• PotatoLibre@feddit.it
    211·
    7 hours ago

    European grown up with that.

    Don’t buy american wine for example (not only cause is unbearably sweet), cause of pesticides allowed.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        6 hours ago

        That was my belief for quite a while. There’s certainly no shortage of stupidity, but the real problem is that people do understand the evil shit they vote for, and they fucking love it.

        Look at the Trump admin: he didn’t trick us into voting for him by giving some ‘on paper’ bs about why the things he does is somehow good; he just got on stage and started shitting on veterans, disabled people, women, immigrants, etc. The majority of voters looked at that and said “YUP! THAT’S MY GUY!!”

        We’re (collectively) just fucking evil. Idk if there’s a fix for that.

        • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          4 hours ago

          The thing is, they don’t truly understand the consequences. Otherwise c/leopardsatemyface wouldn’t be a thing.

          They believe that they are free from consequence because they keep being told that, and by the odds they’re unlikely to face major direct consequences of their choices. And when they do, often it gets blamed on “the other side” instead of the people they choose to represent them.

          It’s not about them being too stupid to understand, or too evil to want better, it’s about an unwillingness to think about the consequences of their actions.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
    243·
    8 hours ago

    The US is going to take gold in every event. Mostly because other countries won’t be allowed to compete or won’t want to.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      62·
      7 hours ago

      I’ve always believed that all Olympic countries take part in some kind of enhanced performance drug program.

      The poor countries try it and they are easily identified and disqualified

      The mid tier countries do it cautiously and sometimes get away with it

      The rich countries like the US do it all the time but they are so sophisticated that they can’t be caught.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        16·
        7 hours ago

        Rich countries have highly developed sports infrastructures that allow better detection of talents and training the talents in the best possible conditions. That is probably already enough to explain the difference in results. No need to look for some drug conspiracy. If your city doesn’t have the money to build a swimming pool, you’ll never have swimming champions from there.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        7 hours ago

        Russia, a powerhouse, had a ridiculously complex scam going and even they were caught.

        They aren’t rich in the normal sense, but they are powerful and secretive, so I think they provide a valid counterexample.

        Does it go on? I’d believe constantly. Does it get found out? Every time, albeit there’s always a short window of success. Do more powerful nations have more success at cheating? Yeah, since the smaller countries can’t cheat as well.

        But not a conspiracy, just correlation, I think.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    10·
    7 hours ago

    lol I didn’t even think of this. Personally, I think that hosting the Olympics is a really fucking stupid thing for a city to do, so I’m just gonna sit back and laugh.

    And yes, I’m American.

  • PotatoLibre@feddit.it
    46·
    7 hours ago

    Btw, I recall a kid in northern Italy which had a third nipple growing cause hormons from Us meat in rhe school’s food before UE got in.

    No thx.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Iirc that’s actually pretty common. Well, maybe not ‘common’ but way less rare than you’d expect - it’s one of those things that goes undiagnosed most of the time cuz people think it’s just a mole and don’t put any thought into it.

      Genetically speaking, we have ‘milk lines’ similar to like dogs or some shit - the code is there for two rows of three (four?) nipples along the length of your abdomen. That code is just an inactive evolutionary artifact, but some genetic fuckup can toggle it back on.

      …that said, I don’t think hormones are a factor, just genetics. Probably still don’t eat our food though; most of it’s just a wad of sugar, salt, and grease, and diabetes and high bloodpressure will cause a lot more problems than a bonus nipple.