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- Comment on 17 hours ago:
They’ll just move the goalposts. When my sister went to QAnon crazy she started spouting all sorts of bullshit like the moon landing being fake.
I pointed this out to her, and she just insisted that later moon missions were real and planted evidence for the faked early ones. I also pointed out OP’s point (if the landing was faked, the USSR would have called out that bullshit) but she insists she’s smarter than the KGB.
I don’t speak with her anymore.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 3 days ago:
Yep, 99% of dogs beat 99.99999% of people. And 99% of cats do the same.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
Nah, fuck you. I have voted in every election I’ve been eligible for, and your stupid ad hominems are meaningless coming from someone who would rather take pleasure in your twisted idea if a high ground than actually discuss anything. I owe you nothing, if you want to be discuss facts you bring them yourself.
Let me leave you with this: you, specifically you, have done more harm to American democracy in this conversation than anyone who decided to sit out any election in the last 10 years. Your defense of an organization that blatantly undermined democracy and even publicly admitted it is disgusting.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
You’re the one disconnected with reality. You seriously think you’re winning an argument by petulantly saying the same irrelevant thing over and over. The vote count is not relevant to this discussion when the main offenses occurred before a single vote was cast and very much influenced the course of the election. That’s why the corrupted DNC in collusion with the Clinton campaign did them in the first place.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
Right, the vote from the election where the winning candidate installed a sycophant as head of DNC who eventually had to resign in disgrace because she was actively rigging the election for Clinton. The election where the Clinton campaign siphoned funds from state races for her own campaign. The election where the Control campaign had documented authority over what the DNC could say. The election where the media, working for the same elite class, reported Clinton as insurmountably ahead before a single primary vote had been cast.
That’s the election that you think the end vote is even a little bit relevant for when people are talking about how it was a corrupt election? Give me a break, you’re just a standard issue neoliberal apologist.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 days ago:
Yeah, our struggles definitely pale in comparison to marginalized groups. And no worries! I didn’t think you were, I just know how much my brother-in-law struggled with dyslexia, though he didn’t have a very supportive family so he didn’t even get diagnosed until he was an adult.
They think my nephew is showing early signs of it too, but hopefully his experience will be closer to yours since he’ll get support early on.
Auditory processing disorder is such a weird one. In a lot of contexts I actually like it, it’s like having earmuffs without wearing anything. I just wish I could turn it on and off intentionally. Sometimes I need it because the unfiltered background noise is too much but it won’t turn on. Sometimes I’m trying to take in audio and don’t realize it’s turned on and I missed a bunch.
I’ve also realized that I actually read lips a lot to compensate for background noise, so I’ve been trying to hone that skill more intentionally. Another thing that’s maybe a benefit of the disorder.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
No, you infantilizing asshole. The fact that you’re still pushing this stupid game means you clearly don’t intend to argue in good faith. The fact that even after making me explain a very simple and straightforward statement you still think the vote results are relevant to a discussion about the corruption of the 2016 primaries means you’re just yet another liberal apologetic. If you’re unwilling to grapple with the fact that the DNC is a corrupt organization, we’re done here.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
No, I’m saying the election itself was corrupted in order to feed the victory to Hillary. Superdelegates, DNC-run smear campaigns, election rigging by limiting debates to reduce the visibility of the outsider. Accusations of sexism simply for not supporting the candidate with a vagina.
Manipulating votes is not the only way to rig an election, you can do a lot just by manipulating the voters themselves. The DNC admitted to this, they didn’t have to run a fair election. So stop pretending the end result of a blatantly corrupt process justifies the process.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 4 days ago:
Do you really think the vote results of a corrupt election somehow make that election not corrupt? How are we still having this stupid ass argument in 2026?
I guess Putin really does have 88% support in Russia. That’s what the vote says after all, so it must be true.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 days ago:
Damn that sounds rough. I’ve got some dyslexic family members and I can’t imagine combining their struggles with auditory processing disorder.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 5 days ago:
Other conditions exist. I have auditory processing disorder and one part of it is an involuntary disabling of my audio processing when my brain is trying to focus on something, particularly anything else to do with language like note-taking. My ears will “hear” but my brain won’t.
It wasn’t completely debilitating, but it made certain kinds of classes inordinately difficult for me. Discussion based classes were a nightmare for me, and no amount of practice could change how my brain works. So instead I pursued STEM where the notes are math and I could work ahead and tune in if I got stuck.
That being said, handwritten notes are still definitely the way to go in math!
- Comment on Norway’s ambassador to Iraq and Jordan resigns over Epstein links 1 week ago:
How does “extremely limited” contact in a diplomatic context result in your kids getting $5 million each in his will?
- Comment on Just say the word 2 weeks ago:
I’m sitting here cuddling with my infant son and I never want to go back to work. I’ll have to (so will my wife), and I hate that for both of us. But I definitely don’t want to.
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think they’re confusing themselves a little bit. Which is unfortunate because it’s a pretty good system actually, it just counts 0-99 not 0-100 like they’re claiming.
- Comment on And the cold in particular. 5 weeks ago:
Fuck summer and heat. Thermoregulation is impossible for me in the summer and I’m miserable, winter I can be cozy every single day.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 1 month ago:
Coffee in the morning is a very nice regulator to keep me on schedule.
- Comment on i can't handle coffee 1 month ago:
Do you have ADHD?
- Comment on Shut up science!! 2 months ago:
I have a strong feeling I do too, inherited from my mom (both of us self-diagnosed). I also appreciate you calling it a syndrome and not a disorder. It’s only a “disorder” because society decided to only accommodate one type of circadian rhythm. Humans have needed people on night watch forever, my money is that this was an advantageous phenomenon.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 2 months ago:
So, El? That sounds an awful lot like the Canaanite mythology that Judaism sprung from. Yahweh was just a hotheaded war & storm god in a wide pantheon headed by El.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 4 months ago:
Always at least double the garlic called for.
- Comment on fish is fish 5 months ago:
Too true! Some people say there’s no such thing as a fish. I prefer to expand the definition. We simply brought the water with us.
- Comment on fish is fish 5 months ago:
Not to mention mammals are just land fish. We are all fish.
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 7 months ago:
I guess I do also have my childhood landline still, but that’s been out of service for over 15 years. But it is one more phone number I have memorized.
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 7 months ago:
It also blows my American mind how memorizable that long number is. It’s probably largely the jingle, but I can remember that cold without thinking about it for years. But I can only hold like 4 American phone numbers in my head. Without my contacts I can call: myself (helpful), my wife (I’d better), and both of my parents (good to have backups).
That’s the end of the list.
- Comment on When it comes to saving, Gen Z asks: 'What’s the point?' That's dangerous, expert says 8 months ago:
There are literally four currently alive that lived through the same 3 events. And in my very strong opinion, Gen Z was not hit the hardest of the current generations.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #18 8 months ago:
The effort you put into this is so impressive! What a lovely post to read.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 8 months ago:
Never underestimate stupidity. Though I do think it’s at least not normally people trying to connect two strands that are themselves already live. It’s normally people who are connecting several strands together and started at the end not plugged in with the male end poking out, not realizing that this means when they’re done stringing and go to plug in they’ve got the female end and no way to plug it in.
Left facing the daunting task of completely undoing all the work they just did, they try to look for something to bridge the gap without thinking through to the danger.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 8 months ago:
I appreciate a good “um actually” but this really is about Christmas lights. People really are stupid enough for this to be something posted specifically around December.
As far as I can tell from a reverse image search this is the original. (Not linking to the other place, DM me if you want the link for some reason).
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 8 months ago:
I’m gonna guess winter, hanging Christmas lights. People string up their lights and then realize far too late that they put two strands with female ends facing each other and instead of restringing they look for a male-to-male cord to bridge the gap.
A little live wire shouldn’t stand in the way of holiday cheer, after all.
- Comment on The Right Oppresses, The Left Liberates 8 months ago:
I’ve got bad news for you. Clockwise/counterclockeise depends on which way you’re looking at the screw.
Turns out either way you need to make assumptions about perspective.
