Anyone who listened to rock radio in the year 2000 would recognize it. Hit Billboard’s top 10, 41 and 32 in the UK and Scotland, it even did decently in Germany peaking at 84 per GfK. None of this is to say that it’s particularly good but it damn well was popular. (And looking this up I am reminded that the second hit on that album was “Cowboy” which also did numbers in the US and Europe)

Washing the rice reduces the starchiness which makes it less sticky.

A lot of rice sold (most?) is “enriched” so the vitamins and minerals are added back. But the fiber is gone and rinsing the rice washes away the nutrient powder.

That doesn’t sound like a very good sandwich.

There was Bawitdaba in 1999, and the song that I always think is going to be Werewolves of London and get mad when it isn’t. That’s all I know.

Nestle is Swiss. The Doritos are called that because Euro countries call our “ranch” dressing “American” dressing. Turkiye is on the Eurasian border with parts in both continents. I can’t easily find where the pizza was first marketed but that’s not even relevant to the point: the rest of the world is using our country’s name as an adjective for food so fuck you we’re doing it too.

Which is accurate, but Philip Chiang (cofounder) is a first-generation immigrant whose mother helped bring other-than-Cantonese Chinese cuisine to American restaurants. It’s not like a bunch of white dudes were sitting down to appropriate a foreign food culture.

Pizza Americana. Torta Americana. Amerikan Salatasi. Cool American Doritos.

Make one, or just some of the many existing ones. That’s the beauty of federation.

That’s what the modlog is for. You can check and see the given reason is “slop spam”, it’s very transparent.

because you no longer hold the same values throughout your territory.

We have never held the same values through the territories. The Constitution is a series of compromises to keep the farmland and urban centers sort of happy. Stark moral differences have been in our blood since day 1; the expansion of slave states (ignoring the native genocide for now) lead to the annexation of Texas and the American Civil War. Nobody is ever held accountable, slavers and secessionists and fascists are allowed to hold political power because the entire house of cards that is the United States is and has always been barely held together through a shared willful ignorance.

It’s ecofascism.

No facts or historical perspective here, only “both sides same” on .world

I’m really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.

The Nazis were active for 25 years before WWII shattered them. The American Civil War lasted 4 years with a looong lead-in to the actual secession. The Coal Wars took 40 years.

We ain’t seen nuthin yet.

It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.

Activists being assassinated by the government should tell you what the people in power are actually scared of. (It’s armed, organized resistance rather than one-day protests and email campaigns)

Yep, #3 is a sad necessity due to the gaps and inequities in our legal system.

14/f/cali, obvs

Yeah, if you want to chat off-topic take it to AIM.