elbucho
@elbucho@lemmy.world
- Comment on Carl? 1 week ago:
God damn, Nature. You scary.
- Comment on Unhoused Man Builds Entire House On The Side Of A Los Angeles Freeway 3 weeks ago:
Given that it’s Los Angeles, that shelter could probably go for about $175,000.
- Comment on tremendous 3 weeks ago:
“Population” could also mean “Eligible voting population”, not just “total population”. Both contexts work.
- Comment on tremendous 3 weeks ago:
Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.
So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
…such as the suppression of fire, or the psychical thinning of fuels in forests, or prescribed burns.
I’m definitely picturing Jedi clearing debris from the forest floors using the Force, now.
- Comment on Chuck Norris ACTION JANTS 2 months ago:
- Comment on Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court 2 months ago:
I recently read Neil Stephenson’s book called “Fall”, in which a significant chunk of the novel is set about 30 years in the future. At that point in time, large swathes of America are referred to as “Ameristan”, because they are break-away territories ruled by evangelical warlords. It feels surprisingly prescient.
- Comment on I have the POWER! 2 months ago:
Carpet does NOT match the drapes.
- Comment on “My next child could be retarded. So could yours.” Barbra Streisand for The National Association for Retarded Children (NARC) - Imgur 2 months ago:
Same with “simpleton”, “idiot”, “feeble-minded”, and “imbecile”. It really is fascinating how language evolves.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 2 months ago:
Ah, a fellow “Cracking the Cryptic” lover, I see.
- Comment on xkcd 2879: Like This One 3 months ago:
A lot of sentences undergo startling shifts in mood if you add ‘like this one’ to the end, but high on the list is ‘I’m a neurologist studying dreams’.
- Comment on Two types 3 months ago:
Is Tsavo43 your alt account? I recognize that it is in no way impossible that Lemmy has two completely shitty people who found each other in the void and started following each other, commenting on each other’s posts in some weird internet romance among assholes thing. But, like, it seems unlikely.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yay! I love copaganda! Show me some pictures of cops playing basketball with a group of “urban”-looking youths!
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 4 months ago:
I think if I hadn’t dropped Netflix when they did a 180 on their stance on password sharing, I would drop them now.
- Comment on Tall, short, whatever—we're all screwed 5 months ago:
I really want to hear more about muffin encryption.
- Comment on The news did it first 6 months ago:
Thanks for that; I’m way too old for TikTok, so had absolutely no idea what I was looking at here.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 6 months ago:
Oof. Been there, done that, 0 stars; would not recommend.