I heard it's a tradeoff.
Downvoted by liberals because they hate it when a Conservative agrees with them. Lmao.
I really want to know how fragile the soclib echo chamber on Lemmy is that you downvote brigade a post about plastic pollution just because you're too stubborn to realize you can agree with some things with a conservative.
"screw the environment if Conservatives wanna take care of it!!"
Nah fr. At my old university the school found out alot of students who quit marijuana had their grades improve, not because weed =bad, but rather that removing the CBD allowed them to increase their ambition.
Corporate Welfare in Canada is Nothing New
The recent billions in taxpayer handouts to Volkswagen and Stellantis are eye-popping, but they are sadly nothing new
Literally my socialism subreddit some people randomly dowmvote my stuff for no reason, it makes me upset honestly because they don't even comment why
It's pretty much avoid alcohol, gummies, marshmallow
Anything else should be ok.
Thanks for being so kind
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Hi, Muslim here!
That sounds very generous of you, honestly I think you're being very accommodating and that's already very nice.
I think something simple like gift bouquets are fine, at grocery stores.
My neighbours give my family those sometimes. If one box has gelatin, we just give that specific box to a different neighbour.
But generally it's ok, just any generic gift bouquet should be fine.
Thanks for being a great neighbour!
I see your point, and I totally understand your perspective.
The way I see it, there's two things
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if it isn't broke, don't change it. Why change it for the sake of change
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I disagree with the word progress and I think sometimes it can be a meaningless buzzword. The example I'll give is Europe and alcohol liberalization, vs North America (conservative laws on alcohol). Europe has worse teen drinking issues, and some of the highest alcohol disease per capita rates in the world.
So I think all progress is change, but not all change is actually progress.