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- Comment on Where is my filet knife? 1 week ago:
In the rest of the western world, landlords buy houses. They’re especially prolific for this in places with a high demand for housing, as this will maximise their profit extraction for the least amount of work. It’s a real problem, especially when the people denying mortgages to people are the same ones buying up the housing stock.
The same claim is made in the UK about the “real” problem being building regulations, as if forcing developers to build infrastructure like schools and roads (along with the houses they want to build) is a bad thing. Luckily though, the idea that the private sector could save us from themselves, at the expense of their own profit, is so silly that most people are informed enough to dismiss it instantly as nothing more than the corporate propaganda it is.
At some point, we have to start accepting the finite nature of land.
- Comment on Where is my filet knife? 1 week ago:
I would look at things like “supply and demand” to answer that question.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 weeks ago:
It depends on what you mean by absorb. To make into muscle, it’s about right. Maybe a bit more for a man on a hard weight lifting regime. Like, 4 x 1-1.5 hours a week. The rest will be stored as fat, if it isn’t used for energy, the same as anything else. That could also be seen as absorbed but I think you mean the first one.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 weeks ago:
100%. For example right now the meat and dairy lobby groups are pushing hard for everyone to eat for more protein than they need. Now, I have people who can’t tell the difference between a cytokine and a histone without using Google, even if it slapped them round the face, telling me they need 100g plus a day in Brotien. Its just a coincidence that this so called health advice makes those groups a lot more money.
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 3 weeks ago:
“How dare you say that I’d convert to islam”
Trump 2026.
- Comment on Woke 3 weeks ago:
This just in, ignorance is still bliss
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 weeks ago:
The only other person here who understands MMT. Sorry for your downvotes. Just wasted to send some love, over the ignorance.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 3 weeks ago:
I have one simple trick for people who hate taxation but turn a blind eye to corporate profits. Instead of calling it “tax” call it “government profit” because, apparently, that’s all it takes to fool them.
- Comment on so i have an ultimatum... 4 weeks ago:
I’m told filming sims can sometimes fool it
- Comment on I love it 3 months ago:
That’s not what saying something like that would mean but I’m not going to laugh at someone who isn’t a native speaker for that. It’s a weird reply though.
My point is that you don’t have to use olive oil. I just said it in a silly way. It’s a prompt for the realisation of “oh yeah, I could use other oils. Other oils exist.” You don’t seem to have picked up on that and have chosen taken it personally, on behalf of olive oil. Theres no need. The oil doesn’t care.
Good luck with the olive oil fried rice though!
- Comment on I love it 3 months ago:
Sorry to burst your bubble but I’m not American. However, your assumption that my view must be American, specifically due to you intensly eurocentric view, is painfully ironic.
For some people making Indian, Mexican, Thai or Chinese food with olive oil isn’t tasty, as (believe it or not) olives don’t actually go with everything.
I mean, I listed more than just Italian but I guess that’s inconvenient for the point you’re attempting to make.
I am being free. It’s just im using my freedom not to make my food taste weird. People can use a neutral oil like vegetable oil for almost everything.
Careful climbing down from that high horse.
- Comment on I love it 3 months ago:
Maybe they’re not making Italian food?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Honestly, it’s the latter. Sorry. Without trying to be ironic, it’s the over generalisations and lack of nuance in their views of other cultures. It’s also like you guys are worried any positive feedback might go to our heads and we’ll start invading the world again or something.
Also, the only people who tend to be that negative towards our food tend to say it in French and be a lot more specific, almost constructive in their feedback (by French standards that is). Even then, I’m yet to meet a French person who isn’t partial to a well made fish and chips or a shephard’s pie and I’ve met a fair few. In fact, the French have their own version of shepherd’s pie that isn’t as good as the British, can you believe? Maybe it’s the exception that proves the rule lol.
Most British people tend to make the poor French version and not slow cook the mince down in stock and stout beer until thick or use a proper buttery, cheesey mash to go with it.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Fair enough, apologies if I came across too strong.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Pointing out that I think someone is being a bit unfair and overly generalising isn’t making something a competition.
It genuinely does take time for people to adapt. That’s not point scoring.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Tbf, some people just throw mash potato over mince beef they’ve cooked with chopped tomatoes and soggy carrots. I used to think I hated it too, until I made it properly.
However, I feel thats like deciding how good American food is based on next door’s poor attempt at a dry meatloaf. We have plenty of bad cooks here who panic and make poor food that they take no time over. Maybe more than our fair share.
Also, we don’t cover up the taste of spoiling, poor quality, food by drowning it in sugar syrup and seasoning powder. That can take some time for palettes to adapt to.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’m not taking the “that’s not indigenous food” from an American who im sure will unironically attempt to claim pizza and the hamburger steak.
Sad to hear you don’t like apple pie though. I thought you guys loved that one.
- Comment on Eat more fibre or something 3 months ago:
Too much meat and not enough fruit and vegetables. Not just your bowels, your heart will thank you too.
- Comment on cluckthulu? 3 months ago:
What’s the matter, babe? You’ve hardly touched your roast nightmare of the deep.
- Comment on Corn or something idk 4 months ago:
And God, despite being male presenting, identifies as non-binary.
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 4 months ago:
Because yahweh likes the smell of rotting foreskins, per his own words.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 4 months ago:
The idea that the UK has less in common than France than France does with Kazakhstan is hilarious.
Bravo!
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 4 months ago:
To me, no one really needs to be told that being fit and healthy is better than not being fit and healthy. It’s more that, as a society, we’ve been convinced over eating can be repaid with excersise, to sort of balance it out (an idea pushed by food lobby groups). I’m not saying that you disagree with any of that.
We evolved as persistence hunters. Being able to run off our winter fat reserves would’ve made us poor persistence hunters and we would’ve died out.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 5 months ago:
The point isn’t the apparent health benefits of applying the worlds mildest buffer to a ph 2 solution, it’s that it’s the sales equivalent of dehydrationmonoxide.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 5 months ago:
The chats amyl and the sniffers The viagra boys (more kind of 80s dance punk revival)
Music has been captured by business now more than ever. I think you’ll be be very hard pushed to find anyone who can make a living from music that would meet everyone’s definition of a strong message etc. now. So, mines a lot less that and just more punk now.
- Comment on Eaten by Jesus 5 months ago:
Still preferable to having to live for all of eternity.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 5 months ago:
No one would call that donkeys anus in a temu bratwurst, a banger.
- Comment on New Zealand ‘mega strike’: 100,000 public sector workers demand better conditions 5 months ago:
The throttling of housebuilding across the western world sure has made a lot of very rich people even more rich.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 5 months ago:
This is almost exactly what brought me out of christianity. I was institutionalised into it from birth. So, I always just glossed over the most obvious problems that people would bring up. If anything, it entrenched me further.
However, I started realising that I had more love and compassion for people than, not just christians, god claims to have, by their own admission.
How can I love a stranger than an all loving God?
It was all downhill from there.
- Comment on One of my favorites 5 months ago:
Lol no, it’s nihilism. There’s literally “nihil” to talk about.
I only meant it in the same way that if someone spoke about an author who’s famous for writing about how to deal with depression and I replied “i hope that author helped you with your depression.”
I’m simply wishing you the best of health.