maybe even some lesser known country’s flag, just for fun

Keep 'em guessing with the Friesland flag

The fast food joints in the ruins of Pompei are fascinating. Stone tables with circles cut out so you could put food on the table and warm it from below, it’s basically a modern street vendor setup without the glass.

Only War had the party’s imperial guard regiment as a full on ‘character’ that they made together, complete with stats and traits. Really cool system.

An activitypub is a pub you go to for activities. It’s fairly self-explanatory.

Because those same fossil fuel barons are raising prices in the US as well. Whatever the global price is, US customers need to pay that or they’ll just sell it somewhere else.

Noise is going to be made for a few more days until the midterms so he can be seen to be “working on it”, and then the idea will be permanently shelved after the election is over.

It is true that there are plenty of secular Jewish Israelis who are just as violently racist as the religious Israelis. Maybe even a majority.

However, it is also true that there are secular Israelis actively trying to stop the slaughter. The Democrats are the most outspoken Jewish party in the Knesset. They’re obviously too small to really move the dial by themselves, but if Otzma Yehudit can pressure Netanyahu with so few members, I don’t see why the Democrats couldn’t pressure Eisenkott.

Would be bad business to completely abandon her, would give a bad signal to other politicians on the payroll. She’s got a nice comfortable career as an AIPAC lobbyist after this, most likely.

Extremely unlikely best case scenario: both coalitions fail, they vote again, and the Democrats get a larger vote share and work with the Arab parties.

From what I’ve seen, defence agreements, common defence procurements (including adding Canada to the SAFE program), improving trade infrastructure (ports and rail). We already have a trade deal ofc.

Common market, euro and Schengen are definitely not on the table now. Lots of countries would scream bloody murder if that was offered without having to go through the membership process.

Sure, but voters can decide if they want more or less people sacrificed.

In the US specifically, I think the DSA is an excellent example of how to tackle this in practice. While at the national level the “fascism but slower” party is preferable for harm reduction, you can use primaries to forcibly change the character of that party into a democratic socialist party over time.

I don’t disagree. Climate change is bad, and fascism is bad. No argument here. However, a government that causes less harm is preferable to a government that causes more. This is why voting, alongside a suite of other tactics (protests, strikes, civil disobedience, etc) are necessary if you’re interested in saving lives.

If you’re not, and are willing to sacrifice people on the altar of some hypothetical post-collapse better world, then i vehemently disagree.

Voting doesn’t remove your ability to do other things as well. The car going off the cliff slower gives you more time to do those other things.

Thanks. As a non-USian who doesn’t follow US domestic news very closely, I also had no idea about the context.

Get yourself a fairphone next time you need a smartphone. They’re not perfect, but they’ve tried to disentangle their supplier chain from the orphan crushing machine as much as possible.

It’s built up social capital. Canada for decades internationally has been generally on the popular side of conflicts and has done real humanitarian work. Canada has also built up a reputation as a reliable ally, that does what they say they’re going to do.

So yeah, as a European with a high opinion of Canada, I think it’s deserved despite your internal problems.

Throwing random stuff into a pot in order to prepare food is technically cooking, but it sure doesn’t feel like the fancy stuff that other people are doing with recipes and reliable results xD

I just kinda throw stuff in there, and 9/10 times it tastes pretty good. I guess as long as you’re starting with a decent soup base and everything going in is either pre-cooked or has time to cook it’s hard to mess up.

Fellow non-cook that sometimes dabbles here: my favorite easy food prep is a pack of ramen, then add a whole bunch of stuff I like. I cook this according to the directions on the packet, but while it’s boiling I’ll add a teaspoon of my favorite hot sauce, some smoked tofu, maybe some kimchi, corn, beans, and/or whatever I’m in the mood for.