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- Comment on PC's for millenials (and Gen Z somewhat) is the same thing as cars to boomers 2 hours ago:
Has been for 30 some years…
- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 1 day ago:
My comment could also be read as rationale supporting a version of that character based on serious horror…
But yes, they’re a joke to me. And yes I’d love to see him a tribble monster
- Comment on Simon Pegg Tried To Get Nick Frost Cast As An Iconic Star Trek Character: "I've Pitched It Multiple Times" 1 day ago:
Dude has a lot of range…
His new horror movie was really good, and he was legitimately scary.
Into the Badlands was still in his main lane but he did an amazing job in that as well. He’s funny, but he doesn’t have to be comic relief.
- Comment on Are "fake bans" on Lemmy a thing? I know someone who got banned from several instances, and he can still comment in some communities belonging to instances he's banned from. 1 day ago:
Go to a comment you think shows he’s “fake banned” from.
Then go look at it from that instance instead of a 3rd party instance.
Their comments won’t show there, so they won’t get any engagement from people viewing from that instance.
Because they’re making the comments on that 3rd party’s copy, but it doesn’t federate to the main one that they’re banned from
- Comment on Elon Musk's X/Twitter to clamp down on parody accounts. 2 days ago:
Who cares what the nazis on Twitter do?
At this point it’s safe to write off anything that happens there. And anyone that still makes the decision to financially support a fucking nazi can be written off as well.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 days ago:
HOW does this genocidal state have such an insane stranglehold on our country?
Before AIPAC there was another Israeli organization that donated to politicians.
After years of fighting a committee ruled that it had to register as a foreign agent.
So Israel created AIPAC and then gave Max donations to the people on the committee that decides who has to register as a foreign agent.
Which is why AIPAC has never had to register.
As both parties continually got rid of campaign finance law, AIPAC kept increasing what they gave, and started throwing insane money at anyone critical of Israel in the primary when it’s cheap.
Over decades they’ve bought the only two options and ensured the only two options were peo-Israel over anything else
The worst part …
They’re not the only organization, even foreign country. Doing this to ensure they always win.
Luckily while Ken Martin does have a pro-Israel bias, while running Minnesota he was one of the few state chairs who refused to work against anti-genocide Dems. Which resulted in Minnesota being one of the progressive strongholds despite no one guessing it would shake out that way a decade ago.
So I want to be clear:
The people fucking up the DNC for decades is gone, we need to support the new DNC to keep it out of their hands. The people running the DNC six months ago wants the current DNC to take the fall so they can move back in.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 3 days ago:
Part of why it’s so ridiculous some Americans are legally prohibited from participating in BDS, is people only know if you tell them.
You can just not buy it and never mention why.
And unfortunately, lots of people aren’t even aware it’s illegal:
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 5 days ago:
The price was announced first… So it’s not related.
Adjusted for inflation though, and $80 is the normal price it’s been for 40 years.
I just don’t know why people are shocked Nintendo is doing this, they’ve always been one of the first companies to increase prices.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 6 days ago:
Do it, fuck up Twitter, Amazon, meta, and everyone else that shared a stage with trump.
The only language they know is $, if trump is bad for their money, they’ll go against trump.
These are people obsessed with wealth over every thing else, it’s not hard to manipulate them, but when rational adults regain power, we need to tax the ever loving shit out of them because no matter what happens, they’ll always choose “more money”.
- Comment on What are some ways by which disabled people can discover and volunteer for stem cell treatment? 1 week ago:
Direct with researchers.
Usually thru universities but grants are drying up.
Studies by companies sometimes take participants from volunteering, but usually they start with lists from healthcare workers.
So talk to their doctor and make sure they know about desire to volunteer, check “local” universities and hospitals
- Comment on How much human individuals resemble cells 1 week ago:
Are we enslaving the cells in our body
Whoever wrote that must have slept thru every biology class they’ve ever taken…
Like, there’s some decent questions in there, but they’ve all been asked for over a thousand years.
It reads like someone used a chat bot and told it to try and sound like a philosopher.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 1 week ago:
Remember when American tax payers gave billions to telecoms to install fiber in rural America?
It’s actually happened multiple times…
I remember two off the top of my head, but it’s possible there was a couple more
- Comment on US prosecutors to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione 1 week ago:
Trump is going to fuck around and make this an inflection point with his voter base.
I knew he wouldn’t be able to stay out of it. And it’s only going to get worse during the trial when mainstream media keeps trying to demonfy this guy while the vast amount of Americans view him as Robin Hood.
This is going to be a bigger trial than OJ or Casey Anthony, and this is going to be one of the rare cases where the people side with the defendant. Other big cases most people wanted the defandent guilty but they got off.
But Luigi is either going to get off and likely get into politics, or lose and become a literal martyr.
There’s no path for the wealthy to win, especially since everyday thousands of Americans cross the line to “nothing left to lose”.
- Comment on The rise of far-right political support among the rich is partly a diversion, so that people start getting more upset at the far right than at being exploited by the rich 1 week ago:
Right/left only exists to stop us from realizing it should be top/bottom
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 week ago:
It was William Caxton about 600 years ago who owned it.
Everything I found just now talks about how great a historical figure he was.
But if you dig deeper you should be able to find reference to the Dutch workers he brought with the press who knew how to use it and actually set the type on the presses.
I don’t have the time at the moment, but if you’re interested then that’s enough to start researching
- Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing. 1 week ago:
Is this an English grammar rule
English grammar and spelling rules were made up on the fly by Dutch workers with a tenable grasp on the language themselves.
They just operated the first English printing presses and the owner valued quantity over quality. So they just did fucking whatever.
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 1 week ago:
Meh, the evil was usually based on humans.
Steve Bannon made a lot of gold selling virtual wow gold, but even worse he learned how toxic and impressionable young male gamers were. Which lead to Gamergate and the radicalizing of a lot of the current generation…
If anything, Gile was underestimating the dangers.
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 1 week ago:
Ah, so one Kevin Bacon away, thanks!
- Comment on Greenland’s new pm rejects Trump’s latest threat to take control 1 week ago:
The largest shipping company in the world (and the one the dod relies on) is based on Greenland.
If they stop DoD shipping it would fuck us. If they stopped performing any stops in America at all it would basically make us reliant on using Canada and Mexico as a go between, and Trump’s already fighting them.a
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 week ago:
So can guys like Epstein…
- Comment on US | Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House 1 week ago:
Lol, after being explained why option 1 won’t work:
Trump replied, “Well, that’s one.”
“But there are others too. There are others.”
When pushed to detail those methods, Trump said, “No.”
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 1 week ago:
It is, but we stopped teaching it literally decades ago, so what are kids supposed to do?
That was a victim of No Child Left Behind, along with a lot of other important shit.
- Comment on UK: Couple arrested and shut in cell after complaining about daughter's school on WhatsApp. 1 week ago:
Link is a little questionable, so I googled the names
independent.co.uk/…/parents-arrest-school-whatsap…
They had been banned from the school already, had been banned from harassing the school online, so they started a WhatsApp group to manipulate other parents into doing the things they legally couldn’t do…
- Comment on What is happening with Tesla (TSLA) stock currently? 📈 2 weeks ago:
The same thing it always does…
Bounces around wildly because it’s based on hype not actual value of the company
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 2 weeks ago:
If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…
- Comment on Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"? 2 weeks ago:
Protesting a dealership when no one wants to buy one is performative.
Where protests should be happening is factories because even if Musk has to shut down one day, that is expensive, and it’s expensive to start it back up again.
So what’s really effective is protesting factories and not letting workers in.
For a day or two.
Then leaving till it’s started back up for a couple days, and just repeating that. Make them open and close production constantly. Make Tesla workers tires of the bullshit, better yet make Musk fire them so they get severance and unemployment.
So:
Look at the risk/reward of what you want to do/say at a dealership. Nothing you put on a sign is going to change anyone’s minds.
To quote a saying that’s been around for way to long:
You can beat the charges, but you can’t beat the ride
Meaning it doesn’t matter if what you’re doing is illegal, cops can still beat you, take you to jail, and just drop charges 10 minutes before you get to see a judge.
- Comment on Zionists media owners speak out 3 weeks ago:
If Israel would stop killing foreign journalists…
We wouldn’t have to take Hamas’ word on death numbers.
Until Israel stops, we don’t have any options besides taking Hamas at their word.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 4 weeks ago:
This isn’t 2014, most twitter accounts aren’t even people, let alone employed people
It’s just bots arguing with bots with a sprinkling of idiots.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 4 weeks ago:
Just because you make an argument, doesn’t make it true
Mate…
I “made an arguement” that it wasn’t just Nazis that did this …
And used an example of people who were not Nazis doing it to show that …
And you accused me of saying both groups are the same.
There’s not an easier way to explain this, I’m sorry but I’m not helping you anymore.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 4 weeks ago:
Obviously not, which doesn’t matter because the behavior isn’t unique to either group:
It’s not even a Nazi thing, it’s a human thing.
I thought that by stating that nice and clear in the beginning would prevent confusions like yours, but I forgot some people read something and instantly forget it.