Mirshe
@Mirshe@lemmy.world
- Comment on Southern Baptists target porn, sports betting, same-sex marriage and 'willful childlessness' 6 hours ago:
The same thing Russia is doing. They want to make it illegal to choose not to have kids if you’re a married woman (and then they’ll start penalizing not being married).
- Comment on British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery 8 hours ago:
Sending war journos would definitely send a message.
- Comment on Take a shot of vitamin M and keep fighting, Soldier! 9 hours ago:
Or you get a way to craft them and can make the most broken bullshit imaginable (Skyrim).
- Comment on Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, he’s not that kind of dictator. He doesn’t need to feel like he’s in the military - he needs to feel like he’s above them, on top of them as it were. The big military parade isn’t for him to feel like a general - it’s so he can copy his authoritarian friends without actually having the military cred himself to back it up. It’s cargo cult dictatorship.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
You would be incorrect. Many wealthier high schools put a ton of money into their sports facilities and equipment. Several HS in my state operate 10-thousand-plus-seating stadiums that look a lot like collegiate or semiprofessional facilities.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 2 weeks ago:
- The schools that aren’t underfunded have millions of dollars in funds earmarked for sports usually.
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 3 weeks ago:
No no, don’t try to boil it down to “they want us fighting each other”. Those wealthy people, and a good chunk of those poorer people, actually truly believe in the things they are saying. A lot of them TRULY, DEEPLY BELIEVE that they have to shout this and spread the word because the stakes are nothing less than literal life and death.
- Comment on GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Does this not directly, nakedly violate the sovereignty clause?
- Comment on Oblivion Remastered or something idk 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say “or like 10 minutes to Falkreath,” but Falkreath has nothing either.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 5 weeks ago:
I think I managed to get the Earth and Fire Crystals and couldn’t figure out how to get to where the Water Crystal was. All of THAT was from literal wandering.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 1 month ago:
Actually, yes. Donate what food you can, but I promise they have enough cans of beans, bags of rice, etc to last until Jesus comes. Especially because different areas have different people - one local pantry might just need a little bit of everything, while another one on the north side of your city needs a lot of vegetarian and halal options because of the people it serves in that area. Especially, donating money lets that food bank get things that aren’t strictly necessary, but can make life that much more bearable - pastries, cookies, candy, snack foods, etc. Sure, it’s not healthy and I can hear you all sighing from here, but imagine this is your sole source of food for the month. Having a package of shelf-stable Little Debbies or whatever can seriously make your day just a little more bearable, instead of going “oh boy beans and rice for the 23rd time this month.”
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 month ago:
Pretty much this. The US will now end up with an automotive ecosystem (including fun things like ambulances, firetrucks, buses, etc) where everything is built as cheaply and dangerously as possibly profitable (see: Pinto et al). Sure, the autos we build here aren’t going to be able to be sold anywhere with a functioning regulatory body, but that’s OK because we managed to save $20 on each car we build by not having to include pesky things like airbags or a steering column that won’t impale you in a crash or a body that won’t telescope into you and crush you.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 2 months ago:
Somehow one of them still invents Tombstone.
- Comment on Automakers urge Trump administration to clear way for self-driving cars 2 months ago:
Pretty much this. Ever wonder how so many people got killed and mangled during the Industrial Revolution? You’re about to find out.
- Comment on Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’ 2 months ago:
This isn’t even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.
- Comment on Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN? 2 months ago:
Ahh, but you’re missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump’s first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he’s done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.
Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don’t think they have enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s not sad, but there’s a lot of anxiety inducing moments.
- Comment on Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school? 2 months ago:
Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.
- Comment on Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft 3 months ago:
This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 5 months ago:
Even with the weird Mormon allusions, I really wish we could’ve gotten an Advent Rising sequel.
- Comment on One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds 6 months ago:
Average salary metrics are useless in an era of CEOs and executives getting paid millions a year.
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 6 months ago:
Let me turn that around: why are you OK with letting an 18 year old bleed to death, painfully, from what is an absolutely treatable condition because nobody would perform care that was too legally close to an abortion? Why are you OK with women dying and being harmed irreparably?
…jhu.edu/…/analysis-suggests-2021-texas-abortion-…
And on the subject, why are YOU ok with killing babies?
- Comment on just three women have died and 50783 babies have been saved by Texas' abortion law. A damn good trade if you ask me. 6 months ago:
Also, “just” 3 deaths we know of. If you have read literally anything about abortions pre-Roe, I guarantee you that you’re potentially missing at least one and maybe 2 zeros behind that. This also doesn’t account for women who have been irreversibly harmed from attempting to access abortion care, or those who have to carry to term a child when pregnancy might harm them.
Also, “only” 3 deaths is still a tragedy. Those people had families. They had friends, coworkers, and lives. At least one of them was literally still a child. Trying to play a numbers game between people dead because of a law and the number of “babies saved” is ghoulish behavior.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 months ago:
AND you have two other great mages to hang around with, so you can combo off each other real easy.