uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
According to Karl Marx (in Das Kapital ) the deregulation of industry for sake of profit is inevitable.
It’s cheaper to capture government than it is to follow regulations (which, in turn, are meant to serve the public, sometimes protect the public from industry)
Some nations are trying to make the capture process slow or difficult, but none have stopped it, and it only accelerates.
- Comment on Our bad 3 days ago:
Plastic is just gray goo in slow motion.
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 4 days ago:
There’s millions of Lemmings. They just occupy about a hundred bodies.
- Comment on Weeks of research 4 days ago:
Then there’s us kids who knew it was dangerous to ask our parents for crafting supplies even for a homework assignment… heck it was dangerous to be visible at home, let alone express a need.
- Comment on Weeks of research 4 days ago:
Superman would have rescued the passengers one by one if that’s what was necessary. Just sayin’
- Comment on 3-bean soup 6 days ago:
Plant bits with water filtered through it. An infusion.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 6 days ago:
See I didn’t know that, what with tons of herbal teas, but yeah the ones I look up seem to all be black tea + extras blended into a concoction.
- Comment on Best wishes 6 days ago:
Octhullpus #5, Monterrey Bay Marine Research Subdivision
- Comment on Betrayal 6 days ago:
IRL, your very recent bestie who pushed out your bestie-of-ten-years is the one to signal it’s time to move in. FBI has a long running pattern of deciding that someone must be a terrorist (or is a good candidate for gaslighting into terrorism) so they can conduct an elaborate sting operation, often involving replacing all the victim’s friends with FBI plants.
If you remember Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre, there wasn’t a massacre but some arrests, and they were of the gaslight them until they do something barely terroristy enough to get a conviction category.
I wrote a blogpiece about it in 2016, noting it was much less of a massacre thank Conway was letting on, but still quite the debacle.
Anyway, as bad as it feels being betrayed by your friend of ten years, it’s hard not to feel like a rat for having kicked that friend out for a newer, cooler friend, only to have them signal when there’s enough evidence.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
It’s technically an infusion though I don’t know if that changes between hot or cold water. But I think teas are arbitrarily determined: We decided that the black tea plants are teas and the weeds next to them are not based entirely on choice.
Coke is a specific trademark connected to specific recipes. But colas are all based on the cola bean, and some decent ones that get close to Coca-cola and Pepsi-cola.
- Comment on Just FYI 1 week ago:
IIRC is my way of getting out of citing sources, often because I don’t remember exactly what it was, say if I saw it during a nature show on PBS or a segment on SciShow
Sometimes I don’t remember if it was AP, Reuters or Mother Jones where I got a fact or a take, but it was someplace I could probably trust. So If I remember right…
Curiously, if I don’t trust a source and can’t recall who it was, I’ll attribute it to vicious rumors or some muckraking rag or but it sounds like something FOX News would put out, so take with salt.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 week ago:
Coffee is technically tea, but then bay broth (a foundation for chicken soup) is also technically tea.
- Comment on Know your jewellery... 1 week ago:
According to Dan McClellan, the cross in the cross-of-gold format is really a very recent pop-Christian symbol (that is, used by people other than Catholic monastics).
So the folk who want a gold T to celebrate their trans-ness might have a strong authority to repurpose it…
well, until it becomes the swastika of the white Christian nationalist movement and designated as a hate symbol.
I’m surprised that squishier more red-letter based Christian faiths don’t re-adopt the intersecting-circles fish, which is a much older Christian symbol than the cross.
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 week ago:
To be fair, I learned to be pronoun-versatile in theater and TTRPGs.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 week ago:
I can use keyboard and trackball on PC.
Consoles to the last are configured for right-hand dominance, and not all games support keybinding. In fact, a lot of them don’t support point-and-click either.
Also I have productivity applications on PC.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 week ago:
Gen X kid walked arduous hikes uphill back from school in the La Cañada foothills in San Fernando Valley, id est, the Los Angeles smog bowl from ~1975 to 1985. I may literally have lead poisoning brain damage.
I don’t know how I’d get checked. 58 now.
Curiously, I empathize with kids these days but am also extremely left-wing, and see each generation getting dismissed by the previous one as having it too easy.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 1 week ago:
I’m reminded in Choke (Chuck Palahniuk) of the bit about why every ER in the US has a diamond drill bit.
- Comment on A strange charger 1 week ago:
It’s a play on +juice!
- Comment on todo list 1 week ago:
You better put all your eggs in one basket
You better count your chickens before they hatch
You better sell some wine before it’s time
You better find yourself an itch to scratch
– Weird Al - Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 1 week ago:
It doesn’t take AI analytics to figure out I’m as far left as they get and come pre-radicalized. I’m the ANTIFA overlord they’re looking for.
I’ve practically invited them to breach my door.
- Comment on Black widow life 1 week ago:
Lionesses in heat will bite the nads of their male partner when he’s too tired to perform ( Narrator: She’s not satisfied even after he’s exhausted himself.)
This is actually a moment for banished males to be welcomed back into the pride, if temporarily.
Nature is just chock full of realities that don’t fit into the metaphors we want to make of it.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 1 week ago:
Between this and the cartoon about the kids going as the economy, the environment and the deeply divided nation, I’m openly hoping for a season of politically seasonal costumes.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 week ago:
It’s totally on brand for a state of Islam (like Qatar or Dubai) to commission Massive Muhammed or Great Allah or whatever, a bigger standing mechanical clock named either after God or his prophet, just to show the superiority of their culture over western culture.
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 1 week ago:
Ia! Fhtagn! Ia! Cthulhu! Ia! Nyalarthotep!
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week ago:
This raises a big question of what the heck comprises city dust. Is there a microplastic element to concrete or asphalt? Is it just more tire deterioration? City dust is a conspicuously vague category.
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 week ago:
I was told there’s an English lord who was so reviled that when he died they rolled a massive rock onto his grave lest he ever rise again (rumors that he dabbled in magic might have informed the decision).
That would be appropriate for Trump. Or similarly, bury him in a deep geologic repository (where we put our vitrified spent fissile fuel beneath signs warning THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR ) as a reminder of how we never want another person like him to exist.
- Comment on You finally woke up! 2 weeks ago:
In LOTR, all the things that needed to happen, needed to happen eventually and the Fellowship decided to get proactive about it. (Well, Frodo did, and a bunch of princes swore to champion him).
Here in the states, when I was a kid, there were things that needed to happen eventually and it was clear during my childhood (1970s) that every year we weren’t proactive risked problems in the future.
And we were all nah, kick the can down the line a decade. It won’t matter. even after the 2000 general election which was stolen by SCOTUS and the Federalist Society. By then it may have been too late. But we didn’t care.
Frodo’s super-power was proactivity. Initiative.
- Comment on FACTS 2 weeks ago:
I became sexually active in that window where women commonly kept their pubic hair unless they were kinky or specifically into the bare feels¹, and porn was rife with shaved offerings and French-style runways.
¹ Every woman I was around for too long would reveal that yeah, she struggle with the maintenance process, whether in-grown hairs or surprise scratchiness or whatever. Full bush is a lot easier to maintain.
So my brain associated real relationship sex with pubic hair. It was one of those signals that indicated we’re not just honeymooning or doing a one-night stand but trying to do something real.
It wasn’t always true, to my disappointment, but brains work in funny ways.
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
I’d be tempted in fiction to make Hooters a secret line of temples to Athena the way Nike outlets are… well… temples to Nike.
- Comment on This man is suffering 2 weeks ago:
The good news is that some of them don’t hate their jobs, and appreciate the money and high tips without having to ride a pole.
Granted, it’s perspective in contrast to diner wait staff (a high-suicide job) and professional stripping (a high-turnover job) so still not great.