When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.
Plot twist: America does agricultural collectivization in the 2030s
Beautiful pup! I hope mine still looks that good at 15.5
Nothing major, looking back I think its been the inevitable trajectory of my political thought. My first election cycle was being betrayed by the progressive promise of Obama, and every year since I’ve slid more and more to the left because I can see the system not working and my brain simply isn’t wired to go in the other direction and blame [insert scapegoat here] and become chuddy. From there it was just a matter of time before I read some actual theory and it all made perfect sense.
Same thing with Hollywood, although in that town not only do you have the nepotism but you have the added problem of stars who should have retired twenty years ago still getting roles that should be going to new up and comers. The dream of moving to LA and breaking into acting is long dead.
Took me a second lmao
The desire to start dinner now so I can slow cook it so it will be ready when I’m hungry, versus the lack of motivation to get up because I’m not feeling hungry yet.
UPDATE: I did my dishes and put the food in, gonna walk my dog while it cooks 👍
The Tau got a mid FPS back in 2003! Then there’s that mid VR game where you play as a Sister of Battle.
I really want a game where you play as an Eldar. You could have all of the aspects as selectable classes with wildly different gameplay between them, it would be great.
It’s a DC property, those types of fans were gonna watch it either way.
I haven’t seen it, but I have seen chuds complaining about it, which I consider a pretty strong endorsement in most cases.
A1 is actually pretty good and the idea that you have to eat steak with nothing but its natural flavor is some crakkker nonsense.
Also I never ever go by cooking times because I learned while cooking for Dennys that they never work. Use a meat thermometer and remember that if you take it out of the pan too early you can always just put it back in.
I haven’t had to do a captcha myself for like a month. It’s great.
I wish I could go back to not knowing what a mukbang is.
Same here. I’ll drink whatever’s on tap but I don’t like Pepsi as much cuz it’s too sweet.
There are so many regional differences even if the recipe is 99% the same. Denatured coca leaves aren’t a thing outside the Americas, different bottling plants will use different types of sugar, water of differing quality will affect the taste, etc etc.
Could I rock up to a bank with a gun in Texas and get them to pay me not to rob them? Just curious.
I would be much more worried about the writing than the casting. I could just see a situation where they make a rough cut that’s really true to the tone of the game, but then test audiences don’t like it, so producers take a hatchet to the entire thing and bring in Joss Whedon to “punch it up” and we get a flashback scene with The Deserter where a coalition airship comes over the horizon and he turns to his fellow revolutionary and says “they fly now!?”
The fact that they don’t tell you in the average anticommunist pop history youtube video is that China had been experiencing famines pretty much every single year for a thousand years by the time the Communists took over. The last famines occurred under Communist rule, but it is because of Communist policies that the cyclical famines stopped. This applies to the USSR as well.
Yes we can look back and see that killing the sparrows was a bad idea, but on the whole collectivized farms produced more food per hectare than smallholder farms did, and the policies of the Communists are what brought in sufficient numbers of tractors and other farming equipment to modernize outdated practices in rural regions. Without the Communists the simple fact is that the famines would have happened anyway, they would have been worse, and there would have been more of them.
This is the reason why, even when you include the famine deaths in your data, the average lifespan under Mao doubled from what it had been when the Republic of China controlled the mainland. The Communists won the war precisely because they treated peasants better than the then-central government did, and when they took power they enacted policies that massively improved the lives of everyone in China, and still continue to do so.
Any state can, but many don’t. And the point here was to explain why I don’t believe that blaming famine deaths on Mao Zedong is a justified position to take, when the cycle of famine was ended under his watch.