It’s good old-fashioned xenophobia and is by no means unique to Americans or English-speakers even in the modern era. Anyone who has spent enough time in certain parts of France, Italy, or Belgium has probably encountered it at some point.
It’s everywhere but it is probably most prevalent in countries with a strong nationalist core and, in my opinion, ironically occurs most often in countries that have really fucked around with having an empire in the last century or so.
Interesting because they creep me the FUCK out.
Also USA and same exact firsthand experience. My dad worked for the government and got paid monthly when I was growing up, but every job I’ve had has been one of the 3 you listed.
Which is an actual demotivational poster caption.
I think the boats are the cookie in this painting.
I see what you’re seeing but it doesn’t look to me like it’s actually supporting the weight, it looks like the weight is being supported more under the deck itself.
M$ just decided to be dicks about it
A most concise yet comprehensive company bio.
I omitted to mention that the number of thigh highs in my wardrobe have remained largely unchanged, so far anyway, and that I managed to avoid letting jeans-mania spill over into whatever passes for my real life.
Only dimly related, but since I’m in this 2%, I can’t help reflecting that in the 11 months since joining Lemmy, I have:
Canceled all of my streaming subscriptions
Built a massive Plex Server
Rekindled my love of Unix building said server
Began pirating movies, TV, music, and software like a fucking syphilitic pegleg
Began experiencing Star Trek TNG for the first time, pirated, on my Plex Server, running Linux
Bought a steam deck and began experimenting with Arch
Don’t ever let anyone tell you your feed doesn’t influence you, no matter how media literate you are.
Why is that guy in the second frame carrying a pickaxe but wearing a suit?
What did you find to be cringe about it?
Anything in the car I should know about?
Yep, the mother fucking 4th Amendment is in here.
Hell yeah, brandalism is already too pervasive and just kind of accepted. Good on you.
Fold down so all the cows don’t fall out of the Midwest.
And yet somehow in my memory, the mall looked like the mall, and my grandma’s house looked like my grandma’s house.
My recollection of the 90s is that we definitely had more than one place, so different places looked different…kinda like now.
But maybe this is a rose colored glasses situation.
They lean into it there too. They are doing a lot of construction there and the pardon our dust signs make jokes about lizard people and shit.
This is the perfect description.
Two of mine have the pouch and are both otherwise pretty trim. We like to say it ‘sways majestically’ as they walk or trot.
Oh I know, I love this, but thank you. I was just making a very poor joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ucooz8/wp_the_year_is_2030_bakery_art_is_so_realistic/?rdt=61256
I thought I recognized the text. I hate linking to reddit though.