what preachers said and none of it was adding up.

So, I just quit believing any of it. I was what you might call a determined kid once I formed a strong opinion. Might call it stubborn, but whatever. Point is I washed my hands if it and never considered going back. My parents were fine with that, they'd never been serious about it anyway, just went for the social aspects, and we weren't regulars even then.

But, I didn't hate church, and I was fine with other people's beliefs. So, sometimes a friend or whatever would invite me along on a Sunday, and I'd usually go along. That eventually stopped, but lasted into high school.

In jr high, I got invited along to a Baptist church. Now, my family had gone to the closest baptist church when we went, but it was what you might call fancy baptist. The kind where the fire and brimstone was damped down in favor of love thy neighbor and pretty dresses.

This church though, the preacher must have thought he was on tv because damn!

You've likely seen people doing impressions of a fire and brimstone style preacher. All the hallelujahs and can-i-get-an-amens, the intensity and performance of it. This guy used all those tricks.

He was preaching on Jesus and the money lenders. He gets to the part about (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ and such, and he grabs the mic in one hand, and starts knotting up his handkerchief.

We were in the front row because my friend had said that's where you wanted to be.

He was right!

This preacher goes back and forth across the front pews just beating the ever living hell out of everyone. Then down the aisle whacking everyone on the ends. Then he comes back to the front and gets us all again.

The man is red, dripping sweat, and tears off his jacket. Then he really starts preaching.

Now, it's all batshit crazy, the dude is just balls out raving about the love of money and greed and such. Not really giving any helpful hints, just laying out how bad greed is for fifteen minutes. By the time he's done, his tie is dangling loose, his shirt is soaked, and his hair is flying.

So 10/10 entertainment!

And it was followed up with the usual passing of the plate to great success. The thing was piled so high it had to be brought up front and emptied twice just on our side of the aisle.

Then we got the choir, and a singalong of amazing grace, which is always nice.

But that guy just breaking the fuck out and beating little old ladies, us kids, and everyone in between was peak performance.

Gatorwine is a thing that the internet has made known. It's a mix of wine and blue Gatorade. Babish mixed some up as part of an "I do your suggestions" episode.

Turns out that it isn't as horrible as it would seem. To the contrary, he liked it and did a second episode mixing up more varieties. So now it's a thing everywhere since he's fairly popular.

Bollocks. Even us septics know jaffas are biscuits

I mean, it's Cameron. Great director, but an absolute asshole. As others have already said, you don't have to go for the throat to make a good biopic or semi-biographical movie like Oppenheimer. You don't have to always tell the exact same kind of story.

This is just Cameron being his usual dickish self.

Edit: I thought this was a post on a different C/ when I responded. I'm not poly, so I wouldn't normally respond to something here. My apologies for not paying better attention, but I'll leave the comment here in case it's useful despite that.

It's not limited to any given relationship structure. People either are or are not okay with a given health issue that may impact all parties involved.

When you're dealing with a structure as complex as even a three party relationship, the degree of discussion and communication necessary to maintain stability is high. It isn't at all unusual for the core group to have agreements about hard noes, and a very common one is STDs. With HIV currently being an infection that requires long term treatment, and often would require going on PREP for every member of the group, it makes total sense. A lot of polycules require regular testing and/or testing before joining.

I'd be surprised if that was the only STD/BBD that they have a rule about.

As far as an opinion, it makes sense. Everyone has to decide what limits they have regarding risk. Maybe you're okay with herpes, but not syphilis. Or vice versa. You gotta decide for yourself. But, when you have multiple partners, their decisions can affect you before you have the ability to make informed consent if you don't hammer it out together. So a polycule that's open to members having sex outside the group kinda has to work with the most restrictive limits members have. Any new members would then have to adhere to those limits or not join.

I'm not poly myself, though I'm not against it and wouldn't automatically discount a relationship with someone that was in a polycule (or wouldn't have, I'm monogamous in general and am married, so no outside stuff at all). But I would damn well need to know that there was some kind of understanding about risk mitigation in place.

Which, I have a fairly long history of dealing with HIV/AIDS issues. I was around back before AZT was even created, and it was new when I started work as a nurse's assistant. There was a time that I was the only NA willing to work with AIDS patients at all, and one of a small number that would work with HIV positive patients that weren't symptomatic. Back doing my clinicals, it was optional to train on the HIV ward, students could just opt out. I was one of two in the class that didn't.

Even with that, it would be a big ask to engage in sex with someone that was positive on a regular basis. And an even bigger one to invite someone into my marriage that was positive. I'm not saying hell no, never. Not with the modern meds that can keep a person undetectable, and PREP being an option. But if that went away? Hell no. I've seen that path play out, and I wouldn't take it. So I can't blame a group not being willing to deal with the risks, no matter how small