I guess I’m eating nothing but garbage every day.

I’m definitely not paying those prices.

When’s the last time a “billion-dollar startup” was a net positive for society? All I see is grifters and privacy-invading, planet-polluting tech that furthers authoritarian government policy.

Do you have either Aldi or Lidl within easy walking distance to your home/school/workplace? If so, just go to that one.

I did write that they came as slaves, but that’s not the necessary part. I’m starting to think that you just really want me to be racist, facts be damned.

Brits didn’t need to immigrate to the US in order to learn about American rock music.

Yeah, because american rock music already existed, and USA and UK have a long shared history. Inventing rock music without close personal proximity is much less likely, and inventing a style is one thing but popularizing it is quite another. It wouldn’t have gotten as popular in the USA and Europe if all the early blues and jazz musicians were in Africa.

How can you get spaghetti wrong?

Don’t they carry regular pasta (spaghetti etc.)?

But the claim that you have to whip people and chain them up to synthesize European folk melodies with African base rhythms seems at once absurd and sadistic.

Cool, I never made that claim. They probably needed to immigrate to a western country to invent it and popularize it, that they went there as slaves is a different matter.

There’s little chance that immigration wouldn’t have been involved somehow in your scenario(s). But true, maybe we could have gotten blues and jazz from a thriving, industrialized Congo, Nigeria etc.

Hell, maybe it would have come from middle class American Natives in the Mississippi Delta. Or Chinese rice farmers in a country not ravaged by opium. Or Iranians not ground under by the Shah’s dictatorship. Or Austro-Hungarians who weren’t cannibalized to fight the Napoleonic Wars or the 30 Years War that caused the Caucasian Exodus across the Atlantic.

They might have invented interesting musical genres that merge mainstream european music with their own more rhythm-focused music styles, but I really doubt any of them would have invented something that closely resembles early black music. Maybe one of them could have invented techno, but blues, jazz, soul, and blues-derived rock music as we know it? Very improbable. Music genres don’t spawn out of thin air.

Stiftung Warentest (at test.de) does a great job comparing products and pointing out faults. Probably not that useful if you don’t speak German, though, if the products they’re testing are even available in your country …

The world would be a lot poorer without the music genres that spawned from the USA and UK, too. And most of those were only possible because people from Africa were (forcefully) brought to the USA.

Neither is cheap enough to justify not going to an EDEKA or REWE if those are in reasonable walking distance. Usually, the cheap store brands of EDEKA, REWE are just as cheap as the equivalent products at Aldi and Lidl (in Germany, at least). And even if you use a car for shopping, EDEKA and REWE have a much bigger selection.

And they especially don’t want end users to be informed about the game’s life expectancy before they pay for it!

How exactly does supporting genocide get them elected? I don’t get the impression that Labour voters want to see Palestinians murdered.

Depends on the topic. Economic and foreign policy sure, and he most likely got pointers on how to actually put his views into action, but the guy voted in favor of letting husbands rape their wives in 1997. Telling him to hate on LGBT+ is like kicking in an open door.

Hey now, that guy is perfectly capable of being a reactionary piece of shit on his own! This kind of thing is entirely in line with what he already thinks.

Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

I don’t like her, either, but the vote was initiated by a far righter (i.e. a corporate far right bootlicker), and I rather doubt that we’ll get a new commission president who is more progressive than her, considering the current balance of power in the EU parliament.

Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

Are you Australian or just that freaky?