kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘It is time to stop this slaughter’ in wake of deadly Israeli strike on Gaza church: Pope Leo 2 weeks ago:
Looks like pontiffy hand gestures and “calls for” is all the guy is good for. I rank him behind letter-writing Schumer in terms effectiveness.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
No one can make a profit on people walking, so I dont understand how your point makes any sense.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 weeks ago:
Feeding, housing and guarding someone for 14 years has got to be ridiculously expensive. All for uttering a few words.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 4 weeks ago:
You can say the same thing about every region of the world. Why does Europe just ignore African and South American news?
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 4 weeks ago:
You know you can start your own lemmy instance for EU centric topics right.
- Comment on Sincerely, your literally poorest europoor. 4 weeks ago:
language barriers are a thing.
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 5 weeks ago:
Hard agree. Its a non negotiable part of the job. I dont know that it would work to say absense of footage is evidence of wrongdoing, but its definitely enough to fire someone. Accountability would keep cops in line. Currently there is VERY little real systematic accountability for cops, in any situation.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 5 weeks ago:
fix what. You have some expectation that everything is actionable and merely a matter of nattering at people to go do it?
We cant know its a honey pot and its not even remotely realistic to say a citizen can fix it or investigate it. So you’re just trolling.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 5 weeks ago:
Well, the US Supreme court did explicitely say cops have no expectation of anonymity on the streets. This is completely legal. Its premised on the idea that cops arent there to be abusive but to uphold the law, which is not always actually true. The root of the problem is cops behavior themselves rather than the recording or identifying of them. Up until very recently cops at least had their names visible and were required to show ID upon request.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 5 weeks ago:
He reminds me of the ‘precious bodily fluids’ general from Dr Strangelove.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it had a personality.
From what I have seen chickens absolutely do have personalities. Some are nice, friendly, cuddly and playful, and some are just mean little bastardbirds.
But they cant live forever and I do think when creatures die, we can either recycle them in our bellies or let wild bacteria can do it. I’m all for doing it ourselves because we cant absorb nutrition from the sun.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 5 weeks ago:
Is this british food?
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
Well. I would still eat a bunch of ice cream just in case those calories are in fact needed.
- Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose. 1 month ago:
We badly need to evolve our idea of democracy to allow for it to work when the rich and corrupt self interests try to control it. the US system isnt safe against those influences so it seems doomed to fail in its current form.
We cant just wait for benevolent strongmen like FDR (Roosevelt) to come along periodically and right the ship, followed by many decades of compounding corrupution. We were lucky to get Roosevelt and have the legacy of his influence last as long as we have. I’d guess that whats left of the new deal will be badly mauled or done away with by the end of trumps term, assuming we are even still a country with 50 states, which isnt looking promising. So its time to start thinking now about whats next.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 month ago:
Why are they also so clearly low iq, and hyper violent?
and why are they paid so well? - Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 1 month ago:
Lots of who has done some time in search and relevancy early on knew this was always largely breathless overhyped marketing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
She’s almost certainly doing it for a good reason. If you love her then trust her, damnit.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
fair point.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 month ago:
Companies in the US fire employees with no notice all the time. They dont want some angry person around who knows they are only around for a short time.
- Comment on UK to build 12 nuclear submarines in preparation for potential war with Russia 1 month ago:
Russia wont have enough planes or armor in 4.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 months ago:
But all the fictional characters are in the stories as victims. Your name effectively replaces the term “florida man”.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 months ago:
I was led to believe that if your mom (although they always call it stepmom in the title) finds you doing that, they will come in, have a very short chat, music will start in the background and they will then, um… assist you. I am shocked to hear that in real life that is not the case. The internet has been lying to us.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 months ago:
So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 months ago:
bullets add up pretty quick too, depending on your budget. Novice shooters tend to shoot for the head and hit the target 60% of the time at 3 feet for a stationary target, 24% at nine feet. Its less for moving targets.
Missing a target thats literally 3 feet from you sounds crazy but once you try it you will see how frustrating it can be to hold a pistol right and line it up right to the target. I’ve walked up to stationary grouse on roadways (they come in the morning to eat rocks to aid digestion) and blasted all around them missing each time from 5 feet away. Luckily they are incredibly stupid and just stand there, or look at the spot where the bullet hit on the ground, confused.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 months ago:
Well mr anti-purity test, maybe these people you dont like have non-negotaibles – like being against genocide. Things they wont negotiate away which you dont understand it because theres nothing you wouldnt sell out.
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 months ago:
I’m sure the leftists would say its all progressives fault. For everything. But also that the leftists would never be allowed to have any place of authority in the party. They’d sooner have republicans.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
granted, it hasnt been measured that I can find, so I’m talking about what I think, not what is known. It possible you’re right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Because Lemmy’s userbase was boosted by a lot of reddit banned people, and reddit bans people for political speech. I’d guess lemmys userbase doesnt represent a random sampling of the general population.
- Comment on US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return 2 months ago:
And what passes for the lefty party ran with genocide on their back and couldnt pull that off.