You see, the thing is that this particular house actually required a lot of skill and planning to make

Technically, almost all of Antarctica is located north of the south pole

I don’t disagree that they’re different terms, but I personally know a bunch of people who buy sorbet and call it sherbert, and basically use the terms interchangeably

In the US, I’ve heard it called shaved ice/snow cone if it’s freshly ground ice with flavor added by a person, popsicle if it comes in a single serving, and sorbet (often pronounced “sherbert”) if it comes in a tub. Usually sorbet tastes the most uniform and has the softest texture, but shaved ice at the County Fair on a hot sunny day hits like nothing else! (Also hits your wallet like nothing else too but that’s event pricing for ya)

Sometimes we call the squeeze tubes otter pops but I’m pretty sure that’s a brand name we use as a generic term.

You always think you remember how to center a div until you try to do it again after a few years

Is he signed up to be an organ donor?

Hey I don’t disagree with your points but just wanted to mention that El Salvador is in North America (in a sub-region known as Central America)

edit: unless there are additional South American facilities they’ve been building that I’m unaware of

On the corollary, someone’s feelings can be a very important factor in addressing a situation. If you are to operate purely on logic, that logic needs to take into account the psychology and feelings of others when making a decision to maximize your intended effect. Doing something that “needs to be done” but pissing everyone else off in the process might lead them to undo your work purely out of spite, even if you were correct in your initial assessment.

Once a business enterprise reaches a size where it can afford to influence government policy to benefit said enterprise at the expense of its competitors, it’s in that business’ best interest to do so. A business which plays by the rules and behaves ethically will be usurped by one that’s willing to bend the rules into its favor.

Once things reach this point, the line between government and corporation blurs, and you get a state that will prioritize private gains of its corporate lobbies and bribes instead of the gains of its people and the health of society as a whole.

Therefore, ruthless and totalitarian antitrust of private enterprise must be incorporated to ensure a fair market with competition and choice can flourish, should you wish to go that route. Your business makes up so much as 1% of your industry’s domestic output? That business needs to be broken up into like 4 pieces.

Your eugenic sentiments aside, if you want people to have fewer babies, you don’t just tell them to stop fucking; you teach them how to use contraception and make it as accessible as possible.

bump up the id of old posts every time there’s a new post

That’s probably the worst thing I’ve read today, it’s such a bad thing to do on so many levels wtf

The point of the article seems to be for raising awareness I guess? I dunno I’m not from Brazil but I found it to be an interesting article.

imo it’s perfectly fine to push for local action if federal-level bans have not been as effective as they need to be. While just writing the same piece of paper saying “you can’t do this” by the city won’t do anything, one can draw attention to the issue within the context of resource and enforcement allocation. I won’t speak to the bigger picture as I have no idea what that looks like for Brazilian locales.

Edit: though I guess you’re right that the article doesn’t really address these facets of the issue. I think it doesn’t properly go into ways the problem can be further addressed, including more proactive ones vs just ramping up enforcement.

Banning something does not always fix the problem of its use. Per the article, there’s a sizable sporting contingent with competitions being common. If there’s money and fun in it, it doesn’t go away just because the government says you can’t do it anymore.

The article also mentions lots of local bans, and that the practice remains popular regardless. Motorcyclists still get cut by the lines, sometimes fatally, but there isn’t any formal data collection to categorize the lines as a cause of death.

It’s just premusk twitter at this point.

I mean, given that Jack Dorsey founded it as basically the “not Twitter Twitter” after musk bought the main one, I don’t think it’s surprising to see it face basically the same moderation issues in the name of being “even-handed”

I feel like you and I have very different understandings of the 4chan userbase demographics

her boyfriend? bold assumption

Haha nice one that’s so based and kekpilled my duderino

Ok but that doesn’t change that they’re being actively invaded by Russia right now. That does tend to put a pretty big damper on a country’s ability to conduct secure elections.

Do you believe the elections in Russia are held fairly? I was under the impression that there are a lot of issues with political repression and electrical fraud, but admit that some of those notions could be more propaganda than reality. I’ll be reading more into Russian electoral politics and history in the meanwhile.

From what I read so far, it looks like Russia actually did hold elections for their own government within occupied Ukrainian territory. I’m not sure what to make of that.

Logistically, how should Ukraine have held an election earlier this year, on account of dealing with an active invasion and contested territory?