And the entirety of Africa is framed as nothing but both of theirs pawn and playground… 🙄

You’re good, no “gotcha” intended, I just think potatoes are too good to overlook 😁

I’m sure all of this is correct, but you’re forgetting one thing: potatoes are the only one of these you can grow enough of to eat at home, as long as you have space for a bucket or sack or two of soil, and which basically require zero processing aside from applying heat to consume.

I agree with you that we shouldn’t actually need to know or use any of this information, and as a poor disabled person I also know that growing your own food isn’t always an option for everyone, but if it is an option, I think it at the very least puts potatoes back in the running.

They’re in the business of making money, simple as.

I don’t know where you live, but for example

19% provide only private care, with no NHS, and a further 14% said they worked predominantly (over 75% of their time) in private care. Only 15% of responding dentists are fully NHS, with no private care, and a further 27% said they worked predominantly (over 75% of their time) in NHS care.

Source.

And I’m sure the numbers are similar or worse in every country where a capitalist government is running a pseudo-social service. Because they’re still more concerned about the bottom line than they are about your wellbeing, so they’ve sold large chunks of the service off, and us poors who can’t afford to go private have to put up with a deliberately underfunded, sub standard service.

Either way, you’re not getting the top notch selfless service you think you are.

They might not be buying the toothpaste, but they may very well be in partnership with or owned by the same people as the toothpaste company. I’m sure they know the brand of toothpaste you use makes very little difference in the grand scheme of things, and if they were to recommend one it wouldn’t be because they’re wanting what’s best for you, but because some money exchanged hands.

You had me in the first half, but fuck insurance companies, they too are for-profit, not for-benefit-of-patient. If anything, they’re some of the worst offenders at it.

I think even that is an understatement for what we’ve witnessed here lol

Am pretty stoned, that seems completely fair to me 😂

Yeah, might be. Looking at the floor plans it seems more likely that the upstairs toilet was the later addition in this case (only because when there’s a separate bath/toilet they tend to be next to each other, not on different floors), but I could definitely be wrong, as far as we know the entire layout could have been changed since it was first built. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Inside the M25? It’s almost shocking that it isn’t double the price (not justifying this in any way, just making a point of how obscene housing prices have become, especially in greater London)

You might be looking at the second toilet, rather than the main bathroom? The actual bathroom certainly is smaller than average, but not really unusual for these kinds of houses unfortunately…

Much more likely that the agent just didn’t want to be in the photo.

That first photo - I though I was looking at a scrap heap that had already been gutted, covered in mould and rubbish and ripped up wall paper, before I realised that was just the tilling… 🤯

The bedrooms don’t look too offensive, but the rest is just so overwhelming and off putting… Those stairs! I wish them luck lol

E: The more I think about it, the more I’m wondering if Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen did a revenge edition of Changing Rooms in there 😂(not just the look, but also the idea that it’s all just cheap mdf painted to look like marble, rather than actual marble)

You’re good, like I said, it clearly wasn’t intentional, we all pick up different bits of information along our ways, this is probably one of those things that circulated in feminist spaces more than celebrity ones, but either way, now more people know!

I appreciate the seconding, but also find it ironic considering the article we’re replying to that you (completely unintentionally, I don’t doubt) chose a meme featuring sex pest James Franco.

What in the world necessitates those?

A system designed to abuse and control.

You must be new here…

For me it won’t stop it, but pushing my tongue up and forward against my pallet and clenching my jaw will help contain the sneeze (and often also give the sinuses a good clear).

My point exactly (I actually wrote a clarification that pointed out some of the ways in which the right has and currently co opts leftist ideas and language to gain power, including the father of fascism himself Mussolini, but I ended up rambling so I deleted it all and left it as is lol)

There is no compromise between two inherently incompatible views of the world, the one that wants to grow and expand and hoard power and resources at any cost simply won’t allow for any real equity or justice (E: or competition!) to exist, it depends on inequality, exploitation, division, and oppression to function, and will consume and destroy anything that gets in its way. It’s why capitalism cannot be reformed, it must be abolished.

Or TL;DR: