ArmchairAce1944
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- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 hours ago:
This is why I download all the music I want. I still listen to it primarily on youtube, but it is a ‘just in case’. I also never paid for music.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 7 hours ago:
They are still available,but can no longer be grown to the same scale. If you try one, tell me, I am curious as to how they taste.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 7 hours ago:
I am aware that the Irish famine was very multi-faceted and was an act of genocide. But for the sake of this particular argument (diversity in crops) I did point out that much of the Irish potato crop was a mono-culture, and the British absolutely brought over the blight without any concern of what it might do.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 16 hours ago:
I hate to bring race and racism into this, but one reason why I laugh at many racists, especially European racists, is how they claim they love their own national culture but do jack shit to have ANYTHING to do with its pre-colonial cuisine. Take British cuisine for example. While obviously people in medieval England (even the richest people at the time) had far fewer options than most people in the UK today, but they still used many herbs and plants for seasonings that are only being rediscovered by reenactors in recent years, and they are actually quite good.
More than just culture, the dangers of over-reliance on a handful of crops and cultivars is also dangerous. The Irish potato famine happened in the 1840s due to Irish potato corps just being a few kinds instead of the hundreds of varieties that you would find in South America. The result of this is that a blight that would have had a negligible effect in South America absolutely devastated Ireland. More recently in the 20th century, we have a near complete destruction of the Gros Michel banana in the 1950s. When you go to your typical supermarket, the bananas you see there are more than likely going to be Cavendish Bananas, which were considered inferior to Gros Michel in the past, but due to disease rendering Gros Michel bananas commercially nonviable they were chosen because they were all we got…
and the same shit could happen at any time to the Cavendish banana, too.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 days ago:
Tell me this is a joke? I am not the most fit fellow but I am an Olympic athlete compared to these guys…
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
You know what? I really need to plumb the depths of the internet to find something about it. Time for some Arabic and Japanese language searches!
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
Eehhh… no, it was like the Patty Rabbit Maple Town VHS tapes. You had someone (live action) talk about it and then the cartoon would play.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
It wasnt stop motion. They had a live action segment with a girl and a puppet or costumed character (my memory is super hazy. It was a late 80s, early 90s thing and I was a little kid) and when they spoke about what they wanted to show they would do some little gesture and short song and then it would go to the anime segment.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
It was when I was growing up in the Middle East. They aired all manner of anime and mixed Japanese media (part live action part anime). That one I was thinking about was also Arabic dubbed and I dont recall the title.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
I studied history (and by that I mean I liked to watch documentaries) and as a kid I saw educational cartoons and Anime (yes anime) that showed how there was a huge backlash against telephone and telegraphy when they first came out. With farmers blaming telegraph wire for destroying crops or crop diseases and they would sometimes even sabotage the wires and poles.
When I heard of the 5G bullshit that was literally what came to mind… it is incredible how eternal this form of ignorance is.
- Comment on Breaking news 1 week ago:
Seeing him speak makes me wonder how the fuck did he manage to make a living as a podcaster. This guy couldn’t sell me a dollar for 50 cents.
- Comment on Breaking news 1 week ago:
They think people are stupid because they themselves are stupid.
- Comment on Breaking news 1 week ago:
Its almost feels like a scene in a comedy where a grown ass man is playing with dolls that look like his enemies and he makes them speak like morons.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
It will do the opposite. More costs and less profit.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that some countries, like Canada, are hell bent on destroying shooting sports. No joke. The gun bans in canada over the past 5 years (there have been no changes in the licensing schemes, BTW, meaning it is not harder to get a gun than it was) is effectively turning almost all shooting sport variations untenable.
It is stupid and they need to stop that. The licensing scheme is fine enough, they don’t need to ban every semi-automatic rifle in existence or stop new handguns from being sold. The regulations on handguns in Canada were highly effective and they could have even legalized pocket pistols for collecting and casual sport shooting and it would not have made a difference.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
D. I kinda already do…
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 3 weeks ago:
Then crucified him and blame the Muslims…
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
Or words from another language.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
In Canada, which transitioned to metric in the 70s and 80s, people’s height are still measured in feet in casual conversation. Weights for groceries still often have lbs and kgs with them.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 3 weeks ago:
The British didn’t even begin to adopt the metric system until in the last third of the 20th century or so, and even then thr transition was not immediate.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 weeks ago:
I am a big time left wing guy and I love guns. Of course I believe in gun control, but I do not believe in most gun bans.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 weeks ago:
Cut the ‘deep down they know’ bullshit. They have no principles and sincerely believe that it is their opposition, or perceived opposition, that are responsible for all things that go wrong no matter what. No matter how many people Trump fucks over or have their lives completely ruined by him, they will just blame the democrats or transgender people or homosexuals or whoever else. They genuinely cannot see what Trump and his asskissers are doing and the results it is having.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
200 yards isn’t that big of a deal for a half decent marksman. Thomas Crooks was a lousy shot but if it wasnt for Trump’s last second head movement he would have been shot through the head.
The rifle used to shoot Kirk was in .30-06 AND was a bolt-action Mauser style military rifle which has far superior ballistic qualities as a target rifle and round, meaning it is quite simple to bullseye someone’s head with a little practice and training at that distance.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
The corrupt prosecution will probably insist that the shooting would not have happened if Luigi didn’t shoot Brian Thompson (he didn’t do that) even if the two murders are entirely unrelated.
- Comment on Too soon? 4 weeks ago:
Happy birthday!
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
I just read somewhere that… well maybe this was an inside job? The reason being is that since Trump’s creepy as fuck birthday letter became public, he needed something big to distract and shut down discussion so he had Kirk shot?
- Comment on Aged like milk 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk cried like a little bitch when people burned his teslas and protested his ass for being a nazi… and he did that right after saying that empathy is wrong.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
He’s been doing that his entire life.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
Crime in the US peaked in 1993… when Doom first came out. Then it started dropping until recently.
Conclusion: violent video games cause a drop in crime.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
I remember every single time someone they didn’t like died. They would rejoice in the most vile manner imaginable. Fuck them.
I am betting that Kirk’s killer was a fellow conservative who found him too soft and not hard right enough.
Or… maybe it was the same guy who killed Brian Thompson… because Luigi is innocent.