How to save money and making a homemade cleaning spray out of lime peels!
[Chop finished lime peels and put into a spray bottle, add 1/2 cup cup white vinegar, 1 tsp salt, a bit of dish soap, and fill the rest with water. Shake and spray for a nice household cleaner.]
Let’s talk about Biden, banking, and overdrafts….
[USA banks make over eight billion dollars a year from overdraft fees (by charging people who don’t have money).]
[Halve onions into a muffin pan; sprinkle with salt and pepper; bake for 25 minutes at 425°F then baste with butter; bake 40 minutes more and baste again before finishing.]
More clean hacks because so many of you asked for it!
[Refresh towels in the washing machine on a full cycle with half cup of baking soda instead of detergent and half cup of vinegar instead of softener.]
[Handle insults by: 1) Adding silence or continuing as if it doesn’t affect you; 2) if a stranger, asking for their name, then asking to repeat what they said; 3) if someone you know, saying maybe they’re right and checking in if they’re feeling okay.]
YouTube Commentator Beau of the Fifth Column on Fact, Opinion, and the Democracy In Between
[Democracy needs people to slow down the overly progressive and drag along the overly status quo: high polarization where people can’t talk to one another limits the discussion that fuels a functioning ecosystem.]
[No matter how many times they try to distract, instead of disagreeing you can simply repeat “I understand that you disagree with me” or “I accept that you disagree with me”.]
what triggers you, teaches you.
[Get comfortable asking “what does that say about me?” to learn about why you have buttons people can push in the first place.]
Great hacks to know to start to New Year Clean!
[Put half a lemon in a Ziploc plastic bag and fill with vinegar, then tie to let your shower head soak inside for about an hour to descale and remove dirt inside.]
Let’s talk about a New Year’s resolution, a message, and change….
I have known you before. The only ones I still know are the ones that left and never looked back.
Some reflections on last night’s hawtt Jew-on-Jew action with @thedandelionking
[‘Might makes right’ disqualifies someone from leftism.]
Let’s talk about balance and advice for the unvaccinated….
Make a plan for your kids, discuss it with them. Write your will. Sign a power of attorney. Talk about DNR/DNI with your family and decide if it’s right for you. Make one box for originals or copies of the following: life insurance policy; home and car owners insurance; medical and vaccination records; tax records; court orders, such as child support and custody; social security card; marriage license; birth certificate; passports; vehicle titles and registrations; important documents and anything you don’t want to lose; copies of last months bills (make it easy for the person taking care)
@danielbmate x @thedandelionking
[What’s the difference between destroying in the name of your country versus your god?]
[Add some ginger bug starter to pressed juice; anything with natural sugars will do, and you can add maple syrup if none. close, and let sit for 3 days or until bubbles form. Burp them daily to avoid that they explode.]
[Combine 6tsp chopped ginger, 4 tsp unrefined sugar, and 2 cups filtered room temperature water. Close well, shake, and let sit for a 24 hours. Feed daily with 2 tsp ginger and sugar for 3–5 days until bubbles form.]
[Might seem futile to add one’s voice to the cacophony of others on social media, especially as it makes little difference to people suffering over there, but my voice is all I have.]
Why don’t the Democrats adopt the obvious winning strategies?
[Since the Clinton era, US Democrats want to lose because it enables them to continue campaign funding as a lucrative income, as the Republicans started to do decades earlier.]
Do you have ten years of experience? or ten of the same year?
[It’s fine to stop a video to talk about one frame, but we cannot separate it from the moving picture of life: we’re always in motion.]
flip the power dynamic with the high ground.
[When someone talks down to you, 1) flip it around with ’this way of speaking is beneath me’; 2) assert authority by ‘allowing’ or ‘giving them another chance’ to try that again’; and 3) express that you are ‘willing to continue the conversation if they speak respectfully’.]