Soggy @ Soggy @lemmy.world

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Couldn't pay me to live that far from an ocean. Or good internet.

Plus, it's Wyoming. Famously the least densely populated state. That comes with some associated costs.

Well I do, so.

Gaming is the primary driver behind my PC choices by a humongous margin. I'm not really concerned about imvasive anti-cheat software, I don't want to tinker with settings, I want to turn on my computer and play video games. That means I use Windows.

If it helps, I got the joke straight away.

If it's anything like the Battle of Blair Mountain we're overdue for a reminder.

Fairly clever, more bold than the average crow. Not as aggressive as gulls but yes they'll try to steal from people.

The math checks out.

Shit interface then. Pressing down on my volume knob pauses it, and I've got media controls on the steering wheel as well so I can change tracks with my left thumb keeping both hands on the wheel.

I thought we left the insufferable Internet Italians back on reddit.

Word meanings shift over 500 years, nobody is using "entree" wrong because it means different things in different cultures and has changed several times over the centuries. The way we serve and eat meals has also changed considerably.

https://languageoffood.blogspot.com/2009/08/entree.html?m=1

I like this write-up, it had plenty of historical examples.

I'm in team "BMW i3 looks better than any boring Corolla". I like the unusual EV aesthetics. I want funky cars.

Strictly speaking that's not really possible. Like, physically. The body's ATP production has to come from somewhere, and that's either stuff you ingest or stuff already in your body. Low metabolism just means even fewer calories going in for a deficit.

Water retention is also "weight gain" but only sort of. It's certainly a medical issue but most people specifically mean body fat when talking about weight.

Hey, just like we failed to de-traitor the American South after the civil war! It's almost like you have to pull that bullshit out by the root.

You can get unsweetened bran flakes, those are a great source of fiber and added vitamins. They suck, because they're unsweetened bran flakes, but healthy cereal does exist.

"A banana republic is a politically unstable country whose economy depends on the export of one product in limited supply, such as agricultural products like bananas or minerals"

The literal first sentence from wikipedia. It's a specific kind of exploited state. Using it as a catch-all for unpopular or unstable governments dilutes the terminology. Which is what's happening, as shown by the rest of the wiki page. It's not, like, an official classification and you're not the only one to denigrate the US with that label but it seems dishonest and reductive. Our problems are largely internal and would exist with no foreign influence or global economy.

That's not what that term means.

But it can get you to college, and it used to be that a college degree guaranteed better job prospects. Still gross but somewhat valid. Not so much today.

I wish we could get some mobs organized up here. If one tenth of the stuff Fox said about Seattle protests was true we might see some actual change.

Most unions aren't supported by the government and given license to kill.