I mean most of the European languages do the same with mostly ancient Greek and Latin.

Oh yeah, if you use them often enough you’ll get a feel for how much pressure you can use, I’m comfortable with using a little smack to close them, but I used to work in a cocktail bar, so I have some experience with them.

I don’t know if you did that, but for anybody struggling with those:

You’re supposed to put them together at an angle, so that the outer wall of the tins forms one straight line from top to bottom. Like this:

To open it you take them into one hand, hold them on the side where they form the straight line. Then take your other hand and gently smack against the part where the both tins connect with your palm

Here:

Since tin tins are hard to break (though not impossible I can tell from experience) you could also use a hard surface and more force if needed.

If they’re still stuck, let some warm water run on where they connect and try again. Although the drink might get watery if you take too much time.

Spooky dance party

“Waste of time” someone said to me recently.

“Time enjoyed while being wasted, was not wasted. This conversation, I do not enjoy and it feels like a huge waste of time to spend another minute with a person like you so…bye!”

“If you’re going to have a monarchy, it has to be a monarchy of everyone,”

What an utterly INSANE statement.

In my mind it was because children are expensive, so high birthrates - less “free” income, means higher reliance on public services like transportation. At least here in Germany highest birthrates are usually low income, low education, often immigrant areas that would profit greatly from having a broader support from the public.

Can you seriously not see how this can be abused by Trump administration after news like ordering to retract the word “gender” from medical articles published by CDC:

https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

Well now I obviously do, but like I mentioned, I am from Germany, I try to keep up with rapid-fire bullshit machine that is governing the US right now, but unfortunately we are also in a dire situation here right now. And I wouldn’t expect the whole world to automatically understand all the details of what is happening in our government right now, for example how terrifying and dangerous the last three days were for our democracy. I am happy to answer that for anyone asking genuinely btw. Hence why I was happy someone asked the questions that I had in mind while reading the article.

First of all - thank you for taking the time!

I totally understand, we’re all on the edge right now, my antennas are also sensitive to that kind of “just asking questions” disingenuous bullshit. But this didn’t feel like it to me, it felt like a genuine question, because I had the same thoughts before someone explained it.

I am from Europe, I suppose OP is also from a non-US country and at least to me it wasn’t quite clear that the group with highest birthrates are white evangelical Christians for example, like now I know and it makes sense, but without that context it’s hard to understand.

For example here in Germany, if I would read about our DOT making the same policy, I would think (without looking too much into actual data) - yeah okay, highest birthrates here are usually low income, low education, often immigrant families who are very reliant on public transportation to manage their day-to-day life - totally makes sense to support those areas with a higher budget.

Can you explain that reaction to me? OP posted a question that I also had about this thing, it didn’t seem disingenuous to me.

I forced some pushback on me by attacking the reactions as “hive mind”, which is lazy and combative, I understand that, fair enough.

What I fail to understand is the push back on the original question.

Thank you for taking the heat of the hive mind, I genuinely didn’t understand the problems either.

From experience I can tell you that even a nice prison is still a prison. Being locked up fucks with your mind.

…maybe I should get tested…

Asian cuisine also has a lot of vegan dishes, inventors of tofu.

Meanwhile, zero actual evidence for DPRK attacking Ukraine, but I guess that’s not going to stop western smoothbrains from talking about it.

I forgot we live in “what I don’t like is obviously not true” land here, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, for example actual footage of North Korean soldiers arriving in Russian training camps, Putin himself doesn’t even denies it, but anything to lick some boot I guess.

You’re not arguing in good faith, as exemplified by your double standards regarding foreign involvement, so I know that you’re gonna write something about “manipulated footage”, ask for sources you could easily Google yourself and overall try to move the overall framing of the conversation to something else because the exchange of information is not the point for you.

I have neither the strength nor the patience to argue with utterly deranged idiots whose worldview would make Marx roll over in his grave.

From:

Last I checked it was NATO that started launching missiles into Russia escalating the conflict, but do go on champ.

To:

One problem being that Ukraine isn’t a member state. 🤡

So which one is it?

Would you also say that North Korea is attacking Ukraine since it’s North Korean artillery shells being lobbed into Ukraine?

Proposal: the onion employs Dan and Jordan on their new network and let them continue knowledge fight on Infowars.

I will die of laughter if Dan really gets Alex’s desk.

Bieber is German for beaver. Finally someone made the connection.

Boost has that option under settings>filters & blocks>muted instances. You have to type in the instance address but it worked for me at least.

Phew, I was really worried someone was gonna cut poor mike.

Also you could have clarified that you meant to say that both parties have the same stance on the issue, but no you had to also attack me as I can`t read your mind.

They probably did that on purpose - Motte-Bailey Fallacy