Yerba mate is a plant species of the holly genus Ilex native to South America. It was named by the French botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire. The leaves of the plant can be steeped in hot water to make a beverage known as mate. Brewed cold, it is used to make tereré. Both the plant and the beverage contain caffeine.
The indigenous Guaraní and some Tupí communities (whose territory covered present-day Paraguay) first cultivated and consumed yerba mate prior to European colonization of the Americas. Mate is traditionally consumed in central and southern regions of South America, primarily in Paraguay, as well as in Argentina, Uruguay, southern and central-western Brazil, the Gran Chaco of Bolivia, and southern Chile. It has also become popular in the Druze and Alawite community in the Levant, especially in Syria and Lebanon, where it is imported from Paraguay and Argentina, thanks to 19th-century Syrian immigrants from Argentina.
The infusion, called mate in Spanish-speaking countries or chimarrão in Brazil, is prepared by filling a container, traditionally a small, hollowed-out gourd.Drinking mate is a common social practice in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, southern and central-western Brazil among people of all ages, and is often a communal ritual following customary rules. Friends and family members share from the same container, traditionally a hollow gourd (also called a guampa, porongo, or simply mate in Spanish, a cabaça or cuia in Portuguese, or a zucca in Italian), and drink through the same wooden or metal straw (a bombilla in Spanish or bomba in Portuguese). The gourd is given by the brewer to each person, often in a circle, in turns. The recipient drinks the few mouthfuls in the container, and then returns the mate to the brewer, who refills it and passes it to the next person in clockwise order. The recipient is not supposed to give thanks until they are done drinking the beverage, and if they do, they will not be served any more mates.
Every other picture of :caught-in-4che: drinking this is somehow more :volcel-judge: don't not not look it up
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First time I heard about mate was from an argentine friensds dad. He'd drink it all the time. He let me try it once but I honestly don't remember the flavor other than I seem to remember it being idk ki da earthy or something? It was 10 years ago now so my memory isn't super clear
It's like a soft green tea.
My advise for beginners is start with mate cocido, especially the little cup bags (like tea).
Sometimes you wake up and five hours feels like ten hours.
Wonder where the outrage will be when Roger Waters becomes one of the only people to actually get cancelled
true enough, but at the same time he mostly just tours now and i don't know if anyone feels passionately enough about him to stop giving him venues for that.
I don't know, scratched liberals are truly rabid people, especially if you criticize liberal darling Ukraine and doubly so if you publicly express anything but seething hatred for the official state enemy. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the US and their European lapdogs start setting up McCarthyite tribunals to publicly punish dissent even for Joe Nobody.
i think some kind of government action is the only way he gets cancelled. not that that's impossible, but everyone else in a position to do something cares too much about the money they could make imo
There will be very few people defending him after this. They really think he's lost his mind, and the morons who think this see his music as a document of a man going insane, rather than a 30 year art project dedicated to anti fascism and anti war. I've been a fan of Roger Waters since I was a teenager. His music and message speaks to people, unfortunately when he speaks that same message plainly, those same people close off. Its too far from the status quo, too dangerous.
what happened to the chicks was a travesty. home is a great album, and they seem alright as people. they changed their name because of the connotations of being named dixie and everything
2 day old account
:fedposting: :"hey fellow leftists we should do the great replacement but like for real, it would be very based"
Things are not looking good in Cuba, the second fuel tanker caught fire, third one might have too, maybe even the fourth one. This is gonna be really bad for Cuba.
https://twitter.com/cubadebatecu/status/1556486452644642817
If anyone can donate there are two fundraisers id recommend sharing and donating to:
https://secure.givelively.org/donate/peoples-forum-inc/fuerza-matanzas-fundraiser
https://www.codepink.org/cubafirerelief
Not that this isn't a noble cause, but I have a feeling that US residents and/or citizens could get in trouble with the federal government for donating money to a relief effort in Cuba. This is more of a warning for anyone currently based in the US who sees your comment rather than a condemnation of it.
I'm :cringe: out of my mind over some dude's "analysis" of a game being ahead of it's time in the way it tackles "lockdowns, fake news, and cancel culture/being silenced"
It's a game clearly about imperialism! :matt-jokerfied:
-- lockdowns, fake news, and cancel culture/being silenced ---->
It's great and holds up well (for a PS2 era game of course), so if you're interested I'd recommend pirating it. They created an interesting world to explore and the themes of revolution are :marx-ok:
I don't suppose you could quietly install parental control software on their computers and TV? Shutting off easy access to Fox, OAN, and various other chud shit has been advanced as one way to save our parents from themselves.
:covid-cool: this emote but stretched like :yikes-1: :yikes-2: :yikes-3:
:longcovid:
It's so strange that people seem to have forgotten that nukes exist when they used to be such a big thing.
Highly unlikely they will ever be used by a major power but the potential for a rogue state like Israel to use theirs is increasing.
:nineteeneightyfour: Israel doesn't have any nukes :nineteeneightyfour:
Israel maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity, never officially denying nor admitting to having nuclear weapons(but obv they have a few hundred )
I have had many exchanges on Reddit where people are like "We need to invade Russia and crush Moscow and give Putin a wedgie!"
And I'm like "Are you fucking kidding me they have nukes?!"
And they're like "Shut up tankie putler shill bot!"
And it's just like wtf are people even thinking?
rehearsal e04 opening scene the lady is cutting with a knife and fork in a nonstick pancrisis averted, i think it's a weird ceramic bowl on second watch
