Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

1-7 would be ideal banana. 8 is ok ish. 9 and 10 would have to be really pushing it. Anything beyond 10 is only useful for getting mashed up to cook banana bread or pancakes with.

still be a bit green, and starting to yellow.

Same. Bananas, avocados, and artichokes all get this weird but similar taste when they get ripe beyond the point I can enjoy them. Idk what it is exactly or even how to describe the taste, but some people seem to either not notice a difference or actively be seeking it out.

Most ready made guacamole always seems to have that same flavor. Honestly not sure if there’s even a name for it, but it almost makes me gag.

I think that incarceration isn’t necessarily problem. It’s who gets incarcerated for what, and how many innocent people mistakenly end up railroaded. Alternatively, cases of affluenza and individuals who help keep the broken system going, are often considered above the law.

Violent offenders should be locked up. All of them, regardless of wealth or connections. But they still deserve to participate in a fair and just legal system.

Nonviolent offenders should be fined, and the amount they’re fined should be equivalent to the crime they’ve committed while taking their own wealth and ability to pay into consideration. If people commit a very serious nonviolent crime, but either can’t or won’t pay off the debt they’re fined, they should have the option of volunteering in their community to pay off their debt. If they fail to pay fines or repay their community via volunteer time, then potentially they should have their wages garnished.

Most importantly though, nobody should be getting insanely wealthy via investments in private prisons. There should be no incentive to simply pack as many people as possible into a prison while pretending that you’ve done something positive for society that also just happens to greatly increase your profits.

Thank you

Durian looks like it would be good, but it’s awful. The garlic aftertaste is the worst.

Nature assfucks multiple states on the yearly, but how much intention can you really assign to the forces of nature?

From the hurricanes seasons of 1851 to 2018, these are the top 10 hurricane states on record:

1. Florida: 120 hurricanes (37 were Category 3 through Category 5)
2. Texas 64 hurricanes (19 were Category 3 through Category 5)
3. North Carolina: 55 hurricanes (7 were Category 3 through Category 5)
4. Louisiana: 54 hurricanes (17 were Category 3 through Category 5)
5. South Carolina: 30 hurricanes (5 were Category 3 through Category 5)
6. Alabama 24 hurricanes (5 were Category 3 through Category 5)
7. Georgia 22 hurricanes (3 were Category 3 through Category 5)
8. Mississippi 19 hurricanes (8 were Category 3 through Category 5)
9. New York: 15 hurricanes (3 were Category 3 through Category 5)
10. Massachusetts 12 hurricanes (1 was a Category 3)

Don’t blame forces of nature for the very intentional and unnecessary assfuckings of fuck ass fascists and authoritarians.

You can’t prevent hurricanes, but you can prepare for them and minimize the damage they do. Except fuck ass fascists and authoritarians don’t bother to do that because they’re too busy coming up with new ways to fuck over the people they were elected to look out for.

But without private prisons, who will build and run America’s warehouse concentration camps?

How will elected officials get rich off of the prison pipeline policies they create?

Louisiana’s king and ambassador to Greenland (is that still a thing?) Jeff Landry attempting to destroy democracy (once again).

They have really been doing the most to keep this man from taking office and making some desperately needed changes.

I actually made a post several months ago showing the ridiculously small font used on the ballot for this election. Really didn’t seem like a coincidence then, and definitely doesn’t seem like one now.

I have to say it’s almost impressive. Imagine if people like Landry put a fraction of this much effort into actually improving the lives of the Americans they’re supposed to be representing instead of coming up with new schemes to help subvert democracy and line their own pockets.

Or working exactly as it was intended

No$hu - Fuck I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby

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I went into a clothing store in the 90s and heard this song playing. I never heard it on the radio before or after that one day (I think it was in a fashion bug?), but it was memorable enough to stick in my head for the rest of that day and I seem to randomly remember it approximately once every decade.

Your post did it this decade.

You’re asking America to let you take away their rights and privileges, and your argument, as the person that would be holding the power is that you’re willing to take the risk to your rights and privileges?

The king’s sales pitch for why his peasants should be ok with handing over even more rights and civil liberty, is that he (the king) is willing to take the non-existent risk to his own rights, in exchange for even more authority and power being given to him.

And somehow, the king having even more domestic spying power is for the benefit of the king’s military… Who are currently fighting a foreign war that was started by the king despite having no support from the peasants.

Setting the unjust foreign wars aside for just a min, it seems kind of important to ask why a king (and his military) would somehow benefit from increased domestic authority?

It’s not like he views the rights and liberties of the American people living under his regime administration as some kind of threat. Or like he considers American citizens to be hostile enemies…, right? 😅

I mean, I 100% support calling out the Dems when they do obviously morally questionable things. They also just did something good (blocking arms sales to Israel), and even though it didn’t pass (bc they’re the minority), they deserve to be acknowledged when they do the right thing. It certainly took them long enough, and honestly, I doubt they would have united if not for public pressure, and journalists pointing out the hypocrisy/questioning why wealthy donors often seem to have more sway over Dems than their own voters do.

Domestic surveillance is an issue even Republicans are divided on, and most Americans, regardless of party, are opposed to the government trampling on civil liberty in the name of “safety” and “patriotic duty.” Especially during an unjust forever war. We’ve seen this one before. We know how it ends.

The Patriot Act marked a very clear turning point for America. If you value democracy and civil liberty, expanding domestic surveillance power is a terrible idea. Even Trump opposed this when it was just a campaign issue, but now he’s suddenly in favor of it. Why?

This really should have been a no brainer issue for Dems to rally behind and support. Like this should be a major part of any 2028 presidential campaign. Given how many AI investors and other evil billionaires are now raining donations on to politicians in hopes of accessing the data the government collects or being contracted by the government to collect it, we should all be asking why the Dems didn’t take the ball and run with this one.

Somebody asked me this question before I saw Blade Runner, and I just got really angry and confused and said something like “of course I would turn it over! Why wouldn’t I?”

We always used to joke about me being a replicant. Then the same person tried telling this story to my dad and he also got angry and confused and was like “Well why wouldn’t she turn it over?!?”

That was how I learned I’m probably a replicant but also descended from a long line of replicants.

You’re in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down…

NVM somebody beat me to it. Fuck. I guess I’ll just have to accept my new cyborg companions. Or just continue cutting toxic people out of my life regardless of if they’re cyborg or human. If that’s an option I would probably just do that until I’m also replaced by a cyborg.

Maybe Thiel is a paid sponsor?

I always avoid killing bees but I am terrified of wasps. I grew up getting stung by these fuckers constantly. That’s how I found out I’m allergic.

They’re extremely aggressive and live in giant nests together. If you kill one, it releases pheromones or something that signals to the others and they swarm. I would beg my parents to do something about them because they made life absolutely miserable, but they had this weird fatalist attitude about them like “the wasps were here long before we were. They’ll be here long after.”

Realized as an adult that decoy paper wasps nests are very cheap and work surprisingly well as a repellent. You can also just use a brown paper sack. Could have saved myself from some very traumatic encounters if I had known that sooner.

I saved this comment that @[email protected] made (different post, same community) when I scrolled by it a few weeks ago.

This is a Lemmy gold worthy comment (imo), but also want to make sure they get credit: