That day has come.

The ‘compulsion for stealing’ has survived the era of hired agricultural hands. Socialism has not only sustained it, but extended it to the entire society. It became a built-in part of the whole system. Stealing (and I use this term in its broadest sense) in all its ritual, symbolic and other implications, has become an engrained element of peasant culture today, as much a part of it as, say, Maypoles or Easter eggs. Stealing these days is not done by just some people but by almost everyone. The chief accountant steals just the same as the animal-feeder who hides groats in his trousers or in her bra, or the watchman who knows full well what goods workers smuggle home, or the swine-tender who deliberately breaks the animal’s leg on the trough so that members of the cooperative may buy it cheaply. ('You want a suckling? You shall have it tonight … ') Everyone is familiar with the system. What a cooperative member finds demoralizing is not the fact that the whole system is based on stealing, but that he cannot steal enough (Sozan, 1985: 95-6, this author’s translation).

No plans. I die like a real man.

One friend of mine does that. I think it’s because his parents weren’t very close when he was growing up.

If you found it in China, then its native there. I read about some plants of this family being invasive across some Pacific islands.

In that case it might be something like Achyrates Bidentata or one of its relatives. A lot of those are used in traditional medicine.

During the Chinese Liang Dynasty, Achyranthes bidentata was used for its abortion effectiveness. Chinese folk doctors would take the juices of crushed up Achyranthes bidentata and insert them into the vagina to induce abortion.[4] This abortive technique was common among folk medicine practitioners in southern China during the Republican period.[5]

Yikes.

Not my bad decisions this time.

I eat plenty of things from the wild. The key part is knowing what they are before you eat them though.

Tom Lehrer, actually.

I got it from Agnes

She got it from Jim

We all agree it must have been

Louise who gave it to him

How big are the leaves? Does it smell nice when you rub a leaf between your fingers?

Cloudflare would be more like a leaf covering the image because you don’t need it to operate the stack, you need it to work in order to be able to see what it’s doing.

That’s rich coming from Quislings.

Yep. My ex-girlfriend tried it once and said she spent most of the high vomiting.

“Well, daughter, haven’t I taught you to forgive and to forget? So, your father sowed his oats, oh still you should not fret. Your father may be the cause of all the boys in town, but still…… He’s not the one who sired you so marry who you will.”

Yeah, that part is exceptionally nasty and serves very little point in the story.

Same, but I bought the Culture novels. They were fine, except the ugly parts.

Yes, women can’t do the thing they do everywhere else in the world.

Lemmy guess, part of the delivery cost was tariffs?

I just say that I’m the worst.

Most Latvians could tell Russian and Ukrainian apart, having lived around Russians for years.