kryptonianCodeMonkey
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- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 14 hours ago:
Richard Pinheiro was found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of fabricating evidence in 2018 and received a three-year suspended sentence and two years of supervised probation, according to the Baltimore Sun.
How in the hell is malicious fraud that results in destroying someone’s livelihood, reputation, and freedom with years of a jailtime only a misdemeanor with a suspended sentence and probation. This kind of egregious action is waaaaay more damaging to the public welfare and safety than an individual possessing drugs for personal use, and yet the former gets you a “shame a on you”, and the latter rips you from your family, your job, your life. This is some backwards shit.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 2 days ago:
I kept getting mixed up with Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, and got really excited then disappointed when I heard about Outer Worlds 2, thinking that Outer Wilds was getting a sequel. So it was always a bummer to me even without actually playing the game.
- Comment on What kind of stupid rule is that? 3 days ago:
“Everybody knows […]” means my parent(s) had some weird or strict rules and life lessons that I had hounded into me which I internalized into my very being and never questioned, and now I have unspoken and often unrealistic expectations of people and the world that no one has absolutely any reason to know about.
- Comment on New Fable game removes feature core to franchise's DNA 1 week ago:
Right? Also it’s not like the mechanic is universally loved. The good vs evil decision features of games (like in Fable, Infamous, Knights of the Old Republic, etc.) are often heavily criticized for being obvious, simplistic, forced, and sometimes even punishing to some play styles or mistakes by restricting some skills behind one alignment or the other.
I liked it as a mechanic personally, but I am also interested to see how the new evolution on the mechanic works. Maybe it’s shit, maybe it’s a more nuanced version of the old one. We’ll see.
- Comment on Butter 3 weeks ago:
I follow Paula Dean’s advice when it comes to butter. And only that one subject.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 5 weeks ago:
Cool features… wild name.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 5 weeks ago:
I… wh… sniffies?
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 month ago:
And nobody knows what to call them, so they just say “you know who”
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 month ago:
Year three: alleged killer on the loose but nobody gets hurt
I mean, several students get attacked by a werewolf and 100 dementors in the same night, nearly resulting in 3 people (2 of them students) losing their very souls. And of course, poor Draco maimed by Buckb- uh… I mean, Witherwings.
Year five: strangely, no attacks on the school
That’s a very diplomatic way to skirt around the governmental coup of the school implementing totalitarian control by a racist megalomaniac, restricting basic rights, turning students into secret police, and punishing discent with literal fucking torture.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 month ago:
Geezer that’s dark. Upvote.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Inside a whole raw onion before shoving that up your ass
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 month ago:
Onions are vile and I’ll tell you where you can shove your judgement.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 1 month ago:
Hard pass.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 1 month ago:
Counter point. Onions are vile and make eating out a constant annoyance for me because they’re in everything.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 1 month ago:
I hate onion. I dont cook it. Can’t stand the smell of it. Best case scenario, I use onion powder in something. I still get these comments, so… no.
- Comment on imagine 1 month ago:
The set of Real numbers excluding the Naturals
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
Brits: I like my food like I like my trousers. Beige and tasting of cotton.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The approximate location where we should drop all the billionaires without floaties.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 month ago:
20 unless I am too exhausted to shower before bed, then it’s 3.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Right? Feel bad for anyone that just had a system fry or have been saving up to upgrade.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 2 months ago:
I think you misunderstood the intent of my comment. I wasn’t, in any way, attacking you. I was just providing commentary on one small part of your comment on the general summary of the cause of the issues. None of what I said was meant to be accusatory or even directed at you at all. Sorry that I wasn’t clear about that. It sounds like we are in more or less complete agreement.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 2 months ago:
The communities want access to the huge social safety net
As anyone would and as should be provided to them lest they be treated as second class citizens in their new country. You want tensions to rise, restricting the same benefits that are a right for everyone else is a good start.
but not have to pay taxes
Again, as anyone might. But then, of course, this is non-negotiable. Maybe some subsidy can be given to help people get started in a new country with next to no resources, connections or money, but the taxes come with the perks and the perks come with the taxes. That’s just the beginning and end of that.
or assimilate/learn the native language
You couldn’t pay me to give the slightest fuck that a 1st generation immigrant, let alone a refugee who was forced to leave their home, doesn’t assimilate into the local culture or learn the native language. They have to obey your laws and participate in and contribute to your society. But they do not need to fall in line with your culture. I get that that can be challenging and cause some conflict. American history is full of this stories. But immigrants bring their own culture, their own language, their own races and religions. Those are not things to erased, they are things to be remembered, honored, shared, and ultimately merged.
And it won’t happen all at once. It will happen over generations. Their kids will assimilate a bit, and they’ll share their culture with their native peers. What’s strange and foreign now will become familiar ethnic diversity to your kids. A few generations from now, you’ll eventually have a shared culture that shares roots from distant places but comes together into one intertwined whole.
There’s certainly a lot of problems with America, and there’s been and is no shortage of bigotry and struggle against new cultures coming in. But that amalgamation of cultures, languages, cuisines, styles, architectures, myths, histories, religions, etc. into American Culture while still honoring distinct cultural and national identities is still one of our greatest features (when the nazi racists aren’t in charge that is). That’s the nature of being a nation of immigrants. Welcome to the Melting Pot, baby.
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 2 months ago:
Right I don’t know why everyone gets pissed off about language in particular with first generation immigrants. Particularly refugees. Learning a new language is a massive undertaking, and it’s a skill many never master even with years of practice. Plenty, I’m sure, feel that they can get by without it by living in their communities, so they’re not motivated. And I don’t think they should be. Far easier for their children to learn and assimilate, break down that language barrier and bridge that gap. It’s absurd to expect everyone to speak one language.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 2 months ago:
Gotta cover up your war crimes and lies. Survivors could tell the world that they’re innocents, not ‘narco-terrorists’, and prove the US is attacking Venezuelan boats on bullshit supposed Intel to try and incite retaliation to justify their war they absolutely intend to start.
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
I generate bugs.
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 months ago:
What’s that? You’re not tired and you haven’t seen anyone open their mouth big, but you read about a hypothetical person opening their mouth big? Bad news…
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 months ago:
Herc and Megara went through college with me, moved back into my mom’s with me, through a couple apartments and into my first home before they finally split in half in the dishwasher.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 2 months ago:
9, but we had some saucers with 8, I think.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
Headline: Save 200 dollars a month with a 50 year mortgage over a 30 year!
Subtext: … and end up paying double the interest to us for the benefit, and die before your loan is paid off so we get to take the house back from your corpse, sell it on the cheap to a corporate real-estate investment firm (that we have stock in) for just enough to cover the remaining mortgage balance. They’ll turn your multi-generational family home into a shitty rental property or leave it empty to keep the rest of their rents high and your children get nothing cuz fuck em!
- Comment on The Confederacy (or whatever) 2 months ago:
Skinny arms, skinny torso… neck thicker than his head. By anatomical proportionality, he might be the most redneck to ever exist.