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“Somehow” as if it’s some great mystery and not because the 1% are siphoning off a bigger and bigger portion of the world’s wealth. All to use for their own amusement while recklessly destroying the planet and sabotaging any attempts to do anything about it.

That explains it. No direct water route. The Erie canal hadn’t been dug yet.

Heathen as far as I know means people of the heath, which is the shrubland habitat outside of villages with poor acidic soil and low woody brush. Basically the people who were kicked out of the good fertile farmland and forced to live outside of society.

Also if it’s high and hilly heath becomes moors, so your condescending teenage fling very smugly gave you the exact opposite of a correct definition because heaths are always lowlands.

Kramer: “I know kung fu Jerry”

In my area there are two types of rental properties available.

1. Nicer newer apartment complexes that are corporate owned that have overly restrictive lease agreement and have rents that are two to three times what a mortgage would cost on a house of similar square footage, if any were available which of course there aren’t. And the icing on the cake is most of them are owned by a single holding company which puts most of its profits into buying property and building new complexes to keep its tax rates down.

2. Older run down apartments with chipping paint, creaky floors and drafty windows that used to be single family homes and have now been split into two to four rental units. Oftentimes the owner of the property lives in one of the units and their only source of income is the renters of the other units. Repairs happen only if absolutely necessary and improvements are out of the question because that cuts into their living expenses.

Of the two I think the corporations are more insidious and deserve more of the ire that seems to go towards private landlords. But that being said both business models are clearly problematic and exploitative and it doesn’t take a degree in economics to see that comparing them to small businesses that pass some of their startup costs onto their customers is a false equivalency and a bad faith argument.

People are probably right to be wary of the food at Jim-Bob’s corner truck stop, but the big chain gas stations probably have stricter health standards than most high class restaurants. Corporate isn’t going to let a bad weenie turn into a lawsuit or a news scandal.

That’s when you say, “he told me a joke, but it only works in mandarin.”

I can relate to ¯\_( ಠ_ಠ )_/¯. Pissed off at everything, don’t know what to do about any of it. Seems a pretty appropriate response to things these days.

That only affects the gays. As long as you only have intercourse with your wife and your secretary like a god fearing American you’ll be fine.

Okay but fortune 500 CEOs aren’t exactly telling all their employees they need to start using heroin or they’ll be left in the dust when the next industrial revolution happens though.

The spice must flow

Open lemmy link hoping to learn something interesting

Look inside

It’s beans

Then the Aramaic texts were translated into Greek, which were then spread in the Roman empire, until eventually a Roman caesar was converted, who then made it the state religion, which after the empire collapsed the church apparatus that survived used the fact that only the educated elite still spoke Latin as a form of political control, which then caused then cultural perception of Latin to be associated with the arcane and powerful.

So presto chango Latin speaking Satan was born

BREAKING NEWS: Thing that is happening can in fact happen!

I’d imagine milking them would be somewhat more complex though

Wanda has been forewarned. If she’s not prepared for the arrival of the meatstorm that’s entirely on her.

That is a cat in its ideal state of bobulation