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Cake day: July 22nd, 2024

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  • After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.

    The linked article in the post claims that the crew never met again until the person filming the documentary tracked some of them down.

    They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant.


  • For the record if anyone here wants to find them easier: they are sold as Stacked Chips / Stapelchips under the “Snack Day” label. They are produced by “Europe Snacks”, a French company.

    Edit: Another possible alternative are “Surf Chips” by Fritoper, a Spanish company. (Sold in a Netto near me). Although personally I don’t like their taste.

    Apparently Aldi also has their own brand, but I have no experience with those.






  • But it would be a very showing sign if you started listing the steps Trump is taking to do so! Oh you can’t because he isn’t? Oh

    Oh I can. Everybody with eyes and ears can. And you are lucky I have nothing to do for a moment.

    Let’s take your own list.

    Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader (kinda one tick, he wants to be but isn’t ), centralized autocracy(nope, he holds no absolute authority),

    You said it yourself, he openly wants to be a dictator. He directly said that he wants to stay president in at least a third term. And that elections will not be needed in the future. And we know he is obsessed with personal loyalty. And from a german perspective I can tell you that the powers that a regular US president has are already borderline dictatorial at best. Executive orders, ordering military actions without oversight, full legal immunity, pardons, most of the “checks and balances” can just be ignored as Trump does, etc. Those things are insane and it is a wonder that no US president ever transformed the USA into a full dictatorship. He does not have to take any steps towards becoming a dictator, because the only necessary step is declaring that there are no term limits. The rest of his powers are already at a level that wannabe-dictators in other countries dream of. And here you have a guy that openly tells you what he wants to do with those.

    militarism(no, wants to conquer but can’t),

    when he came to power he immediately ordered a military parade and tried to pressure other countries to join the USA (Greenland, Canada). Do you think Hitler just decided to invade a neighbour one morning? No, it was preceded by a lot of pressuring those same neighbours and internal propaganda to prepare the populace for war.

    forcible suppression of opposition(nope),

    he deployed the national guard in cities that had large protests against him. He encouraged censoring people that spoke against him on television. Yesterday he threatened to specifically hurt democratic states if the democrats do not agree to his budget plan.

    belief in a natural social hierarchy(nupe),

    His racism and misogyny are not enough for you? You need super-racism?

    subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race(nope, only his interest),

    do you know what the word “perceived” means? The “interest of the nation” is just a pretext to rally support for personal interest and it has been the same in the 1930s

    and strong regimentation of society and the economy(hahaha, no)

    Historians and other scholars disagree on the question of whether a specifically fascist type of economic policy can be said to exist. David Baker argues that there is an identifiable economic system in fascism that is distinct from those advocated by other ideologies, comprising essential characteristics that fascist nations shared.[302] Payne, Paxton, Sternhell et al. argue that while fascist economies share some similarities, there is no distinctive form of fascist economic organization.[303][304][305] Gerald Feldman and Timothy Mason argue that fascism is distinguished by an absence of coherent economic ideology and a lack of serious economic thinking. They state that the decisions taken by fascist leaders cannot be explained within a logical economic framework.[306] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism




  • Everywhere i have worked so far (office work) the holiday planning was made just by communicating with your colleagues. You just find a compromise that works for everybody. (Although there is a mentality of “first come, first serve”. If you really need a holiday at a specific time, then better state it early, so the others can plan around it.) The official holiday request afterwards is just a formality, because everything is already planned through and the boss has no reason to decline it.

    I am sure there are workplaces where it is handled differently, but that is my personal experience as an office worker.


  • It’s not actually a rule or law, just what people are usually doing anyway.

    If people have the choice to take their holiday on a school break or not, then most take it not on school breaks. Everywhere you go at that time is packed with people.

    But taking it during a school break when you don’t need to, when at the same time your colleague can only take it during that time if they want to spend time with their family - well then it is just basic human decency to let them have that timeslot.


  • They are probably meant to be mean, because the people described had a very low social status in society.

    The primary dichotomy of ancient Roman sexuality was active / dominant / masculine and passive / submissive / feminine. Roman society was patriarchal, and the freeborn male citizen possessed political liberty (libertas) and the right to rule both himself and his household (familia). “Virtue” (virtus) was seen as an active quality through which a man (vir) defined himself. The conquest mentality and “cult of virility” shaped same-sex relations. Roman men were free to enjoy sex with other males without a perceived loss of masculinity or social status as long as they took the dominant or penetrative role. Acceptable male partners were slaves and former slaves, prostitutes, and entertainers, whose lifestyle placed them in the nebulous social realm of infamia, so they were excluded from the normal protections afforded to a citizen even if they were technically free. Freeborn male minors were off limits at certain periods in Rome.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Rome




  • The wiki page on chocolate is not so sure about that one:

    Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning “cacao water”. Several alternatives have therefore been proposed. In one, chocolate is derived from the hypothetical Nahuatl word xocoatl, meaning “bitter drink”. Scholars Michael and Sophie Coe consider this unlikely, saying that there is no clear reason why the ‘sh’ sound represented by ‘x’ would change to ‘ch’, or why an ‘l’ would be added.[4] Another theory suggests that chocolate comes from chocolatl, meaning ‘hot water’ in a Mayan language. However, there is no evidence of the form ‘chocol’ being used to mean hot.[4] Despite the uncertainty about its Nahuatl origin, there is some agreement that chocolate likely derives from the Nawat word chikola:tl.[5]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Etymology