Those reviews made me feel better when it eventually happened to me personally. It was a sugar-free nutella-like spread. I should have known better. At least the time on the toilet passed faster because I remembered the gummy bear reviews, they made for an appropriate reading

decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky

And this is how you get a weird parasite that was frozen in ice for 100k years

4. Concur

For half a second there I thought it was a reference to SAP Concur. But we’re talking about hard problems, not impossible ones

Democracies definitely.

In dictatorships you will have proportionally more money and power, but your options are limited. The only way forward is sucking up to the dictator, and if there’s ever a change your life is in danger. Also regular people hate you so you need security every time you go out.

In democracies you have freedom of movement, personal safety and many options how to exercise your influence without being in constant fear.

Caveat: I’m considering my own criteria of “quality of life”. For many elites dominating over others is the goal, and they willing to sacrifice personal safety and potentially own life in order to get it.

This one is especially harmless

the last recorded instance of an MP taking snuff was in 1989, when 1.5 ounces (43 g) was taken at a cost of 99p

On a dedicated chair set aside just for that

“Looking french” is an amazing example of this. French people can have skin tone ranging from the palest of white to the darkest brown, yet when you see them they are unmistakably French.

Well, according to chronically online Americans race is when you speak, dress, eat, and behave in a certain way

1. Try to find out my name, and then read the wikipedia article and recent news
2. Fake a stroke or a seizure and be taken to the hospital
3. Pretend I have brain damage and remember only foggy details

Space mouse sperm, yummy

When the driver is drunk. Inevitably after a party someone will offer to drive me at least part way to home. I try to resist but when I’m also drunk saying no is hard.

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No one knows. I really want to know, but the current understanding takes us back only to the big bang. Not why it happened or why anything exists at all.

The Anthropic Principle is at work here. If nothing existed we wouldn’t be here to ask why it exists.

Stupid non-american question: Is any of these Kansas?

It’s a common pub quiz factoid that Kansas City is not in Kansas

There’s even more to the story, every step even more absurd than the other:

US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
US woman backflips in court, pleads guilty to smuggling 24-carat gold gun into Sydney

A review of Goodson’s phone revealed she had searched online “can I have a gun in my suitcase?” and set a calendar entry with a note reminding her to “put gun in suitcase”.

“What about the gun in your bag?” she was asked by a customs officer. Goodson replied: “Oh yeah, I forgot about that.”

“I am scared of shooting it… I would probably just pistol whip until I got training again,” she said.

The court also heard that she previously owned two other guns while living in the States, but she had accidentally given them away. "Those guns I ended up giving away, because I accidentally left them in a donation box."

Definitely something was wrong there. Aztecs became a thing about 800 years ago.

Billionaires as individuals are just humans with all the good and the bad coming from that fact. Acting against them as individuals is pointless. We need to establish a system where becoming a billionaire is impossible in the first place.

Technically it supports federation, similar to Lemmy. But there’s still only one instance. I don’t know if it’s due to the immaturity of software or something else. If someone want’s to try the code is there.

I think the presence of ActivityPub (basis of Lemmy) already attracted most people willing to bother with hosting an instance so the potential adopters are not very incentivized to experiment with another thing.

At least 2,297,000 people have been to Tijuana on the account of living there. I hope we have some of them here on Lemmy to confirm/deny what’s the current situation there.

Centralization of decision-making. It’s ironic actually. One of the main problems of capitalism that Marx described is the separation between labor and ownership. All the talk about “means of production”.

Communism actually makes it worse. In capitalism yes you have the owners who have all the control and reap all the benefits, but you have many capitalists competing, so the power is kinda distributed inside the capitalist class. The way communism was always implemented is through a communist party and state control of the economy.

You get an even smaller group of people controlling the means of production. It amplifies exactly the main problem of capitalism by creating a very hierarchical class society where the party leadership takes a role of what is almost “nobility”.