u/shalafi

Tomatoes are already shit as we genetically modified them to be nice and round, blotch free. Same mods also removed the sugars and acids, which are the two things *that make a tomato a fucking tomato*.

Anyway, growing and harvesting tomatoes is a cold stone *removed*. I'm sure red-blooded Americans will be glad for the work! BTW, I'm in NW Florida. Even down here I can't grow year-round. Good luck with that.

*Napoleon Bonaparte

But it does sound like Sun Tzu! Which reminds me, got a new copy of *The Art of War* and I haven't read it in 10 or 20 years.

They're expensive little beasts. There's a local pet shop that sells a wide variety and I would only be able to afford the tiny ones pictured.

Sounds like the pilots killed the fuel, and did not mean to do so. Having watched the video, and being totally ignorant of this sort of thing, that makes sense of what I saw.

I'm not trusting any report until I have had heard from Admiral Cloudberg. If you're not familiar, plane crash investigation is what he does. He's completely unbiased and seems to be the expert, at least for us layman.

I feel sorry for Europeans who aren't geared for this. Couple of years ago a monster heat dome sat on the Pacific Northwest. Many of my coworkers lived in and around Seattle and were suffering the lack of AC. My brain can't imagine living without.

OK, Trump beat Harris by 14% points. That makes all 31 million Texans hateful bigots. Imagine if I said the same of *any* other group. I'd be banned of the entire site if I said, Jews, blacks, LGBT, women, whatever are a bunch of X.

Trump, and seemingly many commenters on lemmy, has yet to figure out that Putin *can't* stop this war. Russia's wartime economy would collapse overnight, even if all sanctions were instantly lifted. Just like Netanyahu, ending the war would be political, and likely literal, suicide.

65% of that county (Bexar) voted for Biden. You were saying?

Seems like the walls were closing in for this guy.

My local waterways aren't so fucking filthy that swimming has been banned for a century. We spent the 4th happily boating (electric!), swimming, fucking around on the local river, no thoughts of foul water.

Netanyahu ending the war? The war that's postponing his corruption trial? Magic 8 Ball says, "BULLSHIT".

The moon masses 8.1 x 10^19 tons. Every single thing mankind has ever produced in our entire history wouldn't dent that.

Reason #4,538 why I'll never live in or near a large city.

Yep. Given the choice, most people would rather be getting laid. Apparently lemmy finds this idea distasteful.

We're sending war materiel, not so much (if any?) small arms.

I'd be shocked if we can't. Since WWII, our whole military mission has been predicated on simultaneously fighting two major fronts and one brush fire. We've only recently dropped the brush fire bit.

OTOH, maybe I'm wrong. Put my comment in ChatGPT:

• Obama-era Reassessment (2012): The strategy began shifting toward being able to fight one major war while deterring or denying another — a step down from the full two-war capability.

• Trump and Biden Administrations: Strategy documents further refined focus on peer or near-peer competition (e.g., China and Russia), moving away from the rigid 2-MRC structure. The “brush fire” idea has largely fallen away as the military now emphasizes great power competition and integrated deterrence rather than trying to be everywhere at once.

🎵 Only the good die young! 🎶🎷

Send 'em here to Florida. We've about killed ours off.

Nah. Fox News is (usually) more subtle than that. They simply stop talking about fails. And that's all it takes. Just stop talking about the fail and talk about something else. Why bother lying when you can STFU and get the same or better results?

All true, but my point was that he's hardly been isolated in North Korea. He knows there's an outside world, and to your point, knows how rich it can be.