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Tall people don't choose their height, fat people (mostly) choose their weight.

Edit: also, if the airline can't deal with a certain percentile of the population under their normal product, they should figure out how to make it happen. It's discrimination to not account for tall people


Could a down voter chime in?

Then don't cosy up to saudi kings either

Saudi royalty torture, murder and dismember a Washington Post correspondent. But they let the US have oil so that's OK.

Venezuelan politician stays in power after losing the election. You'd think a "Stop the Steal" Jan 6 insurrectionist like Trump would be proud. But no, they're not letting the US have oil, so this is unacceptable.

The US needs cheap oil like the US's United Fruit Company needed cheap bananas. Both are more than happy to devastate other people's countries to get what they want.


Until the chain of incompetence slowly gets replaced top down by bootlickers and the military degrades over the years.

well yes, but from todays events it seems that everybody elses military is degraded, if anything.

after being inundated with scenes of russian donkeys, ukranian 3d-printed drones, and hezbollah toyota machine-guns, this is a stark reminder of who the real, OG 'world policeman' is (and there is only one!)

ultimately its actions that matter, and the US can punch.

every dictator of every 3rd world nation is thinking super hard today about how much they really care about resisting 'US imperiaism' - indeed, whether their soldiers are even capable of preventing them from being abducted in a shock extraction by a vastly more organised and technologically superior US.


We're talking in different timeframes

ah yes, the polish that keeps begging you to give them your address for your "own safety"

the polish that can't even delete your entire spam folder half the time

the polish that asks you to verify you own your own email address via email if you want to add an alias to send an email from your own domain (e.g: if you have wildcard inbox and want to reply from one of the addresses you used)

the same polish that gives you no results if you search "one" and the email actually contains "oneword" - you know, search, the thing google is known for.

such amazing polish.


They've done great with those Epstein files. Totally published everything./s


Been given aid*, they didn't rob your banks.


On a very small personal/hobby level: backblaze (which i like as a company) lost my business, moved stuff over to a European company. I'm not a multi million dollar business but I've started to do what i can.

Would have loved to visit the US and see all the things it has to offer, but absolutely not planning to in this climate. I think the US is currently at billions lost in just Canadian tourism?


probably offset by travellers hauling less proprietary cables with them on holidays/business trips/commutes, i now travel with basically one cable to charge almost every device

yes, this is a little tongue in cheek, but i do appreciate the standardization around USB-C

edit: people need to just admit their lives got better with this forced change. (this is not a reply to you, general observation)


Link warns I'm leaving grapheneos.social and then when you click the redirect tried to download some .bin file, wtf?


well, your facts are wrong, because there were in fact explosives planted in there [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device...


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