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- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 1 day ago:
I mean, I’ve gotta assume that they’re related, but I’m always happy for a new variant.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 1 day ago:
Oh, what a good rabbit hole!
I use fiend in exactly the same way: “I’m fiending for a cigarette,” etc.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 1 day ago:
I think you mean “fiend.”
- Comment on Flex 2 days ago:
I can’t unsee how small those gloves are. I thought they were just short, but his knuckles are well outside of where they’re supposed to be.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 2 days ago:
Careful, Zangendeutsch is a trap for English speakers. Like, not an intentional one, but you have to check the vocab you pick up there.
- Comment on How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state? 4 days ago:
Certainly as you approach 8 billion, they’re more disorganized, but they’re not ever an actual militia, more just a horde of people all trying to help each other dismantle any relevant infrastructure and kill any soldiers sent to suppress them. No training, but absolute solidarity.
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- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 4 days ago:
Something about a land war in Asia…
- Comment on Why don't they just take the alt route? 4 days ago:
Straight men have prostates too
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 days ago:
I don’t know if you want to call it something other than pride, but I’ve never learned another word for what I would feel if John Brown had been my grandfather. It’s not my achievement, nor would I feel entitled to it in any way, but it would make me feel warm and grounded. My actual grandfather was a wife beating alcoholic, and I feel shame about him, even though he died before I was born and I had nothing to do with this.
I think that’s pretty common, even if it’s not logical, which happens a lot with feelings. I know several people whose parent(s) died when they were teenagers and in a period of tension with each other. All agree that the others shouldn’t feel any guilt for being normal teenagers when their parents died, and that the other parents knew they were loved, but most of them still feel as though they themselves had wronged their parents because of their teenagedom.
- Comment on If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use? 4 days ago:
I’m just very curious about a specific hypothetical and everyone wants to answer it in context. That’s normally a good thing and maybe I’m in the wrong community to ask this, but for this question the context is irrelevant.
Let’s say it’s not Washington who nukes them, maybe there is no military anymore, maybe it’s not even a nuke. None of the details matter.
Are 3M people overwhelming for the full capabilities of a modern government?
- Comment on If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use? 4 days ago:
Getting rid of the 3M protesters.
I can make a separate post to ask about it in no stupid questions, but I’m literally just curious if humanity has the tools to manage 3M protesters with basic projectiles. I read the line in your comment and thought “wait, really?” and that’s that.
- Comment on If a revolution started tomorrow in the US to get rid of Trump, could the majority of society use hit and run tactics successfully? Or what would be the tactics the rebels would use? 4 days ago:
The US has 300 million people in it. If even one percent of them decided to pick up a brick and go to Washington DC there isn’t an army on earth that could stop them.
Is that true? Like, it would be suicidal for anyone in Washington and out of a bunker, plus it would be a really bad idea for literally dozens of reasons, but couldn’t the military just nuke them?
That’s not a gotcha, by the way, I hope even this administration isn’t stupid enough to do that, which makes this effectively true, I’m just curious.
- Comment on Every fossil site hides a lost paradise 4 days ago:
There’s still some!
- Comment on How to get hired immediately 5 days ago:
Just use a cardboard six pack sleeve. It’s cheaper and doesn’t smell like pee
- Comment on Sure 1 week ago:
Tbh, uber incentivizes that afaik, because there’s no time differential. If I take a taxi driver on a slower or longer route, they get paid for both gas and time, so it’s actually to their benefit. Of course, there’s a risk that they’re intentionally drawing it out, so you need to pay attention, but I tend to use buses/trains over livery in areas I’m unfamiliar with.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
It’s wild to say but I feel like the literally criminally insane men I was working with taught me better people skills than my parents did.
That actually sounds pretty reasonable to me (not to excuse your parents, if applicable). It’s not the same thing at all, but I learned much better people skills from living with a boyfriend who had abandoned his treatment for and didn’t tell me about his paranoid schizophrenia than from anyone else. He read so much into everything I said, that I learned to speak very deliberately.
When you are working with people with a very different perspective on the world that you can’t change, and neither party feels entitled to acceptance because of family, you need to learn how to treat others respectfully and with dignity to succeed.
- Comment on Hey guys I'm home 1 week ago:
There’s absolutely actively torture, I’m sorry to tell you. Even if there’s nothing worse than what we already know about (unlikely, given that we know about worse from the camps in the US), we know that prisoners are beaten and sexually abused.
- Comment on I wouldn't worry about it 1 week ago:
Oof. In that case, the Wikipedia should be rewritten, because he was jailed for raping his mother, not for having sex with her.
- Comment on Hey guys I'm home 1 week ago:
No one wants to, but if it’s that or kill other innocent people…
I won’t claim that I’d make the same decision after a couple of years in the torture prison, but from the untortured side of things, my choice is clear.
- Comment on I wouldn't worry about it 1 week ago:
I love playing Slavoj Žižek or Dan Harmon
- Comment on I wouldn't worry about it 1 week ago:
On 1 August 2021, Chris was arrested for having sexual relations with her own mother and spent the next few months in jail […] On 27 March 2023, Chris was released from jail.
I’m certainly not in favor of parent-child incest, but nearly 20 months of jail for the child doesn’t seem like a fitting punishment. Either the mother consented and should be considered the more responsible party or she didn’t and the crime is rape.
- Comment on Sure 1 week ago:
The last time I rode an Uber, my driver did that and we got stuck in traffic as I advised we would. It was really awkward to sit there in silence for 25 minutes until we could get off the highway.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
And what about the meteorites on the moon that would have had to travel through the tarp first?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I just showed my husband 🥰
- Comment on Angels being said to be all eyes was probably some Mother's excuse for knowing what their kid was getting up to 1 week ago:
Oculonanism
- Comment on Can't get better than this 1 week ago:
At least it’s clean. I’ve definitely lived in worse places
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
I think you might have misread something. I called them embarrassing, and agreed they were wilding, tempting jail, and should be better, then said they were poorly starting an unnecessary fight. I’m really not rooting for them, and I’m not sure how it could come off as such, unless it’s because of the word “should.”
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
The people who are unnecessarily starting a fight they can’t win. All of his statements are directed to them.
I mean, it works out better for the rest of us that they’re bad at fighting, but it would serve their purposes better if they trained.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
“Y’all wilding,” which means “you’re all acting wild.”