So… Did you bring anything to the discussion? What’s your take on the new policy?

Relevant Betty White skit:

https://youtu.be/fbI1eJ_zAB8

Scrambled eggs or pancakes are the limit of the imagination I’ve seen from Italian restaurants. But most places have pastry or some variation of a sandwich that’s going to be mostly bread.

Granted, I know Italy only from a tourist perspective.

Every damn restaurant closes in the summer in the middle of the day. So do many shops.

Italy rarely have breakfast restaurants - or at least what I’d consider a breakfast restaurant. Some variations of a premade ready to go sandwich ain’t it. And the good places ain’t open in the morning, but rather during brunch hours and serve brunch/lunch more than breakfast.

brioche stuffed with ice-cream

I know you’re joking. You’re kidding, right? :)

Coffee and sweet pastry, or just coffee is something I commonly saw in Italy (and only Italy)

While we’re shitting on breakfast culture in Europe I think that Italians have the worst. They have messed up daily rhythm (siesta and then dinner late in the evening)… Actually no, that’s not an excuse. They have garbage breakfast culture, period.

Literally everyone else’s breakfasts are awesome.

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The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P

Also wheres Nokia 3310

“Supremacist” might be a better word

I’m gonna make this into a poster or smthing, I love it, almost snorted my tea from laughter.

I’m 35. Math major. Work in STEM. Well educated.

I hate analogue clocks. Why use subpar way of reading time if digital is so much better?

Outside of the US, MOST people who get into politics are at least decently educated. MOST voters prefer intelligent and well-educated candidates.

No. You’re romanticizing. From east to west, north to south, all democracies fall to establishment and “families”, or “parties” and vote on candidates from those. And then enshittification ensues.

There might be singular exceptions on local level, but every country I checked trends to establishment protecting families (or parties) in power and growing it’s own ruling class.

How do you make sure that there aren’t too many ridiculously unqualified people chosen, without outright imposing requirements that could be unfair?

Let’s start with admitting that elections don’t solve for that. When was the last time you saw someone in power and though “yup, they’re an expert and they will make all of our lives better”?

Now if the people were randomly chosen from general populus - that incentivizes highly educated in ethics, morals, well read general population, or you will be ruled by dumb dumbs and your country will make very costly mistakes or implode.

Having said that, your Senate or officials in power don’t have to be extra smart. They can hire smart people. The point of sortition is to create a system where wealthy don’t rule everyone else and create laws unfair to everyone except current nobility.

Apparently it worked, and it could work again because we’re not really being taught that in school. In fact, we’re lied that ancient Greeks used elections in their democracy.

If you go to wiki page you’ll be linked to multiple pro’s and con’s, critiques of sortition, critiques of elecotralism etc. if you have time, sink into that instead of asking a random on the internet like me to assay your doubts.

Ancient Greek democracy, where they used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition (picking representatives at random).

If you’re USian, your jury is like sortition.

If you were classically educated, you’d know the meme is about Sortition vs Elections (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition). The idea is that you can’t have democracy when you have to vote for your representative, because rich families will manipulate the election process. The better solution to pick your Senate would be to randomly select group representatives and have them cooperate.

And that was what Greece philosophers like Aristotle thought ~2300 years ago. Actually all sources we have suggest that Greeks from that era though that elections are undemocratic, and only sortition can provide true democracy.

Seems to be true today when we vote, we pick between turds, and nothing changes for the better. <- and that’s what meme is about

Side note: Carlin was right, you get educated only enough to be able to work for your masters.

How many people looking at that meme even knew about ancient Greeks shitting on elections in favour of sortition and went there, instead of thinking “elections bad? You must want to have a king, you authoritarian swine”

Do you still maybe have a link to the post somewhere? I’m curious how’s Cuba like, I was wondering if I should maybe go for a trip there or if it’s a bad time.

Well… when they’re for example spreading disinformation and propaganda for Russia, that can cost a lot

Yes, I agree, spreading Russia’s misinformation should be combated and illegal.

We need to immediately close and fine Facebook, X and Reddit.

Not everything is (nor should be) about you and your minority of choice though? The faster you learn that the better.

There’s a vast difference between respecting animals and not eating animals, but that would be pointless discussion.

Also I don’t appreciate you trying to offend me by calling me indecent.

My previous comment should suggest that I look for healthy, natural products.

Impossible burgers is Ultra Processed Foods. Famously even South Park made an episode about it.

Lab grown meat will be the same (because it has to be cheaper than meat to be produced on scale, and because even if it starts healthy it’s quality will inevitably go down to make as cheap to produce as possible)

I respect animals but I want to keep eating meat, so I tried looking for, you know, more ethical farms.

The best I could find is a chicken that lives a year before it’s slaughtered (compared to 60 days or less for factory farming), roams and isn’t caged.

It costs 8-12 times more than the cruelty chicken.

God damn.