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- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 1 day ago:
For now.
- Comment on Shower Thought: The man, the legend, the one-man show 1 day ago:
Absolutely a horror legend outside of Star Trek. The Re-Animator trilogy , The Frighteners, Doctor Mordrid, Trancers, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. He’s been in a lot of really successful/cult horror movies, has avoided any metoo/political missteps and is pretty well beloved by fans.
You could have a con just cornering him and getting him to sign merch from all his work.
Truly the man, the legend, the one man show and the franchise is lucky to have him
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 days ago:
I loved the Screensavers! Those were good times, Call for Help, the Screensavers, TechTV News. It was a very transitional time between Cable TV and the Internet becoming connected in everyones homes. Probably very influential on me career-wise and I’m glad to have experienced it.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 1 week ago:
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
Idk learning Chinese could be really beneficial, especially over the next 50 years.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 1 week ago:
If you actually want to know, fediverse votes are public and you could see everyone that voted either way here.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 1 week ago:
They didn’t say stop participating in society they said stop using Metas plaforms which is actually a really easy thing to do.
Unless you think Facebook/IG are society.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
I’m most worried about magat goon squads in lifted F250s rolling up in my inclusive small blue city neighborhood in a sea of red. Which I assure you I’ll “do shit” about. But if you have some brilliant tactical plan feel free to lead the charge.
Buying into antigun rhetoric is one of the biggest missteps “the left” has made in recent decades.
We have an authoritarian fascist state coalescing as we speak and there are still leftists advocating gun control. It’s a losing argument in the U.S. right now. I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety. Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here.
Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. It’s a long listen but worth checking out How Conservatism Won by Robert Evans. He lays out in a clear concise way “how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” They’ve been very successful and those think tanks are now pipelines used to funnel ideological purists into powerful positions like our current Supreme Court.
The shadowy cabals the rightwing says are behind everything is classic projection again, they’re controlled by shadowy cabals of rich people. One of the primary ghouls/traitors responsible for the attempted overthrow of our government on J6 was Roger Stone, the same traitorous ratfucker who began his career working for Nixon and has a fucking Nixon tattoo on his back. It’s really impossible to overstate how bad these people are and they’re winning.
The coup was successful, they’re in power and if they don’t want to give it up they won’t.
Get to know people in your community. Take an interest in growing food, learn how to fix things. Establish secondary lines of communication and start preparing.
afsc.org/news/how-create-mutual-aid-network
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
Summary of this thread: hey literally nazis are taking power and planning on putting marginalized groups into camps eventually, but also wanting a gun makes you a pussy you fucking degenerate just talk it out
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 weeks ago:
My government is currently converting itself to a crypto fascist authoritarian regime, I’ll keep my gun thanks.
That yall are even discussing disarming right now is suspicious.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
Ok, but that has nothing to do with putting the seat down or leaving it up.
- Comment on The Wall People 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the ones I knew (the kids) were pretty decent people. They mostly didn’t like the strict lifestyle and mostly tended to gtfo their parents home as soon as possible.
- Comment on The Wall People 2 weeks ago:
I knew some Pentecostal families like that. They didn’t call it anything but they definitely believed every child that could be born, should be. Didn’t practice any sort of birth control and had a half dozen kids over 20 years.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 weeks ago:
We have one particular brand here that does “Milk, ice cream & more” that has their milk in glass bottles. It’s this ridiculous super premium thick milk, I get some of the chocolate sometimes.
I think it’s about $6per (half gallon/4pint) which is considerably more than average but it’s like drinking chocolate ice cream.
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 3 weeks ago:
Better now than in a few years after they’ve prepared him.
- Comment on Actual theft 5 weeks ago:
Just look at those pointy elbows, absolutely disgusting.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 1 month ago:
I get what you’re saying but unfortunately $1M isn’t even that much money these days. Once you figure in a house, any retirement plans, vehicles, college funds, etc. A lot of people are “millionaires” on paper but still gotta make their commute every day and stick to their budgets. The reality is even with a million dollars, if you make a misstep or stop chasing you’ll end up in medical debt or homeless pretty quickly. Shit is brutal out here and capitalism doesn’t give a fuck about us.
But I don’t like introducing myself to the neighbors even if I’m only worth $10, it’s just awkward.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
Same, came over during the first API fuckery wave and haven’t gone back at all. I might not have much but I have principles, fuck em.
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 1 month ago:
I love it. They have more than they’ll ever need but can’t help but continue to gorge themselves. Half of them probably miss out on sleep or family or other healthy activities in their pursuit of more wealth. Financial obesity is a fantastic term that paints a very accurate picture.
- Comment on FACTS 1 month ago:
Sounds like you spend a lot of time hanging out with men. Nothing straighter than some men spending quality time together.
- Comment on Stretch marks 1 month ago:
C suite gonna C.
- Comment on Stretch marks 1 month ago:
Mine have recently started dipping into the water if I sit amd get “too” relaxed, I hate it.
- Comment on Stretch marks 1 month ago:
You can just call them psychopaths.
- Comment on YSK: The Invention Secrecy Act is a US federal law authorizing the government to suppress disclosure of certain inventions for reasons of national security. 6,543 inventions are currently suppressed. 1 month ago:
I’m kind of on the same page as you, as a concept it’s really cool but all the hype and techbros around it are a huge turn off.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
What actions are you referring to? I appreciate Steams contributions to the Linux ecosystem but that’s about it, and even that is completely self serving. Locking everything on their platform behind DRM? Taking a 30% cut of everything sold after monopolizing the PC gaming market?
He’s a big proponent of microtransactions and was one of the first to introduce lootcrate mechanics for skins. Skins that you can buy/sell with real cash off-site. There’s a billion dollar online casino ecosystem where you use skins as chips to play games that’s basically targeted at kids. Valve is completely aware of it and it breaks their ToS but they profit greatly so they look the other way and continue to push shitty scratch off ticket loot boxes to kids. There really is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
Unless you know about some great philanthropic work he’s doing?
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
I understand and don’t necessarily disagree with any of that but let’s not pretend GabeN is anything other than another greedy billionaire.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 2 months ago:
And they purposely target kids with addictive loot crate mechanics and look the otherway while loot/skins are sold on 3rd party sites.
Maybe GabeN really needs a 7th yacht but maybe he’s just a greedy bastard who wants all the money.
- Comment on When it hits you.... 2 months ago:
As someone who was an adult when it came out but didn’t see it until years later.
It’s an adequate live-action adaptation of a classic piece of animation. With Christmas coming up you should probably go ahead and give it a watch, if for no other reason than to say you did.
- Comment on When it hits you.... 2 months ago:
I prefer Jims acting and the roles he’s chosen, but Adam seems like he’s probably a nicer person.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
I feel like most people just want to pick one and stick to it; stop changing it back and forth every other season, my body will adjust to the changing days just fine on its own.
