Not OP, but maybe they’re alluding to the fact that tomatoes were exclusively native to the Americas, so pizza in Italy never even had tomatoes before 500 years ago. A quick Google search shows that the first modern pizzas came from Naples about 300 years ago. So no, not American, but not possible without moving tomatoes from the Americas.
Italian immigrants brought pizza to America and it caught on.
The tipping point will be when OPEC replaces the petrodollar. The USD will weaken more and more over the next 6-24 months, and trump will piss off OPEC with warmongering, and they’ll turn to the petroeuro or petroyuan, and trump will lash out and attempt unwinnable wars while the economy is in freefall.
Or we’ll form our own OPEC to compete, and we’ll deal with Russia attempting to invade Alaska. And we’ll sell so much oil that Americans won’t have any left for us, so we’ll be one of those broke petrostates that the right makes fun of all the time.
Or he’ll die before that all can happen.
If Vance weren’t a couchfucking coward, he’d 25th amendment and… destroy the country a little more slowly. Yeah, I don’t really see a stable way out of this one.
It’s not even that. It’s exile.
They’re making their site inconvenient so you’ll download their app. Every fucking website and product has an app now.
Meanwhile the DNC finally bucked neoliberism…
In 2028 we can have a progressive with no neoliberal baggage
I’ll believe it when I see it. I fully expect the superdelegates to crown another milquetoast neolib as nominee. Newsom or Harris probably. There will almost certainly be some silliness in 26 and 27 to get some lesser-known names propped up some so that they can have a chance, but we’ll have a stage with 15 people on it and only about 3 will be taken seriously. Idk who specifically to even hope for right now. There are some good younger Dems, but they need more time in the oven before even attempting a presidential run. Fox News has done a good job demonizing certain names such that even people who aren’t plugged into it have heard and believe the attacks.
For example, I don’t think AOC could get elected for anything other than her current district or maybe Senate. She might even hurt a ticket as a VP pick. She might be good on a cabinet, but that’s not elected, and that’s probably the end of her political career.
Buttigieg has been doing the work of getting on right wing media to surgically dismantle attacks and explain how his policy positions benefit everyday Americans, and I think he usually comes off as intelligent and compassionate, not condescending. As with all politicians, I don’t put him on any sort of pedestal, but he’s putting in the work and proving he has effective communication, and that’s an incredibly important skill for a president to have.
Idk. There’s still a little hope in the tank here, and I’ll vote in my primary to try to get somebody who isn’t ass garbage, but I expect something like Newsom v Youngkin/Vance if trump isn’t still alive and cancelling elections to cling onto power.
I’m not OP, but I’m guessing that they’re referring to the news story more than the law enforcement. I don’t think that this is newsworthy. Criminal charges happen all the time, but this one is only getting attention because his mommy is in Congress; I have no reason to believe that she’s involved in this crime in any way. I also didn’t give a shit about Hunter Biden’s drug addictions or gun crime or whatever else was going on with him. It would be newsworthy if these people weren’t charged because that would indicate that there are no consequences for family of politicians.
By this logic, why not buy 200,000 tomato plants with the million dollars?
$50 in a few decades will be worth very little compared to now because of inflation. Take the lump sum and invest more on the early side. That’s how smart people successfully implement compounding.
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Also, that $6,250 times 52 weeks in a year is not $46M; it’s $325k. Not to mention that the $6,250 takes a year from initial investment, so it takes 2 years to hit that $325k. And that’s revenue, not profit. And it assumes dependable harvest. It’s a joke shit post that I’m taking way too seriously, right?
You’re 100% correct, but when the new way of doing things is to deny you your right to due process, then you will never get that day in front of a judge to argue that you were detained illegally. We have a police state that is kidnapping people and shipping them off to another country without their day in court, possibly in a prison for the rest of their lives. I would argue that the threat of that is no different than the cops threatening to shoot them; either way, they’re dead with no hope for justice. At least getting shot would be a relatively quick way to go.
If the secret police break down my door to kidnap me, somebody will be dying that day, and it’ll almost certainly be me, but hopefully also a couple of them as well. If I can’t save myself, I’d like to at least help to reduce the number of kidnappers, and hopefully deter others from carrying out their fuhrer’s orders for fear that it could happen to them too.
I think that the country is now at the point where it wouldn’t take much of a spark to blow the doors off this bitch. Of course the Epstein files thing matters, but it’s really heartbreaking that that’s what’s galvanizing the masses instead of when he started literally disappearing people to concentration camps.
We can’t lay all of the blame on trump.
The problem is conservatism in general. Every Republican president of the past 50 years has caused economic turmoil. When Republicans get power in the legislature, the only notable thing they work towards is tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, and gutting things that help people in order to pay for it.
Trump isn’t singularly the problem here, but he is so fucking stupid that he’s speedrunning the economic crisis. A Republican with a halfway functional brain would know to move slowly enough that the economy falls apart as they’re heading out the door, not within the first 20% of their term.
Start selling trump “I did that!” stickers of him pointing up at the eclipse. You’ll start seeing them everywhere soon. Gas pumps, grocery store shelves, car dealerships, etc.
Legitimate question as I’m gonna move from Windows 10 within the next couple months. Is there something wrong with Bazzite or Nobara? I had narrowed my decision down to those two since they seem to be an easy transition, they do the things I need, and they’re popular enough that I can probably find fixes to any issues I experience. I pushed off my plan to build a desktop, but I still have an aging laptop that is losing security support in a couple of months.
Also, my wife needs Excel specifically for school. Can Excel work on these distros or are there just good alternatives? She might need to keep a Windows 10 partition just for Excel stuff if she can’t run it in Bazzite or whatever she picks.
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Thanks everybody for responses! School is not flexible about using Excel specifically, and she has to share her screen during exams to show that she’s just using regular Excel. It’s not a hill we’re willing to die on lol.
We aren’t super interested in doing anything beyond gaming and basic browsing type stuff with our computers, so I’m not sure that Bazzite being immutable really means anything to us. There were some good tips like a /home partition to easily swap distros when needed without losing everything, plus some people pointed out that some of these distros come and go over time so it would be harder to find fixes and continue getting updates if we get too entrenched in something that won’t be around much longer.
Overall, I don’t think we’ll be too picky. We just want a pretty simple process to get something that’s like an unbloated Windows, and we don’t want to rip our hair out looking for a new distro and starting over every six months. Most people are not power users. I can do pretty much all of my computer stuff on my phone and all of my gaming on my PlayStation, so I really won’t notice the difference between most of these recommendations probably.
She’s not his press secretary. It’s not your fault for thinking that though, given how much fucking time she spends in front of cameras defending trump. But that just helps you point even more. Why is half of this cabinet in the news dealing with scandals 24/7?
For the life of me, I can’t remember any cabinet member from this time last year except AG Garland and DOT secretary Buttigieg off the top of my head. I just looked it up and thought “oh yeah” when I saw Blinken and Yellen. I recognized Austin’s picture, but never would’ve been able to guess his name. I recognized nobody else.
Holy fuck, I miss having rational people in control. I was able to just deal with my own shit without worrying about total collapse. Fuck Biden and Harris for not taking the Israel concerns seriously enough, and fuck the people who withheld their vote over that to pave the way for what we have now. The options now seem to be basically either 1941 Germany or 476 Rome.
No? Like I said, Italian immigrants brought pizza to America. They didn’t come to America and then invent pizza. Trade routes brought chili peppers to those areas and they did new and interesting things with them to incorporate them into their cuisine in fundamental ways. I’m just saying that those dishes are recent, not completely coopted.