VikingHippie @ VikingHippie @lemmy.wtf

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As Denmark's queen abdicated and Frederik X became (hopefully our last) king, I was forwarding this in the family group chat with the comment "more important things are also happening in the world right now"

This one wins.

The name of that cat? "Wire"

Yes and no: while this is technically correct, flavorful or tasty is more frequently used about food, whereas tasteful is more often used about the other definition of taste, like for example aesthetics or, as I'm alluding to here, tasteful artistic nudity 😁

As far as I can tell, somewhere between the two.

Bravo! 😆

Then again, there isn't one where it's a particularly good one, either 🤷

several supporters dressed in inflatable dinosaur costumes for no apparent political reason.

This is my favorite part right here 😂❤️

Can confirm. Got Legionaire's disease on my birthday. Getting older meant not being able to trust farts.

That's what all mean people say.

and an onion on their belt.

Which will be the style at the time, of course.

Over there, in a box.

Nah, we are brains wrapped in skeletons wrapped in meat operated by electricity from ourselves.

Everything looks like a penis when all you need is to get nailed? 🤷

Nah, they calmed down too late.

Yeah.. Also not too big of a fan of using awe instead of aww, but it gets the point across 🤷

Why do you want to know? Do you think Chavez singlehandedly controlled the price of oil?

You know that's a worldwide commodity, the price of which is affected by myriad factors out of any one country's control, right?

There's no such thing as "price of Venezuelan crude oil" seperate from the price of all other crude oil.

Poor guy! Suffering the consequences of his own actions like some non-rich person!

Venezuela is an example of a petrostate, where the government is highly dependent on fossil fuel income.

Petrostates are vulnerable to what economists call Dutch disease, in which a government develops an unhealthy dependence on natural resource exports to the detriment of other sectors.

The oil price plunge from more than $100 per barrel in 2014 to under $30 per barrel in early 2016 sent Venezuela into an economic and political spiral, and despite rising prices since then, conditions remain bleak.

(Source: Council of Foreign Relations)

So yeah, socialism didn't kill the Venezuelan economy, over-reliance on fossil fuel did.

You know what else would be contrary to the will of a loving God if one existed?

Being the main driver of the African AIDS epidemic that's claimed tens if not hundreds of millions of lives.

Fuck the catholic church and ESPECIALLY fuck THESE catholic church monsters! 🖕🖕🖕