You were the polite one and I was the rude one. No need for you to apologize.

Appreciate the discussion. Hopefully the world we leave is a better place than when we were born into it.

My tone was a bit over the top and I generalized regarding instances. For that I will apologize.

The USA is an “easy target” because it’s incredibly active in the world stage. Very few nations have the resources available to it to do what the USA is capable of doing. With that said this is the classic man in the arena argument – the USA is most certainly in the arena and there are good and bad things that come with it. I believe your argument to be reductionist at best – USA bad because XYZ. There’s a whole hell of a lot more to it than that. So you’ve mentioned Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. What about long, successful alliances between USA with Jordan, Egypt, Israel (hot button I know), and Saudi Arabia.

The struggle in the region today is very much Iran and Saudi Arabia throwing their weight around and many groups of people are caught in the middle. USA included. Israel was on a path to discuss normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia and suddenly that is not a thing anymore. Hrm. Convenient. Wonder why?

Things are not as simple as you make it out to be. It takes two to tango.

The tried and true bot everything bad because USA … do you argue that things would be fundamentally better or worse today if the USA had never been involved? Half these commie ML troll bots on the internet keep spitting out the same old crap. Profit bad. Bad. Bad. They ignore the fact that a woman got shot for wearing a head scarf. You going to blame that on the USA? Get out of here with that crap.

… why not… why shouldn’t I… gollum gollum

Just wanted to comment to say this is one of the most awesome music videos ever made. Never tire of the song or video.

Workers are now paid 20+ bucks an hour for fast food and the machine still ask for a tip. Yeah, I’m not made of money and we obviously need jobs. I have drastically cut down dining out but new minimum wage laws which are good has thrown tipping culture into chaos. You don’t know when to tip and when not to tip and what someone gets paid and what they don’t get paid. It sucks. Everyone should just be paid a living wage so we can call it a day on tipping.

RIP Norn

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There I was … lotion at the ready … then … suddenly … I have a strong craving for soup and cigarette.

It tasted fishy though but hey … it was good for me.

Thank you.

Does Lemmy need a “people of Wal-Mart” group to remind people who the real American voters are?

We’re here. We’re fat. We’re voting.

Pew Pew Pew … 'merica.

Source: am a fat American (US citizen not to be confused with those “other” Americans)

Edit: readers can attribute /s based on their philosophy… Pew Pew Pew

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🤯 mindblown

Blessed are the cheese makers. 🙏

Origin is Scotland I believe…Glasgow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala

streaming apps

Is there a FOSS option to turn something like a pi zero into streaming device? My assumption is a flavor of Android is required?

Edit: referring to streaming services such as Netflix. I’m aware of that home plex and jellyfin servers exist

Never had a problem with Brother printers

The current situation is dogshit. But let’s not gloss over the fact that President Obama had a chance to fill Scalia’s seat and he capitulated with the assumption that Clinton would win.

Do not take anything for granted. Everyone must vote.

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Growing up latch key many a canned chicken was turned into chicken salad.

Tastes better than it looks but that’s not saying much. Would not recommend but if yer hungry dive in.

Sounds like schizophrenia to me. Fear-mongering by politicians only exacerbates existing mental health issues.

Sad day.