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- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 3 days ago:
For most of them, it’s because they truly, deeply believe that if they don’t convert you, you’re going to burn in hell for eternity when you die.
For most of the leaders of those sorts of churches, it’s because more people means more money for that new private jet they’re saving up for.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 6 days ago:
Does it make sense to nitpick how much they’re getting though? The fact that they’re being denied any bonus is shady as fuck.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nothing sinister at all. It has a long and proven track record. Which you can check out if you don’t want to be low-info anymore. Doctors and dentists support it.
But there’s a subset of people who want us to go back to disease-ridden serfs, because when your teeth are falling out and 3 out of your 5 kids died young from disease and you can barely make rent, you’re too distracted to care what other people are doing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s only pros. It’s proven to prevent cavities in children and adults, much better than brushing alone.
There’s also the sad fact that not every kid is taught to—or sometimes allowed to—brush their teeth.
- Comment on A chemical industry lobbyist is attempting to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Nothing more to be said 3 weeks ago:
Bark bark bark
Shoo, go sealion somewhere else
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
OTOH, if this is in the US, we are almost entirely at-will when it comes to employment; we can be terminated at any time, for something as petty as the boss not liking our socks, no heads-up required.
Here the two weeks notice is considered a courtesy, and sadly fewer and fewer businesses are proving worthy of that courtesy. It seems from the post title that this company did not deserve much respect at all.
- Comment on Calm down 1 month ago:
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 1 month ago:
When the ‘Father of Modern Gynecology’ is a douche like this, it’s really not that surprising that women continue to be ignored.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Curious, since I’ve never filleted a fish before; what would you do for bigger fish like salmon?
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 2 months ago:
Keep in mind too that they’re not always accurate. I know of one in my city that regularly takes photos of people going through on the green because it’s a bit of a wonky intersection. And that means a person gets to spend their day in court instead of at work fighting a ticket they did not deserve.
- Comment on Eggs 2 months ago:
Age matters too. Older eggs are easier to peel.
- Comment on The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color 2 months ago:
So Octarine, basically.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Hey, I never said it was a good design lol
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 2 months ago:
Honestly not sure. Haven’t been to an arcade in years.
I should go to one again.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 2 months ago:
That was by design, actually. A lot of the old arcade games were like that.
It was to get people to either quit after a bit of playing so a new person could step in and give the machine money, or have the person who lost at the hard level put more money in.
Otherwise at just a quarter the machines become unprofitable. Just capitalism things.
- Comment on Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says 2 months ago:
52-56%, in case anyone didn’t want to read the article.
I’d call that ‘barely more than half’, myself. Almost 50% of Americans still think this cretin is doing great. In fact, according to the article, 80% of republicans still love him, and 51% of white Americans think he ‘should be given all the power he needs to restore America’s greatness’.
Of course, 70% think his concentration camps are a bad idea, so there’s that, I guess.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 months ago:
? Pretty sure that’s not what they said.
They said that there are people on Lemmy who think a person who stabs someone vs a person who doesn’t are morally equivalent—as long as they’re both poor.
Very different.
They did also say that there are poor people who stab others and blame their actions on being poor, but that was tangential to their main point about judging the morals of a person solely based on their wealth or lack thereof.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 2 months ago:
This is intentional. They are doing this to force people to quit without firing them.
As a bonus, the people who leave tend to be the most skilled, and thus the highest paid, making their bottom line look even better!
Of course this also destroys morale, productivity, and long-term will probably tank the company, but as long as line go up now for shareholders/owners the ones at the top don’t care. After all, they’ll just walk away with their golden parachutes guaranteeing a safe landing.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 months ago:
Because then they’d have to deport most Republican lawmakers.
- Comment on Appers 2 months ago:
Satire is indeed dead
- Comment on What is your favorite movie? 3 months ago:
Blazing Saddles. Soooo many good lines!
- Comment on Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say 3 months ago:
They fear brown people taking over (aka the ‘great replacement theory’) and doing to them what they do to brown people.
They also see PoC as lesser and therefore needing to be lower on the totem pole; if they get rights, or even (gasp!) high-level jobs then they move up the totem pole, which is a violation of the ‘natural order’. And they believe that if the natural order is violated, society itself will collapse.
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 3 months ago:
Oh man this is perfect lol
I remember a meme circulating a little while ago that went something like, ‘People who change their opinions because they’re annoyed by liberals are weak-willed; liberals are annoyed by other liberals every single day.’
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
-Isaac Asimov
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 4 months ago:
Hahahaha I’d forgotten about that! Man, and people unironically call him a genius still.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 months ago:
I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.
The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.
The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.
We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 4 months ago:
They meant the question showed a viewpoint that seemed to center entirely around you (also a rather libertarian thing, honestly).
‘Someone who would never build something for you’ sounds a bit like you’re expecting a tit-for-tat, I-do-this-for-you-so-you-have-to-do-something-for-me in everything, and that’s just not how societies work.
I’m curious; are you using that phrase to refer to, say, rich assholes who just take and take, or Nazi assholes that would rather cut off their own hands than build something a black person might use? Or are you using it to refer to people like severely disabled folks, or say, low-functioning autistic people, who society supports but who don’t have much capacity to ‘return the favor’?
Or are you just referring to future generations, who will be around after you’re gone?