You were the polite one and I was the rude one. No need for you to apologize.

Appreciate the discussion. Hopefully the world we leave is a better place than when we were born into it.

My tone was a bit over the top and I generalized regarding instances. For that I will apologize.

The USA is an “easy target” because it’s incredibly active in the world stage. Very few nations have the resources available to it to do what the USA is capable of doing. With that said this is the classic man in the arena argument – the USA is most certainly in the arena and there are good and bad things that come with it. I believe your argument to be reductionist at best – USA bad because XYZ. There’s a whole hell of a lot more to it than that. So you’ve mentioned Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. What about long, successful alliances between USA with Jordan, Egypt, Israel (hot button I know), and Saudi Arabia.

The struggle in the region today is very much Iran and Saudi Arabia throwing their weight around and many groups of people are caught in the middle. USA included. Israel was on a path to discuss normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia and suddenly that is not a thing anymore. Hrm. Convenient. Wonder why?

Things are not as simple as you make it out to be. It takes two to tango.

The tried and true bot everything bad because USA … do you argue that things would be fundamentally better or worse today if the USA had never been involved? Half these commie ML troll bots on the internet keep spitting out the same old crap. Profit bad. Bad. Bad. They ignore the fact that a woman got shot for wearing a head scarf. You going to blame that on the USA? Get out of here with that crap.

Just wanted to comment to say this is one of the most awesome music videos ever made. Never tire of the song or video.

Workers are now paid 20+ bucks an hour for fast food and the machine still ask for a tip. Yeah, I’m not made of money and we obviously need jobs. I have drastically cut down dining out but new minimum wage laws which are good has thrown tipping culture into chaos. You don’t know when to tip and when not to tip and what someone gets paid and what they don’t get paid. It sucks. Everyone should just be paid a living wage so we can call it a day on tipping.

Ｍ░Ｙ░Ｂ░Ｏ░Ｏ░Ｂ░Ｓ░Ｉ░Ｎ░Ｂ░Ｉ░Ｏ░

There I was … lotion at the ready … then … suddenly … I have a strong craving for soup and cigarette.

It tasted fishy though but hey … it was good for me.

Thank you.

Does Lemmy need a “people of Wal-Mart” group to remind people who the real American voters are?

We’re here. We’re fat. We’re voting.

Pew Pew Pew … 'merica.

Source: am a fat American (US citizen not to be confused with those “other” Americans)

Edit: readers can attribute /s based on their philosophy… Pew Pew Pew

deleted by creator

Win11 is why I’m using Linux Mint. Gaming was the last barrier for me and Steam is doing God’s work.

MS is positioning Windows as an ad platform. Start menu is now a cluster fuck without regedit and deep dive into settings.

I prefer an OS that doesn’t ask about advertisement IDs on install.

Origin is Scotland I believe…Glasgow.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala

… suffocation no breathing.

Papa Roach gets a lot of mileage on Lemmy. Stay healthy my friends.

App is shit. Local store made a mistake told me to contact corporate. Corporate told me to talk to local. Eventually was told escalated to tech team. Crickets for two weeks. Had to file dispute with credit card to get my money back.

Uninstalled app and haven’t been back to McDonald’s since. Fuck em. They have shit support and a shit app.

I’d make a deal with Carla Gugino anyplace, anytime. (Fall of House of Usher, Netflix).

deleted by creator

… but not too juicy. Needs to be just right.

…if your average man has better abs. The fuck did I just read. Can’t we just just appreciate someone being fit.

5 yrs? Those are rookie numbers. I “deleted” mine of 10+ years. Guess who gave a fuck? Only me. Here I am on lemmy rebuilding the dream. Plz upvvote and subscribe. Plz. K thx ♥️

Doubt is a sign of intelligence. Which can sometimes lead to confidence issues. Just try to keep things in perspective and not let doubt keep you from taking calculated risks. It’s when we allow ourselves to become paralyzed that things regress. A lot of it is environment as well so there’s no simple answer but I can assure you thet you’re not alone.

God bless the internet. I learned more about gas than I ever thought imaginable in meme@lemmy. I’m sober now so thanks for the good reads and info!

Depends on the line of work I suppose. Off the cuff? Nope. For the sake of the joke? Absolutely.