Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Ice slipping on ice 1 week ago:
This is how you know they’re sending in people from bum fuck nowhere Alabama, no midwesterner would look at that and think that’s a good place to run, or even drive.
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 2 weeks ago:
Venezuela would definitely fight back an occupation, that’s why they’re not invading. There are already Communist guerillas on the border with Colombia. Recruitment would shoot up under the banner of “stop the empire from bombing us and taking our oil”.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think MAGA is more informed on this, they just have a different myopic view. They’re only listening to the Venezuelan diaspora in the US who are almost entirely happy about Maduros ousting.
The reality is Maduro is a controversial figure in Venezuela, just like trump is here. A majority don’t like him, a smaller percentage hate him and some people like him. Ignoring any of these factions and flattening all Venezuelans down to one opinion is why we got here. Trump was buying everything the diaspora was telling him about how everyone over there hates Maduro and we just need to take him out and his whole regime will fall down like a house of cards. Maduros regime wasn’t a house of cards like they were told though and it does have some base that will require a lot more than I think trump is willing to do to topple it.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
Never said they were all millionaires, only that they tend to be wealthier. In general immigrants from developing countries are on the higher end of income from the country they emigrate from.
Also 7.9 million Venezuelans did not cross the Darien gap, most Venezuelan migrants stayed in South America in neighboring countries like Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador. Those that could afford it did make their way to the US but not all of them crossed the Darien gap and could’ve taken alternate safer and more expensive routes, if not legal routes including hopping on a plane.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 2 weeks ago:
Point to me which statement I made was ill informed or propagandistic. I never said Maduro has majority support, I said the opposite in fact, or that everyone over there loves Maduro. Just that they don’t to a person hate him like the Venezuelans do over here and warning people not to take their opinions as representative of Venezuelans as a whole.
Many news outlets are showing cheering crowds in south Florida as a sign Venezuelans are happy for this. Like I said in the original post, yes they do represent a large chunk of Venezuelans who hate Maduro and left. The opinions of Venezuelans who like Maduro and stayed are noticeably absent though and they represent another large chunk of the population.
I never said to outright dismiss there opinions, just to know that it’s biased and to be aware that there are differing opinions, how is that propaganda?
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- Comment on You do get a hot blue alien wife though... 2 weeks ago:
Your mistaken, they do have aliussy, in the newer ones they get pregnant, so the baby has to come out somewhere.
The tentacle hair is just another erogenous l communication zone, like our mouths.
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- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 3 weeks ago:
Not to bomb there allies, this only “makes sense” if the country is getting invaded and they want to punish there allies for not defending them. The US cannot be invaded and even if they were they aren’t dependent on there allies to defend them, same with USSR/Russia.
Maybe France or the UK mulled over bombing dc if the Russians invaded but they probably didn’t look too far as that would take away any chance for a d-day 2 that could free them. It also may bring about a counterattack by the US, and France has shown in WWII they would rather surrender to the enemy then see Paris burn.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 4 weeks ago:
Assuming your talking about the top line players making millions, because your median professional athlete is barely covering there costs if you include athletes outside of the big 5 sports in the US and those outside of the top flight leagues. Then like any performer embedded in the monoculture it happened when mass media became a thing.
Once your able to sell discs, tapes, TV ads on a mass scale with extremely low marginal cost anyone with a claim to that media property can make millions off of it.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 5 weeks ago:
Especially with titties, you think your five year old can’t deduce that those bumps on women’s chest have a nipple on it just like theres. Even if they can’t I doubt that revelation will be traumatic or earth shattering.
- Comment on Is there a mechanism in the USA to undo presidential pardons years later if political corruption has been proven as motivation to give these pardons? 1 month ago:
Nah, it can be used for good. Obama pardoned a lot of non-violent drug offenders who were gonna be in jail into there 60s due to something they did in there 20s because of mandatory minimums.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
Interesting, Japan does a similar thing I think and the US is 米国 meaning rice country. Which sort of makes sense since the US has always had a huge agricultural / grain surplus. I wonder if the japanese think / know we’re fat because of the name.
Also england/ UK is the same 英国 as above so maybe they learned about them from the Chinese whereas they independently learned about the US and gave it a different name.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 1 month ago:
It’s not his fault, be mad at the person who bred him, not him for existing.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 1 month ago:
Or just VPN, I assume that’s what most people are doing in those states.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 1 month ago:
I could see it being a good way to support artists, if that’s where the money is going.
- Comment on Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems 1 month ago:
We’re talking about median, and the median person in the US gets employer provided healthcare and usually some form of employer pension/401k contribution plus social security, so I don’t think those would be much different cost wise for a median US vs UK resident. I’m sure Britain uses there taxes better than us and has better benefits, especially for the poor, but I don’t think that fully accounts for the gap.
- Comment on Rich People Are Becoming Less Willing to Help With the World’s Problems 1 month ago:
Median post-tax household income is £36.7k
Wow that seems low, US median household income is $83k, even with taxes and conversion that seems like a significant gap and I always thought US and UK had similar price levels. Are taxes just that much higher? Or are households smaller ? Or are incomes in the US just that much better?
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 1 month ago:
At least for EA they just got bought out by the Saudis who do have magnitudes more cash then valve along with the ear of a president known to help out his buddies in the legal realm.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The person was talking about how certain people annoy them, he may have implied it was you but if you don’t think description matches say so and move on.
But if we’re talking about being a good digital neighbor, you should try and see how your implication is annoying or offensive. There are issues with credentialism but it is not just some arbitrary aristocracy, people put in a lot of work to get there credentials and take pride in them. If you start saying all these experts don’t know what they’re talking about and I found out something they couldn’t is dismissive of all the work those experts put into learning about there field. Like don’t you think doctors get annoyed by all the homeopaths or anti vaxers who dismiss all there work because theyve done there own research?
- Comment on Calling all Dickheads! 2 months ago:
wildly inaccurate “natural history”
If you consider the fact it was written in 1850 it is surprisingly accurate, like it was talking about whales eating giant squids a century before the scientific community accepted that.
Also the whale descriptions are the point, the book is about the enlightenment drive to understand and therefore master nature with Moby dick standing in as a refutation of that idea, being unconquerable no matter how much knowledge you have. Without the descriptions you could write off Ishmael and the crew as a bunch of idiots who just didn’t have the know how to take down Moby dick.
- Comment on It's all relative 2 months ago:
Are diabetics (which you’d probably become if you ate cheesecake daily) addicted to insulin then?
- Comment on GET THAT BREAD 2 months ago:
Maybe they did, guess i meant dark web market links
- Comment on GET THAT BREAD 2 months ago:
Wonder if lemmy cares about posting dark web links like reddit. Here’s a listing:
drughub666py6fgnml5kmxa7fva5noppkf6wkai4fwwvzwt4r…
Let’s see if this comment gets deleted.
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 3 months ago:
Probably will get it anyway, companies don’t like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don’t really cut into there bottom line like this one.
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 3 months ago:
This, people love to think Rome fell because of moral degeneracy and corruption, but that was probably at its height under Commodus or Nero when the empire was very stable and secure. The later emperors were relatively modest and to an increasing degree impotent, so it mattered less if they were incompetent, though many of them were, and that didn’t help.
The reality is empires all eventually fall, they lose the military edge that won them the empire, either by degrading or the “barbarians” learning and catching up, and the forces that were kept in check by the military tear the empire apart.
- Comment on Missing banana for scale. 3 months ago:
Is there any evidence it stood on two feet? Figured it would look more like a gorilla then this.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 3 months ago:
I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.
- Comment on 'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law 4 months ago:
I don’t think think the Christian god would have much of a problem considering he impregnated a 15 year old
- Comment on 'Content Is Too Provocative': Texas Says Yes to Anime Censorship With New 'Anti-Anime' Law 4 months ago:
There’s also the episodes with the “raisins” restaurant which is basically child hooters.
