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Greentext@sh.itjust.works
No, that’s not how it works.
If you have 1.5oz of vodka mixed with 3oz of water 94 6oz of water, it makes no difference. You’re still drinking 1.5oz of vodka.
Greentext@sh.itjust.works
I wouldn’t say most cocktails are shaken.
Most spirit heavy cocktails are stirred.
Anything in the Negroni family will be stirred. Anything in the old fashioned family, martini family, etc. Basically any cocktail that is predominantly just spirits.
You shake when you have mixers like citrus, egg, or dairy.
Lefty MemesBy not voting you explicitly stated you’re fine with exactly what we have now.
Voting is a zero sum game. Someone is going to win whether you stay home or not, and that someone is going to massively affect your life and the lives of others.
And Harris would have been infinitely better than Trump for Palestinians.
So congratulations, you decided that your protest no-vote was more important than Palestinian lives. Because by not voting you said you’re fine with Trump openly supporting their genocide. Their blood is on your hands just as much as Trump supporters.
I am so sick of you idiots letting perfect be the enemy of good, and sleepwalking us all into fascism because you think you’re so special and they need to earn your vote specifically. It’s childish and selfish.
Political Memes@lemmy.world
Four decades.
He was one of the most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983-2002 and has served as an advisor to every president since Reagan.
Political Memes@lemmy.world
Have you even read that? The US is still the top donor, contributing more than all of Europe combined. And that’s with the massive decrease in spending by the Trump admin.
The US went from about half of all global humanitarian spending (since that is not just food aid, which I was talking about but hey, move those goalposts!) to 23%.
Political Memes@lemmy.world
It basically is already. There are so many food security programs in the US.
There’s SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) which gives cash directly to low-income people to buy food. It’s basically food stamps.
There’s WIC which provides free essential foods for low-income women and their children.
There’s TEFAP (The Emergency Food Assistance Program), which provides free food boxes and prepared meals to low-income households and supplies food banks.
There’s CSFP (Commodity Supplemental Food Program) which provides monthly free food boxes to low-income seniors 60+ through food banks.
There’s CACFP (Child and Adult Care Food Program) which provides reimbursements for meals and snacks to eligible children and adults who are enrolled for care at participating childcare centers, day care homes, and adult day care centers.
There’s NSLP (National School Lunch Program) which funds free and reduced-price lunches for low-income students.
There’s SBP (School Breakfast Program) which funds school breakfasts for free or reduced-price for low-income students and subsidizes the cost for all students to keep prices lower.
There’s SFSP (Summer Food Service Program) which provides funding for sites to feed children and teens on school breaks that can’t get food at school. For free, and open to anyone 18 and younger, or older than 18 with disabilities. Here’s a map of all sites in the US that participate. https://kidsfoodfinder.org/
Between all of these programs, you have to try to starve in the US. Starvation and malnutrition in the US is largely isolated to the elderly with severe cognitive disabilities like Alzheimer’s and dementia, and those with severe eating disorders. Malnutrition from lack of food is almost non-existent in the US because, despite Republicans’ best efforts, we actually do have a robust safety net when it comes to food.
And this is on top of also providing more than half of global food aid.
Ask LemmyBandcamp is great for extremely underground artists, but that’s about all that is on there.
Political Memes@lemmy.world
Because the UN has exactly one purpose: Serve as a forum for nations to communicate and prevent world war.
That’s it.
You can read the US’ reasoning for it here: https://geneva.usmission.gov/2017/03/24/u-s-explanation-of-vote-on-the-right-to-food/
The US also voted no because the belief that States are responsible for implementing human rights provisions themselves, not requiring other countries to pick up the tab. The US already provides more than half of global food aid. This resolution would have amounted to “all of your food belongs to everyone” which is bullshit.
VideosThere have been multiple cases. And if you’re talking about the one with the little dog, they literally trespassed onto someone’s property, took the dog from their porch, then killed it before the owner could even find where the dog was taken.
Nope. This has been proven false by pretty much every study on the subject for 50 years.
Good thing is that this doesn’t really get to be an opinion. Well, I guess anything can be an opinion, but this one is objectively wrong if you differentiate them.
There have been several studies done on this, and brain scans show that physically reading with your eyes and listening to an audiobook trigger the exact same responses in the brain. They have the exact same effect, and your brain comprehends them the exact same.
Studies back in the 80s showed a direct correlation in listening comprehension and reading comprehension. They’re directly linked. In the 70s, studies showed that college students that listened to a short story could summarize it with equal accuracy to those that read it.
The science is pretty clear, physically reading a story and listening to it are the exact same and require the same amount of effort and attention to walk away with a good comprehension of the material.
It’s not about believing in the system.
It’s the only system we can have that the people will have any power. It’s either democracy, or being ruled over. And we will always trend towards the latter if the people abdicate the power they have.
There will NEVER be a time where we can just sit back and say “cool, things are good now, we don’t need to participate in politics anymore”. It will ALWAYS be either fighting to enforce our own power, or fighting to get that power back through revolution.
The power may lie with capital right now, but that’s because >1/3 of people (at least in the US) simply sit at home on their fat asses and don’t even try to participate in the system. And that’s for the biggest elections too. Where things really matter, at the state and local level, primaries where you get a say in who is even on the ballot, turnout is even worse.
Where I am, we have mail in voting, and a ballot is automatically sent to you, along with a booklet with everything on the ballot. The full text of what you’re voting on, a plain English explanation of what it will do, any tax changes that would happen from it, and arguments for and against. For primaries, if you’re not registered with a party you get both ballots and get to choose which one to vote in. It literally could not be any easier to vote. Our primaries this year? Thirty-fucking-six percent. 36%. And that was a “surge” in participation.
You can vote in your underwear at home, for weeks before the election date. And 64% of people still said fuck it, they don’t care enough. *That’s *entirely why the wealthy are able to control things. The people do not give a shit enough about it to even do their basic civic responsibility and exercise their vote, from their goddamn couches.
Well, voting for one. The US has abysmal voter turnout. More people stayed home and said they don’t give a shit in 2024 than either candidate got in votes.
The highest turnout we’ve had in over 100 years is 66%. A full 1 in 3 people that can vote put literally zero effort into voting.
That would be a decent start. Just actually doing anything to participate in the system.
And how much do you think the artist gets from the CD sale? Listen to it more than a handful of times, and it’s a lower payout than streaming.
Apple Music has the second highest payouts to artists, only behind Tidal which is much more expensive.
You really can’t have it both ways. You either want artists to get paid, in which case you’re paying more, or you want it for cheap and artists get paid less.
It’s literally the only possible system that could work. The alternative is just giving unrestricted power to politicians, and the people have no say at all.
Their power is ultimately derived from the voting public. That’s it. That is the power. You either have the ultimate power rest with the people, or the people have zero power.
It’s a cop out excuse to not put in the effort to be active and informed in the system. “It’s pointless anyway” is just defeatist bullshit.
Then the people need to put even more effort into exercising their power. It’s that simple.
Humans DO enjoy being busy. But not doing bullshit for companies.
Comic Strips@lemmy.world
This is just the classic “four boxes of liberty”, rephrased.
By voting. The US has set term lengths at every level. If the leaders are not fulfilling their job properly, they get fired.
For representatives it’s every two years.
That requires having an informed and active constituency though, which we do not have.
Yeah it wasn’t entirely ads, but that was the major factor along with the transition from print to digital.
Things do still have to get paid for. High quality journalism means paying high prices for journalists. There’s server costs and other overhead. Early on people were still buying the paper. Ads covered being able to put it online for free and people buying the paper paid the real bills.
As print died, that killed the main revenue stream. That meant more ads to keep the online side free and make money. But more ads meant people get more turned off by them and start using ad blockers. That kills that revenue stream, so you introduce a subscription that gives access to everything ad free.
Eventually, you get to where we are. You want it, you pay for it. Which is really just back to buying the paper, but digitally. Back in the day you bought the paper. Either you yourself did from the paper machine, a street corner paper stand, or you literally had a physical subscription and got it delivered. Or you read it for free when someone else paid for a delivery subscription, like the doctors office, the donut/coffee shop, or your work put it in the break room.
Because they had ads to bring in income to pay the bills, which allowed them to give the news for free to the end user.
Then everyone started using ad blockers, killing that revenue stream.
They can’t give things away for free without something else paying the bills. That ends up being the end user with a subscription now.
That would be an absolute nightmare to administer lol. Though I guess that tracks.
1, 01, 001, 0001, and 00001 would all be different users
Unless by “digit” they mean any alphanumeric.
You’ve got a lot of options if you go to a 5 characters with letters.
Which they’d kind of have to with 700k users if it’s 5 characters.
If it’s case insensitive, you’ve got 60,000,000+ combinations, and if case sensitive then 916,000,000+ combinations.
Yes and no. Those states are few and far between for most firearms. Some are just handguns. Virtually none have those restrictions for rifles.
I’m in Colorado which is on the upper end of being strict and it’s still laughably easy. You do have to do a transfer with an FFL for private transfers but an FFL is stupid easy to get. The only real requirement is you do x number of sales or transfers per year to keep it. The FFL I go to for transfers only has his so he can build full auto, and does transfers and AR lowers for cheap so he can keep the FFL to build his own rifles lol.
No the fuck it isn’t lmao.
A drivers license and your social security number is all you need. And you only need the latter if you want to expedite the NICS check because you could have a common name that might flag multiple records. I’ve bought plenty with just an ID. And not even a Real ID.
It’s laughably easy to buy a gun. And I say that as someone that owns several. Hell the biggest pain in the ass where I am is the 3 day waiting period.
https://codeberg.org/thethunderwolf/tesseract-blocklist-archive/src/branch/main/tesseract-shadow-policy-2026-07-24-19:50:UTC.json
Codeberg has the list
Stalin and Kruschev both openly stated that without the US lend lease, the Soviets would have lost.
That’s not cope. That’s the Soviets themselves.
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That’s a URL blacklist, not the username blacklist.
Your mix and your average age.
Same as if you close a credit card.
Paying off a credit card will massively increase your score. From having a lower overall balance, having more available credit, and a lower credit utilization.
Unfortunately that doesn’t really mean much.
Sure he can’t be elected to a third term. He could be elected VP and ascend back to the office though. There’s no bar on that. That’s why they’ve already publicly been floating that.
He could be elected speaker of the house and be second in line for the presidency.
The only argument you could really make is the clause that
Means he’d be ineligible to act as president even, because he has already been elected more than once.
We already do with tidal generators.
And theres ways to follow currents for extra help, but you’re limited to that and where the current moves.
Anything else and you’d have to violate the laws of physics.
It’s like putting a wind turbine on an electric car. The increased drag would cost more electricity than the turbine could produce.
It’s kind of funny to see all these headlines not long after everyone was going on about Apple not doing enough with AI and going to slow with their rollout.
They have just done it a lot smarter than the others. Not rushing out to throw piles of money at something. Same thing they did during the pandemic, when other companies were massively overhiring trying to ride the wave. Apple didn’t and subsequently hasn’t needed to hold massive layoffs.
And that only happened because the US provided basically everything to the Soviets under Lend-Lease.
Without American equipment, the Soviets were getting absolutely slaughtered.
Their infrastructure was collapsed, they were out of equipment and couldn’t produce more. The US provided tanks, guns, bullets, clothes, food, and even railway to them to keep them afloat and hold off the Nazis while they fought the Western Front.
Without Lend-Lease, the Soviets stood exactly zero chance.
Uh, they were directly responsible for the start of WWII when they jointly invaded Poland with the Nazis. They were one of the principal causes of the war before Hitler turned on them. They get absolutely zero fucking pass for WWII and only survived at all because the US provided them the logistics and equipment under Lend-Lease to hold off the Nazis on the Eastern Front long enough for the rest of the allies to take the Western Front.
The Holodomor in Ukraine.
Like 7 wars in Afghanistan between 1925 and 1990 including the Soviet-Afghan War.
Several wars with China over territory like Georgia.
Two decades of guerilla wars suppressing rebellion and uprisings within captured territories.
The invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Well, because that’s not what the warrior ethos is to begin with.
The ones seeking out an unnecessary fight are not following the warrior ethos as taught to the military. At least the Marines when it was required reading for me.
The warrior ethos is about being willing to rise to the fight when it’s necessary, putting the others around you above yourself, and not backing down from the fight even in the face of death. Honor is the cornerstone of the warrior ethos, and being the aggressor in an unnecessary fight is not honorable.
That’s exactly what all those school teachers, store clerks, and other everyday men in WWII did. The fight was necessary, they recognized that and stood up when called, left behind their homes and families to meet the fight head on, faced extreme circumstances and certain death and refused to back down.
THAT is the warrior ethos. Not some blood lust.
It’s a shame that those with a blood lust have coopted it.
Because it provides zero practical benefit for the vast majority of people.
There’s no reason to other than to be the same as everyone else, and we already are for anything scientific or medical.
Also, the marathon is only a tiny part of the story, and the very end.
Pheidippides first ran from Athens to Sparta (150mi) to seek help for the battle, then immediately back to Athens, then fought in the battle of Marathon, then ran the 25 miles from Marathon back to Athens to announce the victory.
So, a group chat.
So it literally is just a fancy group chat. Or I guess a singular feed of multiple group chats…