It's not correct about tacos either. I wouldn't even call what they're eating in Europe "tacos".
The US has got to be eating the second largest amount of tacos in the world. Not only are there millions of Mexicans in the country, tacos are part of the national cuisine.
That's the flavor of the taco. Otherwise it's just meat in flatbread.
You are telling on yourself by saying "some people don't like it hot". There are many peppers that are not hot: ancho chiles, chile del arbol, Anaheim pepper, poblanos, banana peppers, cascabel, chilaca, etc.
If you don't know about mild peppers, you don't know about Mexican food. It's just that simple. Downvote away Europeans.
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They're not profitable for cities, they're profitable for people who bought land in the area before the development of the stadium. Look into who is pushing for the "revitalization". It's usually property developers who just bought cheap land in the area.
They get subsidized improvement of their property, and can sell at a profit or make some minor "improvements" (paint and landscaping) and rent it for a lot of money. I'm not saying that developing these properties is bad, but cities usually don't make back the money they spent on the stadium. They lose money and property developers gain (and donate to local politicians).
Cities should never give companies or developers lower taxes in exchange for "revitalization". No developer will invest in a project unless it's already profitable. If you don't make them pay taxes, there's no way to make it up in "jobs". Companies that can be lured with tax breaks will leave as soon as they get a better deal somewhere else. It's not sustainable.
Do you realize that you are comparing the crappier parts of the US to Afghanistan? It's like you're shitting on yourself. You can move to Afghanistan if you like that culture. We're not going to give away human rights to protect your feefees.
The issue is that you are paying for the daycare's rent, wages, utilities, and food. That's expensive now. Daycares don't make a ton of money unless you pay more than $1000 per month. With 30 kids, that would pay for $5000 in rent and 4 people working for $75K (taxes and benefits included). That doesn't even include food.
Any cheaper and they are going to have to cut costs somewhere. If you have 2 kids, it can be cheaper to just have a caretaker visit your house. You are already paying for the mortgage and food.
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Nah, that doesn't give Trump any advantage. He can just go on Fox any time he wants and have a "pretend debate" with no one. There are still rules to the reality Trump supporters have in their heads.
Basically, Trump supporters want to see him as better than someone else. So that other person has to play along. If you notice, the Republicans who support Trump have to pretend that he's better than them when they give speeches. It's just a modern monarchy (a conservative form of government).
Biden doesn't play along, so he actually doesn't look weak. Trump was begging for a debate and was ignored (looks weak). Biden said "let's debate" and Trump accepted. No one ever accepted Trump's debate on Fox, so rejecting it actually makes Biden look more powerful.
Yes, they "have the authority" because Biden and Trump agreed to have them host the debate. RFK Jr. (big emphasis on Junior) is intentionally excluded because he's nuts, and that's before the brainworms.
Yesssssss. It's about looking powerful. These are people who drive big trucks and don't use them. A powerful image is important to them.
They value hierarchy and rules that don't apply to them. Without anyone who plays along, they don't feel good. They need someone to be upset at their giant Trump flag or there's no point to it.
How many times they had the presidency and the congress and haven’t changed shit?
In the past two decades? Maybe 4 years total, less than that. And Congress was on a razor edge margin last time.
The first time was under Obama and we got the ACA, which forced health insurance to cover cancer patients (who were kicked off in the middle of treatment before).
The second time was just recently where we got all the Biden Administration accomplishments listed in this chat. Infrastructure. IRS funding for wealthy tax cheats. Cheaper prescription drugs. Weed. The list goes on.
What's that? You weren't genuinely asking? You actually don't know or care about any of this? Ok cool...
Exactly. Russia is not going to nuke anyone because they are not an ideological state like the USSR. They are a kleptocracy. Generals will not allow their grift to be interrupted, and it makes no money if you nuke something.
Here's the problem with invading Ukraine that Russia is experiencing, and it's the same problem with invading Russia:
Once you invade and take territory, now you have to sit there in Ukraine (or Russia) while someone lobs artillery at you. Capturing a few miles of land outside Kharkiv is not worth dying for.
No, it's more that people who care about climate change are good at long term thinking. There are no cuddly animals to rescue right now, so people who want instant gratification do other things.
People who are good at long term thinking commit fewer types of impulse crimes. Vandalism is an unintelligent way to get your point across. There's nothing inherently wrong with the paint job on the SUV.
Guinan's main "power" is convincing people of things by listening to them and chatting with them. I suspect she could just convince everyone to ignore Q, and that's the last thing he wants.
It's kinda like how the most powerful force in the TNG universe is Picard yelling about duty or the Prime Directive or something. He's stopped Romulan warbirds in their tracks and the entire Klingon High Council (multiple times). He destroyed a Borg cube with a single word.
And despite the prevalence of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the issue does not seem to be the driver of Biden’s base or electorate troubles.
“Defections over Gaza make up a little over 1 percent of Biden’s 2020 vote share. That’s not nothing, but also that’s such a small share. If you want to look at why Biden is sliding, the bigger reason is obviously the economy,” Jain told me. “If you look at people defecting over Gaza, 17 percent of them think that it’s because he’s been too favorable to Palestine.”
Uh... Nixon was terrible. He resigned in disgrace. Even Republicans shunned him after he left. It's hard to put into words how much Nixon disappeared from modern society.
Without a second Nixon term, Watergate is probably not as big of a deal. Then Fox News is never created. You can see where I'm going with this.
The point is, yes every election is important. Be grateful you can vote, and that your vote counts. It hasn't been the norm for most of human history.
This is more of a warning to not listen to pollsters. 10% of voters are definitely not going to vote for this guy, maybe one or two percent. Clearly the polls are way off.
Don't even listen to them. Vote. Help your favored candidate. Donate if you want to. Help get out the vote.
That's the definition of meaningless. All these polls ask "if the election were held today...". It's not being held today, and everyone acts based on that.
There's no GOTV push yet, and campaigns structure their spending based on when the actual election is. Voters almost always vote based on something that happens near the election when they are paying attention.
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They were put in a box by Trump's refusal to admit any guilt, even for things that are not crimes.
Any normal defense attorney would admit the fact that their client cheated on their wife and tried to cover it up. Those are not illegal, and are pretty defamatory, so you can have the judge exclude any testimony about the act.
Then it's just a boring documents case. The jury doesn't pay as much attention when the evidence is less interesting, so the prosecution's case seems weaker.
Did you miss the entire occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan? Billions were spent on rebuilding those countries, but the Taliban and Iranian backed militias destroyed a lot of it.
I noticed that you mentioned Syria, which was a civil war that no one mentions anymore. It was part of the Arab Spring and didn't really involve the US. The only people who care about Bashar Al-Assad are his cronies in Syria, his Iranian supporters, and the Russian government (which supported him because they have a navy port in Tartus).
There's no real way to hoard "wealth" as a monkey. Fruit rots. There's no way to invest in such a society, since they don't understand the concept of growing food. That's why they live in family groups to control territory.
Humans lived similarly for hundreds of thousands of years. Calling the basic exchange of tokens "capitalism" isn't accurate. It's like calling a tribal society "communism" because people take care of their relatives for free. It's not accurate.
It's funny because his lawyers are in court right now arguing that Michael Cohen did not act on Trump's behalf. Meanwhile, there's a parade of losers outside clearly acting on Trump's behalf.
The defense lawyers don't really have a coherent argument, but part of their strategy is to pretend Michael Cohen used his own home equity loan to pay off Stormy Daniels for no reason. As if that's totally normal. We've all (at some point) acted in Donald Trump's best interest, not at his direction, right?
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I'll be honest with you: based on your comment scores, I don't see anyone following you and downvoting all your comments. I can almost guarantee that there's no "group" doing it, as very few people care that much.
Although I have seen people on Lemmy randomly downvote things for no discernable reason. Like I will post a comment and it will be negative for a few hours. Then when more sane people show up, it's upvoted so it's positive. My comment didn't change, the people looking at it did. Don't worry so much about votes.
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There's a basic problem with replacing human experts with AI. Where will they get their info from with no one to scrape? Other AI generated content?
They can't learn anything and are just "standing on the shoulders of giants". These companies will fire their software developers, just to hire them back as AI trainers.
Yeah, but they didn't have game theory then. Democracy was kind of new too. Basically all non-monarchists were allies, because they literally had to fight actual kings to rule themselves.
It's not the founders' fault that they didn't foresee all future problems. They included the ability to amend the Constitution. It's our fault for not doing that. Originalism makes no sense because the founders wanted us to change what they had done and improve it.
That doesn't relate to my comment or the original post. It's like you're trying to shoehorn in your own ideas about class war into the conversation.
In return, I would like to add add that George Washington did not have wooden teeth. In fact, he had weird Frankenstein dentures made up of a bunch of other different teeth. This supports my pro dental care ideas.
This is the actual answer. Don't look at them in the face and try to leave ASAP. Philosophical questions are usually very simplified to illustrate a point, and there are usually more than two choices.
In a real life "trolley" scenario, you should wave to the driver and get them to stop. There should be zero people tied to the tracks. And that's only what should happen if you think quickly enough. In real life you may actually just freeze and do nothing.
There are almost always better options than the given ones. I remember an answer to the "Ship of Theseus" problem a friend gave; he recommended calling it a different ship once more than 50% was replaced. I asked why and he said that all definitions are just made up, and you have to draw a line somewhere.
That's what people do in real life. They don't just sit there perplexed by a "paradox".
It's also just stuff from Alibaba. It's all made in China, which has gotten really cheap. You can buy the same things on AliExpress without giving out all your contacts and everything.
Basically you are seeing how stores in the US buy their merchandise. It's extremely cheap, and they are marking it up at least 100%. Shirts and pants are like $3 to $10, maybe a little more for good quality. Places like Target and Walmart buy these and double or triple the price.
Workers for some suppliers of Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are still working 75 hours a week, despite the company promising to improve conditions, a report suggests....
This is how it works now, but it doesn't have to. Look on AliExpress and you'll see how cheap these clothes actually are. You can buy a decent collared shirt for $5 - $10. And that's the consumer price, not wholesale. It's actually incredibly cheap and fast to make clothes.
The producers could cut hours in half and still make good money. Their buyers are marking the items up like 80%. Essentially you are paying for the brand and the rent in the store in the West.
They're not paid that much, but these are decent jobs compared to subsistence farming in rural China. These people are supporting their families. I believe clothing manufacturing is actually moving to Vietnam because China is getting more expensive.
Working a modern sewing machine is detail oriented but not backbreaking labor. Rice farming is probably worse. It just doesn't take that long to make a shirt nowadays, and the cotton is relatively cheap. If a shirt can be made in 10 minutes or less, why should it be expensive?
This isn't even news. "Some dude was arrested" isn't anything people need to read. It happens all the time. Things like this just make people think the world is a dangerous place.
While you were reading this comment, some dude was arrested. Do you really care about the specifics?
It isn't dangerous. The world is much safer than it was even 20 years ago. You are much more likely to be attacked by someone you know than "armed psychos" that you don't know.
Look at any crime statistics; they all say the same. Or if you don't like statistics, just watch Dateline or 20/20. It's usually the boyfriend/girlfriend.
You're wrong about a lot and you're presenting your opinions as fact. Trump doesn't underpoll by that amount now.
There was a phenomenon in 2016 where people were reluctant to tell pollsters they were voting for him, because they were embarrassed. Now Trump supporters are the loud minority of voters. And Biden is the boring safe choice. Biden voters are less likely to stay on the phone and answer questions.
Also, national polls mean very little. You have to actually look at the swing state polls to find out who's winning. And there's not much data this far from the election.
Finally, we can tell there's something wrong with current polling just because "Mr. Brainworms" RFK Jr polls around 10% right now. No one is going to vote for him, and definitely not 10% of the population. People are just fucking with the pollsters right now. Do you know anyone seriously considering voting for RFK Jr?
Divesting is a step, but it just allows them to remove personal responsibility for the death/suffering.
Uh, no. Divesting from South Africa had a big effect on the end of Apartheid. It's just not enough to do much by itself. But it is enough to push it over the top.
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