In America at least slaves often raised their own masters. It was an entire category of enslaved people: house slaves.

Much like the European aristocrasy and upper crust left their children to governesses and wet nurses to rub elbows with the rest of high society, so did the Big Whites of America and the Carribean.

Those electric arc lighters are neat, but the noise they make drives me up the wall.

I appreciate your forthrightness, and on many points we quite agree, notably noone’s keen to leave and that the current charged atmosphere around the war does chill honest representation of one’s ideals.

That said, while this particular war was the result of Hamas and their October 7 attack, I believe that if not them, some other group would “lead the charge” maybe it would have been more of a single flashpoint or a series of smaller skirmishes, but conflict was (and continues to be) inevitable under the circumstances that Palestinians and Israelis live in.

I want to inquire further on your take that Israeli buffer zones are the land theft so demonized by the anti-Zionists. We see the expansion of the buffer zone in Syria as a landgrab because any security buffer sufficient for defense against the Assad regime should be more than enough, especially when paired with Israeli strikes on weapons caches and bases in Syria. The more puzzling point, though, is the establishment of new settlements and growth of existing settlements in the West Bank even as recently as this week.

Fair 'nuff. I usually reserve that one for people dragging out arguments with little or no substance, but a whooooole lotta bluster and passion.

Beyond the usual descriptors of troll, zionist, obnoxious twat, etc. I like to place people to general regions and countries if they share them.

It helps me remember that the Internet is not the US and gives me some vague sense of what they may be dealing with outside our cozy Lemmy bubble.

Bruh, when it’s that big it’s no longer “low-key”.

That’s a very off-putting mural for a restroom.

Wild to me that the fox thought a street was a good napsite. Maybe it was raised in captivity, and has no concept of “prolly not a good place to crash”

Deadmau5.

The tapes of some of these Catholic hymns are getting kinda worn- let’s get some fresh beats to liven things up. And a laser lightshow in St Peter’s Basilica would help appeal to the “hip youths” ensuring a continued Catholic hegemony for the next century.

A 128 decibel rendition of the Emancipation Proclamation. Because some fuckers need reminding.

Kinda. There’s distinct cultural patterns and variations with manga being Japanese, manhwa being Korean (South, maybe North too, IDK), and manhua being Chinese.

Read enough and you can get a feel for what’s what without it being spelled out.

Punched so hard his lip gloss came off.

Bah, some folks just lurk for a bit first. Get a feel for the vibe of a place and proceed accordingly.

And some just jump right in. Neither is wrong or right, just different.

So, based on Wikipedia, Cocola has ~15-20% stake in the company, but does not own them.

Which is to say that Coca Cola probably has the most say on anything that goes, but is not running the show.

Moving to Maine. Finally got the OK from work to relocate, now just need the moving allowance and the proper papers.

Ooh, I’ll wanna get your callsign and lisyen to your farm reports.

Oldschool rapper Flava Flav.

The author’s critical approach to what is ‘polite’ is all well and good, but I have reservations about what she considers the limit.

As for the ‘doing no harm to others’, she must recognize that the harm her children do may not be readily apparent. When I’ve got a massive migrane, I don’t want to hear her kids screaming in the next booth over, but I also don’t want to have to confront her about it and risk her screaming also. Better to sit and suffer until I can’t.

Damn. Must have misread that as fixed-wing. Or even powered.

Transatlantic flights by Montgolfier ballon - travel in style for the next six weeks.