Is pepperoni and jalapeños not super common?

In the UK, that’s called ‘an american’

It’ll be okay as long as you have that recipe again

I agree with your broader point about linguistics, but Chesterton’s fence has never sat right with me. Consider the inverse:

This annoying and unnecessary fence is an inconvenience, but since nobody can remember what it’s for, we dare not remove it

Smoke some cigarettes. The smoke will suffocate the bacteria in your stomach.

Just in case you’re not joking, that’s the point of this meme. That the big reveal and emotional moment at the end of the film has been misunderstood and reduced to a plot hole

I hate everyone on lemmy but at least I’m hating people

100% there’s a culture of gatekeeping and elitism all too common around classical music - but it’s not the music’s fault

These potatos are woke, not enough salt

BUT a lot of peated whisky is aged in bourbon casks imported from the US. I wonder if that’s included in any tariffs or separate?

It’s just a missing word, it should say ‘who are part computer’. Most likely a typo

That’s not true for every chronic condition though. Lifestyle and diet can only do so much when your body just isn’t doing what it’s supposed to.

I’m not trying to defend pharma companies, but it’s the state of science today that some things can only be treated and handled with ongoing medication

If they’re truly superfluous then they waste the time of both sides, but it’s the prosecution who get to decide whether or not to include a charge. The prosecution might not be holding out real hope of a conviction on the highest charges, but by including them they could include additional witnesses and evidence that will be heard by a jury and change their perception even on the more realistic charges, which the defense would have to react to.

Again, all hypothetical. For all I know theyre confident in the terrorism charge

But realistically criminal trials are a negotiation, and most of the work happens outside the courtroom

It’s pretty standard to charge with the most serious things they can and potentially drop/lower the charges before trial. Maybe theyre trying to get a plea deal or disposition and avoid the trial - ‘we’ll drop terrorism and the death penalty if you plead to first degree murder and life without’ or something like that

Or at least they have his legal team spending time knocking down the more superfluous charges instead of dealing with the meat of it all

Obviously I don’t know enough about the situation here to know exactly what’s up, but yeah

I think you mean Henry Kissinger

For me, it’s not that the Tories are worse, but you expect it, yknow? In theory, Labour are supposed to stand up for us at least a little bit, so it’s something of a betrayal

Youse guys wanna play stickball?

Yes I mean, he’s not wrong but his thing about Ukraine is driven by his Churchill obsession, not by real world ethics

Individual politicians and political parties routinely use count a vote as approval. In that way, if no other, voting does serve to support the existing system.

I don’t think that tracks.

The highest turnout in any US election since 1908 was 62% in 2020, and at no point has a party won an election and been like ‘look at all the people who didn’t vote, I guess we don’t have a mandate to govern’

Parties win elections and govern in power with less than 50% of voters backing them all the time, it’s literally the standard. A low turnout will not change the way any party acts once in power.

I love them all*, but the IT Crowd is at the top for me

(*Graham Linehan is a prick)

I never actually watched dead set, but I remember it was airing at the same time I had a Media Studies project at school about zombies so the tutors kept bringing it up