If anyone is down for a fascinating video essay about this by a textile historian: Standardized Sizes Ruined our Clothing Quality

Have you ever wondered how we let clothing quality get so bad? It wasn’t just desperation for cheaper options- the 18th century consumer would never have been willing to pay so much for such poor quality cloth. And yet, they stayed clothed. Even their cheaper options lasting years of hard wear. But they knew what quality looked like and for the most part, we don’t.

When did we forget how to shop for good clothing rather than just trendy? What makes clothing “high quality” is so complex and nearly impossible to track with online shopping. Even in person, it’s not a simple answer. But it used to be that more money meant more quality, plain and simple. Where did we mess up this system? Turns out, standardized sizing allowed (and even encouraged) far more than just issues with poor fit and body image.

Unfun fact:

A lot of that infomercial gear is originally invented as a disability aid, and has to go for this fringe market to get manufactured if a big medical equipment supplier doesn’t license it. You either make a tool that can do something big like helping a maimed soldier fight again, or your disability aid gets a silly-seeming commercial that mocks the difficulties faced by the people that the gadget’s creator was attempting to help.

mike bison died for our sins

The service of that myth is part of why German support for Israel is so over the top, yes. Actual treatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel could be really shitty, with high rates of poverty and mistreatment by Zionist settlers. A Hebrew slur against diaspora Jews of the time, “sabonim”, was slang for “coward” and stemmed from the use of Holocaust victims’ body fat to make soap.

However, following the money gets to the real heart of the issue. West Germany retained an enormous amount of money and property that Nazi Germany had stolen from Holocaust victims. Monetary support for Israel and encouraging immigration let the state dodge liability for reparations to individuals. Read more here: https://jacobin.com/2020/11/postwar-west-germany-support-israel-whitewashing

Keep those respirators on, cuties 🌹

A whistling blowgun would be in the spirit of the thread. Some of history’s grandest feminists have been skilled in using poisons

apart from their literal cycle of violence in racking a pump action, shotties have a choke, and thus a tendency to perpetuate rape culture.

they can also dispense hot salty loads, come to think of it

how the hell does a frog do handwraps.

and why are you using fists when your entire body is built for doing sweet jumpkicks

I guess what I’m saying is disregard news cycles and do sweet jumpkicks

Hot damn, that sounds like the best combination golf and fishing trip ever!

Leave yourself notes! On PC, Steam Categories and desktop shortcut names are enough for little hints and nudges.

Ya just need to hammer these in with a rubber mallet and all yer problems will go away.

We’ll do it again in our lifetimes. The perennial contender Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza is waiting under the ring with a steel chair, and COVID is a hell of a tag team partner for all kinds of pathogens.

sobbing over my phone because I couldn’t stop a friend from pairing full-bodied red wine with lobster

Renaming desktop shortcuts is a great way to leave yourself game notes if you’re an old like me.

Obviously it’s the combination of disc golf and rollerdisco. Lotta stroke penalties for not throwing from behind your footing marker, and it’s a little better suited for open courses than the woods…

This is actually how the toilet on the International Space Station works

More than friends, less than lovers?

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