Sydney Sweeney has great bathwater

The world loves me for me.

It isn't just quasi-white supremacist ad campaigns that are adding to bodacious Sydney Sweeney's fame quotient. There is also her bathwater, which has allegedly been added to some expensive Dr. Squatch soap. It's doubtful there is even a molecule of her in any bar, but maybe she looked at the water before it got watered down, spread out, and mixed with fat and lye. Can you imagine anyone liking someone so much that she'd gladly swim in that person's bathwater? If not, ask Gwen about it:

Gwen Stefani's No Doubt "Bathwater"

Sydney Sweeney bathwater bliss (teepublic.com)

• Sydney Sweeney bathwater soap joke tee shirt (womyso.com)
• Halsey begs her fans to see ‘Americana’ even though controversial Sydney Sweeney is in it

Germanic types can be crafty in real herstory.

The rise of robotic sex

Could they, would they, ever build an SS Doll for patriots? Germanic Americans might love it.

We tested 10 female humanoid sexbots/robots and found the best

Will I be funny when I get old? (standup)

King of One-Liners | Andy Huggins | Stand Up Comedy

(Don't Tell Comedy) July 31, 2024: Comedian Andy Huggins shares his hilarious take on everything from one-night stands to finding his spirit animal in his Don't Tell Comedy set!

Comedy is at its best when there's a surprise. That's why Don't Tell Comedy puts on events where the performers and location are kept secret until the day of the show. With over 150 cities already in on the joke, no one ever knows where it'll be set up or who might pop in. Want to be let in on the secret? Visit website below to find a nearby upcoming show: donttellcomedy.com. Just don't tell anyone!! 🤫

If only Jews were funny (but not dirty)

(Good Series) Old Jews telling jokes

ABOUT: Andy Huggins has appeared on America's Got Talent and has opened for acts ranging from Ray Charles to Jeff Foxworthy. Instagram: andyhugginscomedy TikTok: andyhugginscomedy

Soap is a joke! Major shoutout to Dr. Squatch for making this stand-up series possible. Upgrade personal care with 15% off order of 50+ with code DTC15

Credits: Written and performed by Andy Huggins. Executive Producers: Kyle Kazanjian-Amory & Brett Kushner. VP of Production: Marissa Gallant. Live Events Manager: Drew Platt Director: Gordie Earle III Director of Photography: Mark Davis Gaffer: Michael Tellup Swing: Dallas Calkins Camera Operators: Amelia Asilis Lauren Doyle Tanner Eck Adrian Gutierrez Rob Knauf 1st AC: Sophie Donatella Editor: Jordan Tetewsky Color Correction: Mark Davis Sound Recordist: Alex Gilroy Re-Record Mixer: Ryan Meadows Production Designer: Andy Aidekman Set Decorator: Nate Larson Graphics: Megan Hunter Production Assistants: Lukas Day Jonathan Garcia Z Gregorio Aine Hunt Mary Puglisi Photographer: Matt Misisco (IG: @mattmisiscostudios) Special thanks to our generous hosts, FemX Quarters in San Diego, CA

Girl porn: I'm addicted to ROMANCE (video)

Dhar Mann Studios; Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Six Reasons Why I Want My Kids To Read Romance Novels (bustle.com)

Swell gal jealous of romance on social media

How could you not love him?

(Dhar Mann Studios) Sept. 3, 2023: 💥 This is a Dhar Mann bonus for Instagram addicts and lovers of "girl porn," which is, of course, another name for melodramatic "romance," soap opera style schtick. You know how guys have their "guy porn," which is, of course, another name for "wrestling," both of which are fake AF. Either way, it's a happy ending. "Chick yourself before you rick yourself." Oh, and remember to subscribe to channel (@dharmannstudios). Stories by Dhar Mann writers, not Dhar Mann.

What does Wisdom Quarterly have against romance?

• In Buddhism we have to ask, Is there anything worse than CLINGINESS? Yes, it's ignorance, the real source of all attachment, greed, grasping, jealousy, envy, fear anger, aversion, wrong views, and delusions (the many defiled manifestations of The Three Poisons of the heart/mind).
• Who is the metaphorical Buddhist demon Mara? (who becomes Cupid, Eros, Kama deva, and Lucifer when he's Buddhism's Devaputra-Māra)
• Is Mara only a metaphor, even Devaputta Mara?

Unless we destroy this mad brute MARA (Cupid, Tempter, Devil, Kama, Eros), we're doomed!

Foraging Wild Foods in Los Angeles (9/10)

Christopher Nyerges, School of Self-Reliance, Meetup; Ananda (Dharma BM), Wisdom Quarterly

Pre-registration required (at link below). Participants will walk along a streamside area, seeing both native and introduced (invasive) plants.

Learn to distinguish the edible plants, medicinal plants, and various other useful plants (use for cordage, survival, making soap, etc.), and even some poisonous plants to avoid.

Learn how to identify and collect wild foods, medicines, soaps, fire making materials, and other incredibly useful parts of plants.

Learn to think like foragers of the past, who had to have an intimate knowledge of the seasons and foresight into the future.

Join in for an insightful walk into a wild area of Los Angeles, with a focus on interpreting the useful plants of the area.

Though this is the dry season now, we will see many trees and native shrubs that have numerous uses. For many native and non-native species provide food and medicine.

Dress comfortably and bring water. The trail will be more or less flat. Location will be sent after registration: $65 (seniors and students $45). More details here:

• School of Self-Reliance Wild Food & Useful Plants by Season
• FORAGING: Wild Food and Useful Plants, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, 10:00 AM | Meetup.com

Do we really need chemical soaps?

Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Wisdom Quarterly; John Donvan (onpoint.wbur.org)

It's not "magic" -- Nature can make us beautiful: money saved on safe, natural cleaners

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Are we really too clean? (On Point)

New York Times: My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, [Probiotic]-Rich Hygiene Experiment — “My skin began to change for the better. It actually became softer and smoother, rather than dry and flaky, as though a sauna’s worth of humidity had penetrated my winter-hardened shell. 

Plastics, nano-ingredients pollute

And my complexion, prone to hormone-related breakouts, was clear. For the first time ever, my pores seemed to shrink. As I took my morning “shower” — a three-minute rinse in a bathroom devoid of hygiene products — I remembered all the antibiotics I took as a teenager to quell my acne. How funny it would be if adding [good, probiotic] bacteria were the answer all along.”

4 dead in Mission Viejo murder-suicide

CNN: Minnesota issues ban on [toxic] antibacterial ingredient – “The health effects of [industrial chemical toxin] triclosan for humans are still unclear. Some studies suggest that the chemical could be linked to antibiotic resistance, but evidence is mixed, and the Environmental Protection Agency says more research is needed to evaluate risk. There is some evidence that long-term exposure to some ingredients in antibacterial products, including triclosan, “could pose health risks, such as bacterial resistance or hormonal effects,” according to the FDA.”

Isla Vista rampage: UCSB mourns

San Francisco Chronicle: Pfizer joins Second Genome for microbiome study — “Scientists have developed several theories about the roles that different gut bacteria play in the ways that the body breaks down and uses nutrients and vitamins, processes they suspect relate to metabolic disease. For example, microbiome transplant [poop-transplant] studies have suggested that the introduction of specific microbes can effectively drive weight loss or gain.” More

What to do if iPhone hacked, locked

• Left Forum 2014
• Isla Vista murder spree: Victim's father: "She was everybody's daughter" [so you have to feel and think like I do because I'm her father]
• VIDEO: Sarah Palin hates Katie Couric
• Were “Titanosaurs” BIGGEST dinosaurs ever? (EarthFiles.com, May 18, 2014) “Given the size of these bones, which surpass any of the previously known giant animals, the new dinosaur is the largest animal known that walked on Earth. Standing with its neck up, it was about 20 meters high -- equal to a 7-story building.”  - Diego Pol, Ph.D., Argentinian paleontologist
• Diane Keaton on beauty (WBUR)
• Misogyny and Murder: Unpacking killing in Cali

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  Mourn: She was everybody's daughter

  "I was being forced to teach in a way I did not believe in," May 29, 2014: A former longtime Massachusetts public school teacher tells us why she’s left her classroom after 20 years of changing educational standards [to "common core" atrocity].
• We remember Maya Angelou: heroes and sheores [heroines]
• Egypt's Elections: Islamists, Liberals, Generals
• Obi's 'Yes We Can,' 'Change,' 'Hope': Modi's India

The problem with plastics, fake soaps (audio)

Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly; Linda Mouton Howe (earthfiles.com, May 30, 2014); Cheryl Corley (npr.org, May 21, 2014)

Prof. Sherri Mason looks for microbeads in water sample from Lake Michigan. Legislation to phase out products containing the beads is pending in New York and Illinois (Cheryl Corley).

Erie microbeads (Carolyn Box/AP/5gyres.org)

From the shoreline at North Avenue Beach in Chicago, the blue water of Lake Michigan stretches as far as the eye can see. But beneath that pristine image, there's a barely visible threat, says Jennifer Caddick of the Alliance for the Great Lakes: [toxic plastic debris in the form of] microbeads.

 

These tiny bits of plastic, small scrubbing components used in hundreds of personal care products like skin exfoliants and soap, can slip through most water treatment systems when they wash down the drain.

 

Environmentalists say they're a part of the plastic pollution found in the ocean and, increasingly, in the Great Lakes, which contain more than 20 percent of the world's freshwater. Now Illinois and New York state lawmakers are a step closer to banning them.

 

Microbeads, says Caddick, engagement director for the Alliance, are "a bigger problem than we initially had thought."

 

Plastics That Look Like Food

Sherri Mason, an associate professor of chemistry at the State University of New York, Fredonia, sailed with a research team over the past couple of years to collect data on the prevalence of plastics in the lakes. They dragged a fine mesh net in the waters at half-hour intervals to snag what they could -- "anything that's bigger than a third of a millimeter," Mason says.

 

When the boat docked at Chicago's Navy Pier last summer, Mason showed off the sample bottles of microbeads that she and her team had collected in Lake Michigan.

 

Mason says her testing found, on average, 17,000 bits of tiny plastic items per square kilometer in Lake Michigan. The levels were much lower in Lake Huron and Lake Superior, but Lake Erie and Lake Ontario had much higher concentrations. LISTEN

• Do antibacterial cleansers work better than soap? 
• My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, [Probiotic]-Rich Experiment...
• An Epidemic of Absence: Understanding Allergies

Plastic Microbead Trash from Oceans to Great Lakes Hurting Birds, Marine Life — and Humans?

Linda Moulton Howe (EarthFiles.com, May 30, 2014)

“We can show that the chemicals are adhering to the plastic. We can show that organisms eat the plastic. We can show the chemicals then desorb into the organism that affects the health of THAT organism!” - Associate Prof. of Chemistry Sherri Mason, SUNY, Fredonia

• AUDIO: Report (MP3)

Trillions of plastic microbeads from human products such as toothpaste are filling up the Great Lakes and oceans with negative consequences for marine life and ultimately humans.