Well, it’s supposed to taste like instant coffee as found in WW2 rations for Americans, hence the term.

Babe wake up Dr Evil just hatched a new scheme

To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were “What the fuck?” Nothing really remarkable.

Given the political climate of the past checks watch 9 years, I’d say it’s better to be skeptical of any news whatsoever.

Pretty much the only thing I trust about China at face value is Wukong lol

To be fair though, that’s pretty much any pharmacy system. I just switched my main pharmacy over last year, and it’s basically the same process.

It’s even worse considering that if a CEO even thinks of raising wages, talking to the union, etc, they’ll be fired by the board of directors if their company has one. (Context: the CEO of Starbucks just so happened to be fired for unknown reasons after actually talking to their union.)

Same with penistone

My mindset is that these people were tricked, and fell in far too deep. It’s like sunk cost fallacy: "I can’t say I’m wrong now, I’ve been the laughingstock of the family for 8 years! This time I’ll show 'em!

Wait, isn’t Enoch heretical or whatever?

Sorry, what I meant was that the ads are extremely easy to ignore, and you can immediately swipe through them if you want to. I use mine exclusively as an alarm clock anyways.

It’s a toss up, but it pretty much only shows just photo/link ads. The one that they’ve really been pushing recently is that Disney platformer game on the Switch for some reason.

I kinda doubt it, since Fire TVs can’t be. Then again, FireOS is just a remux of Android. Edit: it seems like Echo Shows can in fact be rooted, but it’s a difficult process. Side-loading seems to be the easier option in this case. XDA Forums link: https://xdaforums.com/f/amazon-echo.6148/

Just as a little tip, in the US if you switch your Echo’s language to US-CAN it displays way less ads :)

I can’t say I didn’t at least try to educate you. I’m not responding further, as you’re acting in bad faith.

Per Urban Dictionary (NA, 2004): "A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a “fellow traveller” (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.

The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing “socialist” states is somewhat weaker.

It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn’t have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).

The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The “tankies” were those who said “send the tanks in”.

The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported “sending the tanks in” in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism). I wouldn’t be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.

Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven’t really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies."

Source: https://www.urbandictionary.com (Retrieved 8/22/24)

I’ve noticed this on my TV’s YouTube app as well. It went from 15 second I shippable ads, to 2 ads where I need to watch at least one and only then can I skip, to sometimes at least 30 seconds before I can skip. It’s worse on the longer video essays that I like watching, where they say “Fewer ad breaks for this long video”, but in reality they have the same amount of ads that you need to watch more of to skip. I absolutely fucking hate it :D

Not the point exactly, by that’s not Gouda on the left; it looks like a mix between Swiss and Sharp Cheddar with the rind still attached.

Crocodiles; do not swim here

So, if it were the original cells, then it would be autocannibalism, since these are cloned cells (from what I gather) it’s technically not the same thing. [Edit: Personally, it’s a bit of a tossup in my mind. I don’t think it’s unethical, but it’s still a weird thing]