Please stop bending over backwards for the corporations. The customer shouldn’t have to control the taxi when they’re calling for emergency support like this. Should he just crawl into the front seat and drive the thing for them as well?

He was on his way to a flight. Flights are expensive. Of course he wants reassurance that his costs will be covered if he misses it due to their failings. He has no idea for how long he’s going to be continually going in circles and we don’t know for how long he’d already been going in circles.

This is a customer in distress and you’re shitting on them because they had a stressed tone towards the mega-corp representative? Shameful.

855 “legitimate interest” vendors with no easy reject all button? No thank you.

The solution is a varied diet.

We need to be eating random things, not the same protein, carbs, and veggies that we know we like and buy on routine.

How much of the fruit and vegetable aisle do you actually purchase from? I think many of us get in a routine of buying the same things over and over because we know what we like or we’re on autopilot from work burnout. But, for example, if instead of buying apples each week, we buy a different random fruit. Or, if the budget can stretch it, buy apples and a random fruit. Then our nutritional variety has just increased.

I’m being a bit of a hypocrite here because I myself like to buy the same things over and over. I like chicken, I like apples, I like the same granola I always get. But during each shop, I try to add at least something random that I don’t normally get. A vegetable I don’t normally cook with or tofu instead of chicken, whatever. We need variety.

There’s also the talk of nutritional content reducing in supermarket goods as they’re produced for profit. So growth speed and shelf appearance are prioritised, a way to combat that is to start growing some of your own. Obviously, this is highly dependent upon living situations, but even some herbs in a windowsill will help. Personally, I think vegetable gardeners are some of the most punk people out there, sustaining themselves, entertaining themselves, and learning new skills all for the price of a bag of dirt and some seeds. Be punk!

https://youtube.com/@growveg

How, as a Russian, do you watch the blowing up of a fictional children’s joy bringer as a good thing?

Any chance somebody knows how to find saved comments on the Boost android app?

I’ve saved this one to listen to that Manila Road cover later but can’t find where they’re stored so commenting here instead. Sorry!

The $0 home server:

https://youtu.be/IuRWqzfX1ik

Don’t host on YouTube? They’re a big company, I’m sure they’ve got the resources for a couple of video files.

I don’t think Iroh meant disgrace as in failure, more disgrace as in shameful, he regretted his military endeavours. Pearl Harbour, being a surprise attack on a neutral party, could arguably also be regarded as a shameful disgrace.

The European Union on Friday finalized a blockbuster free trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina and three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance

Are they a secret or something? The amount of words used to say “and three other South American nations” could’ve just been used to say the names of those nations. Wtf kinda journalism is this.

For the curious, the other nations are Bolivia, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.

The constitutional court’s decision – which is final – came on Friday after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence two days earlier that alleged Russia ran a sprawling campaign comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote Calin Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram.

Despite being a huge outsider who declared zero campaign spending, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner on 24 November. He was due to face the reformist Elena Lasconi, of the Save Romania Union party, in a runoff on Sunday.

More details soon …

• Associated Press, via The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/06/romanian-court-annuls-first-round-of-presidential-election

Keyboard shortcuts mean memorising. Some people have issues with memory. On-screen buttons mean no memorising.

That’s the cool thing about Linux. You can customise it to your own needs and desires. Everybody is different.

Because the Swiss have famously never been fans of Nazis…

The easiest way to survive Kristal Nacht 2: Electric Boogaloo is to get outta there before it happens. Stockpiling some food and “hunkering down” isn’t gonna keep you safe. Get outta there.

What does America offer that you can’t get in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc?

Brain drain the fascist state to a standstill.

The earlier you do it, the higher your chances of being accepted into other countries. They may block American refugees if there becomes an exodus. It also means you have time to sell unnecessary items instead of possibly having to abandon them.

Good luck, whatever path you choose.

We don’t fight back, though.

We trade with China.

We trade with Israel.

Until there was a full-scale invasion we traded with Russia despite 2014 - 2022.

Where there’s money to be made, ethics and morals are ignored. Just because we’re moderately better than them with regards to rights doesn’t mean we’re good. We’re just not as bad.

We are aligned with America, creating another giant power block. Another country that’s a cunt to people.

Human rights abuses are being documented all over Europe from Italian farms to UK detention and deportation of refugees.

The state of the world is depressing and appears to be on a downhill trajectory. There’s so many parallels to the rise of the Nazi party going on in multiple countries and so many people are oblivious to it. In their echo chambers of consumerism and “I’ve got mine”.

I think I’ve had enough Internet for the day

I’m so tired.

Why do we always descend into war?

Why do we have to group into 2 or 3 global power blocks repeatedly?

Why are people constantly cunts to each other?

Is there an easy way to purge a Lemmy account or do you have to edit/ delete each comment and post first?

I’ve had issues with deleting posts previously and just resorted to editing them to be useless instead.

And risk burning yourself when the rubber wears out in 3 years and bursts?

Nah, get yourself one of those oat-filled microwavable teddies. Does the same job but with less risk of severe burns and doesn’t need replaced every few years.

“Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God life’s relentless.”

Solarpunk memes? More like adhd memes