PhlubbaDubba
@PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 26 minutes ago:
And that they’ll actually follow through with breaking that filibuster,
Fuckin’ Manchin and Sinema, the fuckin’ bootlicking little tagnuts.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 28 minutes ago:
Not to mention he got that all done with a majority that was actually “guaranteed” to be able to do stuff for all of a few weeks, during which his senate majority actively sabotaged Obamacare from being a public option healthcare act, because fuckin Manchincrats just have to be the singularly most determined to be killjoy assholes on the face of the entire fucking planet
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 2 days ago:
Lib bashing in left spaces is the mating cry of the tanky
It might be cathartic every so often, but too much makes the wrong people feel safe.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 2 days ago:
Obama’s election made them angry, Trump’s made them forget their shame
- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 4 days ago:
Not to mention the people answering the questions are liable to just start accusing you of being an idiot if you make any less progress with their solution than “it’s been fixed so hard that it gained five new functions I didn’t even write into it!”
- Comment on It's been tough, y'all 4 days ago:
worked for Boeing
Jesus fuck they just can’t catch a break can they?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 5 days ago:
Honestly the short form content incentivizing formats should be dropped altogether. Short form content has pretty clearly fried people’s attention spans and burnt a lot of their fuse to boot.
The incentive to be smug snappy and smarmy to own people for internet points is too much, nevermind the algorithms that more or less act as a match finder for mass shouting contests as opposed to organic socialization where people who aren’t psychopaths tend to have the good sense to just ignore each other if they encounter irreconcilable differences of ethical and political values.
That’s right, the echo chamber was invented by the social media companies to gaslight you for not being happy they basically play rage tinder with your feed.
- Comment on Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity? 5 days ago:
Shrubbery! I heard some lot galloping by with coconuts looking for a shrubbery!
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 5 days ago:
In fairness divorce rates are high because of young people getting divorced because they realized they shouldn’t have gotten married while they were still growing out of their early adulthood.
The only reason arranged marriage societies seem to have a higher success rate is because divorce is rare since who someone gets married to is often determined by family standing and the party who wants a divorce is often browbeaten into compliance to not jeopardize the benefit of that marriage tie.
Were divorce not so stigmatized that you yourself literally cited it as a failure metric of love marriages, arranged marriage societies would likely see even higher divorce rates than love match societies, as love match societies will exhibit low to moderate social pressure to seek marriage, while arranged match societies can feature families shopping suitors as soon as the kid hits legal age of consent, and maybe even before then if they’re especially sprung on controlling their kids’ life.
US divorce rates would be cut down by requiring a prenup to get a marriage license. Arranged marriage societies would see marriages and families implode across the land if abused spouses ever felt reasonably safe that they could divorce without being ruined for it either by their family, the courts, or the vigilante lynch mob their STBX calls up in retaliation for them trying to escape.
- Comment on Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures? 5 days ago:
In a less individualistic society the benefit a family gains by curating who an individual member can wed is seen as well worth it to occasionally have to emotionally and sometimes even physically beat them into submission because they genuinely hate their partner.
- Comment on Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity? 5 days ago:
Tbf the root of door dates to when it was most likely the hole in the hut you walked in through
- Comment on Is cave exploration an indoor or an outdoor activity? 5 days ago:
Depending on the development of the spelunking infrastructure entering the cave might entail going in then outdoors again.
Indoors is an enclosed building, outdoors is everything outside of that
- Comment on *Naruto 6 days ago:
I mean my parents raised me and my sibling when they were that much older and I’d say the two of us are a sight more well adjusted than a significant number of highschool sweetheart honeymoon babies that are running around.
The point is that it’s not the age, it’s the character of the parent that matters most.
- Comment on Labor Certification for Permanent Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States; Modernizing Schedule A To Include Consideration of Additional Occupations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and 6 days ago:
I’m not even in tech anymore and I’m filling out that form. If anything government agencies should bring the hammer down on making sure the tech companies are even actually trying to hire local before they go looking for visa hires or if they’re just meeting the bare minimum to satisfy appearances while refusing all local applicants.
- Comment on Language 6 days ago:
Plus it was based on a complete misunderstanding of how the Hopi language works. He basically declared that they don’t have the concept of time, which later linguists pretty succinctly debunked with some basic experimenting.
What that showed out was that speakers of a language will rarely lack a concept altogether that would affect their way of understanding the world around them, but they will have different linguistic tools that reframe their understanding of that concept specifically, so for example a lot of languages that don’t distinguish blue from green or see other groups of colors under the same word, will have those basic color words, but then also have some differentiation via modifying the word for specificity. So it’s not that they don’t understand the difference, they just don’t see the difference as significant enough to warrant them being labelled distinctly.
Orange as a distinct color is relatively new for example, they’re called red heads because at that time orange was seen as just a shade of red.
- Comment on *Naruto 6 days ago:
Meh, my cousin didn’t have his first kid until he was in his 40s, ya got plenty of time to figure out, for example, if you even want a partner and kids, or if you just see those as milestones ya gotta tap to not disappoint people around you.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 days ago:
My guess that the prior comment either reflects an assumption that non western capitalists are somehow better than western capitalists or that China’s capitalists aren’t a capitalist class.
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 days ago:
Ah yes, great way to fuck over our capitalists, by supporting their worse capitalists instead
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Can you prosecute someone for mass autocide?
Like is it suicide if an entire cultural demographic all do it together because they just spite the world for expecting them to know shame that much?
- Comment on US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week 6 days ago:
I’m usually against tariffs but in this case it seems like a pretty fair tit for tat to China basically removing the budgetary concerns for their manufacturers that said manufacturer’s international counterparts won’t have.
Subsidizing local production for local markets is fine enough, but exporting products made with an infinite money glitch active is more or less an intentional play at market capture.
And before some sinoboo tries to gatcha me I do also object to examples where the west subsidizes domestic production for international markets.
- Comment on That's Life 1 week ago:
I mean tbf Joker is wealthy enough to put a deposit down for a new electric car
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Remember when adding the word blockchain to an Iced Tea company’s name caused share prices to jump?
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 week ago:
He achieved in death what he could not in life, a way for Blitz and the rest of the IMP crew to no longer be able to make constant sex jokes around and about him.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 1 week ago:
OkC seems to think I’m an absolute Adonis by Indian Ocean trade corridor standards, got hit up by folks from Uganda to Iran to India to Cambodia to Indonesia.
Thing kept insisting on showing my profile in those regions apparently despite me pretty consistently searching exclusively in the Northeast of the US.
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 1 week ago:
Having faced similar rejection stats in both, can confirm, and in fact I pointed this out to a relative of mine who works in hiring assistance.
She was at least able to assure me that my resume and interview were not the problem, but honestly I don’t know if that makes me feel better or worse, I know it isn’t me, but now I also know there’s literally nothing I can do to beat the trend.
- Comment on As Israel Begins “Final Phase” of Genocide, Biden Slams Pro-Palestine Protests 1 week ago:
I keep harping on this point, if Progressives put in the effort of being a persistent voting bloc, democratic politicians would be a lot more scared of the possibility of being primaried than they are of the possibility that progressives yet again will need to be reminded how the math works on them not voting or voting third party out of spite.
This is literally how the far right captured the republican party. I sign my name in Arabic, 30 years ago that would have been an easy guess that I voted republican, along with most Latine and Asian folks. Persistent electoral projection is how the right took the party that marketed itself as the big tent for all traditional values in america and turned it into the Racist Chrisnats we deal with at present. Had the left put in the same effort over the same period of time, Bernie would be considered a party establishment leader.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Because the right doesn’t have a system of morals, just a list of justifications.
The center and left actually feel bad if they don’t live up to their own ideals and so try to avoid behaving in ways that run counter to those ideals unless it becomes absolutely necessary for them to do so, and even then they’ll still feel like shit for it.
See also, all those AITA posts where OP is very obviously in the right and just snapped after years of abuse, but has been gaslit hard enough to start doubting themselves because biting back just feels wrong to normal people.
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 1 week ago:
I thought paperclip was to bring scientists over to copy Germany’s rocket science homework not to import Nietzsche being a raving mad coke fiend
- Comment on Are we the baddies? 1 week ago:
Who in the ever loving fuck did we put in charge of this‽
- Comment on The reason prosthetics are so good in Star Wars is because the Jedi use live lightsabers to train. 1 week ago:
Funny thing is that limb slicing is actually the primary goal of several lightsaber techniques, since the opponent will usually be trying to guard their vital organs and will leave the limbs relatively more exposed.