Are you sure it wasn’t just a really big chicken?

I see you are not familiar with the perfect victim fallacy.

Stinky Moron With A Big Butt Whose Butt Smells Who Likes To Kiss His Own Butt.

€2×10⁶

I’m 40 and I take home a shade over €1000 a fortnight (and my employer also gives me health insurance and pension contributions). Optimistically assuming I live to be 100, that works out to a little under €1.6×10⁷. I liveodestly but comfortably, and spend a few hundred euro less than I earn most fortnights; if I’m particularly frugal, might spend just half of what I earn.

With this in mind, my current lifestyle would probably be sustainable even with inflation. But I’d like to have a buffer, so I’ll round it up to €2million. That gives me enough to buy a house in decent condition, which dramatically lower my fortnightly spending as I no longer need to pay rent.

If you think Lemmy hates AI, don’t look at mbin or Piefed.

But by all means check out HackerNews. Stay there if you like.

“I have an appointment with a gentleman” is prostitute for “I’m going to shag a dude for money”

The correct term is América Mexicana, or Mexican America

Followed by the North American Ocean

To be clear, there are two Mexico’s of old. The first was the area dominated by the Aztecs, and the second was a kingdom in the same place established and run by Spanish conquerors.

New Mexico was applied to the area just north of the latter Kingdom of Mexico in the 16th century, because the Spanish were hoping it would be another Mexico to conquer.

When the Spanish Empire collapsed and the Kingdom of Spain gave way to the Mexican Empire, the northernmost section was still called New Mexico because why change.

Then America grabbed a massive chink of north Mexico, and New Mexico became part of America.

Also Sharkey and Akkoma

It’s really a Hindu, rather than a specifically Indian, thing. But India is majority Hindu, so.

Hinduism encourages vegetarianism, and it is considered more moral than eating meat since you aren’t killing an animal. However, only Brahmins are required to be vegetarian; other castes can eat non-cow meat if they like, though refraining from doing so is considered better. Since the Brahmins are the highest caste, vegetarianism is a conservative position in India, while the woke SJWs defend religious minorities’ traditions of eating meat.

But, as has been said, this all means that India has a higher than average proportion of vegetarians, and even the lower-caste vegetarians are no less healthy than foreigners of comparable social class.

There are also degrees of vegetarianism. A former housemate of mine is a vegetarian for religious reasons, but he didn’t mind eating a cupcake I’d made which he didn’t realise had egg in it.

One of my current housemates eats meat but his dad is a Brahmin, and said dad can’t even eat vegetarian food that was prepared in cookware which had meat in it at some point. To cater to the really strict Brahmins, there are “double vegetarian” restaurants, where all the food is meat-free and the staff are all vegetarians.

Indians recognise the word vegan because of English hegemony, but they don’t use it themselves. They refer to such people as “true vegetarians”; I think the Jains fall here.

Scientists: We observed interesting chemical reactions in waste water treatment, and applied that information to developing a new treatment for cancer that seems effective in vitro. Headline: Scientists say waste water cures cancer!

Nowadays that’s tokenism. “How can our party be sexist, racist, or homophobic when our leader is in a mixed-race lesbian relationship”

A legitimate reason is one not based on my own emotions, but on concern for my dad. (And to be clear, the bus journey really is a long, gruelling slog when you’re able-bodied. Dad shouldn’t be doing it).

The actual reason is why I genuinely didn’t want to see them.

You know, I did. Escorts are so good at emotional labour, and I was pretty down. She absolutely made my day.

Basically, you need to go to Catholic university to get a degree in theology. There is a while process of attending courses and getting additional qualifications to get higher ranks. Freemasonry was partly modelled on this.

Most priests aren’t paedophiles.

The problem is that the hierarchy actively protects and covers up those who are, to the extent of moving them to different parishes if people get suspicious. And to be clear, this isn’t because popes are necessarily in favour of paedophilia (though I’m not saying none are…), it’s because the clergy are more concerned with the prestige and survival of the institution than they are with the well-being of lay believers.

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

I refused to let my parents visit me for my 40th birthday.

The legitimate reason as that Dad is disabled and the journey is too long

The reason I gave was that I still wasn’t over calling them out over favouritism when I stayed with them over Christmas.

The actual reason is that even before Christmas I had decided I would celebrate the big 40 by hiring an escort to finally lose my virginity.