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- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 1 week ago:
Want to get really cynical? The US is expelling and torturing their slave labor. Immigrants do not receive any federal benefits, yet contribute hugely to the economy. 13,000,000 is the number I’ve heard, and that only covers undocumented immigrants, but they’re going for all of them. Does anyone expect expelling 3-4% of our cheap workforce works out?!
No matter how cold-blooded one’s take, this is fucking stupid.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 1 week ago:
We took the oil fields, which Hitler failed to do before starving his war machine of gasoline. We’re letting things settle in Venezuela before we take Greenland. Greenland is strategic as the Arctic sea lanes open and prospecting and mining become easier. Good place to defend the continent from air and sea.
Next? Mexico? No idea. But it looks like the US is making the same mistake as the Nazis, biting off more than we can chew based on the giddy atmosphere after initial wins and zero resistance. Yes, they’re that fucking dumb. It’s like they read the start of WWII history and called it a day.
Dumber even, Trump didn’t pull the US from economic disaster into short-term prosperity, quite the opposite. At least Hitler had the population in thrall because their economic situation improved. That’s, uh, not working out ATM, and there’s not future where it does.
And worse, the cult leader is clearly dying of frontotemporal dementia. (Not my armchair take, many doctors and psychiatrists have outlined the clear evidence.) They’re moving fast before Trump can’t be stood in front of a camera.
- Comment on really makes you think 1 week ago:
Florida water is weird here in the NW. Tap water is fairly “hot” in the summer since the lines are close to the surface. But YMMV. Our bathroom water is distinctly different than the kitchen water, in a tiny house, 8-years old. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 week ago:
I think I might as well, and I’ve taught corporate information security classes.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
I’ll ask you the same, do you believe people choose their attractions? Be very careful in your answer. If you say yes, then LGBT is a choice.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
I have no clue what MAP is, but can you point to the words that hurt you?
We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.
Or do you believe attraction is a choice? You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans? You can’t have it both ways. Pick. One.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 1 week ago:
Now THAT’S a shower thought. I can’t think of a single athlete that’s crossed over some many decades.
And of course lemmy is spitting, hissing mad.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 1 week ago:
I was a teen in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and overall, America was pretty fucking nice, especially the Clinton years. With the benefit of hindsight you can say we should have fought for X, Y and Z, but we weren’t at war, starving or overrun by fascists. Was a 20-something young man to have foreseen today’s disastrous climate? I was partying and getting laid.
And I have never once in this heard of this, “working in the shadows” bullshit. None of us talk that way, never have, we embraced being disconnected slackers.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
Neat! Don’t think I have the energy to do much about it, but that’s a great site, thank you very much!
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- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 1 week ago:
I run Windows but my VPN server is Debian.
- Comment on You know you've seen it before but just can't place it 1 week ago:
That’s somebody’s house, somebody with teeth and claws. Do not stick anything in there.
PRO TIP: You can get a clue if an animal hole is inhabited by looking at the ground in front of the entrance. Buncha leaves and crap? Empty. Fresh dirt in a spray? Somebody in there.
- Comment on Now you tell me 1 week ago:
1991, gf and I are visiting Broken Bow Reservoir in the very SE corner of Oklahoma. (Stunning place BTW! Seriously.)
Me: “What in the world are all those tiny blue tents?”
GF: “Roosters for cockfighting.”
Me: “They still do that?!”
Later that night, outside our cabin.
Me: “What is that noise?!”
GF: “Roosters.”
Same trip, we hit a convenience store to inquire about an ATM. I’m watching the girls behind the counter point and laugh at her. I could SEE her turning red before she storms out the door.
“What the fuck was that about?”
“I explained that I use this card to withdraw money from a bank machine and they laughed at me!”
Poor gf. Imagine being genius-level IQ and growing up in Oklahoma.
Another funny thing about that trip; Two broke college kids only needed to scrouge $70 for gas all the way across state, 2 nights in a private cabin and a day’s boat rental. Imagine that.
Anyway, felt like telling a story.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 week ago:
The year is 1998. I am reading an article from the future. I have no mouth and I must scream.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 1 week ago:
But they used to have Unifying Receivers that could handle 16 devices, and I don’t think a bad cert would cripple the software. Didn’t they stop making those a few years ago.
- Comment on xkcd #3191: Superstition 1 week ago:
You will love this:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
That first sentence tells me SO much. I never once thought of that.
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 1 week ago:
I’ve seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It’s rather complicated and pays pennies.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 week ago:
There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 1 week ago:
Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
If he’s found not guilty, he walks. But I can’t see him making it to the parking lot without being arrested of further trumped up charges.
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 1 week ago:
Hitler fucked up by not securing Russian oil supplies before prosecuting the wider war. The US is not making that mistake again.
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 week ago:
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 1 week ago:
Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
That first sentence is likely my answer! People are identifying with the memes, therefore they feel they belong to that group when they may truly not. I am not a smart man.
As to medication, LOL. My ADHD best friend and his ADHD wife brought some Ritalin home one afternoon. Very excited, they invited me to join in snorting a line. I was bouncing off the walls like I was on meth. They got calm and were very happy to just sit on the couch and talk.
Another funny one; When we were 17 a salesman in the department store offered us coffee he was selling. Gf: “No, that will put me to sleep.” Say what?! True enough. We met and lived with each other 10-years later, coffee knocked her out cold.
But what really turned my head was seeing my 6-yo daughter on medicine the first time. She never struck me as “abnormal” until I saw her on speed. We watched her literally stop and smell the flowers.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
Didn’t want to say it, but it sure seems trendy to me. Quick example from my daughter:
She had zero issues with eye contact until very recently. She reads memes telling her eye contact is a problem for people like her. Now she has problem.
I am NOT saying that issue is fake, but when a child is constantly bombarded with, “This is how you are!”, they become that way.
Part of my thoughts in the OP are, “We’re making normal behavior out to be abnormal and slapping a label on it. And perhaps we’re making it worse than need be.”
My mother constantly told me I was sickly as a child, and I was constantly sick. First year of college (without her influence) was my first year without a single illness, not even a mild cold. Miracle! Wait…
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
If I took her ADHD drugs, I’d be on speed. She takes them, she calms down. Yes, it’s speed, I’ve done loads, all kinds, I get it. Why else you think said drugs are so highly controlled? Shit’s nearly like meth to “normal” people.
Are you telling me to educate myself and implying there’s a genetic component to autism/ADHD? Imma need to see your notes.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
That is starting to make sense. Yet I’ve never met a human that experiences these things non-stop. My daughter can be “off” sometimes, but she’s mostly not. And yes, I understand it’s a spectrum, there are degrees.
- Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles.i.imgur.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 83 comments
- Comment on YSK: House flies always launch backwards, no exceptions. Creep behind them and they'll jump into your crushing hand. 1 week ago:
Kids broke the laser pointer, makes it really hard to use. But the SATISFACTION. :)
