I love the exchange, but the backdrop of capitalism demanding results is grim.

I just want everyone to enjoy exploring and sharing without worrying about grants…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thos’re called florets. And they’re delicious!

Thank goodness it’s not a bullet- that’d violate Batman’s moral prohibition on guns!

Sister, we got a sizable buffer!

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

In America at least slaves often raised their own masters. It was an entire category of enslaved people: house slaves.

Much like the European aristocrasy and upper crust left their children to governesses and wet nurses to rub elbows with the rest of high society, so did the Big Whites of America and the Carribean.

That’d be deionized water, I think…

Well, it came from the state of Chihuahua, naturally. Just don’t ask how it’s made.

Fuck you (midwest), fuck you (south), fuck you (mid-atlantic), you’re cool (maine), i’m out.

I thought this one was going to be the one about mermaid bone farming.

I appreciate your forthrightness, and on many points we quite agree, notably noone’s keen to leave and that the current charged atmosphere around the war does chill honest representation of one’s ideals.

That said, while this particular war was the result of Hamas and their October 7 attack, I believe that if not them, some other group would “lead the charge” maybe it would have been more of a single flashpoint or a series of smaller skirmishes, but conflict was (and continues to be) inevitable under the circumstances that Palestinians and Israelis live in.

I want to inquire further on your take that Israeli buffer zones are the land theft so demonized by the anti-Zionists. We see the expansion of the buffer zone in Syria as a landgrab because any security buffer sufficient for defense against the Assad regime should be more than enough, especially when paired with Israeli strikes on weapons caches and bases in Syria. The more puzzling point, though, is the establishment of new settlements and growth of existing settlements in the West Bank even as recently as this week.

So I know with a rather high degree of certainty I’m ace, but I continue to have trouble untangling aromanticism from my aversion to people and mild paranoia.

Maybe you just missed it by a few pixels - did you try again, but more carefully?

Today’s my introduction to this as well, but I agree with the timestamp motion so I can determine how things have changed since the posting (not relevant here) or how behind the curve I am in terms of online culture.

Those are the same thing.

Fair 'nuff. I usually reserve that one for people dragging out arguments with little or no substance, but a whooooole lotta bluster and passion.

Beyond the usual descriptors of troll, zionist, obnoxious twat, etc. I like to place people to general regions and countries if they share them.

It helps me remember that the Internet is not the US and gives me some vague sense of what they may be dealing with outside our cozy Lemmy bubble.

While I agree that the pivot to video was a massive turning point in the dumbing down of political discourse, I think it’s more to do with the pace and passive nature of video/audio: the people are getting news and ideas at the cadence that the broadcaster deems appropriate instead of at the pace of the listener which would happen in reading or face to face transmission.

If something was missed entirely or misunderstood it is far more tedious to try and hunt down the segment that needs reiteration than it is to read it again (or ask for clarification). This means people that miss something will just try to pick up any context later in the broadcast and if the broadcaster doesn’t deem it important or relevant (or maliciously omits it), the listener has no further interaction with the idea. And then the idea is lost beneath the rest of the news agglomeration.

Woooow! What a tease! Dropping hints about forbidden knowledge (olive economies) and not permitting me to taste of that sweet nectar!

Not Quechua? Having worked in Peru and all