Welcome again to everybody! This is your friendly reminder, growling at the United States from Orbit is praxis Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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There was a time when I would run away from the stupidity of real life to the virtual - internet, video games, books, even comics. Nowadays, I am more and more often pressed to run away from the stupidity of the virtual and into the embrace of the real. Except real life has only gotten more stupid and disappointing with years. There’s nowhere left run
Same sometimes. Though I managed to find an escape in working at the Union and weightlifting.
We can only try to move on comrade. And at least you are a very welcome person over here.
Thank you
In a better world there would always be the embrace of comrades within walking/biking distance, or even in the communal house with mini flats and large shared areas.
When your options are fight or flight and half that is off thr table you only have one path to take. Crying alone in a fast food resteraunt while everyone pretends to not notice
Still a gem
The headline was misleading FWIW.
Here’s a source of the article (note you won’t find it in English on Western search engines): https://en.mriya.news/103878-baltnews-speaker-of-the-lithuanian-seimas-complained-about-god-helping-russia
Hello lemmygrad
greetings, show us your best capybara emojis
I see no capybaras but I will begrudgingly upvote because I am a tankie 👿 👿 👿
A quick search turns these two up, I swear we have more somewhere though
Edit: found a couple of quokkas, which aren’t quite capybaras, but are still pretty cute
Did somebody say tankies?
excellent, excellent
Majestic.
Hey there!
If South Korea is so great, why do they need to literally host a fuck ton of Amerika’s army there.
“Because North Korea is ebil and aggressive and wants to invade and eat all the puppies!” - would be the usual response. Source: my colleague is a koreaboo
I local pinned this on hexbear, if you want me to unpin it / not do that in the future please let me know.
very cool
hi
I’ve taken up the monumental task of growing a tomato plant in my appartment, and it is showing signs of an actual tomato. If only my pepper seeds would sproud, I may be able to have a home grown salsa soon.
I’ve heard tomatoes don’t grow well indoors, though depending on the climate, it might be a requirement for them.
I’ve had a lot of success with outdoor tomatoes, but I do live in a warm and sunny climate. Best of luck!
Yeah I was planning to grow them outside on a small, flat rooftop I have access to. But the summer here has been very wet and relatively cold (14-15 degrees C most days). And since my appartment has huge windows with lots of lightning, I figured it might have a greenhouse effect lol. So far it seems to be going okay.
Have you tried growing garlic or onions yet? They are easy additions to your indoor garden that would go well with the other ingredients.
Power to your peppers!
No, not yet, but I might try it. It would be cool to have a free supply of onions and garlic!
hang on guys, I just stumbled in from the bear site. so is this like the equivalent of the hexbear megathread? I’m still really confused about how this federation stuff works
pretty much, except it’s always in the same community
oh sick, you guys can put the hammer and sickle in your username. nice
it’s a unicode character so you can put ☭ in your username on any site
No, there were issues
have you tried again since the updates? maybe it works now that we’re merged with lemmy
Probably? I dunno what the bear thread is but this is a weekly post where you can comment whatever
We have a daily megathread that people volunteer to do a short writeup of one topic or another and is placed in whatever comm is appropriate. Then the site uses it as basically a local twitter.
:0 what an interesting custom. I guess this thread isn’t like that then
The comment section of the thread is almost exactly the same except for the the daily vs. weekly aspect. At hexbear there’s a mini essay or something like that as the post body each day but it’s usually not what gets talked about much. People being able to just make a comment about whatever or chatting about what they feel like is the same both places.
I checked out the August 7th thread and yeah you’re right. I wonder how they decide on who gets posting duty for the day
these days thelastaxolotl pretty much does all of them by default but anyone can reserve a particular date. there’s a link in each megathread to the megathread planning thread
I gotcha. RIP to Chicago furries though
My name is Quimby and I’m here to say, commenting with rhymes is the best way.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
u 2 oppo
Thank you, comrade Oppo! You too!
Needed to see this as I started work today. You too!
Thank you, comrade, you too!
You too Oppo as always
this feels like when they’re digging a tunnel and the two ends finally meet
Hey does anyone know a breakdown of all the “Trump election Russian influence” thing, I read some MSM articles about it and everything seem purposefully confused and lacking any context or analysis
Aaron Maté has done some great breakdowns on the whole thing.
Thanks!
The Qanon anonymous podcast does a good rundown of it. There’s also a good boy boy video joking about how random the supposed Russian bot posts are too.
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Because he wanted a chopped omelet
did he eat the burrito right away or later? if it was right away it’s definitely much better to use an omelet, if reheated later the eggs might dry making it essentially the same as scrambled eggs.
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Typically omelets are creamier while scrambled eggs are dry. its like a medium rare steak vs a well done steak, one is perfectly cooked while the other is overcooked.
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They are clearly better than me at what they do. I am not inclined to question their methods.
Damn you GenZedong. Now I can’t ever enjoy the anti-China slop with my lib friends.
why is it our fault 😭
All your dammed fecking informed critique of Western media. Can’t I just enjoy this BBC documentary about [normal thing that literally happens everywhere but bad in China] in peace?
this is the spectre of gommunism
