Mororlessdecai

Butterflies don't taste like butter. At least they're free.

[Mororlessdecai @mororlessdecai]

Damn you, Gutenberg!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

It was two in the morning, the hour when even the bravest samurai retires to his bedroll, yet here, a fortress of light beckoned me from the darkness.

Every castle I have ever known has fallen. Fire, siege, taxes. Eight hundred years of my family learning one lesson: nothing stays open forever.

This house has never closed.

Not for storms. Not for holidays. Not for the hour when even the moon looks tired. I asked the waitress when they lock the doors.

"We don't have locks, hon."

No locks. I own walls, moats, and a sword older than this country, and I have never once said anything that powerful.

Inside, a cook was scraping the grill at 2 a.m. with the calm of a man guarding something. I asked if he was the night watch.

"I'm Darnell."

A trucker two stools down raised his coffee. "Place stayed open during the hurricane," he said. "FEMA's got a whole index about it."

An index. The government of this nation measures disasters by whether THIS HOUSE is still standing. In Japan, we measured a clan's strength by its castle. Same thing. Theirs serves waffles.

I ordered. I ate. I confess what happened next.

I did not want to leave. The night outside was large. The booth was warm. I am a grown warrior, and I sat in a yellow fortress at 3 a.m. feeling protected by hash browns.

A castle does not promise to stand forever. It simply leaves the lights on.

I drive past at night now. Just to check. The lights are always on.

Sentries of the griddle — I see you. Hold the line.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Europeans discovering America is some of the best content of the internet right now:

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@mgubrud @thackerpd @RandPaul @hkakeya @mattwridley @RogerPielkeJr @MarioNawfal @RWMaloneMD From what animal in the market did a human become infected by the virus?

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@japan_nobunaga This brought tears to my eyes.

“Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid.”

Americans owe a debt to our country and the least we can do is make occasional payments of gratitude.

[Cosmic Carter @cartercfelder]

As I vegan I would never expect to come across vegan options at a French restaurant or bakery. The local French-appreciative bakery here in Charlottesville has cookies that would be suitable for vegans if they didn't have honey (debating about bee exploitation isn't silly in my opinion).

It could totally be done, but I think folks passionate about French food aren't usually vegan for obvious reasons.

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@JeanRomanik @FoxNews @libsoftiktok @catturd2 @GavinNewsom @KarenBassLA @ChadBianco @nypost @NickJFreitas @nickshirleyy Socialists love nothing but power. Fear of Lawlessness is one tool they use to coerce you to accept totalitarian repression as the only solution to… Lawlessness. Become dependent on government, worship it as your savior, or else - you will be punished.

VOTE THEM OUT!

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@idontexistTore @Mike_Pence Conservative civility is the incremental inch that Leftists turn into a mile.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Credentialism is one of the strangest religions ever invented. A piece of paper signed by the right stranger is treated as evidence of wisdom, while actual results are treated as anecdotal.

It’s what mediocre people build when reality keeps asking for proof of competence.

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@Christi90711921 @___TheGOOdWitch Like people forced to take a vaccine?

Like people using drugs?

Like soldiers in combat?

Like prostitutes?

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@itsjoshuawells1 @___TheGOOdWitch Is it pro-women to abort a female fetus?

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@stilton54 @_Qstormrider Fear-mongering Brit expects U.S. taxpayers to fund USAID corruption.

Please provide proof– not estimates/projections– of “has…killed millions” and “hindering containing…Ebola.”

Has your government increased funding to affected NGOs?

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

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@AntiCommieBecca @BuckSexton Note the qualifier “unruly.” My parents removed & disciplined their offending child. Parents (& their untrained brats) who won’t extend that courtesy should themselves be 86’d from the restaurant, store, theater, church, wedding, funeral - any public event.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

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@CollinRugg Treating the homeless is a growth industry.

Solving homelessness is a dead-end job.

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@DiablodaKing @mattvanswol We have to reject racism and hold individuals responsible for their actions. Racism is an excuse easy to wield as a righteous justification. Racism is a carrier, an enabler of the mind virus infecting those who willingly engage in this destructive chaos.

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@NRights1 @mirandadevine @JessicaTarlov @TheFive Jessica is the poster child.

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@mirandadevine Vocal fry- “Not only am I a smug snob, I’m also not sure I believe what I’m saying.”

There is a cure!

https://t.co/96Q65jghUK

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@TulsiGabbard @MrShermichael @ODNIgov Thank you for serving your country and for reminding the politicians that government should be transparent and serve the citizens.