Also when the afrikanners arrived, charities refused to help them settle, yes charities are largely responsible for refugees from other countries.

kungfu is chinese, karate is japanese.

in chernobyl truffle fungi were hyperaccumalators of radioactive metals, they found that out when they examined why the wild boar had higher than normal amount of the elements.

we went with sonic, because it was so much better and faster, and cheaper. dont really care about TV,a s we dont watch it anymore.

better to have more options than just at&t , timewarnercable, Xfinity and verizion.

they also lose for havint expensive basic tiers. we switched to sonic like 10years ago, for like less than half the cost of xfinity and faster too.

thiel has an obsession with lotr, so he named all his evil companies after various lotr themes.

they are still useful for research, medical colleges, military so they can blow it up.

some people even did K2, and thats more dangerous than everest.

all the ones that are super-authtorian ones: russia, NK, USA, Saudia arabia if you are in a certain demographic. all the war torn ones that were ruined by israel. places where you have no experience in, like deep jungle in South and central america, and antartica and also mt everest, K2.

too many westerners thought they could venture out in the jungle with no directions or guides.

i went for .today few weeks ago, might look at other instances.

they are shutting down due to lack of admins , and they were running on skeleton crew, couldnt handle the massive amount of content/moderation on lemmy instance.

so thats what they are called we are asian and we always have this in some of our dishes. apparently the chinese one is not even closely related to the “Olive” different order of plants.

the good ones are pretty expensive, and most people dont buy them, they have imported bougies ones sold by WF.

american chocolate is just milk sugar mostly, i would like at the total cacao concentration, anything less than 70% is nasty asf, most american ones are under 40%. i heard the hersey ones they use some kind of chemical in it to make it taste the way it is. White chocolate american is the most chemically tasting and smelling of them all.

peeps marshmellows?

alot of cookies and cakes are like that, you can feel the granular sugar, because they put so much.

milk chocolate by any of the big chains, are just trash. at WF, they sell gourmet chocolate imported from outside the US, or they make the ones that are bougie and expensive. dark chocolate, not so sweet is the best. white chocolate seems to have a chemical smell and aftertaste to it, super synthetic, that has no chocolate i never liked the taste.

i cant stand the smell of durian candy, its way to pungent.

seems unusual, at 13 i already hated sleeping with a family member in different beds, because he was constantly hovering over as a “helicopter parent” who he thought took it upon himself.