Worked on Top 12 hours, 6 hours in! I crave pickle! Will comment on other post too, for balance.
the sole reason I stay in this cold dreary backwater of a country.
You do know you can get crumpets in any supermarket in sunny Queensland, yeah? You can even get Marmite (but why would you when Vegemite is superior).
I've only spent a couple months in France, but I agree from my experience. I think that foreigners that complain about the French being rude were just expecting special treatment, didn't put in any effort themselves to be friendly, then shocked that the storekeeper/waiter wasn't kissing their ass, even though they didn't even manage to say 'bonjour'.
We dont know how much power they have, it's illegal to know:
| Due to secrecy laws, it is extremely hard to find documentary evidence of the queen’s exercise of influence. In the United Kingdom, government documents that “relate to” communications with the sovereign or the next two persons in line to the throne, as well as palace officials acting on their behalf, are subject to an absolute exemption from release under freedom of information or by government archives.
- "relate to" is so broad and it means we have no idea what is going on.
| But The Guardian has managed to expose a chink in this armour of secrecy. In the UK’s National Archives, it discovered documents from 1973 showing the queen’s personal solicitor lobbied public servants to change a proposed law so that it would not allow companies, or the public, to learn of the queen’s shareholdings in Britain. The gambit succeeded, and the draft bill was changed to suit the queen’s wishes. Perhaps these documents escaped the secrecy embargo because they involved communications with a private solicitor, rather than palace officials
- unless you live in Australia. We had to censor Peppa Pig for spreading this pro-spider propaganda. That said, there hasn't been spider or snake deaths in years, due to antivenom. Will still hurt like hell though.
a bit pricey
Look on the map for Bónus supermarkets, I found them to be the best value but with a good range of stuff to try. I thought the rye bread (Rúgbrauð) and skyr were particularly delicious in Iceland.
Australia already spends time and money maintaining the English monarch as the head of state. And it's not a ceremonial position; the governor-general has reserve powers, such as the ability to remove office holders, like in 1975. It is only convention, not law that appoints and makes the GG act on the PMs 'recommendations' rather than the Monarch; the description of the office has not been rewritten. We can't rely on convention to govern a country and need to have explicit laws that match our ideals of how a democracy should behave. It's unexploded ordinance that should be cleaned up.. let's do that rather than spending our time and money changing all the pictures on the money, and the pronouns on all the legal documents each time a monarch croaks.
Cadbury's Marvellous Creations range has been doing it for about 10 years, but I've only seen them in Australia and SE Asia (assumigly sold in UK, too).
As someone who owns 3 houses, I believe no one should be allowed to own any houses. Housing should be lifetime leased only from a central scheme that has pricing adjusted by income. This facilitates mobility without the need of a rental or buying market.
In the current market based housing system if I sell my houses, they will be bought by worse individual landlords or corporations who will immediately hike the rents to market rates, and drag their heels on maintenance.
My only option out is to gift them to my tenants (who couldn't afford to buy), but then they just become their assets instead. I'm sure there's a high possibility they couldn't afford the tax implications of such a gift. They will invariably need to move at some stage, sell the properties, or rent them out to someone else at market rates, and the dwellings become live 'housing stock' again. It doesn't matter if you live in your house or rent it out; in the current system you are still commodifying what should be a human right.
The problem ISN'T individual landlords being a bunch of asshats, that's a separate and real problem, but not THE problem. It's the fundamental idea that landlords and renters should exist, and a system that perpetuates that. We need to eat the rich on a systematic level, otherwise the only people who will be eating the rich are even richer people, who can afford to eat those less rich than them, like the massive transfer of wealth up that happened during the COVID crash.
Becoming a capitalist only strengthened my belief that it is a broken system that needs to die. It is rediculous that I can sit on my arse and collect enough money to live. I 'earned' my assets (as an orphan on a government pension), but many (most?) capitalists don't even need to do that step, with generational wealth and the opportunities that financial stability bring allowing them to invest and build a portfolio with little effort. If I can get where I am with no financial or family assets behind me, imagine what others can achieve... Wealth makes wealth is a rediculous system that can only breed inequality.
If I stop being a capitalist, someone else just ends up with those assets. I lose that power, and someone who wants to use that power to its full 'potential' takes them. I lose the time it gives me to devote to spreading anti-capitalist propaganda (what little I do, but it's something), and my ability to try and get political power to help make systematic change. Where I own property, it's already heading towards a Berlin like situation, where corporations own most of the housing. If a release those assets, it just increases the chance of those assets going in to corporate hands.
Anyway, if I'm totally wrong on all this please point out my mistakes, that's just where my current thinking is at.
Good use of Keanu meme, as he recently fell for and is promoting a conspiracy theory (ancient civilizations).
If you find this kind of humour humourous, look for "Look around you". It's around on YouTube so go take a look!
Heh, we do the same. I appreciate that Changi airport has bottle-filling fountains at every gate.
I really appreciate Haneda airport for having bottle scanners, so you can just bring your filled bottles through security. Saw this at an airport in Europe, too, but can't remember where (domestic Athens maybe?).
Yeah, this kind of thing. We have pocari sweat powder.
As a frequent flier I'd say the most important thing is what you do before and after your flight, not during. Go in well hydrated (get those electrolytes!) and well rested. If you're flying far east/west, adjust your eating and sleeping ahead of going, to make sure the adjustment is not so hard on arrival. If you're arriving in the morning, try to sleep on the plane... if you're arriving in the evening, don't sleep on the plane. Additionally, when you arrive, wait until the appropriate time to sleep/eat as not to prolong jet lag.
Agreed. I have no issue with fishing for food, so long as you put the creature out of it's misery quickly (unlike a lot of commercial fishing)... but injuring then throwing it back "for sport" seems mean.
I've been busy travelling but somehow already reached 30+ hours playtime... and still only tried a few heroes. redacted is my fave thus far, I like how redacted is redacted.
I've had it farm fresh in Bali and at a swanky cafe in Penang. The shared characteristic was how smooth it is. Tastes different, not necessarily better or worse. Depends on what you're after in your beverage.
In Penang, we had it with a normal espresso to compare. After drinking the Luwak coffee, the espresso lost all it's flavour... It did something to our sense of taste!
Going through a factory you can tell there's no chance the poop makes it to the final product. In fact, none of the cherry meat is used, only the bean, so I question what effect the digestive process has. Maybe the preparation method is different? I haven't been to a normal coffee factory to compare.
The conditions the Luwak are kept in vary wildly, apparently the worst practices are in Vietnam. The Luwak are super cute , amazing fur, ones kept as pets were fun to interact with. The size of two house cats. Nocturnal, so I've only seen them active once.
I liked the coffee but not so much that I want to support demand for it. The Luwak is a totally unnecessary step in making what is already a great beverage regardless.
Shining Force 2 | Competitive Co-Op With Tyrelin & lavathor
A fun way to re-experience ShFII which will create some... unique... ways to tackle each battle.
I like trees!!
I've created this community in case this Lemmy thing takes off. Have fun, and play Shining Force!
>Groovy! - Lemon.