There is a Port of Hormuz on the Island of Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz, but it’s fricking tiny so they probably do mean the strait.

How can you be sure?

When you meet someone you judge to be loud and outspoken in their atheism, do you add them to a list, find out where they live, and then spend your Christmas checking what ever one of them is doing on that day?

The best relationship I’ve ever had with my mother is no relationship.

For 35 minutes

In my German speaking exam, I told the examiner I was at a climbing wall and I’d hit my head and need him to call my exchange family to pick me up.

I must’ve hit my head real fucking hard, because apparently I was meant to be ordering in a bakery.

Livestock are a major source of pollution. Killing and eating them is destroying a source of pollution!

And defence agreement

Have you ever heard the saying “sex sells”?

The term fascist was invented in Italy as a reference to the fasces, an executioner’s axe in a bundle of rods.

I find it very funny that both words come from the same root.

All the pumps are $1.80 for standard in my city.

That problem can be mitigated with immigration. Immigrants pay taxes and are entitled to the use of fewer social services.

People that are opposed to this might be concerned about “great replacement”.

Of course, a country’s current occupants have the right to have a family of their own (though not everyone should exercise that right) and their children should be able to grow up healthy and happy. The country should not descend into the wealthy 1% that can afford children and a rotating underclass of immigrants. That’s basically Saudi Arabia.

A great many authoritarian systems throughout history, especially in the ancient world, have had a selection system that formalises compromise between the major power brokers to prevent the whole group being made easy pickings to outsiders by succession struggles.

Primogeniture is not the default because the oldest son often sucks.

The electors here are influential clergy members and high ranking military officials.

I wouldn’t bet in crypto, but I especially won’t bet on Peace in the Middle East coin

I came here to say this. I love those books so much. I wish she would finish the series, or at least give us notes on how she was planning to continue and end it

One of Vonnegut’s earlier novels, Player Piano, deals with just that — almost full unemployment due to automation and it’s effects across class lines.

I love all of his work but that one in particular is worth a read, especially now.

It’s not the letter thing, he’s just very annoying in general. There’s a couple of prolific accounts whom blocking has made my Lemmy experience much more pleasant.

There’s a chain in my region that does Tandoori Pizza. I’m eating a slice right now

Crispy Chow Mein

Chris Hadfield?

One or two of the members of Queen?