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"plain" black olives (like you'd get on a pizza or in a can) are pretty bland. if you just want to eat olives, get kalamatas.

My digital library is on the PC. It would take a pretty significant shift to lose access to them.

Yeah, but you can also go to any Thai restaurant and ask for "Thai hot" and get a plate of food that will make you sweat. In the UK, they discount the "5 star" scale of heat at restaurants by at least 2 stars.

What are you talking about?

Compared to European and UK cuisine, the American flavor profile is way spicier, in my experience. (exception being Indian/Thai/etc restaurants, which is still going to be served spicier, on average, in America unless you can convince them that you really do want it authentically spicy) But "American Hot" is evidently a distinct menu option at least in the southern UK and parts of the Netherlands.

My favorite pizza I've had in the UK gets billed as "American Hot". It is a pepperoni pizza with nearly a full jar of jalapenos.

Malaysia and Singapore it was pretty common, though the western hotels in Singapore obviously also have American bacon. It is probably common in all of Indonesia, as well, based on what I saw in Malaysia and Indonesia being more religiously strict with an even higher percentage of Islamic population.

I feel like people that actually like Chicago-style pizza probably also enjoy the texture of too-eggy french toast. Detroit-style, on the other hand, is legitimately pretty good. (somewhat deep dish, but not TOO deep, and seriously buttered pan gives a crispy/fried exterior crust). I'm a lover of huge-slice NY Pizza, so I would never PREFER Detroit-style, but if it is what is available, it is better than tolerable.

I had lemak pizza in Malaysia. (basically clusters of rice noodles) They also put anchovies on EVERYTHING, especially pizza.

There must be at least 10 completely distinct American styles of pizza...

At least in SE Asia, "bacon" is almost always "beef bacon", which is quite good, but a completely different thing from American bacon.

Says reality and the American-English lexicon that defines what the terms mean in common usage.

It isn't that he "didn't say BLM", it is that he chose to actively engaged in the dog-whistle of "all lives matter". He isn't dumb enough to think that "all lives matter" is a politically neutral thing to say, or that it isn't going to get lapped up by the right as him thumbing his nose at the issue.

We need a "vomit" "like-button" reply...

"Casual racism" is very definitely a thing,. And "dog whistles" are very definitely a real thing.

Yeah, I was on the test team for the demo, and the reasons it never went further are a bit complicated. Really a shame because it is an awesome concept. But understandable at the time given the programmer's personal circumstances.

For better or worse, there seems to be a growing error of how the topic is discussed in news media where as "Gen Z" denizens become of age and political relevance they get gradually lumped into being talked about as Millennials The whole generational discussion tends to irritate the shit out of me though, because they are arbitrary spans of time with no REAL relevance outside of noting the beginning of the baby boom following WW2. (though YOUNG "boomers" have almost nothing in common with the formative experiences of their older counterparts -- so even in that generation it breaks down in a big way -- the technology that forms the world just moves too fast)

Except, bear in mind, there was essentially never an actual positive connotation to the popularized confederate flag that isn't revisionist in nature. Every instance of it appearing as part of a state flag is attributable to pushback against civil rights. There is an immense amount of revisionism tied up in any usage of that flag and what it supposedly ever symbolized.

The "confederate flag" (in quotes, because you're right, it isn't the actual flag of the confederacy) has been a symbol of casual racism for a LONG time. The history of how it wormed its way onto various state flags is pretty clear what its intentions are and have always been. Don't kid yourself.

I was being facetious, and you're being obtuse.

In their own front yard? yes, they should absolutely be allowed to do so, just like the tasteless idiots with confederate flags. Given a place in the public square? That is a totally different issue.

Didn't realize the founders toppled British rule from the ballot box. Thanks for the history lesson.

People that defend arbitrary man-made symbols of our country with religious fervor need to reassess their views, IMO. The jingoism that goes with so much of our symbology is deeply problematic in how it leads defenders of those symbols to ignore what is being said when those symbols end up in the cross-hairs of protest, because they seem to give those symbols the kind of blind reverence that goes with religious indoctrination. That isn't healthy for discourse, and it makes it practically impossible for them to actually listen to disagreement.

It is a legitimate complaint, and I think it is completely natural to be upset at feeling like injustices against people around you are ignored in favor of attention on other issues. It really is a tragic demonstration of how deep racial and ethnic tensions go and how hard it is to solve the problem or just to have grievances truly heard.

Unfortunately that slogan is already taken to say that black lives don't matter as much as white lives. (with both sides of that discussion ignoring Latinx or native american concerns) Also, very unfortunately, the Treyvon Martin case gave white conservative groups an instance of "hey look we support THIS Latino guy so we're not really racist in how we're treating Treyvon". But it probably goes without saying that if we can't fix the problems with how society/justice/police treat a long-integrated minority group, there is no way that we'll ever manage to put long-excluded and isolated indigenous people on an equal footing with white society.