ArbitraryValue

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Uyghurs in Guantanamo didn’t want to go back to China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember how prisoners were kept in Guantanamo Bay, even after they were no longer suspected of any wrongdoing, simply because there wasn’t a country that would both accept them and treat them in accordance with US law? Many of those prisoners ended up nowhere near where they came from.

  Some countries refuse to accept deportees. Some countries are so likely to mistreat deportees that sending them to those countries is illegal. Some countries simply don’t exist anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump administration orders halt to in-progress wind farm construction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What can “never” mean here?

  For coal, however, if you invest 1kWh you typically get below 0.4 kWh in return.

  So people run coal plants to destroy energy? Like, you have too much electricity and so you build a coal plant to get rid of it?

  I’m not sure that whatever metric this sources matches what most people think when they hear “energy amortization”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bezos looks pretty good for a man his age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also a very active user of traditional forums but, in my experience, small subreddits (when I was on Reddit) were a decent substitute, since posts could stay on their front page for several days. The thing I missed most wasn’t actually the format but the community. I knew the people on the forum I posted on the most.

  There was the guy with a kind, insightful take on controversial issues and a fetish for women with more than two arms. The active duty marine who reliably posted harsh truths. The feminist I didn’t get along with at all despite agreeing with her about most things. The dedicated father who bought real razor wire for his daughter when she wanted a UN-peacekeeper-base themed birthday party. The very determined conservative who defended his position no matter how outnumbered he was and once bragged that he had given his wife several dozen orgasms in a row…

  I suppose I was the young man with strange views about what was or wasn’t fair and a great deal of anger over any perceived unfairness. (I don’t think I was particularly well-liked.) It’s hard to find that sort of thing on the internet these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-Israel Group Asks Pam Bondi to Investigate YouTube Star Ms. Rachel - The far right thinks Ms. Rachel should be under investigation for caring about kids in Gaza.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Her posts are extremely mild. Is singling her out a publicity stunt?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Dark take) Ghibli filter trend is just people hiding how ugly they are⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t we all want to hide how ugly we are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh darn.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re still capable of feeling joy on the inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says Trump tariffs will boost inflation, slow an already weakening U.S. economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a hard time believing this. It’s more of the 4D chess that his supporters believed he was playing, but I think the evidence has shown that he isn’t pretending to be foolish. If a different sort of President instituted tariffs then this could have been the plan, but if it happens how it will be happening by coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told that enjoying cocaine with your coworkers is ok, if you’re in finance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I got my dog at the shelter, they told me two things about him:

  • He liked to eat garbage.

  • He liked being held like a baby.

  He was a good size for it too, about 30 lbs. Big enough for a real hug, but not too heavy to lift comfortably. He would press his neck against mine when I held him - I think that was the way he reciprocated. The funny thing is that he was jealous about my hugs. If I hugged another person, he would whine, stand on his hind legs, and try to push that person away from me with his front legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a bee, you’re not a bee, so it sounds like a them problem.

  (On the internet, no one knows you’re a bee.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that is the most based I have ever seen a machine be. Truly technology is amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calm your tits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re making the exact mistake he is asking you not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have been spiteful enough to return my new laptop (despite needing it for a trip I had in a couple of days) if I wasn’t able to bypass the account requirement by disabling the wifi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrorists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it’s not just some guy vandalizing a car, or else you wouldn’t be making memes about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battle Brothers gets an update two years on from its last one with some fixes and, surprisingly, some new content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A great game if you like gritty fantasy, turn based tactics, and losing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like to be a moderate? I’ll propose giving the hogs the assault rifles and you’ll instantly become a moderate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say we cede the country to the pigs. They might do a better job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are old people usually attracted to other old people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re one of several people mentioning shared cultural references, but if you’re male and your partner is female then I’m surprised that she has any interest in things like Thundercats or He-Man regardless of her age. I’m a nerdy heterosexual man, and in my experience practically no women share my interests or hobbies. Therefore my relationships have been built around doing the things that pretty much everyone enjoys - eating a nice meal, going for a walk, talking about current events, playing with pets, etc. A good partner is someone who enjoys doing these ordinary things with me. Maybe someone who does share my interests would be even better but I don’t think finding a person like that is likely enough to be worth trying.

  I wonder why your experience is apparently so different from mine. Am I unusual or are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my house, my rules.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just fill your living room with radioactive waste and they’ll come put this sign up for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are old people usually attracted to other old people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But are you saying that there can be romantic attraction without physical aspects, or are you talking about romantic attraction with fewer physical aspects but more emotional ones?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are old people usually attracted to other old people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by “emotional attraction”? I enjoy spending time with my good friends, and I would even say that I love them in the way that friends love each other, but I am not attracted to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are old people usually attracted to other old people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how I could want to date someone who I wouldn’t want to have sex with. The man I mentioned who is no longer attracted to women his age has a person in his life who was his girlfriend when they met 25 years ago and the two of them still enjoy spending time together but they no longer have a physical relationship.

  I can understand how you don’t want to date someone a lot younger than you, although I don’t have any personal experience with that - I’ve never had a partner more than a couple of years younger than I am. However, I’m a man who has had little in common with most of the women I’ve dated, simply because I have little in common with most women. (My hobbies might be crudely called “autistic”.) Thus, for me dating has involved finding women I get along with surprisingly well despite having so little in common.

  Maybe I really wouldn’t enjoy the company of someone a lot younger than me, but the main problems I foresee are that (1) no one like that would want to date me and (2) even if I found someone like that who wanted to date me now then I doubt she would still want to date me when I was old as opposed to just middle-aged.

• Are old people usually attracted to other old people?
  Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨31⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The memes, they write themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the question was probably disingenuous. There may not be any stupid questions but there are questions intended to start arguments about politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hentai is art⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I wanted to be constrained by flesh and bone then I’d be looking at 3D porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actually it's pretty cool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you need me, I’ll be in my homogenized breeding blanket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop touching your stuff!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can hang onto the penis of someone who’s climbing.