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Trump is willing to resort to force and violence to get the things he wants. I wonder why he was friends with Jeffrey Epstien.

Obviously Jississippi.

The US needs Greenland to defend it from Russia and China.

Greenland is in NATO, allowing the US to defend it from Russia and China.

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Yeah, but if you rename Greenland to Epstien Island, suddenly the US has never been there, is uninterested in it, and doesn’t have any knowledge of it. On the other hand they might just react it entirely.

Not really what you’re asking, but Lego: The Hobbit.

My wife and I used to love playing Lego games after a couple drinks. Being a bit drunk makes them very fun.

But with that one, Smaug flies out to go burn Laketown, and the credits roll. Apparently, the 3rd movie did so badly that they decided not to finish the game and just released it as is. It’s missing 1/3 of the game.

Because Maduro was a pariah, same as Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Obviously, it’s not about liberating the Venezuelan people. The US isn’t even pretending this time. It’s about oil and getting rich.

If you shoot a rat with a shotgun, yeah, maybe don’t do that, but thanks for killing the rat. If you shoot a dog with a shotgun, that’s pretty monstrous. As long as Trump takes out the worst folks, he’ll get away with it.

I don’t know, it makes a lot of sense, in an asinine way. Many people are self-centered and incredibly selfish. Of course we all benefit from living in a world where children are happy, fed, cared for, and well adjusted. But for folks without kids, it’s usually indirect, rather than direct benefits, making it harder to quantify.

But, their property taxes that fund schools are easy to quantify, so the selfish get grumpy about it.

It’s like not wanting your tax dollars to fund cancer research, because you don’t have cancer. It makes no sense, until you remember the person talking is a selfish dunce.

Literal Disney prince makes hardtack. Excellent channel.

Some answers here are close.

It depends on what type of person you are.

If you’re the kind of person who has a neat, clean kitchen who does all their dishes after every meal, go cast iron.

If you’re the kind of person who has a messy kitchen and you really only do dishes once or twice a week, go primarily with stainless, a nonstick pan for eggs, and a 10-12 inch cast iron pan for occasional use, like that rib roast.

First.

I fully understand that it’s correlation, not causation, but I believe some inanimate objects want to work well, and others want to work poorly. In that same vein, there are people that inanimate objects respect and work well for, and there are people that inanimate objects dislike or enjoy aggravating.

Because some of the worst dictators of all time said they were communist and socialist, despite dictatorship being fundamentally antithetical to both.

Then a bunch of idiots watched a dictatorship, the USSR, burn up their economy with a space and arms race, so now they think socialism kills economic progress. It wasn’t that the USSR didn’t invest properly in the populace, or infrastructure, or that they were fundamentally a kleptocracy with a massive military, it’s that they called themselves socialist. That’s what killed them.

Some kid 50 years from now is going to write a paper on the moral dilemma of calling ICE on a scam center.

I’ve lived in the southern USA almost my whole life. I am accustomed to racism, unfortunately, but Asian racism hits different. It’s wild.

I feel like accidentally commenting there is a Lemmy right of passage. It got me, and continues to almost get me. They generally have good discussion.

Spotify - Brown Noise 12 hours. Blast that nice and loud. Get a fan. Call the super.

Gifts don’t have to be something you like, want, or need. It’s about the thought, care, and love that goes into them. Whether you like new things or old things, it doesn’t matter. Gifts have subtext. Your SO probably will equate your love for the gift with your love for them. Use them both. Love them both. Love the people who gave you both.

The secret to this, which works on all children, mine included, is to turn it and ask them what they think. Leads to more fun answers as well. Not right, but fun.

I think it’s that #believeallwomen is a hard hill to die on. Any internet troll is a Google search away from proof that you shouldn’t blindly believe all women. It just reminds me of when Joe Biden had some allegations against him, and he got caught between a rock and a hard place: believe all women, just not this one.

Instead of belief, it’s about respect. Whether true or not, any accusation should be taken seriously and avoid sensationalism. It’s also about understanding your role. It’s easy for me to say all of this about a situation thousands of miles away; I have an infinitely small role. If it happens closer to home, to someone you know, belief may be a part of that role, but it still needs to come from a place of respect and understand of the situation. If religion is any example, blind belief doesn’t help anything but fuel division.

Grinding.

When the game progresses naturally, and as you move through the game, you always find yourself in the right spot to overcome the next obstacle, that’s great. But the second I have to stop progressing through the game and go spend 6 hours killing goblins, I’m done.