I think it depends on your legal system. Appointed judges that can overturn legislation are a problem, but if the judges don’t have that power and all they’re doing is running a courtroom then a judge representative of the community would be an asset.

Saw similarly strange pizzas when I lived in Japan. I think in Asia generally they just have a different idea of what to do with pizza.

Beautiful pup! I hope mine still looks that good at 15.5

There are so many regional differences even if the recipe is 99% the same. Denatured coca leaves aren’t a thing outside the Americas, different bottling plants will use different types of sugar, water of differing quality will affect the taste, etc etc.

See: Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea…

Actually sanctions don’t work at all, what’s happening here is the result of a war of attrition.

You’re right, a bunch of them want to go back!

unquestioningly believe Western propaganda about a country you’ve never been too

it’s OTHER people who are naive

'kay bud.

Been listening to Yeonmi Park, I see.

it’s not nearly an extreme hellhole like NK

North Korea is like ten times nicer than Russia, and definitely doesn’t belong on the same list as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan or still-a-warzone Syria, regardless of what you think of their government.

Hexbear’s largest and most site-threatening drama was over its vegan comm (and I think the mods of Reddit’s vegancirclejerk?). It ended with the site requiring content warnings on all pictures of meat.

But you know what? They were right. Vegans are basically right about everything, and the reason me and my fellow omnis get our jimmies so rustled by them is because we fucking know they’re right.

TBH I would take any Karate ruleset over the current Taekwondo one. Just pick at random!

LA passed on breaking before this whole thing, but Brisbane’s got it in 2032 and they have the option to include it. It mostly sucks because this one bad performance overshadowed the 32 other competitors who put on great performances.

Oh damn, why haven’t I watched these movies with commentary before!?

Them being related is definitely something that the script writers/Lucas didn’t think of until midway through filming ROTJ.

[food] comes from [animal]!

learn more

[animal] is subjected to the most horrific conditions imaginable to produce [food].

yeah, that’s usually how it goes.

you couldn’t, uh, and this might make me sound like a plebian, I know, but couldn’t you, like, ferment the beans yourself?

Look man, if I’m eating pizza I’m already cheating, I don’t need to shove even more carbs down my gullet.

IIRC the pictures on her dresser are from some political rally/protest, but I don’t know the details.

One of their favorite strings of words to say while being almost indistinguishable from the worst fascists in history is “I’m a moderate”.

The argument is that if Iran had been allowed to keep its original government and not had one imposed upon it, the conditions that resulted in the Islamic Revolution would not have been created and the fundies never would have taken power.