Sports theater as well.

https://youtu.be/IFe4hgS5cpA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_in_the_United_Kingdom

Quick little history of the last century in the UK.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_promotions_in_Europe

Active circuits are pretty much everywhere.

I don’t think all sports need to be contests, that’s just the most common association people have. Surfing and rock-climbing are still sports even if you never enter a competition.

Wrestling has a significant presence in Central America, Japan, and Europe. Presumably other regions as well but I really don’t follow the sport so my experience is all second-hand.

Scotch is probably the wrong flavor profile for a sour, but I firnly believe that cocktails are always better with good liquor. Even a rum and coke, use the best rum you can afford.

Hahahaha.

We invaded it during the Spanish-American war to “liberate” Cuba (remove competing colonial power from our neighborhood) and set up a permanent Naval base there “for their protection.” We then pushed them into an infinite contract for two thousand dollars a year. That price has since gone up: as of 1974 we have been giving then FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR, a pittance that the post-revolutionary government of Cuba refuses out of principle.

It is stolen. Human Rights Violation Land isn’t the only purpose, it’s also to punish Cuba for ever daring to defy us.

Fuck. This. Country.

That’s the neat part, we stole it and refuse to give it back because it’s very important to have a permanent torture prison where laws don’t apply.

Fuck this country.

I’m surprised there’s not a bigger anti-Christian movement among the various colonized cultures, to be honest.

You’d still feel acceleration. Even if every cell of your body was accelerated evenly there’s still lots of non-living matter sloshing around.

Make it with powdered eggs and American bacon to capture the pure, traditional heritage of the dish.

Wasting ammo on random sections of wall, or vents, or shipping crates…

New Vegas shining brightly in the distance…

Oh this one’s not me. For the first hour maybe but I get really picky really fast because it’s more efficient to just find a new place to take the best loot from. Especially in something like Skyrim where the goons just respawn forever.

I was a frequent flyer in mod chat because I got stuck out of bounds a lot back in the day.

Aeration is a known factor in cocktails, it also requires some kind of protein or structure in the liquid to hold onto air for more than a few moments. Slurping a bit as you sip will impact the taste more than shake/stir (assuming equal dilution, temperature, and clarity) The other factor bruise-truthers trot out is Volatile Organic Compounds and the “top notes” evaporating out or oxidizing and I’m sure that would happen if you left a neat glass out on the counter for half an hour, but ten seconds of tumbling is nothing compared to the distillation and bottling process.

It’s like the “espresso dies in thirty seconds” thing that’s actually an efficiency training benchmark that got misinterpreted at some point. The chemistry just isn’t that fast.

I prefer mine a bit sweeter. I also prefer a coupe so I guess my champagne tastes are just two hundred years old.

This isn’t a real thing.

Because I thought he was lazy.

Alright smartass, tell me how I could have convinced millions of Americans thousands of miles away to vote different.

That’s one level of the divide, yes, but it’s reinforced by the rest of the structure. “Bioregionalism” suggests that cultures are more stable when they are contained within bioregions of climate and geography. People are more invested in what they perceive as their local environment and they are more likely to “feel heard” by others with that same stake. The current political borders, arbitrary as they are, push people to seek that connection in either protective isolation or a broader social identity.

It’s a relatively new idea (1970s) as far as political science goes but I find it compelling.

The other problem is that we let a right-wing propaganda apparatus operate unchallenged that began with the Nixon fallout and accelerated with Rupert Murdoch’s creation of Fox News in 1996 and that’s gonna take a few generations to unfuck no matter what else is going on.