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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many leftists started out as liberals, it makes sense they’d believe others could also change.

  -signed, a vegan married to a butcher, so don’t listen to me lol (at least he’s a leftist)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New klee err⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably survivorship bias

  /s everyone knows the real preparation is community building

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linen and simple cuts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New kink unlocked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a religion teacher. They’re not known for their taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of them were probably wearing half or three quarter socks. Hopefully most, but even so, they’re almost never made of cotton or a material that actually handles sweat well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of two minds here: it’s just a body, everyone’s got one, no need to be ashamed of it or hide it; but people can also be reasonably distracted by seeing someone’s body at most workplaces (strip club bartenders excluded, for example) when they’re not expecting to, because they aren’t commonly displayed.

  There’s also the factor of necessity: in extremely hot environments, people need to cover less of their body (unless they want to fully cover themselves with materials designed for it, like Bedouins, but a lot of people don’t want to do that and that’s a reasonable choice). In that situation, or in places like the beach, people should expect to see more of others’ bodies, and they are “at fault” for getting distracted.

  To be clear, I think you behaved perfectly normally and well in that story. I was just thinking about the concept of nudity or near nudity at work in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it’s just what i’d wear on a basic hot day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How did they manage to make such an inherently attractive person so consistently frumpy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New kink unlocked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a misunderstanding at my school where the world religions teacher recommended the Sandra Bullock Crash to an entire class and the first student to find it and send the class a link found this one (could have been an honest mistake or intentional) and someone reported the teacher. It was pretty easily cleared up, but the teacher was definitely shaken that the other movie existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨betrayal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the first native and self referential copypasta on the fediverse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean “fiend.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flex⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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‼️‼️🗣️📢📢⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• How many people would it take to overwhelm a fully functioning military in a nuclear state?
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about a land war in Asia…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they just take the alt route?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still some!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get hired immediately⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use a cardboard six pack sleeve. It’s cheaper and doesn’t smell like pee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love playing Slavoj Žižek or Dan Harmon