• Seth Taylor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    16 hours ago

    Alaska is only 55 miles away from Russia. FACT. Alaska is not safe as a US state. The European Union must immediately take over Alaska and turn it into the 28th EU member. THIS IS VITAL TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF ALASKA AND THE WORLD. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

  • Peck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    20 hours ago

    When I was a kid in the nineties I visited Denmark and had their pastries. I don’t remember much from the time except that the pastries were so sickly sweet and had overpowering flavor of some nut extract (almond maybe). Never in my life was I so disgusted by pastries as in Denmark. So they can keep those to themselves. I’ll take the rest though

    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      19 hours ago

      Whaaaa?! I’ve always found Danish pastries to be much less sweet than American, though the American take is cloyingly sweet. Almond flavor totally tracks, though. Many I’ve seen are almond flavored or at least include almonds.

      • Peck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah I do wonder if I tried them today would they still seem overly sweet? Things have changed.

    • orbitz@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Haha I love the (semi) random experience shares,I keep doing those on here to keep up some engagement and well add something semi relevant. Usually tangential to the main topic.

      Though by the description I’d love to try those pastries, never found anything too sweet. Near 50 now,I’ll assume it happens sometimes, once I thought I understood my mom saying it made her back teeth hurt which I’m pretty sure she meant it was too sweet but can’t recall it happening more than twice to me at most.

      Grew up north in Canada, hate the cold but everything else about similar Nordic countries seem to be pretty good. Well work from home these days…didn’t have that before.

    • mirshafie@europe.pubEnglish
      3·
      15 hours ago

      Sweden will buy your state. We love you!

      You will be our, perhaps most CHERISHED 26th province.

      Governor Newsom can’t come though.

  • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    15 hours ago

    Wh- hey! What about the rest of us?!

    How much time do we have to move before this goes through?!

    • wabasso@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      15 hours ago

      Can’t they buy Florida or Texas instead? I feel like the US really needs California.

  • portifornia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    2 days ago

    For the price of California (one dollar might be an agreeable option), I’m sure the people of the west coast would gladly throw in an Oregon & Washington for free!

  • jam12705@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    2 days ago

    Everyone here going on about “take us too” and not one comment on how the Danes are going to logistically supply Danish Pastries to California without impacting their economy. Crips you’d have to float them through the Panama Canal. They’d be stale before they hit port. /s

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      We have a Dantown already. We just need to expand their production capacity, also theres a company in Colton who produces these little calzone looking pies that are so fucking good and have been 99 cents for fucking decades.

      • burritosdontexist2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        17 hours ago

        Däntown, my friend. Also I go by Colton every so often and I fuckin love calzones would you mind DMing me the name of the company?

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          They aren’t really calzones just don’t know the name of them besides pies. You can usually find them at Staters around the Inland Empire, at the one I go to it’s in the back right corner on a little rotation rack.

          Edit: They tend to be in paper wrappers, with basic flavors like chocolate pudding, vanilla pudding, cherry filled, think I’ve even seen orange ones on occasion.

          Edit2: the brand is called Mrs. Redds.

        • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
          32·
          2 days ago

          I’m not even on your coast – LITERALLY the other side of the continent in New England – and i am rooting for you SO FUCKING HARD

          GLORY TO CASCADIA!

          I wish New England would secede get bought by Denmark too…

          • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 hours ago

            We’ll set up the GoFundMe for Denmark to buy California, but only on condition that any leftover go toward this coast. We’ll be a colony or territory off Denmark!

          • TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            I kind of wonder if Cascadia could be peacefully done. I mean, most Republicans despise California, and have no love for Oregon or Washington. I wonder if there would be a peaceful way for them to be like “hey, we’re just going to separate off. We’ll set up really good trade relations at the start, and have fairly open immigration policy between our countries (to let the more left leaning in, and the more… diplomatically, let’s say right-leaning out) for a few years.” Then each fucks off their own way, Colorado laments it’s position in a sea of deep red (sorry y’all), and Cascadia can write a new constitution that doesn’t suck donkey balls and allow for the worst loopholes and lack of enforcement.

            Edit: and the official song could be Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dance Floor Red States.”

          • btsax@reddthat.comEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            I always wanted New England to join Canada and be part of the Maritimes so that the time zone would make more sense. And so New Englanders could get healthcare that wasn’t tied to employment

        • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
          19·
          2 days ago

          Meanwhile Taiwan and the South China Sea goes bye bye, and Russia takes the Baltics.

          A new world order. Woo.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8·
            2 days ago

            A new world order. Woo

            This, but not sarcastically.

            The current world order sucks big floppy donkey dick.

            Not saying that I would want the specific one YOU’RE imagining, but this one has been rotten since its inception. As was the previous one ever since Thatcher, Reagan, and Bananarama established it.

      • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
        112·
        2 days ago

        The problem is, so would the fascists, because they think they would win the ensuing civil war, which is a pretty solid bet as long as they are in charge of the military, which they are, and they will stay in charge until they force the civil war that they believe they will win. We are watching it happen in real time. They aren’t even waiting for those “catalyzing events” that they are priming for, because they’re behind schedule, so they are going to just go ahead anyway. Look, nobody is doing shit about it anyway, and if they did- well yhere you go, martial law and suspended elections straight away.

        The military will do as they are told by the chain of command. Who’s in command is dictated by a deeply flawed system that only ever pretended to be democratic. These were always the inevitable distal results. Call me doomey. Watch the world and see the facts and call me doomey.

        We are not dealing with geniuses here. It’s pretty obvious what they planned. It’s like watching the evil guys in a dumb marvel movie. It’s really not that complicated.

        Prophecy over.

        • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          Who’s in command is dictated by a deeply flawed system that only ever pretended to be democratic.

          You’re right. The founding fathers did not intend to create a democracy. They created a republic with elected leaders who were chosen exclusively by wealthy, educated white men.

          We certainly can’t fault them for not foreseeing how much American society – and the electorate – would change and how little the Constitution would change.

          I truly believe that if they had any inkling how little we would change the Constitution in 250 years, they would have written a whole article requiring a Constitutional Convention every 25 or 50 years.

        • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          they think they would win the ensuing civil war, which is a pretty solid bet as long as they are in charge of the military,

          Not so fast. We’re in charge of the military’s technology, not r enough of it to make a difference. Let them come but they may be surprised at what they end up targeting

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      The problem California would have as its own country would be defending the massive border it has with the failed state next door.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        Only if the proposal gets enough signatures.

        The proponent of the measure, Marcus Evans, must collect signatures of 546,651 registered voters (five percent of the total votes cast for Governor in the November 2022 general election) in order for the measure to become eligible for the ballot. The proponent has 180 days to circulate petitions for the measure, meaning the signatures must be submitted to county elections officials no later than July 22, 2025.

        Contact info for Marcus Evans is in the link you posted. If you’re in California, ask him how you can add your name to the petition.

      • Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I’m sure someone will come in and tell me why this is a dumb idea, which is why I’m asking…

        But why wouldn’t nuclear power plants and desalination plants render water issues a thing of the past?

        Is it no other reason than the hurdles of nuclear boogeymen?