The world of denim jeans is a super deep rabbit hole: fabric composition, fabric weight, the type of loom the fabric is made on, real indigo dye vs chemical dyes, etc., etc. But the vast, vast majority of the jeans you’ll find in most stores these days aren’t particularly high quality at all. They’re rarely even 100% cotton anymore. Now most brands use a blend of cotton, nylon, and spandex. Where once they were made to be tough and durable work clothes, now they’re mostly just made to feel comfortable immediately off the rack, not to last or be durable really at all. The fact that they wear out super fast just means they get to sell more jeans.

And you can’t even count on any of the major denim makers to have consistent quality across their own brands anymore. Levi’s, Wrangler, etc., make different quality jeans to hit the specific price points of the different major retail chains. A pair of Levi’s you find at WalMart will be lower quality than the pair you find at Target, which will be lower quality than the Levi’s you’ll find at a higher end department or western wear store.

If you want 100% cotton jeans that are made like jeans were made before the 1990s, the terms you want to search for are “raw denim,” and “selvage denim.” Selvage refers to they type of loom the fabric is made on rather than the fabric itself, but denim made on a selvage loom is usually the high quality stuff. Raw denim can get pretty pricey depending on the brand. The cheapest option will probably be Levi’s 501 Shrink-to-Fit jeans (not any old 501s, mind you. Specifically the Shrink-to-Fit ones). Some of the other less expensive raw denim options are brands like Brave Star or Unbranded, which run in the $100 - $200 range. Brands like 3sixteen and Naked & Famous are usually in the $200 - $400 range. And brands like Samurai or Oni are like $300 on up.

It’s been a long time since I’ve watched it, but I think think they did Ally Sheedy’s character dirty. The other characters got some kind of deep revelation about life, the universe, and everything, and pretty much all Ally Sheedy got was a new shade of lipstick. Her whole story arc basically boiled down to: just change everything about yourself and maybe the star football player will pay attention to you, because that’s what really matters in life.

Back during his first term there was a story on the Risk podcast where an Asian guy told the story of going home after some time away at college and visiting the family that adopted him when he was a baby; and how, when he said he didn’t support Trump, that family almost beat him to death right there in the living room. It was one of the most heartbreaking stories I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I think about that shit a lot.

Thanks for linking to an actual journalistic news outlet. All the other posts I’ve seen relating to this were for trash rags like TMZ, the NY Post, and the Daily Mail.

I feel like there should be a picture of Gir in between the hair dye and the Pick of Destiny.

Alcohol companies have had that figured out for quite some time.

It’s a common problem on farms which don’t provide adequate bathroom facilities for their laborers and/or don’t allow a reasonable amount of time to use those facilities. Or to put it a different way: if your boss screams at you for being lazy and threatens your job every time you leave the field to use the toilet, you tend to just start shitting in the field.

Danny Sapko did a pretty thorough breakdown of the whole thing On his YouTube channel . The tl;dw is basically that D’Addario’s explanation still doesn’t add up. The ai mastering tool they claim is the culprit doesn’t do what they claim it did, and the track was likely made using Suno, and they’re just desperately trying to make the stink of it go away.

Weirdly, in the past couple of days I’ve been seeing a bunch of “boy, I sure love my D’Addario strings, don’t they sound amazing?” posts popping up on some of the guitar and bass subreddits. But I’m sure that’s probably just coincidence, and not just naked shameless astroturfing. /s

Starship Troopers. Casper Van Dien was an background extra in some of the episodes of Saved by the Bell.

Because the CDC link weirdly doesn’t bother saying it, the states are Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia.

Even though I kind of have to assume that its success probably happened largely in spite of Trump rather than because of him, Operation Warp Speed and rolling out a safe and effective vaccine in the amount of time they did was genuinely impressive. It might be the only good thing his administration ever did. The irony that he can’t claim any credit for it because it would piss off his own supporters will forever be absolutely hilarious to me.

Not just the Republican Party, the Wyoming Republican Party. The state who got famous for beating and torturing a gay kid to death, and was perfectly happy to keep that reputation.

This guy could be the poster child for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.

I wasn’t alive in the 70s, but I remember seeing them a bunch when I was a kid in the 80s. A lot of the time they were in cans labeled “peanut brittle,” which I always thought was weird because to this day I have never once seen actual peanut brittle packaged in a can.

If you want to stick with Vans, they make versions of most of their classic shoe styles with a “pop-cush” insole that’s pretty springy and adds a lot of shock absorption. I also really like the less structured feel of the classic Vans, but the difference in how my middle aged joints feel with the extra shock absorption is totally worth not being able to feel quite as much of the ground.

Mine’s been pretty good. It doesn’t feel like a huge upgrade from the 7a I traded in for it, but it’s been pretty solid so far.

I’m sure only good things will come of this.

Boy, that’s a weird article. A lot of that reads like the author has never actually heard music first hand, and only ever had it described to them.

I listened to the album. It’s not bad, but it’s not what I would have described as metal. Most of the tracks are solo electric guitar with a heavy Mediterranean/Middle Eastern style influence. Only a few of the tracks have any percussion, of which only one has any dub step elements (though I don’t think I’d call it a proper dub step track). I don’t speak the language they’re singing in, so I can’t really comment on the rap elements or the lyrical content.

It sounds to me like the home studio recordings of a fairly competent musician who is dabbling in some genres they’re not especially familiar with. Like I said, it’s not bad, but it would definitely benefit from some more professional production. I enjoyed listening to it, but I think if you’re expecting what the author of this article is promising, you’re going to be pretty disappointed.

I must have missed one of those at some point, because on multiple occasions now, while filling out shipping/billing field on websites I’ve never bought from before, their e-commerce platform recognized my partial info and sent me a “confirmation” text well before I entered a single digit of my phone number in the phone number field.

I’m sure that e-commerce platform touts that shit as being streamlined and convenient, but I thought it was fucking creepy, and it lost each of those companies my business.

Is he still married? Then yes.

It’s the still being married that’s the defining factor, not the amount of time elapsed.

Karl Urban was an okay Dr. McCoy, but the 157 different roles he played on Xena Warrior Princess was where he really shined the brightest.