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- Comment on The penalty for disagreeing with government policy on Palestine is 14 Years in prison 2 weeks ago:
That’s funny, I had the opposite experience.
I used to count on my front page of Lemmy to give me links to stories about Gaza that I wasn’t getting from the major news outlets. Every page had multiple posts about Gaza with stories and context I sure wasn’t getting from Reuters.
After the election they quickly became few and far in between. With most of them things I have heard about elsewhere, the Lemmy post only being good for discussion.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 2 weeks ago:
The problem with GMOs isn’t the GMOs themselves, it’s why they’ve been GM’d. If they’ve been modified to be “roundup resistant” so they can dump a truckload of glyphosate on them, or something similar to that, that might be a problem.
If I’m buying fresh produce it’s not a problem, I can can make double sure to wash it properly. But if it’s processed food, I definitely do not trust food manufacturers to get all that shit off the vegetables.
Looking for GMO free canned or frozen vegetables is, in my opinion, a good idea. But a fresh cucumber just wash it.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
And I think the gold and silver parts are usually just plastic.
- Comment on idk 1 month ago:
I actually looked for one in °C but the only ones I found had big stupid display screens. I just wanted one with 5-6 simple presets without adding unnecessary points of failure.
To be fair, I didn’t look that hard though. I wasn’t willing to spend that much time and the place I order my tea from labels all the recommended temps in °F anyway.
- Comment on idk 1 month ago:
And make sure to get one with different temperature settings, not just boil.
Being able to do 180° exactly instead of just guessing had been a game changer for white tea.
- Comment on Perfect size for brats 1 month ago:
But where do you put the tomatoes, pickle, peppers, and onions?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.
So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?
Why would you see a conversation abouta brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?
If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.
You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control.
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
How would you determine what the individuals collectively decide?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 month ago:
But he wasn’t criticizing communism, or advocating for capitalism. He was criticizing a dictator and saying he prefers democracy.
Unless you think communism can’t exist outside of a brutal dictatorship.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 1 month ago:
You just made me see the cap on the pole for the first time.
- Comment on Can't tell if L take or W take 2 months ago:
I’ve got a lot of play in my life and the woman almost always made the first move. Because I’m the kind of idiot where a woman can come sit in my lap and stroke my inner thigh and I’ll think “hmmm, I wonder if she might be interested in me.”
If a woman has never hit on you, I’ve got bad news for you dawg (assuming you want a woman to hit on you).
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 2 months ago:
One of the Epstein emails talks about pics of Trump blowing Bubba and the speculation is that Clinton is Bubba.
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 months ago:
The use of the definite article “the” is important.
He didn’t ask if Putin “has pictures” like you and I might if we were joking about some hypothetical blackmail material we don’t actually know exists, he asked if Putin “has the pictures.”
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin for Firefox?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 2 months ago:
From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 months ago:
WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Maintenance cost such, but even that has a silver lining when you own. It’s yours. When your fridge breaks in a rental you’re not out any money, but they just bring by another jank landlord special. I redid my kitchen with Thermador, not the top of the top, but pretty far up there. That cost quite a bit but it’s mine and my kitchen is far better than anything I had renting.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
That too, last year before I finished my mortgage my neighbor was paying week over double my mortgage, property taxes, and maintenance costs combined.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
The value of a paid off home is not the equity, that’s just numbers on a paper until you die and your heirs sell. The value is in living for peanuts for the rest of your life.
My house is paid off. My monthly housing costs are $735 for property tax that can’t increase more than 2% year due to California law. My neighbor two doors down with the same floor plan rents for $6500/month. That difference will only increase for the next 40 (I hope) years until I die.
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 3 months ago:
Holy shit! That might be the dumbest arguement I’ve ever heard. I might have heard worse, but nothing is coming to mind.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 3 months ago:
Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.
And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 3 months ago:
That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 4 months ago:
It is though. Our eyes just aren’t good at seeing unsaturated orange.
- Comment on There is no good reason why there is still homelessness and poverty 4 months ago:
The fuck you on about?
The Wikipedia article starts with two paragraphs accurately defining the term, then in the third paragraph above the drop-downs mentions the criticisms. Then two drop-down sections, Solutions and Criticisms, are almost entirely given over to all the ways various people have rufuted this.
What do you want, a big flashing red banner at the top that says “This Concept is Bullshit”? I don’t think you understand how Wikipedia works.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 4 months ago:
I don’t know how the Mercedes ones work or what type of fridge he has, but BMWs just have a door light and a filter goes over it for “M”, “BMW”, the roundel, etc., and my fridge just has a light.
I assumed he found you could put the filter from the car on the fridge light with a minimum of fucking around.
But you’re right, the more time and effort spent on this, the stupider it becomes.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 4 months ago:
I get where you’re coming from, I’m logo free to the maximum extent practical, but a fridge is inside your house. If i wanted an “M” projection on my fridge light (I definitely don’t, but if I did), I wouldn’t consider that providing free advertising.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 months ago:
My grandparents house built just after ww2 had, what was for a long time, a standard two car garage. Enough room for two land yachts from the 70s, lawn care implements and various other stuff and you could still open the car doors all the way and walk around. My parents’ house built in the 70s was the same. It’s more recent construction in built up areas where they are shrinking. They’ve been getting smaller as developers try to cram more liveable sqft on smaller amounts of land.