SARGE
@SARGE@startrek.website
Mods and admins can fuck off
- Comment on Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move 1 week ago:
American chiming in: good. It’s only fair, if we want to charge you, you should be allowed to charge us.
If no other country will let us in (except maybe refugee status if it gets to that point I suppose), then MAYBE, just MAYBE, people will begin to make forceful demands of the government and actually change things instead of checks notes blaming “trans antifa blm terrorists” for everything and ultimately saying “there’s nothing we can do”.
Remember kids: the people outnumber the government, all we have to do is literally nothing and we could cripple it entirely.
- Comment on So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A 1 week ago:
And gadsden flag, and trump flag, and thin blue line flag.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 1 week ago:
Vanilla pudding in mayo jars.
Blue sport drink in index bottles.
this one is kinda gross
Chocolate cake in a diaper.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 1 week ago:
Former Christian here: it is a cult. Full stop. You are throwing your decisions around based on a belief that there’s some magical perfect happy place we all get to go.
Starting from that alone means we have VASTLY different goals. So many Cultists believe no matter what they do they’re still going to paradise so fuck whatever happens here.
The staunch angry denial without a hint of reflection on how religion has undeniably damaged the world is very telling about what OP is willing to accept. I recognized religion has failed the world even when I was still religious.
No, I don’t know there’s nothing after we die, but I DO know there are things HERE AND NOW that need more ACTUAL FUCKING WORK and your prayers are worth the toilet paper I’ll print them on.
And I am so fucking tired of “well they aren’t TRUE Christians because we don’t get taught that” any of the many, many, many, many, TOO FUCKING MANY TIMES when Christians, ÉN MASSE , do shitty things. No TRUE scottsman… My brother in education, you cannot keep saying your religion is peaceful when it rather spectacularly and historically is extremely violent.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 1 week ago:
This is exactly the dumb shit take from y2k.
I Still hear people go on about how “it was supposed to be this big thing and then nothing happened! Smart people are so dumb!”
Yeah nothing happened because a lot of smart people worked very hard to fix the goddamn problem, you fucking shitwaffle.
Here? “You dum dums got so worked up thinking it would pass and then it didn’t, so the freak out was for nothing!” yeah it didn’t pass because a lot of Europeans got very upset about their governments trying to spy on them harder than ever.
I’m not European, so I can’t say how people talked about it openly on the metro with random strangers, but online? People were vocal and pissed. A PROPER government (lol can we have some of that functioning democracy please) listens to its people. This was them listening to the people.
The people’s reaction was appropriate, and necessary. And shouldn’t be lessened just because “lol you guys got so propaganda’d and it was obviously never gonna happen and I knew cause I’m so smart” is quite the take on things.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 2 weeks ago:
m not American. The presence of fascists in US politics has been a commonly accepted truth in anybody anywhere left of demochristians for half a century.
I am an American and idk where this idea comes from because I’ve been noticing a decline at least since high school political science forced me to pay attention for the first time. It’s been hard not to notice the slope getting steeper every day.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 2 weeks ago:
Lol.
LMAO, even.
This particular downslope has been around for 20+ years, and it’s been arguably more like 50 years.
Hell, the only reason we have the small amount of gun control we do is because Regan was afraid of black people owning guns.
Fascism has been festering for a long time, most people only notice now because it’s finally affecting them.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
reads manual
You’re only confused because I’m dumb! For some reason I was thinking toner and laser were separate types.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
I bought a toner printer in 2020 and I’m still on the first replacement cart. I have over 2000 pages printed.
Considering I spent $80, plus $40 on the new two pack of toner, I consider it money well spent.
I do wish I had bought a laser printer though… There are things I would like to begin printing that will be several thousand pages after it’s all finished. Mostly reference materials.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 weeks ago:
Feel free to turn a blind eye to reality, not all of us are priveleged enough to do so.
- Comment on PRAISE HIM 2 weeks ago:
If I wanted to go through the process of trying to recover my facebook, I guarantee I would get a few dozen people tossing out hand emojis and saying “amen” before anyone notices I’m not talking about the christian god
- Comment on Altered World Event 2 weeks ago:
I still have the VHS I recorded it on back in the day. No vcr, but it’s sitting in a box in my closet, waiting for the day when I want to see commercials for SG1 Mondays and other Sci fi shows.
Also the DVD, since I actually want to watch it every so often…
I keep introducing it to new people, but it seems to be a bit of a niche interest.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 2 weeks ago:
It must be nice, living in a fantasy world where good people win because they’re good and the bad guys get to sit in jail for being bad.
- Comment on Altered World Event 2 weeks ago:
I love the idea of Objects that can do things we can’t explain.
The Lost Room is probably what got me started, and Control really scratches that itch. I absolutely love the idea of The Oldest House.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 weeks ago:
not a vibrator, it’s a “personal massager” and how dare you suggest such a device could be used sexually!
- Comment on Explaining your traumatic past IRL feels so underwhelming compared to when a character in a movie or tv scene revealing their traumatic childhood. 2 weeks ago:
When you tell a funny story from your childhood but instead of laughing, your friend hugs you and says “I’m so sorry you went through that” :
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 weeks ago:
It’s Sony, a Japanese company.
Why would they care about what people in private
Lol. Lmao, even.
Sony cares a bit too much about how people use the things they own that Sony made.
Japan is famous for its laws and customs regarding nudity, sex, porn, accessories, etc… Anything you might expect a stereotypical prude to clutch their pearls over, really. It’s simply gasp too obscene!
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 2 weeks ago:
This gave me quite the giggle.
Unfortunately, I have no one in my life who will think it’s funny.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 2 weeks ago:
edit: wow, Redditors are better at accepting the truth, lol
So go pander to them.
If I own something, I can do whatever I like with it because it’s mine.
If I can’t do what I like, it’s not truly mine.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 3 weeks ago:
Bridge under the river Kwai?
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 3 weeks ago:
eats mint
How can we be so sure? Someone’s gonna have to test it.
- Comment on Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I got mildly excited when I read the title, and now I’m just mildly irritated.
Good for pc players though, it’s something!
- Comment on Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments 4 weeks ago:
I’m learning a bit of sign language since my wife will likely be fully deaf inside 10 years, and one day we were in a food court and I saw two people arguing in ASL.
One of them started getting larger and more abrupt with their movements and the other interrupted to sign “Don’t yell at me.”
I wasn’t paying enough attention to know what they were arguing about, but it made me giggle a bit at the phrasing.
- Comment on Shh 4 weeks ago:
I used to work in a warehouse that made a HUGE deal about the employees using the proper recycling bin so the company can get a nice check from somewhere or other for “going green”
This warehouse recieved thousands of pallets every day.
Each pallet is wrapped with hundreds of square feet of plastic wrap.
Each box is individually wrapped with maybe 10ftsq-50 depending on size.
Each box contains goods in plastic bags. Many of them with plastic clamshell packaging.
The products get unwrapped, and placed in larger boxes on shelves.
When the items get distributed to stores, the items were put in plastic bags, boxed up and wrapped in plastic wrap, boxes placed on pallets that were automatically wrapped by machines in hundreds of square feet of plastic.
None of the plastic from the warehouse floor is separated from the general waste.
Remember, it’s your responsibility to reduce waste.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 4 weeks ago:
I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 5 weeks ago:
after I typed this I realized I basically just said "yeah incessantly spouting bullshit"
When you’re a mouthpiece of hate, and people who agree with you act on it by being shitty to someone they don’t like, you’ve made many people’s lives worse. When you’re as prolific as he was, supporting a government that’s actively mistreating the majority of its 300m+ population, you’ve made millions of people’s lives worse.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 1 month ago:
Who would have thought that making millions of people’s lives actively worse in an already not great time in the most widely-armed country in the world could have POSSIBLY led to current events???
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 month ago:
Sounds like my wife’s mother.
She’s a super narcissist and has some sort of desire to knock everyone else down when she feels like she’s not getting enough attention.
You deserved better from your parents.
- Comment on Gotta Smash 1 month ago:
Do iiiiiiiiiit.
Let’s do it.
Let’s fucking do it.
I think we should do it.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 1 month ago:
Professionals have standards