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- Comment on Small Shift Toward Biden After Trump Verdict | We reached nearly 2,000 people who participated in previous Times/Siena polls to see if any had changed their minds. 6 months ago:
No, it’s a symptom of generations of defunding public education to create a more compliant working class. When you destroy your people’s ability to critically think, yet you allow them to vote, you set yourself up for demagogues like this
- Comment on Small Shift Toward Biden After Trump Verdict | We reached nearly 2,000 people who participated in previous Times/Siena polls to see if any had changed their minds. 6 months ago:
They support him because they feel abandoned by the American economy and want him to return us to how things previously were - wherein a working class family could actually afford a house and pay for college and take an annual vacation.
Not that Trump will do any of those things, and it’s foolish to believe he will. But the rage and desire to destroy the American political system is very understandable.
Socialism is the better option, but people over 50 are brainwashed against that. So fascism it is. “The bourgeoisie are their own gravediggers”, etc
- Comment on Anon's grandfather has been jerkin' some chains 6 months ago:
Hall monitors are the most unlikable people on earth
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 6 months ago:
The only attacks on minorities that I’ve observed on here are attacks on those who think Gazans should not experience genocide.
Plenty of people on here though who simp for the American ruling class though
- Comment on Felonies, gotta catch 'em all 6 months ago:
It’s not conservatives. Conservatives aren’t on Lemmy.
It’s the majority of Democrats who now believe Israel is committing genocide. And who can’t afford housing or groceries
- Comment on Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home: his beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for Christian-minded government 6 months ago:
Whose perspectives are shaped through the propaganda paid for by the oligarchs
- Comment on Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home: his beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for Christian-minded government 6 months ago:
His constituents are the oligarchs that run the country, fund his campaign, and brainwash the voters.
He doesn’t care about calls from normal people, because he has no reason to
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 6 months ago:
I really don’t understand this site’s/reddit’s fear of alcohol. Moderate drinking is not a problem. And it does assist with socializing, which seems like it would be beneficial for most people on here.
The idea that people here are afraid of/resistant to drinking, yet will use cannabis and other materials seems very strange. Just go to the bar and meet some people - it’s fun and it won’t hurt you. Alcoholism is obviously an issue, but alcoholism isn’t caused by moderate drinking. Just don’t be an idiot and you don’t have anything to worry about
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
There’s a loneliness epidemic and low alcohol consumption rates are a contributor to that
Getting drunk and then talking to a bunch of people you don’t know is how people meet people. That’s an essential and long running aspect of human socialization.
If you regularly talk to new people and make friends in other ways then that’s fine. But clearly the majority of Lemmy/Reddit users aren’t doing that. And young people in general aren’t doing it either. Meeting strangers irl and chatting them up is how you make friends and alcohol facilitates that
- Comment on It's always there 7 months ago:
“No I’m not alienated by society because of my dehumanizing conditions of work, life, and complete hatred and fear of an Other my favorite political project is annihilating in the antipodes, I just have a pathological need to estrange myself into complete darkness in a blindingly bright city to regressively consume enormities of the the richest foodstuff my blood money can buy in a vain attempt to feel actualized at the core of my being.”
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
You can’t ban something unless it exists and is a part of your society. Alcohol existed prior to Islam in Arabia and still exists there today. Legal Prohibitions do not cause a substance to disappear.
Alcohol is just fermented grain. Everyone had grain. Therefore everyone had alcohol. Including the Americas
So yes, there is evidence of alcohol consumption in the New World prior to European contact. Indigenous peoples in various parts of the Americas developed fermented beverages from local ingredients long before Europeans arrived.
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North America: Various tribes produced alcoholic drinks from berries, maize, and other native plants. For example, the Apache made tiswin from corn, and the Chicha was popular among many tribes in North America.
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Central America: The Aztecs brewed pulque from the sap of the agave plant. This drink was not only consumed for enjoyment but also held religious significance.
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South America: Chicha, a beer made from maize, was widely consumed across the Andean region. This beverage was integral to social and ceremonial functions.
These indigenous beverages varied widely in production, ingredients, and cultural significance but demonstrate that alcohol consumption was indeed present in the New World prior to European contact.
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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
Me? I can’t understand why this is such a weird thing to you people.
And yet you made this post which does the same thing re: alcohol consumption
Wine pairings with meals are a thing for a reason
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
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Criticizing alcohol consumption = you sleep
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Criticizing milk consumption = real shit
Also, let people dislike things. If Criticism diminishes your own enjoyment of a thing then you don’t actually like that thing
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- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
Unless it’s in baking or coffee/drinks or cereal it’s pretty fucking weird to drink it
Maybe acceptable with certain desserts tbh. But not with an actual meal
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
Who fucking drinks milk when they go to a restaurant
Autism is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be … unnatural
- Comment on Lots of times the restaurants won't even have milk 7 months ago:
Alcohol has been an essential facilitating element of human socialization in every human civilization since Mesopotamia
Which is cool
- Comment on U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs 7 months ago:
It is the appropriate mechanism. It’s administrative law, and is subject to judicial review of the agency’s conformity with lawful rule making
www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference
And SCOTUS is going to kill chevron deference later this year, which will largely destroy the administrative state and ability for federal agencies to promulgate and enforce regulations
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 8 months ago:
Most NYT articles do not permit comments anymore.
- Comment on Flaco, Central Park Owl, Died With High Levels of Rat Poison in System 8 months ago:
No they’re American. Hence unwillingly being filled with plastic and toxins
- Comment on look chat 9 months ago:
Plato’s Cave is the original neckbeard superiority argument
“One of the most renowned metaphors in Western history reminds me of the voices from an app on my phone, which means that I’m smarter than Plato, actually”
- Comment on Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator 11 months ago:
Dude. It’s the consensus best show ever for a reason. 4 episodes is ridiculous.
- Comment on Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator 11 months ago:
Being riveting isn’t the same as being good. People are addicted to Instagram as well. Yet that isn’t exactly Shakespeare
- Comment on Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator 11 months ago:
Youre missing the point if that’s what you got from it
It’s a metaphor about the decline of America. The mob stuff is just window dressing used to tell that story. Just as how the tortoise and the hare isn’t actually a story about two animals
- Comment on Era of complex and ambitious TV is over, says Sopranos creator 11 months ago:
All of those shows are dumbed down - except for early season game of thrones, though clearly that show became comically dumbed down by the end to such an extent that it tanked the franchise