People, for whatever reason do tend to use a lot more racial slurs during psychotic episodes than they would outside of them.

I can’t explain it, but it does seem to be true.

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Yeah, this was my point with the “nothing” statement. Obama oversaw and approved some absolutely horrendous things.

I thought I read they did storm the streets of Caracas, during the last Trump admin, in support of Maduro, during a previous coup attempt.

Like the US got caught sponsoring mercenaries and trying to ship in a load of guns to start a coup. I don’t imagine everything is peachy in Venezuela, but I do wonder how much of that is due to meddling by foreign powers versus corruption.

News in Latin America is hard to trust one way or another, because it always seems like it’s being twisted to support one goal or another. Like, I know the state media is biased, but I also know the Western media is eager to support bloodthirsty actors who want to pillage their resources.

This shit rules! I use a beef tallow one, but I’m open to suggestions on finding one with the best flavor.

It’s my cheaty go to for soups and stir fried veggies

We can keep going. Salsa is Latin ezme

My boss has mentioned AI once, and it was when I was asking for guidance on how to take over a twice annual presentation he used to run. He said I could just get the LLM to generate the presentation then edit it as needed.

I did not do that. I just made the damn thing myself because, by him saying that, I realized he had no fucking clue how to do any of this so I didn’t have to either.

Corporate has introduced an LLM we’re supposed to be able to use in lieu of asking an HR representative basic questions, like vacation policy and how to get resources for open enrollment. It… barely works. If you happen to use the magic words, it’ll lead you to a PDF of the policy you’re looking for. I just call or email someone in HR. It’s better to build rapport and awareness between home office and the satellite offices, anyway. Makes things smoother when there’s an actual issue to deal with and people help people they like, even just a little, faster.

I won’t buy a smart appliance.

Oh wow that’s really gross, I had no idea

It’s a weird argument, because he got the peace prize really early into his presidency; before he could have an impact to get America to drop 100k bombs vs 200k, but also dropping a hundred thousand bombs seems like a hundred thousand more bombs than one would have to drop to be called a paragon of peace…

The peace prize did seem pretty pointless since Obama won it for doing nothing. Like don’t get me wrong I voted for the guy and wanted him to win, but it was pretty dang empty to give him the peace prize, especially since he then went on to be in charge while some really ugly stuff went down.

I’m not exactly sure what they’re getting at, but I did see someone from the Nobel Peace Prize committee call for Maduro’s removal just as the US has been ramping up its “anti-narcotics” operations in around the oil and lithium rich country, complete with extra judicial killings of Venezuelans, telling other nations to avoid their airspace and very recently seizing an oil tanker ship…

So it kinda feels like the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to add justification to the cause for war that the US is trying to drum up, which is wantonly egregious, so maybe they’re implying that both the Nobel committee and Eurovision are tacit supporters and backers of imperialism.

Similarly, Maesri Thai curry pastes.

You gotta check the labels, some have fish sauce in them and I don’t remember which, but most don’t.

Stir fry the paste a bit, add in a can of coconut milk and whatever veg/protein you like, cook down to desired doneness of veg and thickness of sauce. I usually do tomatoes, pineapple, carrots, bamboo and canned mock duck for vegan meals. Comes together in well under 30 minutes, easy. Eggplant and pumpkin are also delicious in this. Bf likes the yellow one with chicken (swap with your desired protein) and potato.

Embarrassingly, my roommate calls the ones I make with the green curry paste “my best curry yet” every time I make it.

Serve with rice, garnish with lime and their leaves or basil, it looks much fancier and harder than it is.

Well I’m sure the snakes don’t call him a saint…

You can watch the casus belli be built right before your eyes!

Yeah dude. They suck ass. They’re the better of the two options, but they fucking blow! It would kick ASS if they didn’t suck!

Honey, they are literally the lawmakers and rulers of the country, I’m some dude that makes some part of some company’s wheels turn. People in my position and those like mine do not have the power to run the country while those in Congress do. There is not an equivalency in responsibility.

They have a responsibility and duty to actually help address the many many issues this country is facing and they seem to conveniently only remember that when they can’t possibly muster the political power to do anything useful. They knew Donald Trump and his fascist goons would try to wrestle control of the country again in 2024 and they spent four years with their heads up their own asses. And that’s only looking at four specific years. For decades they’ve done the bare minimum to keep in power all while the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, and those in power got more powerful.

When it’s their turn, they don’t remove or restrict the tools of oppression they know the right will use against the populace. Fuck, they expand them! They either half-heartedly talked about or actively fight against measures like raising the minimum wage, addressing the housing crisis, or the cost of healthcare. Don’t even start talking to me about the civic process being roadblocks, we’re watching those roadblocks break way for the GOP. The DNC never even tries that kind of strong arm behavior to improve things.

Yeah, I’m kvetching on the internet, it’s a forum, that’s what it’s for!

I dunno what value that has. It seems to me that the democrats really only resist fascism in these futile ways so they can point at them when asked “why didn’t you do anything?” They never actually address the material conditions of Americans that lead to people losing faith in democracy and wanting authoritarianism.

Democrats love doing fucking nothing

I’d sooner suspect it’s a way to attempt to get more Trump allied control over more media than a ploy to resist corporate monopoly, what with the cost of lawsuits at this scale.