Etterra
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- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 12 hours ago:
Most euros have no goddamn idea just how huge the US actually is.
Q: Why don’t Americans travel abroad? A: That’s a 12+ hour flight I can’t afford to go somewhere I don’t speak the language. I barely live paycheck to paycheck if I’m lucky.
Q: Why don’t Americans speak other languages? A: I can drive for up to and over 1,000 miles in almost any direction and everybody still speaks English. The exception is most of Mexico. And some of Quebec, but that’s because some of them are just assholes.
Q: Is America really that big? A: All of Europe could fit inside the continental 48 states alone, with room left over for desert. We have literally every biome here, more vacation options than you could fit into a human lifetime of just visiting them all, and we import all the best stuff from everywhere else. There’s no practical reason to leave the country, and we don’t have to mess with border crossings in-country. Until recent years we didn’t need passports at all, in country. Now the TSA demands them (or the Real ID equivalent) for some security theater political bullshit reason, but that’s flying domestically only.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 13 hours ago:
Well I don’t smoke, so I’ll pass.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 13 hours ago:
That’s a look that says “please just stop and go away.” The girl’s, that is. The guy’s look says “I wonder what human meat tastes like.”
- Comment on Do rhymes make sense to deaf people? 13 hours ago:
I wouldn’t have expected rhyming to be possible in any sign language. It strikes me as being too dependent on hearing the sounds for the rhyme to be possible. I’m no authority on any of the components here, and would be interested to know how fully always deaf ASL users can make or understand rhymes. I would expect them to be more focused on visual similarities, but I don’t know if that could translate from writing to signing.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 13 hours ago:
What difference does it even make?
- Comment on He should have kept smoking 13 hours ago:
They must not have banks in wherever he’s from.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 13 hours ago:
No, they’re usually just power tripping. When certain people get even a modicum of power, real or imagined, they become full-on dictators at superluminal velocities. There’s some crossover with powerless people seeking revenge on the world at large (or any piece of it) for their misfortune or flights against them, real or imagined. I don’t have any data on the ratios but my gut instinct wild-ass guess is that at least 25-33% fall into the tinpot tyrant category.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 13 hours ago:
I thought it was like, France Jr.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 14 hours ago:
He’s like if you made a hybrid clone of Tim Allen and Tim Curry and then had him raised by Josef Stalin and Ayn Rand.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 14 hours ago:
Leave it to the associopathic billionaires to take a look at 1984 and decide to use it as an instruction book.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 days ago:
I ditched .world because of their euro-centric attitude on free speech regarding, specifically, jury nullification. Which is, as I pointed out, the critical final tool for us citizens to try and legally change unjust laws and/or unjust applications of it. It’s also older than the US, and the government hates it when anyone remembers it exists. To the point that lawyers are forbidden from mentioning it to juries in court. Because the ruling elite fear anything that gives the citizens the slightest shred of hope that we could upset their oppressive system. So duck them euros and their censorship bullshit.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 days ago:
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 3 days ago:
Well thank gawd they’re here to make sure the ruling oligarchs don’t feel the slightest shred of the anxiety that us poors feel 24 hours a day.
- Comment on got one of the last ones for christmas 1 week ago:
This looks like a Chinese knockoff, I’m surprised it’s legit.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, electronics break all the time, and living pets die eventually - both things everyone needs to learn how to cope with, including children. This is just the Venn Diagram of those two pieces of reality.
