“For security reasons, you’ll have to jump out of this plane without a parachute. This squirrel suit will work perfectly as long as you’re the height and weight you say you are.”

I left pre-Trump, for personal reasons. I’ll never go back.

And I think it’s unwise to judge those who leave rather than staying and fighting. My ex’s family came to the US from Poland in the 1930s. The family that remained in Poland were sent to the camps and murdered. People make their own choices, and it’s sanctimonious to lecture those who choose differently than you did. And staying and actually fighting is not the same as being a keyboard warrior, either. I’m not saying you are, but many others are.

We’ve got our own fasc problem here, too. I’m doing what I can. Lemmy’s not the place to go into more detail than that.

Pulses plus grains give you the right set of amino acids to make proteins.

For me, when I had no money, it was pulses (garbanzos and lentils, mainly), brown rice and fish. I lived in a town with a fishing port, and back then everyone was barely getting by, so prices weren’t bad. But those same sand dabs I used to buy off the boat, cleaned, 4 for a dollar, are nowhere near as cheap now. And there is no fishing fleet there anymore, it’s become a yacht marina.

Anyway I’ve moved on and am living in another country. Here, the low-food-mile, low-cost options are different. And my consumption of red meat is on the order of once a week. I’m not a big fan of chicken, but still have fish when I’m motivated to visit the fishmonger.

Was.

Also, still is.

Better idea: tax billionaires. They’re the main beneficiaries, they should pay.

The US government is a cesspit of corruption, racism and homophobia, with an actual two-tier system where members of the elite molest children and commit other crimes with impunity. Their interference in other countries’ politics is unwelcome hypocrisy.

It’s only a problem if it’s not a fascist involved.

“Assault” and “battery” are common-law terms that have been defined differently in different places. For example, in US states, some treat them as distinct, and others don’t.

In the UK, where common law originated, the definitions have been defined through centuries of case law and codified in legislation. The current state of play is this: https://www.lawcases.net/guides/assault-and-battery-in-english-law/

But in the US, you’d have to look at the law in the state where the offense occurred. Generally, assault has to be an immediate, actionable threat, and battery will have levels of severity starting with putting one’s hands on someone, up to actions causing different degrees of injury. And then there’s sexual assault, which has its own definition, but one which would be unlikely to encompass leg-touching.

My strawman has big balls of straw! Don’t even try!

Leg-touching is too low a threshold, and can happen inadvertently in a crowded venue. Grabbing your bits, that would be different.

My young adult daughter was groped in a crowded pub once and gave the guy a beatdown. Footswept him and kept knocking him down when he tried to get up, until the bouncers threw him out. There were witnesses, and he had escalated after she’d already told him to back off. There was no ambiguity about what he was up to. There were no charges. And this was in the UK, where throwing hands can get you an ABH or GBH charge if you carry matters even a little bit too far.

But that’s not what happened with LaBeouf. He was the aggressor, his defense was bullshit, and he took a plea.

So, do you spend a lot of time running scenarios through your mind about how violently you’re going to respond if a gay guy touches you?

Is he going to order the military to attend so the venue doesn’t look empty? Or will it be public money spent on seat-fillers?

All Obama did was release Iranian money that he and previous presidents had frozen, after they agreed to the treaty.

I have never seen affable used in this way

That’s because it’s being misused.

Well, if they can’t boo, they should all moon him. Give him the ol’ brown eye.

All the more reason I’m not arsed about it.

Well, let’s hold him accountable, then.

He has been (so far) an unflushable floater.

So the only artist he could get was Leni Riefenstahl?

Speer junior.

Yeah, who better for an intel director than some dickhead who got rich building and selling schlocky McMansions?