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- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 6 hours ago:
What is this? Shitpost inception?
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 6 hours ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 7 hours ago:
More toxic than the toxic masculinity that I’m implying by suggesting whiskey and brand should be a meal?
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 8 hours ago:
Oooh! Excellent point.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 8 hours ago:
Story of my life.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 8 hours ago:
Ate it for loch today. Not yesterday.
- Comment on LemmyMan® Dinner 8 hours ago:
Ate it for lunch.
- Submitted 9 hours ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on Boy Dinner 15 hours ago:
Pickle surprise!
- Comment on Boy Dinner 15 hours ago:
Atta boy!
- Comment on Tasty! 15 hours ago:
Depends on what it’s distilled from.
Apricot brandy is my personal favorite.
- Comment on Tasty! 1 day ago:
This is boy dinner because a man would spend the money on good whiskey, and at least have a protein to go with the veg side dish.
- Comment on Tasty! 1 day ago:
Amen, brother. Jack is the Walmart MacDonald’s of brown liquor. I would rather drink mystery booze from a water bottle distilled by a guy with no teeth in his Mom’s back yard.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Bro, the way I’m infesting my pants right now…
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 1 day ago:
The swan is one of my favourites.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 1 day ago:
Probably fluffy, cute, and with fancy floppy ears.
- Comment on Not like this 1 day ago:
Well well well… Of it isn’t the start of younger Millennials and older Gen Z feeling the way I did when 2003 was no longer “a couple years ago.”
Welcome to the party, kids. Hope you brought snacks.
- Comment on Machine Rights Will Give Us A Harder Fight 2 days ago:
WTF is this? Holy shit.
- Comment on Just wait until Michael finds out about this 2 days ago:
Over a loudspeaker, a voice crackled to life. Jim looked around, confused.
“Jim. What was it?”
Jim looked side to side. “What?”
“What,” Dwight said asked, “was it you said?”
Jim shrugged. Pam gasped as she finally reached him, collapsing into his arms. Jim held her. Between panicked breaths, she muttered a single word at Jim.
“-Bears.”
“No.” Jim leaned back, terrified. “No, Pam. He can’t…”
“Jim…” The loudspeaker chided. The tsunami of beets beared down on them both. Jim closed his eyes. Pain flowed from his heart. A single tear tickled down his cheek.
Jim screwed up his courage. He filled his lungs, and threw back his head.
“Bears!”
The ground shook under his feet. Pam opened her eyes, fearful of the quaking. She looked around in awe of the tsunami and shaking threatening her life. And Jim’s.
“Beets!”
The shaking became unbearable. Jim feel to his knees, dropping Pam. She screamed at Jim just to be heard over the deafening roar around them.
Cracks opened in the warm before their feet. Pam and Jim held hands. Pam began to rest herself to meet her maker.
Jim steadied himself, and took one more deep breath. As he did, he winked at Pam. She returned an unsure look, convinced they were about to die at Dwight’s hand.
“Battlestar Galactica!” Jim screamed at the sky. His knees gave out. Bent and buckled, he watched the tsunami ebb and fall. A mottled red wave lost its energy and spread out across the horizon.
The sound of a slow clap eminated from the loudspeaker.
- Comment on Crazy town 2 days ago:
Ugh, I hate that this is true.
- Comment on I WANT FREE HEALTHCARE FOR SPIDER-MAN 2 days ago:
Kinda just show up while dying, and if there’s spare blood, you get some. There’s no triage so much as just an “oh shit!” line. If you don’t look like it hurts, then it’s not a priority.
- Comment on I WANT FREE HEALTHCARE FOR SPIDER-MAN 3 days ago:
Depends on the country. Worst I’ve seen was if you’re not in the queue by 8 or 9 am, you won’t make it through the line before the doctor’s go to their other job they legally shouldn’t have after lunch. So if you know someone in the hospital, you might get a “was here yesterday” ticket and then you come back the next day at 8:00 and are seen before the new line goes. Most people would go get the “was here yesterday” ticket and went home it back to work and try tomorrow. That or they bribe someone to bribe the doctor to get in same day.
So, depends on if 24+ hours and paying for it anyway is better by that metric or not.
- Comment on I WANT FREE HEALTHCARE FOR SPIDER-MAN 3 days ago:
Yeah, they say that, but have you been to Latervaria? The state doctors all work part time, then go work full time at the private hospitals where the money is better. Wait times are terrible, and small local clinics are always put of everything. Most hospitals don’t even have blood on hand for transfusions. They just give you paracetamol and tell you that you were treated.
Not exactly /s, but just the reality of free, public health care in 5 different places I’ve lived. Even in Europe. It’s not all free HRT and love.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
No, it’s just a joke
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Hey, and I thought the NSFW instance went offline. Maybe they just went to Fukuoka!
- Comment on Disgusted 3 days ago:
I think there is a disconnect here between us in terms of academic, data-only understanding and real lived experience. To suggest that Bulgarians are moving to Romania is wild. Most southern Slavs head for Germany and Switzerland, specifically because their economies are stronger, and there’s a critical mass of slavs there already, so there’s community. The Balkans have so much baggage that Bulgarians in Greece staying longer than summer holidays is laughable.
Which is to say that simply throwing “post-Soviet Syndrome” out there as a catch-all misses a lot of depth. Albania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia all had differing styles of socialism. Albania’s was North Korea-style paranoid. They had a jobs program to build hundreds of thousands of cement bunkers because of a persistent fear that Yugoslavia would invade. It was breathtaking paranoia. I know a guy that was a kid near the Yugo border and tuned in his radio to a Yugo station - his parents genuinely thought they’d get sent to the gulag farms. Bulgaria was in the middle, and Tito liberalized Yugoslavia’s economy to the point that it pissed off the USSR enough that he had to dodge an assassination attempt. Which meant that Yugoslavia’s economy was thriving, and with another Slavic-speaking country next door, a lot of Yugoslavs would go to Bulgaria to exploit the disparity. The whistful ways old Yugoslavs talk about it sort of funny, and explains why Bulgaria is the way it is today. So Bulgaria had a relatively easy transition out of Socialism because they remained intact. Serbia, Slovenia, and Croatia all did well. Then Kosovo and Bosnia were trashed, and Macedonia just sort of the poor kid on the block, is too small to really do much other than get jostled around between its neighbors. Right now, Croatia is doing relatively well, and joining the EU took a decade of transition, but now they’re a net recipient of immigrants. The non-EU Slavic Balkan countries empty out to staff Croatian restaurants each summer. Seriously, people take 3 months of leave without pay from office jobs to go wait tables in Croatia and make better money, then come home.
Albania had a terrible time transitioning out of socialism because of how closed off they were. A pyramid scheme collapsed the government because, and this is what every Albanian has ever told me about it, no one knew any better. The forced ignorance of capitalism made it seem like magic. Everyone genuinely thought pyramid schemes were how things worked. It’s a fascinating history.
Speaking of Albania, I mean more that Lea Ypi’s stance is that there’s no “bad” or “good” migrants, or useful vs. useless. Which I appreciate from a human rights standpoint, but as a “good” immigrant that has empathy for fellow Albanians who are a slim minority of migrants, but are “bad” people in general, it muddies the waters in terms of practical application of her philosophy. I’m generally not super critical of Albania’s corruption and organized crime within Albania simply because in the post-soviet era, it was closer to a Yakuza-style mafia that actually brought a fair bit of stability when the government itself was just some dudes trying to figure things out and hoping for the best. Less so for Serbia, but at some point it raises the question of legitimacy of governments is one thing, but then Albanian and wider Balkan organized crime isn’t kind and nice and concerned about human rights. There’s a lot of human trafficking and casinos and generally negative things wrapped up in there where it’s a struggle for an African-style Western style government vs. an almost traditional government structure.
Why? As you rightly said, power corrupts. And the organized crime element that used to bring stability held a lot of power they don’t want to give up. And the organized crime element also makes huge use of immigration as well.
Speaking of which, I think the larger issue today is that information sharing makes it easy for places to actually get flooded because of the speed with which rumors fly. There’s a lot of trafficking on social media that rides on this exact effect. It’s exactly the same thing about why some doughnut shop or whatever suddenly has a line down the block for mediocre doughnuts. There’s more people, and more communication infrastructure, so migration patterns don’t shift in long-term patterns, it’s a quick turn over months.
Case in point, the low-information environments of The Grapes of Wrath and the movie El Norte. Both are tragic migration tales about the horrors of exploitation awaiting migrants at the end of a torrent of humans. Trafficking and undocumented migration patterns take advantage of this and exploit exactly the same way they always have, regardless of how complicit the state might be on the other side. Instead, today, it’s organized. I once had a taxi driver in Istanbul tell me, in detail, about how his friend wanted to go to the States, so he flew to Mexico and paid a coyote, and now he’s living somewhere in the midwest that he couldn’t recall exactly, and he’s miserable. Which is the same story I’ve heard from tons of African migrants, trying to explain to their families why they’re not rich and can’t send money home because everything is expensive and work is hard and pays nothing.
And to be clear, I’m not anti-immigration. And borders aren’t a 100% detterent, they never have been. It’s a barrier to entry that makes it take effort to get somewhere, be that an ocean or a mountain range or a desert or a river or a wall. Shit, how many people jumped the Berlin Wall to escape the East? Thousands - maybe tens of thousands? I’m not sure, but given the option of just crossing the border without a challenge, 90% of East Berlin would have emptied out into the West, and then what?
The part that I don’t think you’re really considering is that a borderless, and stateless world would feed capitalism and build it into a beast that only sci-fi novels have even bothered to imagine. Private security forces, private industry, private cities, all surrounded by townships and ghettos and slums of people dying to be exploited. Lagos is pretty much like that, and it’s very much not pleasant. Children who are starving selling food they can’t afford to eat themselves on packed highways. Until you see something like this in real life, I’m sure it’s possible to think that it will work itself out, and that governments and laws and economics and money are objective evils. My friend, people do this to each other freely, regardless of the system in place.
Removing barriers that slow down the intensity of exploitation in some places sounds like the worst possible idea in the world to me. That’s what I don’t get about the no borders, no state crowd. You’re desperate for a world that allows full capitalistic exploitation of anyone and everyone, and you’re all just so sure of yourselves that it’ll work and have to ignore so many examples of it being a genuine source of human misery. Then get pissed when people bring up that people are the problem, not borders as a concept.
But hey, I doubt I’ll convince you of anything here. Again, I kind of doubt you’ve even read any of this and just sort of skim the first few words of each paragraph. Write the word quebapi if you’ve actually taken the time to read any of this. Or don’t, maybe you’re just an instance of an ageny on a botfarm in Malaysia and you’ll go back and forth on this forever.
- Comment on Disgusted 4 days ago:
First off, I want to thank you for engaging on this in a reasonable and respectful way. This is a touchy subject, and I’m honestly curious how people that talk about it think it should work. Doesn’t mean I agree with the conclusions, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate and respect your time and energy here. Thank you.
A number of Latin American countries have very loose and friendly immigration policies. Argentina and Paraguay are the most notable
Right, but I’m not asking about their democratic structures. I’m saying with all the open, and open-ish borders, what actually happens? Do people from Peru and Ecuador typically go to Brazil for work? OK, well, so is that constant draining of talent good for Peru and Ecuador? Economic migration is usually a one-way street for decades at a time.
Another good example is Bulgaria and Croatia joining the EU. There’s already a lot of migration from the Balkans into western Europe, and as soon as free movement was allowed, both places saw huge migrations of young people. Bulgaria is genuinely having a demographics crisis right now, and because it’s only a bunch of old Boomers left, they’re doing a bunch of typical Boomer things, like being extra conservative. Which isn’t to say that people should be forced to stay put, but that in every instance of people having low barriers to movement, there’s a losing side. And then the free, or even low-cost movement only makes it harder to fix the problems that made people leave in the first place.
And Lea Ypi is a great example, ironically, of someone who is brilliant having opportunity to move to study in Italy and sort of proving her own point wrong in a sense that she’s not some Albanian drug dealer. Though I don’t think that’s relevant here, as the opportunity sought her out in a sense. Though, I would say that Albania is by far its own special case. Tons of Albanians have a personal ethnic pride and intentionally move back to Albania and Kosovo specifically to make the place better. It seems fairly family-oriented, as even their Eurovision songs very often feature “don’t disappoint mom” lyrics.
And I wasn’t saying that companies would be gatekeepers, I mean abusers. Unfettered abusers.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Not aggression. That’s the interesting part. Just displeasure. But displeasure enough to go over and use “litterbox” as a swear.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Pets are able to pick up on human language, and can understand dozens of words in whatever language is the default for the house. For the people willing to spend the time and effort to use buttons that make words back, there’s a few instances of dogs and cats both learning a pretty substantial vocabulary and communicating things like likes and dislikes, wants and needs, to their humans using buttons that make the words. Lots of videos online of people with genuine success.
My favorite instance was someone who had the word “litterbox” as a button. When the cat asked for a treat and was denied, it went over, stared at the human, and hit “litterbox.” As a genuine “fuck you” because it was the only “bad” word it had. Cats, and not dogs, apparently also understand that when it’s raining, humans can’t do anything about it. Dogs, apparently, not quite as quick-witted.
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 4 days ago:
checking map
“Huh. So Japan ISN’T Turkiye? TIL, I guess.”
