One time I was travelling through Latin America and we stopped somewhere at a food place by the road. They said: see that huge rock in the field there? One time many years ago there was a circus in town, and everybody in the town went, and it was in that field. But then there was an earthquake, and a mudslide started, and it was wiping everything out. But a clown managed to get a bunch of kids to safety and they huddled on that rock while the mud wiped out everything around them, killing everyone else in the town.

Maybe it was all BS but it was a pretty vivid image. (edit: OMFG I remembered it mostly right.)

I think a better summary would be: Chile told Bolivia after Bolivia tried to screw it over on an international treaty, and Bolivia dragged Peru into it. It’s an interesting history from many perspectives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific

On the bright side, they save a lot of money on their Coast Guard.

The crazy thing is, the person who made that decision isn’t there for you to be mad at them. It’s a perfect example of turning us against one another.

Important to talk to people we know, and make sure they actually vote.

Hey, I’m just a lurker on this discussion, but I’m going to assume you’re asking an honest question here and not sealioning. If you really want to take action, I’d recommend looking at changing policy at the local level. I believe California has recently passed a couple laws that do things like disallow mandatory gratuities for large groups, and increase minimum wage for service workers. So if you want action items:

• easy: look up the specifics of those California laws, and look up similar laws across the country, and see if any of them could fly in your municipality or state. next time the politicians come calling, say: “what are you doing to implement [policy]?”
• medium: if you don’t think any existing policies would solve the problem, then try to think of what policy would.
• hard: instead of tipping, save up that cash, keep track of it. figure out what organizations in your region could help implement those policies, contact them directly, and tell those organizations that you’ve saved up money that you’re willing to donate to help implement better policies.

The way they sneaked up on us was: during the pandemic, I started tipping a dollar or two for take-out because “we’re all in this together” and “these are extraordinary times.” Then those Clover bastards came through and turned that dollar or two into a baseline 15%.

“He told me to tell you… He’s sorry you didn’t have bad memories of him?”

https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Memory_Parasites

Might makes right, obv.

@PugJesus@lemmy.world it’s time to “cross the Rubicon” to full federation!

Because mice sin too.

These are all excellent communities, and invariably some of my favorite posts of the day. I’m seeing them on lemmy.world, btw.

!cyberpunk@lemmy.zip - mostly games, movies, shows, and music in the cyberpunk sci-fi genre

!wavemusic@lemmy.world - music: synthwave, vaporwave, etc. A fairly new community, a couple different people have been posting

!gothindustrial@lemmy.world - music community. I was hoping someone else would make the 300th post, if not I’ll post something later today.

!fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee - a larger community, a couple of us are posting regularly, but could use more discussion

!fedigrow@lemm.ee - a community about how to help grow the fediverse. @Blaze@reddthat.com has been posting a weekly thread on “how is your [niche] community doing?” which is kind of like a support group for people keeping communities alive

edit: how could I forget, !shortstories@literature.cafe - links to short stories online in all genres

He’s not. He’s a Roman, his father’s a centurion in the Jerusalem garrison, and his name is Naughtius Maximus.

dogChasingItsTail.gif

“Hell, half the time I’m actively rooting against him” is what did it for me.

There’s a “getting to first base” joke in there somewhere.

This would make an awesome episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”

100M view from normies or 10 upvotes from chads. You decide.

Make sure you listen to Eye of the Tiger: 30 minute intro while watching that.