ttmrichter @ ttmrichter @lemmy.world

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Anime isn't a genre. It's a medium. A medium that covers a bewildering variety of genres.

• Water
• Tea (and just the camellia sinensis part of this is already a bewildering variety of flavour, aroma, and mouthfeel profiles!)
• Coffee (almost as much variety in flavour, aroma, and mouthfeels)
• Tisanes (a.k.a. "herbal tea", and since practically any dried herb or flower can be made into a tisane for infusion, the variety here is absolutely off the charts!)
• Rooibus
• ...

Like seriously, dude. If you think you've had even a tiny fraction of traditional non-alcoholic drinks you've been had.

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Non-alcoholic beer is older than most of the people in this thread commenting¹. There's no more "R&D cost" involved in making it. If they're charging more for the non-alcoholic than the alcoholic, it's just straight-up greed.

¹ Source: I was drinking this shit when I was 12—45 years ago, in other words—and even then it was old news!

How 'bout the phrase "what concern is it of yours what I do and do not drink?"

A: Want some booze?

B: Nah, I'm good.

A: OK.

That's the mature conversation. Since most people aren't like A in this conversation, however, I tend to actually experience:

C: Want some booze?

D: Nah, I'm good. [N.B. this presupposes I don't want some booze: I'm not a teetotaller, but I'm not always in the mood for booze]

C: Why not?

D: In what way does your knowing the reasons make this anything beyond an increasingly awkward conversation?

C: Asshole!

D: Whatever.

Maybe it was the Millenials who were being blamed then? I lose track of which divide the press is trying to drive a wedge in this week.

Didn't Gen Z already destroy hard liquor as an industry if breathless headlines of a decade or so ago are anything to go by?

C'mon! The Jock Itch network! The Athlete's Foot network! The ad copy just writes itself!

I'm not sure you want to associate this with things like candida infections.

What "political environment" enables WeChat in your eyes?

I did use it, yes. And I hated it. There was absolutely nothing I got from Twitter that I didn't get with far superior quality elsewhere. Even FACEBOOK was better (and I ditched that the same day I ditched Twitter).

The major issue that Twitter had was that it eliminated any hint of subtlety or nuance from communication. Nuance in particular died at the altar of that fucking 140 (later 280) character restriction. It was basically only an echo chamber amplifier and nothing else. So, you know, absolutely everything I hate in "modern" communication.

"We can't move posts unless you do the thing that lets you move posts."

Kbin is back, but two better!

Half? You're far more generous than I am.

The problem is that WeChat took a looooooooooooooooooooong time to become what it is now.

Musk wants to do this in a bit over a year. AFTER spending a year ensuring nobody with brains wants to work for him.

Sloth and apathy.

The hobby of the west has for centuries been killing brown folk abroad. Why do we expect different now?

If I plan to pick up a baseball bat and fuck you up good, that's premeditated. If you die in the process, that's manslaughter. Premeditated or not.

The key to manslaughter is intent. I took an action (premeditated or in the spur of the moment) in which I intended to cause injury and instead caused death.

Now if I picked up the baseball bat with intent to kill you, that's murder.

“Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of intentional violence and fear to achieve political or ideological aims.” -Wikipedia

So inter-nation violence is terrorism. I'm glad to finally have people agree with me.

It’s completely reasonable to kill a person in self-defense. Almost no one denies this. That is the primary justification for the proliferation of guns in American society. This is not a mental illness.

I respectfully disagree.

Ah, fuck it. No respect intended. The entire culture of the USA is having intercourse with legumes.

There's no money to be made in peace. Well, not as easily, I mean. To make money in peace takes actual talent and ability to create.