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Politics related, niche interest related, meme related - surprise me.

E.g. "what's the temperature going to be like today?"

I'll answer "it's going to be pretty cold."

Then you edit the question to be "can you give me a hint about which layer of hell Henry Kissinger is going to?"

Do you like owls?

Yes

No

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6484299

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2015/06/23/1-americas-global-image/

America’s image is mostly positive among the Asian nations polled. Particularly large majorities see the U.S. favorably in the Philippines (92%), South Korea (84%) and Vietnam (77%).

It's from 2015 but more recent polls have found similar data IIRC

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/comparing-global-views-of-the-united-states-and-china-during-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/

79% of people polled in Vietnam chose the US in the "Preferred alignment choice in U.S.-China rivalry" which is a different metric obviously but still points towards the same idea

Edit: According to Luna Oi, Pew Research Center is a neoliberal think tank that cannot be trusted on anything about Vietnam

https://youtu.be/hPCoDz_CPCc

I feel like my twitter feed has gotten worse lately and a lot of accounts I follow have made the move over there.
I am so set in my doom scrolling ways tho.

Are there other leaders who have intro pics nearly as drippy as this? Like this shit goes stupid hard

Also Schools for Chiapas, an organization run to help support the Zapatista community, has recently expanded their online store and has some new cool and unique items! Consider purchasing from there especially if you need bath/body products or coffee. Additionally, many of the donations on the site are now able to be written off on your taxes, so check those out as well!

We (two people) are moving from the west coast USA to the east coast soon. I'm looking for ideas on how to do this as cheaply as possible. Renting a uhaul looks like about $5k before gas costs. Seems like a lot. Anyone have creative ideas?

Can someone point me to the transphobia / racist information? Or whatever else is being alluded to constantly here. When or where was it posted?

just as I post a comment to the mod thread referencing to such info to ask about it, the thread is locked.

Edit: so far the only thing is 1 retweet of a very obnoxious article praising Richard Dawkins. Surely there is more?

Saw someone claim Xi's net worth is like 1.2 billion dollars. No one idea where they got this, but i seriously doubt it's true

My sincerest sympathies to anyone who gets seasonal depression...but I don't get it. I actually loves the winter season. I love dressing in layers and going for morning dog walk breathing in the cold air. Doing a run in the cold with the air slicing through my lungs is the best. Slow cooker meals and soups. Staying indoors under thick covers with warm coffee and tea. Holiday decorations and movies/my music. God I love this time of year and I swear my mental health improves a whole grade level.

Anyone else on this site feel the same???

I am working with a mutual aid org which has some resources at its disposal (money & labor) to help the folks who live there.

Of course, the people living there know best what they need, and with their current setups they mostly need wood for their stoves, or fuel for their generators, which are running electric heaters. But not all of them have stoves or generators.

I think the next most obvious option is warm clothing and blankets, which it seems like they have in good supply thankfully.

My org has done some building projects in the past and is considering doing more, possibly with a rocket stove type design, though I'm wondering if that's worth the effort, and our money/time would be better spent providing the residents with more food/clothing/fuel.

Speaking in terms of the popular response

I'm trying compile (for instructional use) a set of very vivid/egregious/horrifying examples of consent manufacturing in the Western media. Stuff like this:

Got any good examples like this? Post 'em!

I figure there has to be a lot of it out there, but I don't know where to look.

I keep hearing he's gunning for the Kurds in the northeast of Syria. Is this just bald racism or is there some stated reason

I try to keep as little in my pockets as possible, my left is charger, keys, and earbuds and my right is dedicated to phone.

The 3d printed gun, silencer, manifesto, and 8k in cash split between the cargo pockets

They were so out of touch. Since when do random Peruvians care about Dengism lol? Those poor stray dogs man, got killed by some dumb ass, out of touch cult.

There's no way the shining path wasn't CIA, they completely destroyed the communist movement in Peru. Like, do you seriously think massacring random villagers is gonna lead to a revolution? They set back the communist movement in Peru by a century

When I was real young I would ask my grandad if he knew what was for dinner, he'd usually respond with "Shit On A Shingle." For the longest time I thought he didn't know and was just responding to the question with the least appetizing thing he could think of.

Decades later, working on the road, there was this lady who'd cook up huge dinners and sell plates for like $5 so you didn't have to leave the lot to get food. One day I asked her what was on the menu and she said "Shit On A Shingle" and I replied "Oh, so you don't know yet?" and she said "No, I'm making Shit on a Shingle" and I learned that it's a real dish. It's not bad. Genuinely the worst part of shit on a shingle is how it looks.

I am working on a bit where I respond genuinely to most posts about video games that I don't enjoy playing video games anymore.

Kind of the idea of it is that I am pretending that the person is asking me in particular and I am kindly telling my real feelings.

Do you like it?