GiddyGap

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[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the carafe was meant to be shared and he could have poured some into a glass. Lol

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would have preferred shoes on in this situation. Ideally, keep your shoes on and feet on the floor.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Also, older people were more prone to dying from Covid. That left a lot of room for conspiracy theories regarding what actually killed them. Heard of lot of conservative family members say "oh, it was probably just a bad flu that killed them." And when the vaccines came out that quickly changed to "the vaccine killed them."

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 91 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Quite the difference from how half the US population reacted to a Covid vaccine. The power of political propaganda and social media conspiracy theories.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm going to point out that you edited without editing.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Switch to pull string.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not gonna happen. Too many fundamental differences between member countries and too many very powerful anti-EU groups in the individual parliaments and in the EU Parliament. The Amsterdam Treaty of 1999 also ruled out and prohibits the idea of a federal, EU-wide citizenship. The EU will always be mainly a trade cooperation.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee -4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm actually surprised that the USPS still exists in its current form. In several European countries, there's now very limited postal service because people just aren't sending regular mail anymore. It's all email and packages. As a result, public postal service have either been more or less shut down or privatized into a parcel service.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 29 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

The US isn't well at the moment, is it?

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The EU doesn't have that kind of power over individual member states. It's not like the EU is like a federal government.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Children sometimes pick up firearms from an unlocked safe that everyone thought was locked and an accident happens. There are lots of scenarios where the person having possession of the firearm would never have any safety training.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What I mean by that is that if OPEC (or any of the other big producers) decided to cut all of their production for a long period of time (e.g. a year), it would completely destroy the world market and the other players would be able to do nothing about it. It would simply take so much supply away that prices would go crazy.

 

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