scarabic
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- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 day ago:
What? It’s not. The point stands that’s mostly in the US you meet a very select group of people from other countries, usually of more means, usually with some reason why they left. You are working very hard to not understand something pretty basic. It’s like you’ve never known an immigrant:
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 1 day ago:
How will you make it through life without the ability to criticize a woman’s eyebrows? I leave that grand challenge to you.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 1 day ago:
Great then, bad example. It was crystal clear to me - I guess not everyone hears the same jokes.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 1 day ago:
We’re taking about on the scale of their home country. Most Venezuelans couldn’t even manage to get themselves here to be beggars.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
It’s amazing trying to convince people that sexism in fact exists. On the one hand, you have the overwhelming reality of the facts on your side. But against you, there is also unlimited head-in-the-sand excuses.
So I think I’ll just gesture vaguely at everything and let you figure it out.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
Congrats, one instance found. My question was which do you hear “more” about.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
No, because that is not part of a systematic program to diminish men and undermine them from occupying positions of power. When women are equally represented in power and comments about women’s appearance are equally random and not 100% fucking predictable then I’ll handle all such comments the same, and not before.
You’re really far behind here if you don’t understand this, but I don’t expect a lot from someone who would make an openly sexist remark in public, I guess.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 2 days ago:
I have wondered a lot whether we could enshrine laws that would protect us from corruption like we’ve seen. Executive overreach in general is a problem but there are also smaller things like the fact that Trump filmed a fucking canned food advertisement on the Resolute Desk that seem like they should be eliminate-able.
It just doesn’t seem like we actually have laws anymore. The Supreme Court has declared presidents untouchable. And the way demographics are shifting, it’s harder and harder for Republicants to control Congress, but the electoral college favors red states, so Republicants WANT an overpowered president.
We could probably get them to agree to presidential controls during a Dem presidents’ administration, but could we get to a constitutional amendment or something they couldn’t just undo later when it suits them? I doubt it.
We are in a death match with an implacable foe who wants nothing more than our total destruction. There is no negotiating or agreeing our way out of this: the only thing we can do is win.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
It happens, but not predictably. It happens to every powerful woman every time. Which have you heard more about: Hillary’s cankles or whatever the fuck that is that hangs off the bottom of Mitch McConnel’s chin? I rest my case.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
Someone’s choices about how they handle or present their body are just as much a part of their appearance as the way their body was made at birth, so your elaborate excuses fail to get you off the sexism hook, from which you hung yourself quite clearly earlier.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Jesus Christ bodies are complex…
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 days ago:
The predictable comment about a powerful woman’s appearance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Oh - what does it do outside the brain?
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 days ago:
You don’t control geopolitics but you do control your own outlook. If you can’t accept a someday threat but continue living today, then you are losing the battle before you even know if you have to fight. Yes, losing the ability to get through the day is overreacting, even in light of the threat potential. I could give you 6 other things to worry yourself into paralysis about if I wanted to. But you control your own outlook.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 days ago:
Uncritically accepting anything is always a problem. In this case, American Venezuelans are not representative of their entire home country, as OP says. But on the other hand they likely know more about Venezuela than the average American, so I wouldn’t reject what they have to say categorically either.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 days ago:
And most groups really. The dynamics are often the same. Ed see the folks who were wealthy and discontent enough to leave. It can’t be overstated how expensive it can be to move to the US from some places. People have to save for years just for the airfare.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
“Dietary fiber” is carbohydrates that you can’t digest for food but which your gut bacteria can live on happily. Take psyllium husk capsules or eat foods with lots of dietary fiber.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Is serotonin only effective within the brain?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Never have so many unrelated points been made so quickly, incisively, and fruitlessly!
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 week ago:
Not only does it need to become possible, it needs to become more effective than other treatments like crowns and implants. I think it’s going to be a long time, and even then will only be applicable in limited cases for a long time, and will be really expensive.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 week ago:
If she is there and so are the kids, you probably have some kind of path to citizenship or at least residency, even if it is not immediate. Being the parent / guardian of a citizen is something to start with in most places, at least. But only if they are actually there.
If there are no kids involved and you are no longer married, I would guess that you have nothing to work with.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 1 week ago:
I just wanted to add that many countries have similar ancestor laws allowing you to apply for citizenship if you have any roots there. It’s not always easy - but at least you may have an “in” that others would not. So if you think you have a grandfather who immigrated from somewhere or other, look it up and see if you might be able to get on a path to citizenship there. My wife did this earlier this year, and all it took was some paperwork and a visit to a consulate with her parents.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Granted this was 1999 but I wish I could unsee the shit I saw one day when I did a SELECT password FROM user
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And what is a private key? How exactly do you “keep” it across multiple devices? It’s all still black magic to me.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 2 weeks ago:
It reminds me a little of Game of Thrones, where all the major players, the royals etc all have spy networks. This is a world where very poor peasants and servants are everywhere and many of them, including children, end up in the employ of this person or that person, such that one’s movements and meetings are trackable to a minute degree. The better your spy network, the more power you have.
Of course Varys, spymaster to the crown, is famed for the effectiveness of his network, which spans the continent and even across the sea to other major cities.
He himself is a master of disguise. This was left out of the show entirely but he frequently appears by surprise, whipping off the guise of an d woman and later leaving the scene dressed as a priest, etc. He grew up with actors and uses makeup, and costume changes to hide his tracks. He can change his voice and gait at will and routinely shocks people by his ability to blend in and appear or disappear at will.
Basically, in a world with no privacy, the world’s foremost surveillance master is a model for all of us in these times. If you want to move freely in public but do so without a trace, be prepared to pull your hood up and when you leave a restaurant, take off the sweater you were wearing when you went in. Practice different postures to throw off gait tracking.
You don’t have to like it, but this is the world we live in.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 2 weeks ago:
Apology accepted.
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can see this culturally in the old stereotypes about “old money” versus “new money.”
Rich family with a hereditarily passed down fortune, lands, and control = old money = feudalism.
Entrepreneur who came from nothing but tok advantage of emerging economies to become wealthy overnight = new money = capitalism.
Old money hates new money because capitalism dethroned feudalism.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 2 weeks ago:
I take these daily and while I always have good shits, the pills didn’t turn me into some kind of shit machine. Results may vary I guess.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s a pain in the ass, isn’t it?
I believe it though. Researchers out there have shown that even things like time of day can make a HUGE difference in the measurable results of different remedies and medicines. It’s inconvenient as shit for those of us who would like to wake up, chug a handful of pills, and get on with our day.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 2 weeks ago:
Find a $2 scum you can pull hundreds of times a day and you’re a third world billionaire.