One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s.

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It’s a Schacht Flatiron; Schacht is, I believe, the largest American spinning wheel manufacturer. https://schachtspindle.com/products/flatiron-spinning-wheel?variant=45418176250151 I really like it. My first wheel was a Majacraft Pioneer (NZ made).

I got 2 bags of sparkly, brightly-colored art batts (wool, silk, and angelina) at a fiber festival at the beginning of June, and I just finished spinning all of them today (it doesn’t take months to do, but I cut my finger in mid-June and had to take a break from fiber arts for a while). Now the singles need to rest, then I can ply them, then they’ll be yarn! And then I can knit something very happy with them and maybe have it done in time for winter.

The average Black American is ~1/3 white (because of all the rape of enslaved women, basically) so he’s not that much off the average there.

No, they’re still racist because their actions (e.g. voting for Trump) increase racial inequality.

“Other children my own age”, sure. You weren’t seducing 22-year-old men.

The right thing to do if a 12-year-old makes sexual advances on an adult is for the adult to report it because the 12-year-old is probably being abused!! Not to have sex with them!! What the fuck?! (Not that I believe this shit for a second but even if it were true that makes him just as much of an abuser.)

I believe they do this the same way they do traffic jams, by seeing how many android phones are at the location vs. average.

Patriarchy oppresses us all.

There are plenty of women who live like this now. It’s a cultural thing, not a timeline thing. I had a roommate in college who would wake up before dawn to do her makeup so nobody would see her without it.

(Also high society women certainly didn’t make their own breakfasts… well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)

Too bad he took a 19-year-old with him :/

I’m not sure; usually this language is used when someone is convicted, that the sentence they receive from the judge has to fall in that range. I don’t know what “sentenced to 15 years to life” means except that the judge intends that she spend at least 15 years in prison.