The only podcast I have listened to this year is maybe 3 episodes of trueanon.

I am inside a refrigerator. Not so great

Zucchini is also good grilled. Good stuff

I just looked this one up. I have never had this vegetable before

Seems weird to me to hate cabbage, but I suppose there is a certain association with certain very bland cooking? Idk.

I had never really used cabbage to wrap things. Thanks for the tip and idea

I haven’t used a computer to id birds before, so I’ll take your word for it. That being said I know that programs I’ve tried are entirely incapable of identifying mushrooms (or even getting in the correct family sometimes). This may just be an issue of lack data, bc a lot of what I do to id is fairly simple and formulaic. On the other hand I use a lot of context clues which may not be readily apparent ig

“the free world”

In the USA, garbage collectors are in the top 10 most dangerous jobs, due to injuries involving Dumpsters and equipment

Blatant disregard for preserving people’s hearing. Most of my coworkers are of the opinion that not wearing hearing protection while operating loud tools and equipment (chainsaws, pneumatic drills etc) is not a big deal. What’s worse they will often not bother to give a heads up to people working nearby that they are about to start. As a musician, and also someone with a family history of hearing loss, this kind of behavior pisses me off

I despise those things in restaurants, maybe with the exception of explicit sports bars. Having those in a break room sounds awful

I love that song, too lol

Yeah, that’s definitely a usage of the word socialism I have heard, but it is not generally a definition most socialists or socialist parties would use and it has some issues in my opinion.

This is such a broad definition of socialism as to make it almost meaningless, as this definition fits every nation on earth today and most through history. ancient Rome used public money to fund public roads, subsidized grain for the poor, public entertainment and land grants for veterans, public aqueducts, and other public programs, yet this was 2000 years before the concept of socialism was really invented and I don’t think anyone is holding up ancient Rome as an example of a socialist society.

I would define socialism by two characteristics. One is control over the political economy by the proletariat (workers), as opposed to the bourgeoisie (capitalists/financiers/business owners). In a bourgeois run capitalist state, there is still publicly funded services, but they generally set up to benefit privately run industry (public highways, government subsidized research, police) or they are concessions won by the proletariat through class struggle (universal healthcare, social welfare programs).

The second characteristic is economic organization around common need, rather than around the pursuit of profits. This would require taking the means off production (factories, businesses, utilities, etc) out of the hands of the bourgeoisie.