Dagwood222
@Dagwood222@lemm.ee
- Comment on The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked 1 day ago:
You are trying to be sarcastic, but you’re just reporting the facts
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 1 day ago:
One more thing…
- Comment on The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked 2 days ago:
In other words, we need to spend more tax dollars on more advanced weapons.
- Comment on A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator. 2 days ago:
[off topic]
bookshop.org/p/books/…/11019356?ean=9781538751480…
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler.
Shape shifter meets a body thief. If he inhabits her body, she will die and he’ll never be able to get more children from her.
That’s the first chapter.
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 2 days ago:
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner’s book, "Stand On Zanzibar’ won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It’s set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 2 days ago:
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. “Future shock” was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn’t/wouldn’t deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 2 days ago:
Castro is still winning…
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 2 days ago:
John D. MacDonald
bookshop.org/p/books/…/11739897?ean=9780812985283…
I’m pretty sure it’s from this novel, but I could be wrong.
MacDonald was talking about the environment long before the first Earth Day.
- Comment on Curiosity may have killed the cat, but I'm a filthy raccoon on the side of the road 2 days ago:
“Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die.”
- Comment on Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺 2 days ago:
A Florida native once wrote that that the people who most want to stop Florida overdevelopment are the ones who brought their house last week.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 days ago:
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 days ago:
Your comment blows, dude…
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 days ago:
They were invented in the 1950s.
So the Depression and the World Wars were quieter…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Check local driving schools. They might have one.
- Comment on Good shit 4 days ago:
I’m surprised no one has done gold plated ones yet.
- Comment on Good shit 1 week ago:
Many years ago, SNL did a satire ad about a three bladed razor. It’s 2025 and satire is as dead as alchemy
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl…
I couldn’t find an explicit law against being left handed, but social pressure is a real thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In an ideal world, they wouldn’t be. This is 2025.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
???
Trans rights aren’t political?
Women’s rights isn’t political?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
First, That’s what happens when you’re living under a dictator.
Second, even in normal times, everything is political. How much you get paid, and how your boss treats you, and how banks work, and how the roads look, and everything else you see is the result of a political choice.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 1 week ago:
Making things worse only makes things worse.
- Comment on This was the theme song used in a documentary about a failed corporation. Can you name the company? 1 week ago:
My first thought, because Enron was the only company I could think of that would be a popular subject for a documetary.
- Comment on This was the theme song used in a documentary about a failed corporation. Can you name the company? 1 week ago:
Enron?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You kids and yio
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Go get this book.
“Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gail. It’s a series of self tests you can do in half a day, followed by a long list of jobs that use your particular skills.
I got the book when I was on worker’s comp after an industrial accident. It pointed me at a job I’d never even considered. Turns out I really liked that job. It let me use my brains and paid a decent salary.
Think of it this way. A nurse and a hair stylist both need good people skills and dexterity. Two totally different types of work, but the same skill set.
If you have a job that lets you wake up on a rainy Monday and not hate going to work, you’ve solved most of your problems.
- Comment on How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer 2 weeks ago:
You are correct.
I’ll edit.
- Comment on How Trump could make Americans permanently poorer 2 weeks ago:
This is a long standing GOP policy.
When Nixon was elected in 1968 it was a peace candidate. Instead of ending the Vietnam War Nixon tripled down on all of Johnson’s failed policies, especially printing money to pay for the War without raising taxes. This started inflation and the Oil Crisis made it a giant problem.
When Jimmy Carter came in he hired Paul Volker to reverse the trend. It worked, but only after Carter was out of office. Reagan kept Volker on and benefitted from Carter’s plan. Then Reagan turned around and cut taxes for the rich without cutting spending. That ballooned the deficit and caused the mess that cost Bush Sr. his second term.
Clinton benefitted from the 1990’s tech boom and was on the verge of paying off the debt. Bush Jr. came in and decided he could have two wars and tax cuts because why not.
- Comment on I (M32) gained 140lbs in a year from bad choices, almost all in my belly (now 69-inches) due to rare genetics. With my unique proportions, I’ve outgrown most off-the-rack clothing options. Advice? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a really good and easy exercise plan. 15 minutes a day, work at your own pace, and the only equipment you need is a stopwatch.
bookshop.org/p/books/…/16885677?ean=9781773237756…
Also available online for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
When Ronald Reagan proposed trickle-down in 1979, opposing candidate George W. Bush dismissed it as ‘voo-doo’ economics. Later, Bush was happy to push for it when he got the nomination to be Reagan’s Veep
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 weeks ago:
They are just harmless fireworks. They are even useful for signaling ships at sea of dangerous tides.