While MREs taste gross, they'll stay edible until the end of time. I think that's a fair trade. The McRib is just gross with no upsides.

Asante sana squash banana, wewe nugu mimi hapana!

For anyone who doesn't speak Swahili:

"Thanks a lot, squash banana, you're a baboon and I'm not."

Hah, it went right over my head.

First, the article is poorly written, making it difficult to understand what is being compared and the true magnitude of change.

This article isn't claiming Americans spent $148B in total. It says they paid $148B MORE during the eight months of the Iran War. The total amount spent by Americans during that period is substantially higher than $148B.

They then state the petroleum industry profited a total $130B between April and September, a six month period which omits two months of the Iran War.

Good catch, it's so well done I didn't even notice.

!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

I'm married - stop trying to seduce me.

Thankfully, he was born in '88.

Controlled opposition. Not all of them, but enough, particularly at the national level. The 2021-2023 majority wasn't enough. The 2009-2011 super majority somehow wasn't enough. Establishment-aligned candidates run on milquetoast platforms addressing only a handful of token issues, and often just to roll policy back to much how it was prior to Republican lawmaking. Not the real, sweeping change clearly needed - because that would harm the financial interests of their primary donors.

FWIW, I'm not an American. This is just what I saw whilst living there and what we see in the news. Constantly.

Since criticizing the wrong team is often met with the bizarre assumption one is a Russian troll encouraging Americans not to vote: go vote for the best candidate, but remember that political engagement shouldn't begin and end at the ballot box. The US needs far more than whinging online.

BDSM can skirt some safety lines. It's generally easy or at least quite obvious how to be safe if you know what you're doing, so ignorance or extreme behavior are usually what get people in trouble.

The more minor incidents do make for great stories if you know anyone who works in A&E. "I tripped and fell on a courgette." Sure you did, love.

I think it depends on how close to full choking you get. Gentle to moderate, broadly dispersed "chokingesque" pressure is fine as it doesn't significantly interrupt blood flow. Using enough force or concentrating force to occlude the carotid arteries is asking for trouble.

Not only is there the risk of ischemic brain damage, the carotid sinus, located where pressure is often placed, is prone to arterial plaque formation due to increased turbulence. Disrupting those plaques can break them loose, causing a stroke. That's how a mate of mine lost much of the use of his right arm, though I suspect he wasn't getting choked out. Never asked though.