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If they’ve already proven they can steal and lie, of course they’ll get VC money.

You can find isolated examples from western cuisines (often rich people food) but mixing savoury and sweet is still an exception. You don’t get things like how palm sugar is used in so many savory staples from SE Asian. Applesauce or quince paste aren’t as ubiquitous in western food as chutney is in Indian.

I’ve also just met way more westerners who talk about salty/sweet mixes being gross. Raisins in rice, pineapple on pizza and fruit in salad are all things I’ve heard (mostly americans or australians) react strongly to.

You know that feeling you get when you look into your dog’s eyes? The same parts of your dog’s brain became active, so they’re probably feeling similar emotions at that moment.

I always think of white people as the ones complaining about raisins in food. So many delicious savory dishes with raisins from the Middle East or India provoke strong reactions from western pallets used to food that only does 1 thing, rather than combining multiple flavours.

Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?

I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.

I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.

Didnt we already know that elon opened starlink to the russians? I thought he announced after that call with putin?

Oh yeah, I see that. No idea what I thought it said.

Y’all … You guys … you’re

Let’s ignore the question of what you think moralizing is if you saw it in the eight words you replied to. What I’m curious about is, do you think you’re talking to Hezbollah? On Lemmy?

part of God’s plan

Netanhayu’s not god, he’s just a brutal lying tyrant with no respect for human life - so I can see how you’d get confused.

Yep! In my experience it’s awful and it stays awful for ever.

But just like with going to work, over time you come to accept that existence is suffering.

This is too close to dishonest to be persuasive.

The word “occupied” is doing the heavy lifting, but saying “invaded & occupied” implies that they’ve done as little invading as occupying, which is not true.

The USSR isn’t included, so the implication that socialism means 0 occupations is also untrue.

All states that identify as socialist have done fewer invasions than the US, as a combination of having existed for less time, having had less power during that time and -yes - having a slightly lower inclination to invade.

All powerful states abuse their power to unacceptable (if differing) degrees. That’s the nature of hierarchical power. All nation states are vermin.

My high school girlfriend’s parents were catholic and they used to say: The only thing worse than a heretic is a protestant all the time. They meant it in jest, but the joke was that plenty of others didn’t say it and did mean it.

If you like animation you have to see Son of the White Mare. It’s a gorgeous and elegant retelling of traditional Hungarian fairy tales with clever nods to a modern psychedelic sensibility.

Personal trainers. Watching other people exercise is not a job.

You may as well be a corporate tax accountant, a ghost writer for the rich or an email scammer in terms of the value you create for society.

Republicans accuse their opponents of eating pets and drinking the blood of children while they themselves conduct actual human sacrifices when their king faces an uncertainty battle.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Both parties support the US empire, of which Israel is a keystone piece in a vital region.

But israel’s genocide and a wider war in the middle east don’t benefit our imperial interests, only netanyahu’s career. Without the leverage of an election year, we’d have more political room to reign in our wayward vassal a little.

We’re just gonna let netanyahu start a regional war to avoid the consequences of his own failures because if we try to stop him AIPAC will do even more to help the neo-nazi riddled republican party win in november.

The 21st century is going great.

That example does sound quite different, but Wiktionary has it as from the Proto-Slavic *(j)edinъ, which is “ultimately from *h₁óy(H)nos.”

Finnish or Estonian are so wildly different

I know right?! I strongly remember the first Uralic language example I heard was the Finnish for merry christmas: hyvää joulua - it just sounded so different.

This kind of horrific torture occurs in large part because the republican party and their various neo-nazi allies have already normalized violent racist rhetoric and violent racist action always comes next.