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Cake day: October 19th, 2023

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  • lingh0e@sh.itjust.workstotumblr@lemmy.worldEggs
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    3 months ago

    Doesn’t sound like someone who’s minutes away from starving buying something that was obviously unnecessary though, does it?

    And if a guy with shitty credit and unsteady income is able to get financing on a six-figure truck, that’s more the banks fault.


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    3 months ago

    Can you point to specific examples of someone you have encountered in your daily life, someone who is nearly starving… but chooses to spend their money on an unnecessary indulgence? Because it sounds like you’re otherwise just perpetuating stereotypes.




  • Josta. Pepsi’s first “energy drink” that they released in the mid 90’s, made with guarana AND caffeine.

    This was back in the days when Pepsi could “sponser” a middle school by putting a branded soda machine in a common area. It’s how I ended up drinking grape Fuitopia every day at lunch, and every day I’d get a bottle of Josta for the walk home.

    It wasn’t immediately palatable. Reminiscent of Moxie but without the waxy aftertaste. It was like drinking carbonated cough syrup. But just like the other energy drinks that would follow a few years later, I really came to appreciate the taste.

    It recently popped up in the background of a scene of the first season of Loki which had me hopeful for a revival, but no such luck.











  • By which they mean they will sacrifice as many people as they must to accomplish their stated goals, thereby actually martyring them. There’s literally no such thing as “a living martyr”.

    How are you not getting this? You cannot be considered a martyr until you have died in service or your religion, either by righteous sacrifice or by capital punishment for actions of faith.

    Look, I get where you are coming from. You’re trying to apply logic and reason to a situation where there isn’t much of either. Religious zealots and unscrupulous nationalists are doing terrible things to each other, and there’s a shitload of innocent civilians stuck in the middle. But your oversimplification of “hamas should surrender without condition” conveys a tremendous lack of understanding of what either side hopes to accomplish.

    For the record, I don’t necessarily disagree with you. I believe Hammas could do much more good in the long run by surrendering, thereby ending the conflict… but then the eyes of the world would be on Israel as they continued to bulldoze Gaza and make life for innocent Palestinians even harder. But that’s still a shitty take because the innocent still suffer, and the world would likely just turn away and ignore it until the next time a terrorist does something terrible.