astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 3 days ago:
Do it
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
One nation, called Palestine. Israelis can apply for a visa.
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 4 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide 5 days ago:
Israel is founded on crimes against humanity. It is impossible to support both Israel and Palestine.
- Comment on Buzz Off! 1 week ago:
It’s about colonialism.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 4 weeks ago:
It explodes.
In related news, dropping your phone is now considered terrorism in Indiana.
- Comment on Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms 5 weeks ago:
How about we not legally mandate this bullshit at all? Parental controls and child-friendly accounts are a thing that already exist. I don’t want a bunch of pigs spying on my child to determine if their internet activity is ‘acceptable’. Fuck that.
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 1 month ago:
Everything is within your remit. Fuck anyone who tells you otherwise.
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 1 month ago:
in mice.
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 1 month ago:
Man, we’re opportunistic everything.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 month ago:
I hear a narrator if I decide to; otherwise the words just go directly into my brain like you described. I just had Morgan Freeman read your comment to me for funsies.
- Comment on Montana Becomes First State to Enshrine ‘Right to Compute’ Into Law - Montana Newsroom 2 months ago:
“Hmm, this seems like a good idea”. Supported by a bunch of AI business groups. “…this seems like less of a good idea.”
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 2 months ago:
Yeah, because that means they actually care about things that matter you fake-detached empty-inside waste of oxygen.
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 2 months ago:
For sure. No way I’m putting my kid on the floor at Chuck E Cheese. Just asking for the plague at that point.
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 2 months ago:
Alright, I’ll bite. That baby is perfectly fine and probably enjoying watching their mom Do Things (babies love this for some reason). Obviously not the safest being where you could drop a skeeball on them, but Mom is very aware of that I’m sure. Laying face up on the ground is actually safer than trying to precariously hold them and risking dropping them.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 2 months ago:
If we ripped the car sewers out of our streets we could probably have enough green space that it would just, ya know, soak in. But go ahead and spend public money on technogimmicks I guess.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
God damn it, Fisher!
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
Spec Ops: The Line
“Do you feel like a hero yet?”
Also Starcraft: Brood War, Shadow Watch, and, yah, Morrowind. I took over an entire house in Balmora to serve as a treasure room. Then hit the max item limit and had to re-place everything by hand while also taking over another house.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
That game was so good. At one point you telepathically delve into the mind of a giant lungfish and it feels completely rational to do so.
- Comment on + is 45 degrees from × 3 months ago:
Well that was a meme from tbe graveyard.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
ITT: people who haven’t seen the movie, I guess.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
You’re still streaming music?
- Comment on Or the common cold! 3 months ago:
Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It’s just that your insurance company doesn’t consider it a ‘necessary procedure’, so they don’t pay for it.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 months ago:
Nope. Other countries having bad policy is no excuse for our country to. We’re the fucking wealthiest country on Earth. Oh, and people like you who insist that structural change is impossible is the reason change is impossible. You are a self-fulfilling prophecy that continues our country’s policy of commiting social murder. You are the problem.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 months ago:
The idea that we don’t have the resources to help everyone is patently false. We could provide for everyone on Earth with about 40% of total production. The problem is not the very poor, crammed into tiny apartments and eating bad food. The problem is the ultrawealthy controlling orders of magnitude more wealth than they could even remotely need.
Secondly, again: claiming we need to help ‘our own’ before ‘others’ is inherently exclusionary. I count every person on Earth as ‘our own’. You apparently don’t.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 months ago:
See, the problem is that you think immigrants don’t deserve basic human dignity, while we do. I don’t care if someone is born in Missouri or Mexico City; they both deserve guaranteed access to basic services, and we as a country are more than wealthy enough to provide it.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 months ago:
It’s hard to avoid politics when giving kids lunch at school is fucking political for some reason.
There is a group to blame for politicizing everything, and it is disingenuous to blame ‘people’ in general instead of that group in particular.
- Comment on Political discourse 3 months ago:
Bruh there’s like a triple-digit number of tankies in all of North America lmao. Meanwhile half of the USA is MAGA. If you need to visualize this, go look for literally any act of violence motivated by far-left beliefs. There’s what, like two in the last 30 years? Claiming any sort of equivalence between MAGA and the left is just false.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 3 months ago:
Crosspost this to Dull Men’s Club
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 months ago:
I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn’t- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.
The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I’d dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.