I got used to aspartame a long time ago (took awhile), and now soda with sugar tastes bad to me! And I don’t notice any aftertaste. It’s just two amino acids stuck together, so I figure it’s rather safe (I don’t get headaches or any other adverse effects people have reported). I avoid Splenda, though; its sweetness comes from sucralose, a sucrose with three chlorine atoms attached. That just sounds too weird.
A friend at work bought the store brand of Dr. Pepper, called “Dr Perky.” The name was so dreadful (as was the contents) that he kept the empty can on his shelf as a memento.
Mexican coke doesn’t sound like soda at all though . . .
Dr. Pepper with a shot of Jameson’s dropped straight into it?
Similarly, a Boilermaker is a shot of whisky and a glass of beer. A Belfast Car Bomb is a shot of Baileys and Jameson dropped into a glass of Guinness.
A Lewiston Car Bomb is a shot of Jager dropped into a glass of Moxie, but I think I just made that one up
… I’ve been teetering on the brink of total bankruptcy for a while.
The precariat: the working poor, whomst art but one failed payment from total penury[/i].
I am amazed that The System has managed to remain solvent for this long given the precarious state of the national economy. The population in Canada grew by almost 50% from 1992-2015, while the number of vocational opportunities failed to keep pace.
I know - ans work with - adults who have no savings and have to work two full time positions to make ends meet. Some of my coworkers have three jobs and are still falling behind.
Our country has failed.
As I gaze outside, I see a country of people in chains.
Sorry to hear this. Those pictures are depressingly bleak.
How is capitalism supposed to work when people have no money to spend? I’ve always wondered what business people are thinking when they look at their sales figures going down. Maybe it’s their own damn fault?
The precariat is bigger than most people assume, too. Many don’t realise that they’re a part of it until it’s too late. TPTB have done an amazing brainwashing job. They’ve got people convinced that everything is fine, thay failures are individual and that poverty is a failing, because if we recognised the truth, we’d be dangerous.
I promise I don’t live on fantasy island, but I like to think that capitalism can also work when all participants are on equal footing, negotiate in good faith, and are participating voluntarily. (I feel like a naive utopian saying that, but if I have a thing & want money, and you have money & want the thing, and we make a square deal that we are both pleased with, that’s capitalism working.)
As soon as one party can overwhelm the other, or use the violence of the state to enforce an unequal situation, it’s a fucked deal. And, the way it works in this timeline, it’s always a fucked deal for the party with less power. They call it capitalism, but it’s oligarchy.
I think it’s been said before, but human beings aren’t very nutritious to other human beings, and rich humans in particular are loaded with all sorts of toxins.
As I’ve said before, I’m here to help anyone who is considering a move south to Mexico. Decent non-beach rentals can be had for 200-300 bucks.
“La Medica” and I are still trying to figure out the dating part (she works way too many hours), but I’ll be a citizen eventually.
Good point. I hope one day they can pair that with a mass spectrometer to separate the elements, to recover any material resource from anything. On a large scale.