It definitely can be that easy, yes. My most successful day was just a hook (no bait) off the side of the boat while we just let the line hang.

That being said, you can learn the local varieties of fish, their preferences for different kinds of bait, and you can explore your local area for good fishing spots.

If you have the option, there’s probably a 90 year old Korea vet who will tell you the arcane arts of catching swordfish in the rockies somewhere.

absolutely

I don’t know if you can play games on this, but I know you definitely won’t want to.

It is illegal to pump chicken full of hormones in the US. That is one problem we do not have.

Students can keep a phone in their bag if they really need it. The fact that we ever allowed kids to scroll instead of paying attention in class is absurd.

We use liters for soft drinks and liquor, but gallons for fuel, milk, and water. For recipes we use fluid ounces or cups since gallons are kind of a large for that.

It’s actually a mixed system, similar to the UK but with less metric in the mix.

I’d argue that Skyrim represents a significant downgrade from earlier titles. The simplified mechanics and increased advertising budget made it more accessible, but the writing quality has been in free fall since morrowind.

That being said, this is probably their prettiest title now. I haven’t gotten to try it yet, but supposedly it is a ground up remake, and if it’s on a better engine it may be their least janky game too.

My partner had one until about a year ago when it broke irreversibly.

They’re still making payments on it and the thing was already on its third screen when it died. They’re cool and I think the idea is good, but I think the whole “bendable screen” idea is fundamentally flawed for smartphones.

Methinks this is BS, I got 7/11 and I’m in my twenties.

It would have been 9, but even in the bad old days I’ve never known a anywhere it was acceptable to just throw little on the floor in a business, regardless of whether it was a cigarette butt or not.

This is bad for us too. A cratering stock market slows down hiring which depresses wages and makes it harder to find work.

Cars are expensive and necessary in areas without good public transit (read: basically everywhere except a couple of areas in specific cities). Most of us don’t have a year’s salary just sitting in the bank, especially when you’re young.

If you need a car to get to work, you’ll pay what you have to because the alternative is no job which means no home, no healthcare, and no food.

Both systems are purposefully inefficient and byzantine because it increases tax revenue for the state (and bribes for the state government).

The 3 tier system is where alcohol must be sold by the producer to a distributor, by the distributor to a bar/liquor store, and by a bar/liquor store to the consumer. This effectively allows the state to collect tax 3 times on any one serving of alcohol. Unfortunately, it also results in higher prices and less choice for consumers. You can’t just buy liquor on amazon and have it mailed to your home, you (sometimes) can’t just buy from a local distillery, and you have to pay extra for the distributor to do a lot of not very much.

The dealership system allows local government to collect sales tax on resident’s cars and allows local government officials to collect bribes from car dealers whose entire business relies on their competition being illegal. Without dealerships, you could just order a car from a manufacturer to be shipped to your home and you could buy it without cutting a dealer in, but the local government wouldn’t get the sales tax income and your mayor or whatever wouldn’t get to collect as many bribes.

Automatic weapons are regulated and cost more than a new car. Our firearms laws are lax and have many problems, but that isn’t one of them.

They eat crops and are considered a disease vector here. They can also damage your home by trying to build a nest inside a wall or something.

The little bastards are still so ugly they’re cute though.

whoosh

Ok, so serious answer for our friends who don’t live in places without an active culture of protest:

1. Vote. No, really. If people actually fucking voted, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

2. Give money to advocacy organizations

3. Give your time and money to mutual aid organizations

4. Read the news (not just on lemmy either)

5. CALL your congresspeople. Emails and letters are better than nothing, but do not have the same impact.

6. Try to get your friends to do #1-5