I visited Ecuador several years ago and got to chew on coca leaves, but they also had coca leaf candies! Both were excellent for helping with altitude sickness, and I really enjoyed the flavor. Had a gentle mood lifting effect too, like a nice cup of tea, but in the form of chewed cud, haha.

¿Por que no los dos?

My big brained billionaire coyote boyfriend wants to invite a roadrunner into the mix but I haven’t worked through my feelings about casual polyamory yet and also I am a ghost bigfoot

I don’t know who really got that trend going. I’ve enjoyed up to hour-ish long videos on more or less anything, but a few years back the first truly excessively long video I remember is Whitelight’s 7 hour long overview/miniseries on Death Stranding. And to be fair, I did find that faster and more enjoyable than playing Death Stranding.

(Also I get why folks make them: more ads plus having that much watch time heavily biases the algorithm towards you so it’s more money overall. And the kind of person that watches 7 hour long reviews in the background (or while sleeping), aka me, certainly help weigh the scales for super long videos.)

But also, I kind of like when shorts are like a minute long or less so I can watch one when I’m like, on the shitter and not accidentally end up with a video essay. I mean 10 minutes used to be the limit of every youtube video! Will they introduce a new, even shorter format? Bring vines or blips back?

Alright, I split the differance, I think that should make everyone happy.

Can’t wait for 10 hour long reviews of Elden Ring, BUT VERTICALE AND LOOPS NOW!?!

People in times of desperate oppression and violence rarely turn to the uncaring vastness of the chaotic universe for comfort.

Is it just me, or is it worrying how companies keep packing up and selling off the only parts of their businesses that actually, you know, make stuff, in favor of becoming full time bullshit peddlers?

That would require “journalist” to still be a real career path. Media sites today have cut costs down to the point where “outsourced guy (about to be replaced by AI) who writes 1000 words about Xitter posts” is what passes for “news reporter” these days. What are those people supposed to do, actual work?

I hope they sing “Goodbye Trump” not only because Goodbye Earl is a banger of a song but also because i want to laugh about Ben Shapiro complaining that The Chicks threatened to murder Trump and open a lesbian jam stand over his secret grave.

Except for all the actual hatred that drives the machine, and not wanting to give any more attention to those whack jobs, I will admit that a sitcom following the bumbling, doomed to fail presidential campaign of the worst candidate in history could be really funny.

“Trending on Occupied Twitter”

I’ve been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

Instead of “X (formally know as Twitter)”, the time has come for “Twitter (currently called X)”.

Why? It seems like “gonna” has entered the lexicon as an alternative to “going to”, languages change over time. Are you mad people say “hi” instead of “hello” as well?

In particular, the Harris campaign’s biggest strategy is staying energized and getting younger people to actually vote. The way you keep younger people engaged is to use language familiar to them. Talking like a stuffy politician isn’t motivating to apathetic voters tired of stuffy political rhetoric.

Are you in the czech republic, speaking in Czech, and presumably not using a VPN?

Incorrect. Hospitals must attend emergency patients, even if uninsured.

They make up the costs by charging everyone else more for everything. They also have to jack up costs to pay for malpractice insurance because doctors get sued frequently for all kind of reasons (valid and not).

One could argue that universal healthcare and fixes to patient rights so that civil lawsuits weren’t the only means of redressing a medical wrongdoing would all actually be a lot cheaper for everyone because it properly distributes risks and costs into society as a whole, and reduces long-term and recurrent medical costs. Instead of dumping all that onto “individual responsibility” in such a way that owners of hospitals and insurance companies get rich while everyone else suffers.

I’m dying (from eating carcinogens?) from laughter here! Brilliant!

Remember when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize 6 months in? What will they give President Harris? Winter Olympic Gold? The Pulitzer? CMH?

My father is quite proud that as he nears retirement, he’s scrounged and saved enough to break into the millionaire’s club! He also voted Republican for his entire life, and now I probably won’t ever be able to retire, so thanks a lot dad! (This is also one of many reasons they aren’t ever getting grandkids.)

What Isreal is doing in Gaza is inexcusable, particularly doing it with our guns.

But the above poster is right, the US would never drop them. Isreal is too important to the US MIC for maintaining control in the middle east. If we abandoned Isreal, neighboring countries would (with good justification) most likely ally to invade them, led by Iran. Then the US has to deal with an allied ME bloc, possibly backed by Russia, China, or both.

Really, the US is pouring money and arms into its own “defense” via Isreal as proxy. We should step in to stop them being genocidal, but I think the worry is that we’d just stir up a bigger shitstorm if we tried to actually deploy.

Not that it’s going to matter soon since Iran ramping up aggression will “force” the US to step in.