shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Foolproof advice 3 hours ago:
Rings true to me. My wife never vacuums and is past menopause.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 9 hours ago:
You might be surprised. Singer made some 1911s during WWII. Singer, the sewing machine company.
- Comment on 20 hours ago:
rounded up at gunpoint
Not me or mine. I am well aware that shooting back will certainly end my life. And I will not be confused or uncertain if they come for my brown wife.
At some point we have to say, “This will not stand.” I’ve drawn my line in the sand.
In other news, practiced with my AR and new .22 today! Need to get more trigger time on my 12-gauge pumps. I have the dumbest habit of short stroking the pump. 🙄 Even after 2,000 rounds! Gotta focus on fixing that.
- Comment on If orange Hitler is going to post AI images of him being a "hero", it seems only right to counterpoint his images with images of him bukkake'd by minorities, acting as a human toilet, etc. 21 hours ago:
Gov. Newsom is doing exactly this and liberals are baggin’ on him. Is no action good enough for you fuckers?! (Not you OP.)
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 day ago:
Was helping a commenter with his gun problem and wondered if there was something he could try “to retard the action”. Mods were great in that sub, but still almost caught ban. “We don’t use that word here.”
- Comment on What is these animals? 1 day ago:
I was channeling Snoop Dog.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 1 day ago:
There are many op-eds from the 30s where you would think Trump was being discussed. Geopolitics are radically different, but it’s surprising how much they had in common personality wise.
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- Comment on Name this minivan 2 days ago:
Can’t see how that’s any worse than matte gray or block.
- Comment on US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant 2 days ago:
Finally! This is the only post I’ve seen pointing out that Hyundai has plenty to answer for.
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 2 days ago:
Acclimating happened when I moved here! I’d get eaten alive at sunset, itchy for 20 minutes. Now? I can’t remember an itchy bite, not for 20 years.
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 2 days ago:
Chigga please.
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 2 days ago:
Ironically, people in the South call them “red bugs”. Felt like I was speaking slurs when I moved here.
Anyway, chiggers got no place in decent society. Just sayin’.
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 2 days ago:
I strip, scrub in the shower, yeet everything in into the washer on full hot.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 3 days ago:
I have a take no one else has talked about. I think much of the recent hate is down to there being too many damned people, and suddenly it seems a lot of them are brown.
Young me honestly wasn’t quite sure what Hispanic meant because there weren’t any around. LOL, imagine my culture shock when I moved to Chicago! Then I came down to Florida, and once again, no Hispanics. They were so rare it was kinda freaky. Then Hurricane Ivan flattened us, loads of immigrants showed up to build and never left.
Now people are looking around and seeing America on the first downward trajectory since the Great Depression. They’re casting about to lay blame. Know what’s different? Well lookee here, millions of new brown people that weren’t here before!
I don’t think liberals understand just how many immigrants came across the southern border in the last 20 years. When I brought up that there was indeed a crisis at the border during the Biden admin, I got beat up here and on reddit. Y’all can stick your fingers in your collective ear, but shitloads of people were piling up to get it. It was a humanitarian crisis.
Not saying the hate is logical, but I can at least understand where it’s coming from. It’s a little more nuanced that screaming RACIST at everyone.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 3 days ago:
This isn’t about America. The whole world was fucking nuts in 2020. We kicked it off by burning Australia to the ground and a few months later, we had so many world disasters, COVID in the forefront, that we forgot Australia.
- Comment on Ditto 3 days ago:
Had a dumb coworker trying to tell me that cheese with a little mold on top was dangerous. She didn’t know the word “mycelium”, but that’s the explanation she was going for. Fair enough, I guess? Anyway, I’m carving the mold off and eating that cheese.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 3 days ago:
Humans are the toughest fucking animals this Earth has ever seen. Lemmings not so much.
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 3 days ago:
They’re called secretary birds.
HR! This post right here!
- Comment on Say hello to Bary 4 days ago:
Aren’t we simply talking about LaGrange points? Or am I misunderstanding?
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 4 days ago:
Unless you’re going all out with clothing-as-armor, naked is better.
Chiggers can’t directly get a grip on your flesh, mouth parts too weak. They gotta back that ass into something to get started. Like your clothes.
Ticks are instantly observable because without clothes you can feel them tickle. In any case, you can see them before they lock on.
Mosquitoes? I got nothing.
- Comment on Naked Hiking Day!!! 4 days ago:
Aight, Imma tell it.
Showering and saw a tiny black spot under my dick in the V-shaped area where the shaft meets the head. Thought it was a piece of dirt as I had been fucking around at camp and getting filthy. You already know how this ends.
- Comment on "Spicy" pepper 5 days ago:
Oh stop, you’d be just fine, until you break the pepper.
- Comment on "Spicy" pepper 5 days ago:
Used to know a preacher that loved super hots and grew Peter Peppers for giggles.
- Comment on Israel let Nova rave happen despite intel Hamas would attack on 7 October 5 days ago:
Said from the start, you cannot tell me that one of the best, if not the very best, intelligence groups on the planet did not see this coming a mile away. FFS, their raison d’etre is to guard against their neighbors.
- Comment on Young Workers Haven’t Been Replaced by AI—Economists Are Just Looking for Them in the Wrong Places 5 days ago:
I agree with most all of that, but shit jobs for teens were all teens in the day. We started in those shit jobs, and our coworkers were all peers. That’s why so many middle-aged people don’t get the modern paradigm. The modern world no longer reflects our youth, at all.
I worked at Lowe’s for 5-months. But you’re right. Most of the gig workers coming through were older than me. I’m 54. Imagine that.
Signed, GenX.
- Comment on Metal 5 days ago:
We have a pet pig. He would eat another pig corpse if I chunked it in his yard.
- Comment on Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably. 6 days ago:
Chimps shake hands.
- Comment on Language model 6 days ago:
Every C is Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
- Comment on No brainer 6 days ago:
Bet I could retire in a year, two at the outside. Have customers pick up at deep discount until I could get a pair of heavy trucks and drivers, pure gravy from there on out.
