Leviathan
@Leviathan@lemmy.world
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Neither of those things were backed by science. Confusing convincing lobbying with science is a problem today was it was then.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Numb in my ass.
Thanks Instagram reels.
- Comment on New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison 2 months ago:
I didn’t check, but the time, dates, people and places were historically accurate. You’re right that I didn’t check if this newspaper clipping was real.
- Comment on Rogan Khan 3 months ago:
That’s the beauty of memes, they’re justajoke™ so they can play it whatever way they want as long as it makes him seem dumb and innocent, which is the character he plays.
- Comment on Rogan Khan 3 months ago:
Let’s not let his ‘dumb guy just asking questions’ facade distract from how much absolute damage this chode has done to every edgy anti-authoritarian and alpha dude-bro who had the misfortune of falling for that facade. This motherfucker is a propagandist, probably one of the most effective on the present generation and I’ve lost good friends who listened to his show and believed every lie told by every alt right pundit, snake oil salesmen or billionaire that Joe platformed without challenging them in any way.
This meme itself feels like it just exists to get reposted every few months to uphold his phoney persona.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
Robertson is superior.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
Robertson is superior to all.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
All right wingers aren’t nazis or racists, but all nazis and racists are right wingers so that might explain it.
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 4 months ago:
Makes me miss my ex haha
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
I drive a delivery truck around the city for a living and watch taxis “drive” all day,
I wouldn’t piss on them if they were in fireI don’t value them. - Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, I don’t think either are great, but at least Uber didn’t require drivers to submit to some crazy legal Ponzi scheme while paying for special driver’s licenses and competing with other drivers for the good shifts on a shared taxi licence. The Taxi mafia lobbied my city pretty hard and now Ubers get the opportunity to lose money to a middle man too! I’ve seen a bunch of taxis straight up also driving for Uber throughout the city.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
Taxi drivers in my city also have something else Uber drivers don’t- a licence that was bought decades ago and is limited to a certain number, they never expire and can be bought and sold between private parties and you end up with one asshole who owns a bunch and rents out the licenced car to drivers who pay him a rent. It’s a pretty hardcore mafia and predates on immigrants.
They are also fucking maniacs who almost kill people every day with their reckless driving, but Ubers do that too.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
I Always thought he just wanted to flush xitter, it never occurred to me that he was actually trying to succeed.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
Yeah, that’s because you know how to drive. I can’t tell you how many people just turn in front of a truck and expect it to slow down for them. Playing with their lives.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
Another thing that enrages me is people who think driving slowly is safer for whatever reason.
Getting on the highway? Let’s SLOWLY merge at 60% the speed of oncoming traffic.
Changing lanes from stationary traffic into a full speed lane? I won’t wait for the lane to clear, I’ll just turn signal and move into the lane REAL SLOW because that’s safe.
Turning right? Let’s slow down to a complete stop and force traffic to a halt so I can turn right.
As a delivery truck driver I can’t tell you how many people think that everyone else can just stop on a dime for them and they’re being safe because they move over at a snail’s Pace.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
Yup. Be predictable, not courteous. You’ll save lives.
I’m fine with moving forward and using his car as my new stop line until the lane is clear. He’s the asshole for assuming everyone waiting behind him wants to be as courteous and patient.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
What does what your ancestors did have to do with what we now know about modern factory farming? The question was about still eating beef despite what we know today, what does that have to do with your ancestors? Is your comment not the very definition of a strawman?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
I’ve never once in the last decade seen a single vegan post other than recipes. What I do see is constant posts about how “vegans are always throwing it my face/holier than thou”, “I’m gonna eat extra meat because vegans make me feel bad”. I really don’t think vegans are the problem, I think these fools fall for every single piece of beef industry propaganda that comes across their screens.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
Dumb fucks who fall for propaganda on every platform.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
Sir, this ain’t the exciting dystopia, this is the boring dystopia.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
Listen, he should’ve at least offered to kill you first. That’s the problem with billionaires these days; no honor.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
That’s the problem, it isn’t delicious. That’s why they keep coming up with schemes to use them as a protein additive, like “cricket flour”.
I’ve actually had a bunch of delicious insect based dishes, if you’re open minded about it they aren’t all that hard to find. Asian cooking is where they’re at.
I raise lamb free range on pasture, no inputs other than grass, and that’s what I’ll be eating for the foreseeable future. Let me tell you, that’s delicious.
That’s cool, I grew up raising steer and sheep, I’m also aware of the environmental issues. I also still eat them although I’ve cut it down drastically.
I would encourage anyone else concerned about factory farming to find a small producer, most of us will gladly even give you a tour and let you see our herds, we love to show off healthy animals on green grass. And we’re often cheaper than the supermarket these days, no greedy middlemen to mark it up.
I personally know many small producers, slaughter and dress my own meat, and I still think that, environmentally consciously, we should all switch to a mostly plant based diet and explore meat alternatives without fear.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
Fuck billionaires, if eating bugs is delicious and cuts emissions from factory farming, I’m in. The environment doesn’t fit into some dick measuring contest with the rich and they don’t decide my moral position.
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
Or we move on with our lives and accept that fruit don’t have to be sweet and vegetables don’t have to be savory. Life is beautiful and nature constantly challenges expectations.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
I switched to weighing everything a few years ago and I when I moved I didn’t have to have a set of spoons, dry cups, wet cups. I just use the scale.
- Comment on oWo 7 months ago:
Ah, I see you are also VerySmart™.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 7 months ago:
Right, so forgive them and make education free. Gotcha, I’m with you.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 7 months ago:
And?
Right wing think tanks exist specifically to make you feel like you have data to back up your claims. They were invented for it. Look into the history, try changing your position when faced with facts or faced with lack of foundation for your arguments.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 7 months ago:
Yeah I go out in the yard with the dog or take out the trash in winter here in Montreal. Granted it’s a minute here or there but it’s true. Not calling anyone weak or anything but it’s just a little snow or cold.
- Comment on ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets 7 months ago:
This is pure insanity, but at least I can see the kind of insane thinking that allowed Germans to live their comfortable lives just a few kilometers away from concentration camps. When you say “Hamas is from Palestine, therefore Palestine is a target” and you manage to convince yourself that infant civilians are an acceptable casualty then you are no better.