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[–] roscoe@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not agreeing with op but for this meme it does make sense to limit the timeframe. Production and worldwide logistics have only recently given us the ability to feed everyone on earth reliably and consistently.

Two hundred years ago a surplus in Argentina couldn't easily be applied to a failed crop in Bangladesh. The world as a whole now produces more than enough food and we have the ability to transport it from anywhere to anywhere. We just don't do it. In the past hunger sometimes couldn't be avoided, now it could.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Me and everybody I know are doing great. My empirical evidence seems to disagree with yours.

Too bad nothing can be done about that. If only someone, maybe a government agency, could collect all the data and determine how the country is doing as a whole.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My paternal grandmother's KitchenAid model K mixer she bought just after my grandfather returned from WW2. She gave it to my mother in the late 70's because she wanted a new one and the damn thing showed no signs of dying. My mother gave it to my wife about 15 years ago for the same reason.

We've bought some new accessories but that fucking zombie mixer will outlast the roaches.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Vincent had the same suit and gun. Why did you jump to Jules?

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The third punic war for sure.

Edit: The fuck downvoted that? Cato the Elder in here?

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in California. I've been to Alabama, Portugal, and Latvia (just this year for the Baltics, great places). I disagree.

Parts of the deep south are just fucking alien in a way I've never felt anywhere else.

Different places in Europe are, of course, different. But different in a way you can wrap your head around with an undercurrent of commonality. The same things being done in interestingly different ways by normal people.

The sense of dislocation and strangeness I feel in certain (not all) places in the deep south is far beyond anything I've experienced, not just in Europe, but also Asia, South America, and North Africa.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But there is a penalty for littering. Some people might refrain from littering not because it's the right thing to do, but because they don't want a fine.

The lack of repercussions for being a scumbag and abandoning your cart is what makes it a good test.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never saw Maul as a real apprentice initiated into the mysteries of the sith, just someone trained to fight with the force, although Maul may have thought he was an apprentice. Dooku got the real sith training, hence the force lightning.

All those inquisitors running around at other times aren't sith, just force sensitive enforcers.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I can gamble, drive an exotic car on a track, operate heavy machinery, and fire automatic weapons all in one weekend? I think it's time for a trip.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've never been this jealous of kids.

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