There’s a lot more than one “American Cheddar”, it’s a big damn country with several distinct dairy regions. (Wisconsin, California, New York, and Vermont being significant but not exhaustive) And the cheese culture is just a fork of the various European colonizers/immigrants that brought cattle over, combining old techniques with new resources.
Cream cheese, Humboldt Fog, and Cougar Gold are some highlights of American-developed-and-produced cheeses.
If you can only find Cheddar and Colby Jack (which are real cheeses) then you’re doing a very bad job shopping for groceries.
One of the best reasons to keep cats indoors, but yeah I said “likely” because exceptions do exist.
I just don’t see something intrinsically immoral with killing an animal for food. Circle of life and all that. I don’t think anything should suffer unduly so factory farms are a real problem, and there’s an arbitrary line of intelligence/sociality that decides whether an animal is close enough to “personhood” that other principles are involved for me, but taking from nature with reverence and respect does not preclude hunting in my opinion.
You should be aware enough of traffic around you to know if slamming the brakes on presents a significant hazard. (And if you can’t react to an animal appearing in the road you’re likely driving too fast for the visibility and conditions)
Ooh, blanket “fuck communists”? We really are gearing up for another world war.
I was working night shift when COVID lockdowns started, fucking everything was closed when I needed food.
Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies.
For many minorities there is a lot more than a sliver of humanity that hold very hateful views against them. Like, I’m not saying that most people are homophobic but it’s an awful damn lot.
There’s a lot of Catholic-owned hospitals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_health_care
Probably some variation of “fuck I’m hungry”
It’s a great motivator.
My position is that people are selfish because they’re raised in a society that rewards selfishness. There’s always going to be outliers but that’s the goal of vanguardism: someone needs to steer the ship while the generational change happens. I don’t know if that’s the best path forward but it is a path and might work better with more safeguards against a Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot type but that’s a hard conversation to have when people aren’t willing to to consider any element of communism.
It also shows its location on a map if you have tracking on, which was useful the time it slipped under my truck’s floor mat.
Parents certainly thought it was a pedo thing, and while there certainly were some nefarious adults it was mostly just teenagers.
Gotta go further back, we could have skipped Nazis if we had properly handled the slavers and bigots in the Confederacy. American “race science” was a critical foundation for the eugenics that inspired Hitler.
At no point in here have I said that Russia isn’t a fascist state. It checks all the boxes: violent, authoritarian, nationalist, suppressing minorities and marginalized groups, single party, lots of corruption. You’re confusing my Communist sympathies with uncritical support for the modern regime dressed in red.
Well that’s easy, I don’t. Looking at the actions of Putin or Xi Jinping and saying “this is a communist state that I fully endorse” doesn’t make sense to me. But I think there’s a lot of people that look at those countries through the historical lens and resonate with the aspirations and ideals of Marx and Lenin and other political thinkers of the era and get wrapped up in the association. And America has made it really easy to bash America, that tends to land you among modern and historical rivals.
I think you’re losing some nuance but yeah “anything that goes against US interests is the priority” is a real problem in some leftist spaces (I was banned from /r/latestagecommunism for suggesting that maybe the things we hear about North Korea aren’t just Western lies to discredit a true Communist state.) Of the “big three” I see the most of that on lemmygrad so I don’t bother.
But there’s a scale of uncritical support and I think people use “tankie” a little too broadly to dismiss people rather than consider the different facets of belief. Online discourse sucks.
Oh it’s a terrible app, just the worst.
This isn’t about what’s available in Europe (also, hyperbole makes a terrible argument. I can just point to something like Reykhólar) You’re specifically complaining about cheese availability in the United States and I think you’re way more invested in hating the country than actually trying to fix your problems.