The USA continues to baffle me. You people still have paper checks? I haven’t seen one in at least 30 years in Europe (before that I was too little to care about such things, so I might never have seen one)

Now you’re just making things up.

A homeless person freezing to death on the winter streets in the US is as poor as a homeless person starving in Lebanon. Who cares if one of them has a banged-up smartphone. They’re both dying.

I’m not living there, don’t assume things. And why do you think obesity means wealth? The trash food that makes their people fat and unhealthy is very much an expression of poverty. The wealthy there east healthy food.

What good does a handful of billionaires’ wealth do the poor in the US?

Interestingly, I read “scale, scale, and scale” with the same meanings popping in my head in sequence as her explanations were in.

Well don’t tell your grandma about your taste then lol.

I’m joshing, but honestly, I love Hungarian beef goulash with bell peppers!

You’ve never eaten Hungarian goulash.

Yeah, unlike ballsacks. If any sex-related human part has to be a metaphor for weakness, it should be that one.

Chill, I mentioned Russia because that’s where even the white dude this story is about had visa issues.

Those don’t go through super racist places like Russia.

Yup! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_activity_and_meditation

I also psyched myself into remembering magic stuff when I was an impressionable child and my family visited friends who were into Reiki.

They’re all hardcore covid deniers and generally conspiracy nuts now, so good thing we didn’t continue forcing ourselves to deny reality in favor of woo.

Just more unbiblical shit.

First they made up hell as fan fic, then they made up ways for innocents to go there.

I’m an atheist, but even I know that everyone deserves salvation according to the Bible. Jesus is extremely clear on that lol.

You’re 100% correct, but I totally looked up “rice Latin” haha

(I’m a cell biologist)

Falafelius

Would it be “Risius” or ”Oryzaius”?

I just joined the devs’ instance for technical support reasons, not ideological ones. I’m certainly not a tankie, gross.

So no, I still don’t know what you mean with that “money”.

The fuck are you babbling

Unless the specialists are scientists, most of us present like normies