Bruh, as someone whose pay is 100% caught up in this shutdown, I applaud the Dems.

They might be protecting the status quo atm, but as least they’re taking a stand against shit getting worse. Everyone has to start somewhere!

They workin’ hard at it. Its now a requirement for all of us currently serving to have watched Kegsbreath’s speech to the Generals.

I had already watched it as it was happening just because I wanted to be mentally prepared for what would be coming, and I was saddened/pissed/horrified.

The second watch through wasn’t any better.

I love that you guys have banned her explicitly due to her shitty ass views. My heart is so happy that she can’t spread her hate there.

Huge W, honestly.

Oh my God, you just brought up Leberkase and I’m SO upset that Americans dont have this delight everywhere.

I learned it as Fleischkase (sp?) when I was fortunate enough to spend a few months in Germany for work, but I was told that theyre pretty much the same.

Ugh, mustard and a toasted bun is how I ate it. So fucking good. And I’ve been crying about missing it ever since.

Welcome to Lemmy!!!

I know what all of these are supposed to be except the tender hooks one. I’ve said it aloud and it’s driving me crazy because I can NOT figure it out.

Is it a regional one maybe? I’m from the US so maybe it’s one from elsewhere in the world? I bet I’m going to feel like a real dumb dumb when I figure out the answer and it’s hella obvious lmao.

Edit: Googled it and figured out that it’s actually “tenterhooks” and just basically means that someone is uneasy. I’ve never heard that phrase in my life. Kinda dope that I learned a new phrase today!

As someone who lived in a deep blue city in Texas for a decade, I can confirm you’re making the right decision.

Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are all dope to visit, but 100% not worth living there. And I will never willingly set foot in that state again.

Conversely, I, as an American who had the opportunity to spend a few months in Germany, was surprised at how close all the countries were.

Great culture in all the places I went (Brussels and Prague were my two standout favorites!) Traveling was hella cheap. The food was fire everywhere I went. The architecture was INCREDIBLE. And the knowledge that you could go to the hospital for less than $100 was nuts. Don’t even get me started on how legitimately cool it is to sit in a 1000 year old pub.

I didn’t want to come back. I nearly cried when I got the return flight info.

It still shocks me to tell people “Yeah, I lived in Germany for a bit and some weekends we would fuck off to France.”

Honestly! I was in Texas for the Snowpocalypse and I naively thought everyone had woken up to his sniveling spineless ways.

I genuinely thought “Even if Trump wins, Texas will get Allred.”

Then November happened and I was so fucking baffled. Cruz is reportedly abhored by EVERYONE.

We recently moved to a very bike friendly city in California, and it’s a night and day difference to where we had moved from in Texas. There are bike lanes, and bike racks EVERYWHERE.

There is also a heavily used e-bike/e-scooter service available as well. Its been a genuine game changer.

Separate lanes and bike racks all over the place means that the e-scooters aren’t ditched all over the sidewalk AND the separate bike lanes do not disrupt traffic so the drivers don’t hate them either. We’ve only used our vehicle for commuting to work since moving here. For everything else, we walk, bike, or scooter. Bought a little collapsible wagon for grocery shopping too!

TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!

Ah yeah, I definitely narrowed your comment to just apply to the voting base, even though the crazy ass headline in question is being perpetuated by the grifters.

Thats mah B!

I do agree though, those who are feeding the voters are insane/unreasonable and evil. And I think they know that their base is dumb enough to accept their grifting “words of wisdom.”

I think they’re just fucking stupid.

Not uneducated people with critical thinking skills.

Just actually, really, super fucking dumb. There is no nuance to them. Everything is black and white and only happens one way. Life is straight forward, and its hell the whole time. That’s it. That’s the end.

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I mean, I finally quit Hulu over this, and neither my husband or I had even watched Hulu in about a year at this point. I’d always kept the subscription going “just in case,”. I was the only one paying and neither of us has any qualms about letting it go.

I can’t believe that we’re the only ones in this bracket of users.

My husband immediately bought me a pack right after the huge media blowup, and I actually found it to be mad delicious. I’m wondering if the spice profile was changed after it was banned.

To be clear, I really, REALLY like spicy food and he wasnt doing it to be an ass. He was legit like “Oh! A food she’ll enjoy!”

I wont lie, I watched the Saddam Hussein video like 2 years after the execution happened.

I’m a true-blue-center-of-the-generation millenial, who grew up on the internet (but avoided places like somethingawful) and I got squeamish over THAT video.

It was legit just a shot of his feet swinging but my brain just went “Thats not fake, not a movie, thats an actual human being”, and I got mad uncomfortable.

So, I feel zero percent sadness over CKs death (in fact legit delight! I’m currently out having drinks over it!) But I cannot fathom actually watching the moment a human being’s life flickers out.

I aint built for that.

Bruh we as Americans have such a short attention span/memory I stg.

His first term was “BUILD THE WALL”, “CHECK THE BAFROOMS”, “SHUT DOWN BASES IN EUROPE” and “NO MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED!!!”

None of these ideas he’s espousing are new, they’re just more hateful and damaging. He just got slightly better at understanding politics/government, so now he’s more dangerous/efficient.

Idk. When I went to Munich seemed like it was hella packed and everyone there was having a dope ass time, whether they were foreigners or not.

It felt like something even the locals got stoked for during the walk from the train to the entrance. This was Sept 2019, so idk how the comeback after covid feels.

Well I for one opened the thread and went “Ho-lee shit.” And then I showed my husband and aggressively demanded him to admit that this is a handsome boi.

So this internet stranger approves!