@givenup@BowsacNoodle The crazyass thing about having one jew parent is, even if they're sincerely Christian they will often say they are also jewish. I've never heard an Orthodox person say this, bc we know better, but recently had a boomer Roman Catholic say she was a jew. She was trying to claim some of that holobunga fake valor. I decided to lowkey quit talking to her.
@NatalieTBP@Basketball_Jesus@ChairmanO15@DurpState Texans are my people and I'm pretty partial to 'em. My metric for an actual Texan is if your great-great grandfather was born here, and all your ancestors since then are buried here. If you don't know where your ancestors are buried, I do not recommend visiting. You will be uncomfortable.
@machciv@NatalieTBP@Basketball_Jesus@ChairmanO15@DurpState NO CREMATION! The body is holy through the Incarnation of Christ. We do green burials in Orthodoxy, and no funeral home even needs to be involved. If you can find a country cemetery that will allow it, or maybe at a Roman Catholic monastery, you don't even need a casket.
If I could afford to move, I'd get some land around Ballinger/Paint Rock. It's Central Texas, but also the beginning of the great southwestern desert.
@db I have yet to plant pertaters, I of course have to plant things you can't eat but that look beautiful in a wild setting. But I'm working my way toward having a bed for potatoes and one for onions and garlic.
@db I guess like any other bulb, they just get bigger and bigger. We'll have to to eff around and find out and compare notes. I've gotten tired of looking things up on the old series of tubes, and have re-embraced figuring things out by trial and error.
There were wild leeks here when I moved in, and they came back every year. Then I got the bright idea to move them where they wouldn't get peed on by dogs and they hated the new locations--I tried several--and are all gone. Womp womp.
@dictatordave@Bonsai@JoshuaSlocum@sickburnbro Austin was once absolutely paradise on earth and we all knew it. It was such a great place to be a young slacker. Everybody was good-looking and had endless amounts of time on their hands bc none of us gave one single shit about careers (or family womp womp) we just romped and played in this beautiful city, making music and art and perfecting our weirdness. Sigh. Should have been making babies.
@Bonsai@JoshuaSlocum@dictatordave@sickburnbro >My generation's not larping we just actually are poor. don't know if you're millennial or zoomer but I see tons of bougie young people every time I go to Austin. they drive Teslas and step over urine-soaked bums on their way to brunch.
@Bonsai@JoshuaSlocum@dictatordave@sickburnbro >closer to a final stand for yuppies nationwide than it is to a sign of health for America I'd say this is spot-on. Anyone who knows and loves Austin can see it's not actually healthy, it's more like it just has all these metastasized real estate developments. The whole city is pockmarked by landmark businesses that were driven out by rent increases and nothing took their place. The buildings stand empty, covered in graffiti and weeds and fenced off to keep bums out while they build a brand-new luxury condo with retail on the first floor right next to it.
@sickburnbro@dictatordave@JoshuaSlocum@Bonsai >99% of boomers will fight you to the death dude I KNOW. I have close boomer cousins and they do this. It drives me crazy. They're good people, too, you would definitely want them in the ethnostate. It's just a peculiarity of boomers. They were lied to their entire lives, when the propaganda was subtler and well-hidden, and most people of any generation do not have the strength of character to consider that everything they believe might be wrong.