GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on Common Ground 5 days ago:
There’s a quote from Robert A. Heinlein that I like to bring up:
Of what use, then, are the American Communists?
They serve one function extremely useful to you and to the country, so useful that, if there were no Communists, we would almost be forced to create some. They are a reliable litmus paper for detecting real sources of danger to the Republic.
Communism is so repugnant to almost all Americans, when they are getting along even tolerably well, that one may predict with certainty that any social field or group in which the Communists make real strides in gaining members or acceptance of their doctrines, any such spot is in such bad shape from real and not imaginary social ills that the rest of us should take emergency, drastic action to investigate and correct the trouble.
Replace “Communist” with “Conservative” and the quote works the exact same way. People don’t take on awful political views in a total vacuum. Their lives and futures got messed up somehow, and in all probability by vast forces beyond their comprehension, let alone their control. And then they went looking for what felt like real answers, and someone was willing to say to them “I’ve got the solution to your problems.”
On some level, their grievances are real. They just got sold on a lie about what could be done to fix them.
- Comment on The First Generation! 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I only just learned about it today, myself. I work that day, but I might be able to shift things around.
I really wish that these protests were more widely shared in advance. I want to be involved, but only getting a couple of days advance warning makes it really hard. I know that sometimes you have to act fast, but if you want your movement to succeed then you’ve got to try to consider the real lives of all of the people who want to help, but are also really limited in their time. Plan protests on weekends, and if you’ve got to protest on a weekday, then plan it way ahead of time and give everyone a chance to plan to be there. I’m sure it looks better to have one big protest with 10X people there than ten protests with 1X people attending.
- Comment on Question about flip cap bottles on mastodon, do you have any suggestions where to get them? 4 weeks ago:
World Market sells fancy sparkling lemonade in clear latch top bottles like this.
- Comment on Which will you choose? 2 months ago:
If you’re interacting with something every day, talking about things like your phone case, your wallet, maybe a pocket knife or keyring, any of those objects should make you happy, or at least not cause you any anxiety. Think of how many hundreds of thousands of little interactions you’ll have with that thing, and multiply the feeling during that moment, and consider the net total during the lifetime of the object.
I had a number pad that I was using almost every day, but it was a bit crummy, so I splurged and got a better one. If I have to use this thing all the time, then by God I’m going to enjoy using it!
- Comment on Anotha one 2 months ago:
It’s to show that the spoon has Wifi.
- Comment on duhh 2 months ago:
Pinatas
The tape they stretch across race finish lines
Karate dojo boards
- Comment on oh no 3 months ago:
The entire world is covered in a fine layer of poo particles. Really, anything that isn’t covered in poo is the outlier and ought to be highly suspicious.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 3 months ago:
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 3 months ago:
Drive through rural America and see how many underpopulated small towns there are. Shuttered businesses for lack of customers. Abandoned buildings. These places need people.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 months ago:
Because daddy famously loves McDonald’s and he’s hoping that if he shows sufficient brand loyalty that eventually daddy will love him.
The sheer amount of untreated generational trauma in this photo is astounding. I can only imagine how much less fucked up the world would be if more rich fathers could be bothered to actually raise and love their kids.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 3 months ago:
Put on some halfway decent headphones and try out the virtual barbershop.
- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 3 months ago:
I got his autograph at a convention once. Most celebrities fall somewhere close to the middle of the “smile, nod, sign autograph, receive money” curve. Tony Todd started asking me questions about what I was doing at the con, what sort of stuff I was looking forward to. He was sweet and kind and giving to a gigantic dork to whom he owed nothing, and he gave me a memory that I’ll cherish forever. He deserves every ounce of praise he’ll receive, and more.
- Comment on Capsaicin 3 months ago:
I love sitting neck-deep in an outdoor hot tub on a cold day!
- Comment on Nintendo's new music app is a clone of YouTube Music. 3 months ago:
Better for what? I only listen to mp3s I’ve got stored on my phone; I use BlackPlayer for that, and I love it. For streaming music purposes… I dunno, I never got into that racket.
- Comment on The Catholic Church Unveils Anime Inspired Official Mascot Of The Holy Year 2025 3 months ago:
Surely the internet will not be weird about this. Surely no degeneracy will commence.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 months ago:
We’re doing the extra-silly speedthrough right now. Next time will be much more comprehensible.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 months ago:
Instructions unclear.
GotGod diagnosed with lead poisoningWell, that certainly explains the platypus!
- Comment on Super Bonsai Entertainment System 4 months ago:
Deep fried pecan pie on a stick!
- Submitted 4 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 months ago:
Colorado River toad:
Humanity: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Urticaria 4 months ago:
Oh, I’ve got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don’t wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I’m not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn’t even develop until I was in my thirties, so it’s not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it’s second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 months ago:
Treat your taste kindly with KENT, the cigarette with the NEW Micronite filter!
^^Micronite ^^is ^^asbestos.
- Comment on Oxbowin' 4 months ago:
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 4 months ago:
Sorry
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 5 months ago:
“Big, beautiful submarine captains come up to me. Covered with muscles, muscles like nobody has ever seen before. Tears running down their cheeks. They say ‘Sir, thank you for sending us to the South China Sea! Nobody ever sent us there before!’ But I don’t get angry! I should get angry and sometimes I do get angry, but with these captains I don’t get angry. They say ‘Thank you, sir! Thank you!’ But nobody ever thought of South China before! I came up with that, but nobody gives me credit for South China!”
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 5 months ago:
“Anyone can become President.”
Me, thinking about Abraham Lincoln or Bill Clinton: “Yeah!”
“Anyone can become President.”
Me, aware of Donald Trump, with Tucker Carlson waiting in the wings: “Oh no!”
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 5 months ago:
I’m just imagining being the poor sap working for a foreign power trying to extract useful information from his cottage cheese brain.
“Where! Are! The nuclear! Subs! Deployed!”
“Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.”
- Comment on Grim Fandango 5 months ago:
There was a (Limited Run Games release)[limitedrungames.com/…/grim-fandango-remastered?sr…] , and although they seem to be sold out online, I saw some physical copies in their retail store just the other day.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating 5 months ago:
With as much as they talked about the irrevocable destruction of the global ecosystem coming up in a matter of months, and then the constantly rotating day-night cycle, I imagine it would be possible to find out if your in-game time played actually was more or less than that deadline. It would be hilarious if the world was going to end in six months but then the math showed that you actually spent more than a year running around shooting the fins off of robi-pterodactyls.
