American whiskey isn’t very popular outside of NA
In 2023 $1.8 billion of whiskey was exported to countries outside North America – that number is second only to the UK. You can look at the numbers (and impacts of tariffs) here
It’s a mixer whisky … JD
Yes, let’s judge every other whisky producing country by the mass produced garbage that makes up the bulk of their exports too.
My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.
– Molly Ringle, Seattle WA
“Femboy” or furry, obviously.
I use Arch btw.
The safe word is “Torvalds”.
The guy that won highschool president for my grade ran on “This position is a joke and you should vote for me as a protest candidate.”
His campaign consisted of bribing people to vote for him with donuts and making outlandish, joking claims like “eliminating homework and finals week.” He also told everyone he “100% wasn’t going to do anything expected or required of the position.”
Despite this, the affected specialists and their families were doing well compared to citizens of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Zone, apart from the suffering of deportation and isolation. The specialists earned more than their Soviet counterparts. The scientists, technicians and skilled workers were assigned to individual projects and working groups, primarily in the areas of Aeronautics and rocket technology, nuclear research, Chemistry and Optics. The stay was given for about five years.
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After this period of intellectual quarantine had passed, the specialists returned to Germany between 1950 and 1958, the majority of them before 1954. Before leaving, they were taught to keep their years in the Soviet Union secret. Some specialists received chairs in GDR universities (e.g., Werner Albring, Waldemar Wolff), became an East German party official like Erich Apel. Otherwise the GDR had difficulties to offer adequate jobs because the industry was mostly down. Brunolf Baade was given responsibility for developing and producing a passenger jet. A portion of about 10% made it to West Germany, Austria or the US, among them Fritz Karl Preikschat, Helmut Gröttrup and Kurt Magnus.
Yeah, sounds like the Soviets punished them harshly. Totally treated them like “resources” and not better than most of their own citizens.
A strawman and whataboutism?
A strong effort, and I appreciate the work you put into that comment.
rf rf
Isn’t the guy with the flat top haircut and ping-pong ball eyes their dad?
I have a MAGA aunt that lived in Texas: the sort that unironically bitches about “welfare queens” and “socialism” while being entirely dependent on social security disability benefits and Medicaid.
When her health took a turn for the worse a few years ago my dad and cousin helped her move north – which is why she’s still alive considering the “healthcare” she had in Texas.
Irregardless, I don’t think theirs really a difference between the too in this case.
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
You weren’t around for it, but it was bad – you couldn’t avoid them. A few dozen trolls doesn’t sound like much, but they were coordinated and relentless. Blocking users didn’t work because they were constantly making alts, including on other instances.
Calls were made for instances hosting them to ban those users: most did, some refused to or couldn’t. Blocking instances in user settings wasn’t a thing yet, so those instances were mass defederated from. Lemmygrad and hexbear were the big two and home of the dirtbags that were upset their “fun” was over.
Instances defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad because a few dozen users from those instances were terminally online trolls. They’d relentlessly harass users they didn’t like (i.e. most people), spam threads with gross images, and were generally obnoxious shitheads.
Also, “Tankie” is an insult against the hardcore authoritarian left: people that cheer on repressive dictators and violent supression of dissent. The term was invented by communists out of disgust for some of their “fellows”.
Of course, if you ask a tankie they’ll try to argue the word is an insult to all communists/socialists/leftists … it’s not.
– and are being used by rich sociopaths to replace the very people that made that content.
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
in charge of a country of under-educated, mouth-breathing, inbred racists, with a soupçon of imperialism.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I hope you don’t think Canada significantly fewer of those degenerates per capita than we do.
Yours might be a slightly different flavor, and they not be as emboldened as ours – but those shitbirds are universal and will absolutely destroy Canada just like the USA if you’re complacent.
Also used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators