Gentrified takes on junk food with gratuitously expensive ingredients that are a slightly more subtle equivalent to just sprinkling everything with gold leaf like in 1990s Moscow or somewhere (“Our Southern-fried hog jowls come from rare heritage-breed hogs sourced from a tiny family-owned farm in the Outer Hebrides”)
Vampire Weekend were the urban haute-bourgeoisie discovered indie rock. All scions of wealth with addresses in the Hamptons. As if to nod to it, they even named their second album Contra (“You know the Clash? Well, we’re on the other side of the spectrum”)
Hungary used to have a mutual defence pact with PiS-era Poland that scuppered any attempts by the EU to discipline either country. Not that PiS are no longer in power in Poland, hasn’t Fico’s Slovakia stepped into the role?
PiS combine socialist economics with one-party control of state institutions, so while their rule has technically not been communist, it has rhymed with it.
Who will be a lame-duck PM until Duda’s presidential term ends (assuming that PiS lose the presidency), though at least he can act as a brake on any further PiS shenanigans.
A big part of conservatism is social dominance orientation: i.e. having a worldview in which every social interaction has a dominant party, and thus aspiring to project dominance in all areas. Using your dogs to dominate other people’s space can be part of this.
Polish truck drivers have spent nearly a month blockading different crossing points along the border with Ukraine. Last Friday, Slovak drivers joined the protest, turning the dispute into an all-out European crisis.
There is no record of what the Polish truck drivers who started the blockade of Ukraine said two years later, as Russian troops started massing along the same border, though it is speculated that it included the word “kurwa”.
It makes sense. A military is only as good as its logistics, and the US’ forward bases are the tips of very long spears, dependant on a lot of logistics. So you need to have the means to have a continuous pipeline of supplies to each outpost. In peacetime, you keep that open by supplying the troops with burgers, tacos, XBox games or whatever; if the shit does hit the fan, all that capacity can be diverted from tortillas and patties to ammunition, drones, amphibious landing craft or whatever, at short notice.
It used to be that real wasabi only grew in Japan, though they started growing it in England and Iceland some years ago, so availability may improve. Though with its short shelf life, the stuff you get outside of specialist grocers and high-end restaurants will be a cheaper and hardier variety of horseradish.
There are mangoes and there are mangoes. If you mean the mangoes in a European supermarket, pretty much anything. If you mean the ones in Australia, there’s nothing better.
Given that every Ukrainian knows that there is no situation in which surrendering to Russia is preferable to fighting to the death, any Russian path to victory would be long and tortuous, and ending in a wasteland. “Victory” becomes a mirage.
It’s not going to happen any time soon. The Overton Window in the UK has slid so far that it is now accepted (by both major parties and the mainstream media) that joining the EU in the first place was a historic mistake, and even as expectations of Brexit dividends have made way for the reality of massive economic damage, the narrative has shifted to this being a necessary price to pay for correcting this mistake and retaking our historic destiny as the Mighty Lion-Race Of Albion or whatever bollocks. The idea that the UK should be in the EU is as much on the lunatic fringe as the idea that it should leave was a decade ago. Maybe in another decade’s time, once the humiliation has truly sunk in, Britain’s constituent nations will rejoin one by one, at that time happy to adopt the Euro, metric beer glasses and driving on the right if that’s what it takes.
Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.
For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.
It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:
"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.
"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.
"Those travel delays have now blown out."
So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?
'Dude! Just one more lane!'
From the article:
"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.
"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."
When it comes to industrial relations, Spotify are more American than Swedish. They rejected a collective agreement earlier this year. If this turns into a battle royale to break the back of the Swedish union movement, I can see them joining in alongside Musk.
Ireland is a lot less Catholic than it was a few decades ago, and decreasing. They legalised same-sex marriage and abortion some years ago, and the church is making noises about stepping back from its position of social authority while it can still look like it’s doing so voluntarily.
Poland is probably a decade or two behind Ireland. The standing of the church is in freefall there (albeit falling from a high mark), largely due to the church having tied itself to ultraconservative politics.
I am super sick right now and haven’t eaten much in a few days. It’s getting to the point where I am gonna need to force myself to eat something to keep my strength up but everything just sounds terrible to me right now. I have been subsisting mostly on small glasses of milk and the occasional packet of instant oatmeal....
I’ve seen it claimed that hydrogen is the renewable energy option backed by fossil-fuel interests precisely because it’s impractical. That way, it consumes funding and interest that would otherwise be spent on electrification, without threatening the dominance of fossils.
And yet he doubles down. The unstoppable force meets the immovable object.
I hope that Sweden prevails. If the strike fails, it’s the end of workers’ rights in Sweden and a Friedmanite short sharp shock plunging the nation into dog-eat-dog hyper-Thatcherism, with plunging standards of living for anyone dependent on selling their labour.
Turkey has its hands full eradicating the Kurds, and Armenia is being handled by its arm’s-length auxiliaries, Azerbaijan. Once the Kurds have been dealt with, it’ll be time for Erdoganistan to finish the work of 1915.
I’m sure the Armenians are well aware of this and preparing for their new temporary ally to turn against them, though right now, Russia is more of an immediate concern.
His boss in the Kremlin also wants him to stay and wreck the EU from within. Once it disintegrates and Russia gets back its historical possessions up to the Berlin Wall, then and only then will Orban be invited to sit at the Czar’s right hand as a hero of the mighty Eurasian empire.
Is “people not working because they’re too fat” really a thing in the UK? It sounds like a fever dream brought on by reading too many Daily Mail editorials.
Fast casual (lemmy.world)
They don't understand. We built these machines so that we can work more. (startrek.website)
rule (lemmy.cafe)
EU was ready to take away Hungarys veto rights if it had not conceded on issue of Ukraine accession talks (www.pravda.com.ua)
EU Budget - Which Countries are EU Contributors and Beneficiaries? (jemmy.jeena.net)
source: statista.com/…/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/
"Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions." (blog.samaltman.com)
From Sam Altman’s blog, pre-OpenAI
European Commission unfreezes billions in funds for Hungary (www.dw.com)
Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes (kotaku.com)
Poland's parliament elects Donald Tusk prime minister, setting stage for thaw with EU (www.france24.com)
Polish prime minister loses confidence vote, clearing way for Donald Tusk (www.reuters.com)
Poland's Donald Tusk set to become PM, ending eight years of nationalist rule...
Services in England are now worse than Cold-War era East Berlin today (www.walesonline.co.uk)
Make a Linux App (makealinux.app)
Make a Linux app. Stop making distributions.
What non political thing do you notice more from people of specific political groups?
Let’s keep it light-hearted. For me I’ve seemed to notice way more conservatives back their cars into spaces than their liberal counter parts.
As the PISA 2022 results were released a few days ago, how was the reaction in your country? (factsmaps.com)
Link to the results: www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/…/index.html?itemId=/…...
Finnish union will be part of Swedish strike against Tesla (www.marketscreener.com)
Russia luring migrants from Finnish border for war in Ukraine (www.bbc.co.uk)
Explained: Why truckers are blockading the EU's border with Ukraine (www.euronews.com)
Polish truck drivers have spent nearly a month blockading different crossing points along the border with Ukraine. Last Friday, Slovak drivers joined the protest, turning the dispute into an all-out European crisis.
Weapons of Gas Production (lemmy.today)
soak and jump hump (feddit.de)
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Ukraine military aid stranded by Polish border blockade (euromaidanpress.com)
Flip off (startrek.website)
Tesla Strike Spreads to Denmark, Halting Shipments to Sweden (www.bloomberg.com)
Very sane foreign policy behavior (lemmy.world)
The main source is the Daily Mail, so this is truly non-credible in the most literal sense of the word...
Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)
What fruit is better than mangoes?
Russians' support of Ukraine war collapses, finds poll (www.euronews.com)
Ukraine Update: Russia is not winning the war (www.dailykos.com)
If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy...
UK should rejoin EU to ‘fix’ Brexit, says Ursula von der Leyen (www.telegraph.co.uk)
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
When will that bastard die? (lemmy.world)
Tesla sues Swedish agency as striking workers stop delivering license plates for its new vehicles (abcnews.go.com)
20 maps of prejudice in Europe (64.media.tumblr.com)
What is good to eat when you have no appetite?
I am super sick right now and haven’t eaten much in a few days. It’s getting to the point where I am gonna need to force myself to eat something to keep my strength up but everything just sounds terrible to me right now. I have been subsisting mostly on small glasses of milk and the occasional packet of instant oatmeal....
Rulevolutionary (feddit.de)
I certainly did not have "War in South America" on this year's bingo card but Mr Maduro really seems to want it (sh.itjust.works)
You want peace? Get out of Ukraine, Meloni tells Putin (decode39.com) Ukrainian
Victoria warned against ‘very inefficient’ hydrogen buses after trial announced (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
Imagine fucking up so bad that the Armenians and Turks are repairing relations just to piss you off. (sh.itjust.works)
Time for another penguin war (sh.itjust.works)
Ukrainian pilots are already flying F-16s in Denmark (mil.in.ua) Ukrainian
Russian news anchor threatens Finland with invasion (www.dagens.com)
rationalist reaches the libertarian conclusion about child marriage (forum.effectivealtruism.org)
saw this pointed out here and felt it deserved it’s own post...
Ukraine 'light years away' from joining EU, says Hungarian PM Viktor Orban (www.euronews.com)
Revealed: obesity jab maker discussed targeting benefit claimants with UK government (www.theguardian.com)