Unilever is UK based and was UK/Dutch before that. Does it being a multinational make it American enough for you?

Welcome and have fun! Glad to see you over on this side :)

Fantastic, it’s a biggy!! Love the new features and fixes!

Thanks! I should have been more specific, I was thinking more in the groceries department.

I’m down, anyone have a great list with images I can use so I know which groceries to avoid?

Me too, hooooold the front door!, I hope he can enjoy some time off soon. What a beast.

Sick leave = vacation time 🤣? Great prank, labor laws!

The reason chocolate is expensive is because the last couple of harvest were a horrifying preview of what global warming is gonna do. Cocoa, now coffee harvests are failing. My pessimistic side would say: eat chocolate now, while you can. Those prices are not coming back down in our lifetime.

“late 2023, failed cacao harvests have contributed to a major jump in cocoa prices on the New York and London markets where cocoa is traded, reported The Guardian.”

Oops.

Yeah no thanks, you have a nice day 🤣

I wonder how fast they can produce and use those new laser weapons, they should rip most drones a new one. Currently, modern war looks a like a total cluster fuck for everyone involved, tiny accurate death from above at any time… sheesh… With laser cover, currently only available on tracks/wheels and in short supply, I think it would already look very different. I have no real clue what’s about to happen though, this war kicked off a crazy weird arms race.

It’s a lot harder to do in some other democratic structures. 100 % for sure we have not yet reached end-game governance styles, no one and nothing is immune to sustained malice, but (for example) multi-party cabinets are a lot harder to ‘flip’ then just stealing one election and press the fascist button, which is what this ( States of Murica politics ) kind of feels like from a distance.

Why did they wait? Because if all this support started on day 1, a lot of folks would have feared nuclear retaliation and there is no way back from that.

The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is too complex to use your oversimplified perspective, and thus only useful to throw oil on the fire. There are serious nuclear threats, Putin’s unpredictable actions, it also involves many (very different) countries standing up against tyranny. The bureaucracy may be slow in its responses, but efforts are being made to ensure careful moves that prevent escalation. Labeling European leadership as bloodthirsty is misleading in my eyes; they are actively working to protect democracy.

Why would you think European leadership aiming for more dead Ukrainians? Why would they still provide financial and humanitarian support? And increase it now?

Some NL based medical companies also have stored extremely sensitive data overseas. The rule is: comply (and don’t use foreign cloud solutions) or explain. I’ve read the explanations of a couple. They perfectly explain: we wanted this, it’s cheaper in the short run, clouds are just so convenient, it’s such a big company we don’t really need an exit strategy. Wow great explanation y’all 😅! I guess all of the transfolk have totally nothing to worry about, cool!

I shared a story of some international gay adventures I had in darkrooms to a Dutch governmental health organization so my STD check would be free (I believe all STD checks should be free forever and everywhere, so embellished every and all details so I would be marked as high risk). Let’s see how long it takes for that to finds its way back to me through DOGE or some other murican garbage institute :).

Stick it to the man!! 😜

Maybe some type of med would improve your quality of life, and they are only available over the counter to folks with diagnosis+prescription. Having a diagnosis might give you a mental framework to to ‘get to work’ on improving the least fun things about it :) , like self help tips n tricks, or maybe working with a psychologist to see what might help you the most.

It was easier to piece stuff together through a course like this for me, because it is more connected. So more learning per minute because of its structuring. I would try both and see what clicks better with you.

I used the firebelley Udemy course. Liked the guys voice and the speed of the course.

No. Are we gonna have to defend encryption against overreaching EU GO’s every month now? We should make it an offense to bring it up for the next 5-10 years, and then they can try again, pffff

The problem with the house analogy, is that now EVERYONE can just walk through your front door. People also don’t accept that, but that part of the reality she is demanding is omitted.

Wow, and another! Never knew, fantastic, thanks.

Great, Bye!

Classic Plato move—justifying an entire .world domain by claiming it ‘participates in the form of universality.’