Hadn’t heard of this one, thanks. Americans are pros at not learning from history.

I thought this part was particularly funny/familiar:

It was a bill designed to fail in Congress because it was seen by free trade supporters as hurting both industry and farming, but it passed anyway.

Edit: That article lead me to this one, which gave me a good chuckle. How quaint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petticoat_affair

these women, dubbed the “Petticoats”, socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton and his wife, Peggy Eaton, over disapproval of the circumstances surrounding the Eatons’ marriage and what they deemed her failure to meet the “moral standards of a Cabinet Wife”.

After further reading about Peggy Eaton’s childhood, kind of a bummer. Also, John Eaton pulled a King David/Bethsheba on her first husband, quite literally… That’s wild.

Once Timberlake told Eaton of his financial troubles, Eaton unsuccessfully attempted to have the Senate pass legislation that would authorize payment of the debts Timberlake had accrued during his Naval service. Eventually, Eaton paid Timberlake’s debts and procured him a lucrative posting to the U.S. Navy’s Mediterranean Squadron; many rumormongers asserted that Eaton aided Timberlake as a means to remove him from Washington, in order for Eaton to socialize with Peggy.

What a shithead. Literally sent him to fight pirates so he could bang the dude’s wife hahah

Also, the costs would still be passed on to consumers even if the production was moved back home, because it will cost more in general. And gotta keep those profit margins up.

You’ve got a couple months…

What???

You know that nobody becomes a billionaire by giving a shit about anyone but themselves.

There’s a good chance he dies.

Yeah better do what you can within the next two months.

Why don’t you save this comment and revisit it in a year.

This is so fucking naive and ahistoric. Read a fucking book.

Yeah but also they all die anyway. Nobody is “saved” in this situation. In fact, it’s way worse now.

What’s going to happen in Gaza is going to be horrifying.

Well luckily for you, it will never matter ever again.

Listen, I hate my country right now, and am disgusted by the people who live here…

That’s it, that’s the end of my sentence.

For sure… But it seems like a whole different level of indoctrination than just like “being a Christian” or whatever.

Like, you have to be OK with ignoring objective reality. It’s just something I have trouble grasping.

Yeah, in this case, sure. But I guess I was talking about more in general. These people are out there. I would wager that there are millions of them in the US. At least.

I feel the same, except it is actually true because I have not allowed myself to not be high for the last 8+ years.

It’s an interrobang, baby

This is just something that I will never be able to comprehend… How can someone be so completely incurious?

“The Travises’ shared given name.” I think off the top of my head, I’d probably pronounce it like “Traviseses.”

I think the context in the quote is enough to know exactly what was meant without having to add an extra “es”

Travodes

It seems like you would probably prefer baking as it is a much more exact science.

As someone who loves cooking but doesn’t have a dishwasher: it is the cleanup afterwards that kills me. Especially if I don’t do it immediately.

With certain things, you can clean as you go, but sometimes I need to tend to something and I end up fucking it up because I’m running around the kitchen trying to wash out the pan I just used while something else is burning.

I was just thinking… Since we call mayonnaise, “mayo,” does that mean in an alternate timeline where hollandaise or bearnaise got popular instead, would they call them, “Holland” and “bear”?