Dozzi92
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- Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study 15 hours ago:
I’ll agree it’s not safe if you come here with the intent of making it your home without going through the proper channels, or even working without getting a proper visa. I don’t see how someone traveling to America for a short visit is somehow unsafe. And yes, things are messed up, but they’re not plucking people off of planes and imprisoning them, they’re plucking people out of homes they’ve lived in for years without being properly documented.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 days ago:
Nailed it on the head. I think also that you need to include that Canada’s relationship vis-a-vis trade with China will be affected by tariffs the US is placing on Canada, and same with Mexico. I think much of everything is from the viewpoint that China is a bigger problem than Russia at the moment. China is also recovering from some economic turmoil, and one way to do so includes expanding their reach, and so the intent is to limit China in other areas.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 3 days ago:
Wasn’t part of it related to backlash McDonald’s got from essentially marketing themselves to kids? Make the place look nuts, kids say that’s awesome, let’s go there, now you got kids eating McDonald’s. Not suggesting that is how it goes, but I believe I recall reading something to that effect, regarding a rationale behind the new look.
As an aside, the building looks boring, but so does everyone’s “shades of gray” interiors inside and outside their homes. I drove black cars forever because black is best color for cars, but I got a blue one now, because we are just surrounded in shades of gray everywhere, and it is, as the sublemmy states, a boring dystopia.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 days ago:
Makes life more exciting.
- Comment on 1987 1 week ago:
I was born in '87 and I distinctly recall eating a lot of canned veggies growing up. I’m sure it’s what my mom grew up (in Newark, NJ) eating, and so it probably just passed on down when she was a young mother. I’m curious if canned veggies were just the rage at the time or if it was so because access to the fresh stuff wasn’t as available.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
Ha, I should’ve mentioned that you definitely won’t. It seems to paint this damned if we do damned if we don’t picture. But it at least paints a picture, versus what can at times feel like this great big unknown. It may also shed some light on some of the motivations for what’s happening. I dunno.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
My brother sent this to me the other day and I gave it a watch. It feels pretty unbiased (although I’m uneducated), and seems to have a more macro, zoomed-out view of America and just nations on the whole. I thought it was pretty interesting and it helped to put some things in perspective.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
The East India Company is the first example that comes to mind. I’m sure others.
I really don’t think we are living through unprecedented times, unfortunately. People have sucked for as long as we’ve existed.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Just access GMaps through your VPN through Mexico, and your wildest dreams can come true.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 3 weeks ago:
Google is worth more than Mexico. A frivolous lawsuit, which is what this would be, will hurt Mexico more.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, maybe they misjudged the size of the asteroid and 2032 is it.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 3 weeks ago:
I saw Deadmau5 and he stopped to play Rocket League mid show one time. That’s as close as I can get to the prompt.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 4 weeks ago:
I removed my old white grease-laden range hood and replaced with a stainless steel one. My range is in the middle of my home, so unfortunately I haven’t been able to vent it outdoors, but the hood is convertible for when I decide to adventure a little more.
Old range hood was hard wired through a hole in the wall, no box obviously. Put a box in the cabinets above for the new hood. My cabinets are not designed to accept a range hood apparently either, so it made it all the more interesting.
Credit to my 7 year old daughter, who helped me install it, couldn’t have done it without her.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 weeks ago:
You won’t hear me disagree.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 4 weeks ago:
I think MAGA represents to Republicans what progressives like Bernie and AOC represent to Democrats. Republicans were able to reimagine their party into a form that isn’t just going to follow the status quo that, like you said, has led to a stagnant existence for average Americans over the last 50+ years. And stagnant is probably a nice way of putting it, since buying power has essentially disappeared, on top of wages barely moving.
So Trump comes in, he says drain the swamp, and you hear that to mean the whole machine, everyone who, for the last 50 years (and some folks have been involved in that government for a good chunk of that 50 years, just perpetuating that status quo) has allowed the rich to get richer at the expense of the working middle class.
And so you toss on your blinders. You’re not necessarily a bigot, but you believe social issues are a distraction from actual problems (i.e., ones that affect you directly), and you vote in a way that you hope will better your life. It’s hard to blame someone, especially someone just exhausted from grinding through their shitty life, for thinking about themselves. It’s not the right way to think, but I get it.
- Comment on The deed is done. 4 weeks ago:
Well, that is Richie Rich we’re looking at.
- Comment on Beautiful stories like this just make you smile 2 months ago:
Because they’re dumb. Going through boot camp, you constantly heard “Don’t get married.” What do dudes do? Get married to the first girl they meet when they arrive at their duty station (after they buy a truck obviously). They then deploy, workup is three months, home for a few, then seven months in country. And meanwhile your wife is at home, you’ve known her for a cup of coffee, and she’s like “Shit, I don’t know how to be alone.”
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 3 months ago:
Probably salt on roads. Sea air kinda rots everything, salty roads just the bottom.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 4 months ago:
My town has a golden retriever. He’s basically just a mascot, he goes around with one of the school resource officers, helps police engage with young people in the community. I know this is not exactly what you’re referring to.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 4 months ago:
I have been very fortunate to have good service for essentially the entirety of my life of broadband. Only going back to when optimum first showed up, they were the only game in town, and it would have issues during times of day when there was too much traffic at the node. Since FiOS showed up (not to shill), it’s honestly been phenomenal, when you put aside the typical bullshit the providers pull. The actual service of packets in packets out, or whatever the Internet is, has been great.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 4 months ago:
I have great service. I just hate that I have to play the game of “pretending to cancel”.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 4 months ago:
You didn’t fucking curse one goddamn time in your reply.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
The franglais in me acreams that neufant ought to be acceptable. I’m sure Canadians are saying it, who knows what language they really speak.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
Franglais is my language of choice after several drinks in any French speaking country. I am from Jersey, New, so it’s the best I can do with my education.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 months ago:
That is news to me. Never thought to dig too deeply into my French studies in middle and high school (two decades ago), and so “apple of the earth” was just appropriate. Like, yeah, why wouldn’t it be apple of the earth?
- Comment on Five flavors 🤤 4 months ago:
Igorrrr are solid, definitely doing some different shit. Dunno the others.
Your list shows up perfect when I go to respond, but in normal view, Lemmy doesn’t put your lines in.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 5 months ago:
I pirate first, and when I’ve really enjoyed a book I add a physical copy to the collection. I just can’t get behind paying for digital shit, for the reasons enumerated in this thread here. I just wish there was more direct-to-creator payments. Music and literature are perfect mediums to give directly to the artists who create it. I don’t give a fuck about whoever paid fir the digital ink. Maybe the record people get a little money.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 5 months ago:
My wife is big on library, and I need to, but I grew up just pirating stuff, so here we are. But she has a book club, and she’ll place a request for the book, and in the event it’s not yet available, she maintains the request but I get it for her. And for me personally, when I like a book or a series, I go and snag them later. I just prefer reading in Kindle anymore.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 5 months ago:
It goes against my human nature to not overanalyze.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 5 months ago:
Unfortunately they’re on pages that I absolutely need to get into because my money is stored behind them. I cannot stand them, and I generally agree with you, if some random site has me doing a captcha in leaving.
