You know how much specialized farming equipment costs? That’s like you owning a plumbing business and the government then screwing over your business somehow and someone going, well, you can always just start a electrician business. Like, sure you have some basic tools that might crossover, but it’s an entirely different field that you know nothing about. There’s significant risk as you know very little about that new crop, you may not have connections for distribution, you might not be scaled correctly to handle the nutrient or water needs. It requires extensive planning and if you fuck up one thing in that crop (i.e. you now have a weird blight or mildew or destructive animal you never planned for), you could be properly fucked.

Yeah, we got chickens just to support my egg addiction. I make a soft scramble pretty much every single morning.

He is the Goonmaster. The chosen one, prophesized by the ancients, to save us from a dark evil. By his hand, he will lead us into salvation. Praise be /u/vaultdweller013! May his sword remain strong, and his hand firm, for dark days be ahead of us.

I had a better idea. What about every additional house you own drives up the tax rate on every house you own by 1-2 %? This makes it affordable to still own a vacation house if you really want one, but by the 3-4th house, there’s zero profit margin on the houses (if you’re renting them out and it quickly becomes pointless or expensive to own multiple properties.

I don’t want to support any company that is either directly or indirectly funding genocide and fascism. It’s not complicated.

If you found out that Netflix powered their servers using an orphan grinding machine, would you still subscribe to them?

The tariffs are absolutely fucking up our country right now, and I live in the US, and we absolutely deserve it. It’s affecting every single one of my projects (I work in an engineering/manufacturing company). Turns out 10-25% tariffs really cuts out a lot of the margin for people so we’ve had to significantly bump prices on aerospace components. This in turn will drive ticket prices up eventually as well. It’s also affecting our groceries. And then the side effects of all of it, is the boycotts from numerous countries. It’s absolutely crushing our trade.

That said, all of the boycotts are absolutely fantastic. Keep it up. Our lead-addled half of the US needs to understand what isolationist policies do to our country. Maybe it’ll be the wake up call that people need to understand that international cooperation is the key to success.

Why so blue?

They taste like Selena Gomez. What do you mean what are they? You act like this is complicated. I mean it says right there in the outside of the cookie tray wrapper. They’ve been putting the flavors in the outside for 30+ years. They wouldn’t just change it up on a random whim.

You have to be a troll. Nobody can be this big of a bellend.

The link literally goes to a site that says it’s not a group and links the post from Trump stating that antifa is a terrorist group 😂.

I’m sorry to say that if you consider yourself ‘anti-facist’, you already part of Antifa. There is literally no difference between the two. None whatsoever. Zero.

Stop letting conservative media trick you into thinking there is. The alt-right just needs a “they” that they can attack and latch on against, and “ANTIFA” is the scary boogie man that they’ve persuaded you exists. It’s just a bunch of people that say, “I’m anti-fascist.” That’s it. That’s all it is.

Sorry to burst your bubble there Cletus.

I always understood it as your immune system gets weaker from being in the cold and makes it easier for viruses and such to propogate in your body. We’re constantly fighting off minor infections and disease, and thankfully our immune systems are pretty strong…cold does not help it.

I’d say this one is sort of true…in the right context.

Bummer to hear that your still constantly in pain then. :/

I’ve used it for joint and back issues and it’s absolutely been a game changer for me. Helped with a couple pretty bad burns as well.

Anyways, good luck. Hope you find something that works.

Mate, I’m going to urge to to try cannabis gummies. Your body actually has natural cannabinoid receptors that help regulate your mood and pain management. Cannabinoids are 100% natural. I wouldn’t recommend smoking, because I feel you on trying to avoid poisons and such, but cannabis is such an amazing and natural pain reliever for chronic pain. It’s also anti-inflammatory so it helps massively for burns, bites, scrapes, etc. It can also help boost your mood.

If your worried about “getting high”, CBD gummies do the same thing but minimize the psychoactive THC from the mix. Let me know if you have any questions.

It looked like you photoshopped a pizza and whatever surface it was on to your white table. Legit took me 30 seconds to realize that it was toasted parchment paper.

Mate, cats are not a native species. They hunt for sport and wind up absolutely destroying the local ecosystem. Outdoor cats should be killed onsight like literally any other invasive species.

“These are non-native predators that, even using conservative estimates, kill 1.3–4 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals each year in the U.S. alone (Loss et al. 2013, Nature Communications)”

I personally care more about my local ecosystem than some cat that someone is too lazy to play with and keep entertained.

It’s a political statement. Guys are talking this way. Sure it’s a caricature, but that doesn’t make the statement less meaningful. Toxic masculinity is just that…it’s toxic AF, and while I may not think she has the funniest comic ever, it’s a good way to showcase the absurdity of our current times.

I love seeing these comics. You can always count on like 20 white males showing up asking how this is funny, that it’s a strawman, that pizzacake is terrible, blah blah blah.

The simple thing is, they are comics that give a flavor of the times. Males ARE acting this way. Is it a caricature of a scenario, sure, but that’s what a fucking comic is. Does it have to be “funny” in order to be a comic? No, there are political comics everywhere. Why does pizzacake only get this sort of ire? Is it because she’s calling out white males on the absurdity of their actions, and they don’t like it?

My advice? Chill TF out bros. It’s a comic. If you don’t like it, maybe you should talk to your buddies when they start acting like Andrew Taint’s mouthpiece. Toxic masculinity is a real issue. Sorry that it takes a fucking pizzacake comic to discuss it…

I biased against meth, but also afraid of it as well. Doesn’t mean I’m going to go out of my way to try it and assess whether it’s really as bad as they say. I also won’t try out any poison, random pills I find, or anything I have to inject.

Fear is a healthy thing sometimes, mate.

That’s not what I said. I said that from a strategy standpoint, the support was visibly not there, hence why Democrats have run a primarily centrist/left-leaning platform for decades. It looks much more progressive now thanks to the efforts of people like Bernie and AOC, but it just wasn’t there for the last 50 or so years…and I say that as a progressive. I would love to see a progressive candidate, but the reality and the data essentially stated that platforming a progressive and running a progressive campaign is statistically a losing strategy. You can get your underwear in twist and get as snippy as you want, but your 2-bit hottake doesn’t amount shit compared to the literal decades of experience that these campaign managers have.

There’s historical precedent that supports my argument, from voter sentiment and what brings in large campaign donors, to how to try and game the electoral college. So downvote me all you want, ad hominem attack me all you want. Just because you dont like my argument doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Lastly, Obama was absolutely a centrist. He was barely left of dead center. The most progressive thing about him was that he was black. He expanded our military see drone strikes. He passed ACA which further supported private healthcare, he did nothing for marijuana rescheduling. Hell, there were more deportations under Obama than Trump. There was nothing progressive about that man.

The last 4 Democratic Presidents have ALL been just barely left of center - Biden, Obama, Clinton, and Carter. The last true progressive we tried to run back was in '72 against Nixon and we lost so incredibly badly that people backed FAR away from trying to run a progressive candidate…go look at the results, they’re pretty insane.

He was barely center-left. None of his actual policies were progressive. He had a more progressive tone in his campaign, but none of his actual campaign promises could be construed as “progressive”. The ACA built on private insurance, not Medicare for all; his military policy built a strong global military posture; hell…he even spoke plenty about “working across the aisle”.

The only progressive thing about Obama was the fact that he was a black candidate. He was able to speak like a progressive, but still nab a massive amount of independent, and his policies reflected that.

Edit to your edit: the last overtly “Progressive” candidate was George McGovern in '72, but he lost to Nixon in a landslide. You act as if merely having a “progressive” candidate is the secret sauce to winning the election. I’m desperately trying to tell you that it’s a hell of a lot more complicated than that.