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That got a good chuckle out of me. Like it !

Which company or product are you referring to?

It has been the toiletbowl of the world for years. Never was a “townsquare”.

Yes, I’ve had the displeasure. Good one.

I found some for Apple. They aren’t all “pejorative” but still

• Fruit Company (or Fruit Store)
• i… --> iSheep, iOverprice, iGreed, iLies, iRot
• Apfel von Braun (Apple sucks up to fascists and authoritarians, Hiterl’s wife was Eva Braun, Apfel = Apple in German)
• Malus - Latin name for Apple

Easiest block of my life.

When I read stuff like this, my hope surges again that Russia is not far from a collapse, but they still hang on. It’s the only thing that impresses me about Russia.

Do you need a foreigner to teach you how to vote in your own country?

Seems like USAians are very happy with congestion.

The US has been an oligarchal democracy for decades now where the individuals vote means nothing as everything will be decided behind the scenes by the “elite” class.

Sounds an awful lot like defeatism. No need for the quotes. Your response doesn’t make it any better. “We are being supressed, that’s the the truth, we can’t do anything”.

“We face opposition, we should just give up.” Great thinking there. Don’t be so weak-willed. If you believe you have no options, there no options shall there be.

Yes, we face overwhelming odds. Yes, the rich have outsized power. But if all you do is go “welp, nothing I can do, may as well spend the day jerking off”, then you can’t expect change. Change doesn’t come easily either. It takes decades to build a movement, but a movement can’t be built off of “meh, why try? my self-fulling prophecy of doing nothing leading to no change is being fulfilled”.

Stop doing their work and speading hopelessness. You can be more than that.

USAians don’t have options? That has to be a joke. During the presidential elections, they had Bernie for decades, they had Warren for a long time too, and they had many others - that’s only at the national level. At the local level they still have many options.

USA isn’t the only country with options making dumb choices. Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Spain, Italy… we don’t suffer from a lack of options. We suffer from a lack of unwillingness and understanding to choose those options.

Then they should vote for it.

That’s why the French say “bon appetit!”. They don’t care about the taste.

Very different type of vacation.

That film is going to be a disaster. It looks like they used too much AI or CGI or whatever.

They are much laxer for USAians than they are for poorer third-world countries, I’ll tell you that much! Don’t kid yourself, the USAian passport still has a lot of strength. It opens doors to many places.

If you want to move, there are actually many options, it doesn’t have to be Europe. Vietnam for example needs English teachers and they aren’t exactly picky on how well you speak English. If you can speak another language, you already have one leg up compared to your mono-lingual compatriots e.g Spanish cat get you to many places.

Simply going “oh, it’s hopeless, I can’t move anyway” is the wrong attitude. If you have studied, you already belong to 30% of the population that has. Try applying abroad. If you haven’t studied yet, get a loan, study (pick a study that has a future), leave the US and never return. There’s no need to pay off the load if you leave because having debt isn’t illegal and they aren’t going to drag you back from another country to pay your debt.

What I’m saying is, there’s options. If you’re USAian, living in the USA, you live in one of the most prosperous country in the world and have quite a few advantages over say a farmer in Mongolia or an Iranian. If an Iranian can get out of Iran and become a citizen of a European country, so can you.

SLAVA

Sorry, I don’t watch basketball. All I knew was that he was famous basketball player and LeBron was the first name that came to mind. Now I have to look up who LeBron is.