Kill the Wolf is a solid album.

Like this 12 minute ad for a fancy synthesizer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o (Also starring the voice of Jemaine Clement.)

Hey, they’re the worst thing about America too!

Can’t buy liquor on Sunday, weed is still strictly illegal, no public-driven initiatives, this bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Senate_Bill_12 , the “bathroom bill”, there’s a real pattern of enforcing a very particular cultural identity through legislation and selective enforcement. It’s almost like the state that liked slavery so much it seceded from two different countries to keep doing it has long-standing issues with respecting anyone but wealthy white Christian men.

Texas, perversely, actually has a ton of nanny state bullshit laws to control the population.

Agreeing with you. Pointing out that it’s not “only Americans” supporting (and voting for) these shitheads. Focusing on one country is a mistake when the hyper-wealthy exist and influence internationally. Frustrated with how so much anger is misplaced at American citizens by others. There’s a lot of context I didn’t think needed to be explained.

Yes, it’s funny how a labour uprising in the US on May 1st ended up becoming the most important holiday in communist countries. Meanwhile, the Haymarket Affair is basically forgotten in the US.

A century of propaganda will do that to a populace.

The US celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September. It was established by the government through President Grover Cleveland in 1894 as an “apology” of sorts for the fallout of an anti-police-brutality protest (keyword Haymarket Affair) but actually to intentionally distance the day from the labor rights movement that established May 1 as what would be International Workers’ Day. This separation was reinforced for the next hundred+ years because the class war never ends.

Gotta distract from the growing far-right in Germany somehow.

“I agree with the Nazi-defenders” is a hell of a stance to take.

Entomophagy isn’t even uncommon, globally speaking. And I can vouch for chapulines and escamoles being tasty. I’d happily try more invertebrate foods.

It sucked shit 20 years ago but it’s fine since like 2010. Better than Little Caesar’s for sure. Worse, but cheaper, than the non-chain options around me. (Though nowadays if I pretty much only get pizza from Costco, Moto, MOD, or a local joint. It is nice to have a reliable middle ground for groups of people.)

Effort, talent, technology, taste, there’s lots of reasons for something to look bad.

They’re only fucking it up if they’re trying and failing to make a specific thing, not just because they thing they make offends you.

but really it’s the exploration that makes it soul-like

Maybe ideally but mostly it means “hard combat against bosses with predictable attacks you learn to dodge around”.

“Sentinels of the Multiverse” is a fairly popular board game (within those circles) and it looks pretty rough. Pokemon S/V got rightfully dunked on for looking like shit but it still made a bunch of money. “The Case of the Golden Idol” is highly regarded. Runescape.

sweating profusely while counting rings

Accurate but I was trying to expand beyond “Americans using food words wrong”. (Also, “wrong” is culture purity nonsense in this context. Food and language evolve and that’s fine.)

That’s true in every country, you should see “pizza Americana” or “American fried rice”.

People in lower positions also need to assert boundaries in the workplace.