Very true, though Germans do struggle with overcoming their past and can’t seem to reconcile the facts that exterminating Jews was wrong yet supporting Zionists in exterminating the Palestinians is also wrong.
The US was founded on genocide and slavery and both are treated as something you can cover in a couple chapters of 5th grade history without ever doing any real examination of the culture that was built from this.
It’s not wine, it doesn’t go off quickly. There’s this concept of the “infinity bottle” where you make your own ever-evolving blend of leftovers. It’s usually associated with whiskey but can work well for rums.
I paid to eat bugs from a food cart in Thailand, though they were cooked and seasoned.
I like it, however I’ve taken the opposite strategy and simply drink to cope with their existence in the present.
I think this is a weirdly defensive take. I went vegan for about one year (20’years ago): primarily for health reasons (also ditched drugs & alcohol and started exercising.) I felt great and while I did not continue beyond the year, it did change my relationship with and understanding of food. I fully support people to make whatever dietary choices they wish, for whatever reason they wish.
Taste is clearly subjective, but humans are biologically predisposed to find certain molecules more pleasurable to consume than others. Some textures are also more desirable. Potatoes can be enjoyed in many forms, but unlike a carrot do not lend themselves to being enjoyed raw. Cooked foods usually include the introduction of fats, particularly when frying. I propose that the complexity of animal fats, to the human organism, is an objectively superior culinary experience.
As far as health and morality, especially in the context of factory raised animals and highly processed foods, veganism can be more healthy, moral, and still enjoyable.
But denying the simple nature of the food chemistry seems more unreasonable (outside of a vegan/vegetarian specific forum) than recognizing the superior taste of frying starches in animal fat.
What’s awesome is these 3yr old comments on a now 6yr old post just showed up for me in lemmy today.
I quit Facebook in ~ 2015 and refuse to use any meta products, but a few years back I moved to a country that uses Whatsapp for everything. I cheat by making my wife deal with anyone who insists on WhatsApp. If I ever could convince her to quit meta we might have to move…
So, when do atheists get a homeland?
Have been running Linux since either 95 or 96. Literally still on IRC. Looks exactly the same today except the font in my xterm is bigger.
Iran has been fucked over by the US/UK since the 50s. They are what they are now because of the US. They’re absolutely the victims of oppression. The argument about people not wanting to be perceived as pro-iran is real, but doesn’t fully explain it because zionists and US media have painted Palestinians and “hamas” with that same brush and fear of being perceived as being pro “terrorist” has also played a role there for decades.
In both cases, they’re simply defending themselves. They’re not doing anything the US wouldn’t do if it was being attacked and invaded. One man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.
As far as why Americans suddenly care about ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine and are willing to be identified as supporting that struggle, despite it having been ongoing even longer than US meddling in Iran, is mostly due to decades of independent media strategies employed to force Americans to look at it. Famous mainstream people are finally behind it. It’s hip now.
Also Gaza is tiny so the concentration of crimes against humanity is denser. Iran being able to defend itself presents a real cost to attacking them, leading to this mostly being a stand-off, and 150 school girls getting blown up is a far cry from 20000 children in Gaza.
Neither. They don’t want you to pollute their training data while they mine all your interactions.
Hopefully he’ll be the one wearing a blindfold.
Soon, everyone will always have been against ethnic cleansing of Palestinians!!
I mean it’s good that consciousness is growing but it could have come 78 years sooner…
Probably worth considering that passengers on such a flight might not all be Zios on a trip to a shopping mall with indoor ski resort. Palestinians, aid workers, journalists… Plenty could have been victims here.
The Omani co-pilot did the stabbing and another pair of pilots who happened to be onboard landed…
This is pure truth masquerading as a shitpost.
You know, if he’s willing to take a bullet for it I say give him the Kennedy center.
I feel you… my first home computer was an Apple ][
At first glance I thought the story was going to be Putin illegally voting in US midterms to give backing to Trump’s efforts to undermine them. One autocrat doing a solid for another. Trump could probably get Dell or even Tim Apple to hook up a new ‘puter for the Putin’.
Probably true and I do remember reading about “the trail of tears” but what is missing seems to be any real attempt to connect the past to the present. Red hat parents would be protesting and taking their kids out of school if you tried to frame it as we may be the bad guys. Then, and now…