Since you cut critics off before they could tell you to move closer to your job, let’s see if they move on to “get a better job.”

https://learn.rumie.org/jR/bytes/what-s-the-difference-between-autocracy-and-dictatorship/

Now… if it is neither an autocracy nor a dictatorship, what is Israel’s form of government. Surely you aren’t trying to suggest that Israel has no government.

More sort of clicked my beak halves together, but yeah.

Fucking Aristophanes… getting famous just because the Athenian government wasted money on dramatic competitions.

“Jew” can refer a person’s religion, but can also be an ethnicity. “Islam” is a religion and not an ethnicity. I couldn’t give less of a shit if you make fun of the Jewish religion. Do it all you like. It’s a moronic religion.

So the religion of Islam? Yeah, I’ll mock it. Arab culture? Nigerian culture? Malaysian culture? No. I won’t mock that.

You don’t choose your ethnicity. You choose your religion.

That’s okay, that’s the church paying for it. DeSantis is fine with church smut.

I have a lot to unload and nowhere to unload it.

I didn’t block you.

Whatever. I’ll still be here.

Edit: Jeez. My egotistical comment was beaten by 7 hours. https://lemmy.world/comment/10773740

Indiana in August when I was a kid in the 80s or Indiana in June where I’m living today?

Edit: For those confused, it’s much hotter, much earlier.

Yeah, I get it. When has the world ever become a better place when nations fund artworks?

Look at this Florentine shit:

That is what you get when a nation’s leader becomes a patron of the arts. Is that sort of smut what you want our kids seeing?

Read literally the second sentence I quoted.

“I was going to vote for Democrats this year, but then I heard that one of the eight public beaches in New York City had one day a year for fat people and now I’m MAGA all the way!”

Ok, I’ll give him the one.

You can eat much more cheaply if you spend a little bit of time cooking.

I addressed this already. Many people barely have enough time to relax and de-stress from their horrible job possibly plus their horrible commute. Expecting everyone to be able to have the psychological fortitude to take the time to cook a meal regularly is asking a lot of a lot of people. Ingredients for cooking may be cheap. Energy for cooking is not a purchasable commodity.

A lot of people seem to think that you can shame people out of obesity, which is nonsense. We live in a country where processed foods are cheap and easy when people barely have enough time to relax, let alone cook. Those processed foods are also designed by everything from scientists specializing in creating new flavors to psychologists to get people to buy them, so they do. We also live in a country where a lot of people are expected to just sit in a chair for eight hours with maybe a couple of short breaks and a lot of them end up doing regular overtime (and that doesn’t count commuting time, when they are also likely sitting).

Of course there’s an obesity epidemic. Why wouldn’t there be? But shaming people for being fat when they don’t have time to cook or the energy to exercise and are forced to spend large portions of their lives sedentary is not the solution. You need to attack the problem at the source, not the terminus.

I guarantee you Jon Stewart would never run for office. I also think he’s more useful on the outside looking in.

What’s a real shame is that a bullshit scandal ended comedian Al Franken’s time in the senate. He was definitely one of the best senators of my lifetime.

A hundred years? All of human history more like.

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Smedley Butler wrote that in 1935.

Gold? The Mayans didn’t care much about something useless like gold. Now cacao beans… she’d get a lot of cacao beans for that vase.

I have heard the “the West forced Russia to invade Ukraine” bullshit even here on Lemmy.

A country can’t force a second country who is in opposition to them to invade a third country. That’s just not how anything works.