“Ignorance is the only evil” — Socrates oe smth

Well he is an American CEO, so we prolly should, yeah.

I enjoy horse mince. Got some in my freezer right now.

Mmm.

I also enjoy horses as animals.

After a lobotomy you won’t be going anywhere by yourself.

Let alone enjoying recreational drugs.

Bowser is only the US CEO. Not alpha CEO. But he is called Bowser 4 real

but not that weak

Yes, they were, that’s why piracy flourished.

would not have been allowed to stay on the run for long.

You severely overestimate their capabilities. First off, they couldn’t reach the pirate havens. Too weak, as discussed. Secondly, unless the pirate wanted to continued with their infamy, it would be beyond trivial to change your appearance and say you have a different name.

Who’s to say against it? An interpol agent with a photograph of you, demanding you are such and such? Oh, wait…

It’s not AI.

Reddit is just that shittily modded.

And you won’t be able to ever get anyone to answer anything.

Same happened to me a few years ago

It’s not really about the ease-of-use as much it’s about the connotations.

“Richard” meaning big…?

Eeh…

I’m gonna go ahead and guess that there’s someone tired of answering the same question every day.

I respect people who try, and I respect that doctors can still be learning.

But when they literally mess up nine times out of ten and don’t even know the basic directions they’re supposed to give me for specific lab tests, then they are not skilled enough. Better to have none than to have them fucking it up even further.

When testing for gluten antibodies and before a gastroscopy for celiacs, you’re supposed to be on a gluten containing diet for at least 6-12 weeks. I wasn’t aware of that, but did realise to ask the doctor if me having completely avoided gluten for more than a year would affect the result. “No it won’t affect the result.”

Then I go and give it, and then also google the testing procedure. Every single source says that you need at least two weeks of gluten exposure and >95% of them say 6-12 weeks. I bring this politely to the attention of the doctor. She completely dismisses me and then does some office bullshit so she doesn’t have to see me anymore.

And I’ve honestly started running out of politeness, since it’s been like almost four decades and they’re still having problems with absolutely trivial basic shit. Mostly it’s because of the system that’s conditioned them into acting that way, not their inherent traits.

So it’s not like their education has been entirely wasted, but someone needs to teach them how to think. One should think that critical faculties would be a requirement in being a practicing doctor, but hey-ho, doesn’t seem to apply.

Gold was absolutely taxed and controlled In those days.

By whom, exactly? The states too weak to invade and take control of pirate havens?

"hey where did you get the money from?’

“fuck off, that’s where”

Uuu so challenging this “monkey laundering” in the 1700’s.

Bank notes didn’t practically exist. Money was actually gold or silver. Moneys laundering as a concept is from the 1920’s from mafia who lived under a states rule.

I imagine that England sending letters to pirated saying “hey guys we need you to pay your taxes and also please come back to England so we can hang you for piracy” would’ve gotten similar responses as what the pirates over at pirate-bay in the modern world gave to a similar power, only in modern parliance.

You’ve never explained any need for any “money laundering”.

It’s as if you’re arguing that because roads were muddy in the 1600’s, there had to have been car washing places. Equally silly.

If there was even a whiff of piracy about you, you could be hanged. So you’d probably avoid living in places that would do that to pirates. You have to launder your entire life, not just your money. And then that would mean you couldn’t have your pirate life.

So no, pirates didn’t “launder money.” Hell, bank notes didn’t even exist. Weirdly the fall of piracy coincides with the rise of large colonial powers with central banks. What a weird coincidink, huh? Except it’s not. There’s heavy causation, as bank notes — unlike gold or silver or wares — would be practically worthless to pirates.

However, money laundering as a concept as such is from the 1920s or thereabouts. You know how Al Capone going to prison for tax fraud was a big thing at the time? They couldn’t catch him on anything, so they caught him on taxes. And specific anti-money laundering legislation didn’t arrive until like the 80’s,

You’re just simply pushing a notion you have to historic frameworks that have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Do explain to me, what would they “launder” their “money” for, and how? Give me specifics, please. (This is rhetorical, because you’re full of bullshit and those reasons don’t exist you silly monkey.)

That’s rather ironic, seeing as you straight up refuse to read and keep arguing about something you clearly don’t know jack shit about.

Anyone participating in piracy would be hanged in those non-supporting places which didn’t accept piracy. The place which weren’t the pirate havens I’ve now linked several times.

First, they usually didn’t end up with money, but with wares more than gold. Secondly, neither of that is in anything way trackable. Thirdly, they can just go and sell it in a pirate haven and then travel in disguise to a place somewhere else to spend it. Who do you think theyre having to hide their wealth from?

You’re just incredibly mad you said something you didn’t think through and even though you now realise how silly it was, you can’t even stop, but just keep digging yourself deeper.

Hilarious.

Good luck 1) growing tea and fruit in upstate NY and 2) finding the workforce for jobs that quite a significant portion of Americans are literally physically unable to perform.

I thought it might have something to do with protesting as well, a tad. I mean for sure their costs have gone up, as they have over the years. Exactly because they’ve kept the price the same on purpose and had that as a marketing point, they could now garner quite a bit of attention towards this tariff-idiocy by finally yielding and raising the price. It’s kind of a win-win for them, probably, unless the sales plummet.

Because, decades ago, they should’ve guessed that a demented clown will take over the US…?

Seems a tad unreasonable.

Fuck Putlerites and Russian minions. Cowards the lot of them. Like Davel@lemmy.ml for instance

Guys…

The product is called Arizona Iced TEA. The main ingredient is… drumroll brewed tea.

How many tea-farms do you know of in the US? There are some small-scale ones, but only one large-scale one at 127 acres.

India has over 800 major estates and ~60,000 small tea gardens across the country