astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 day 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! 1 day 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 3 days 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? 6 days ago:
God damn it, Fisher!
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 × 2 weeks ago:
Well that was a meme from tbe graveyard.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 weeks ago:
ITT: people who haven’t seen the movie, I guess.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
You’re still streaming music?
- Comment on Or the common cold! 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Crosspost this to Dull Men’s Club
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month 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.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 1 month ago:
Not really, no.
Firearms and cars are the top two causes of death for children in the USA.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
WE WILL DRAIN THE RIVERS DRY TO QUENCH OUR THIRST
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 1 month ago:
Inb4 they’re used to deport us all to Ecuador for not being Aryan Christian enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars
70% of US drivers think they’re in the top 20% of drivers. You can see why this is a problem. Get rid of them, they ain’t nothing but trouble.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 2 months ago:
People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn’t have had grass.
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 2 months ago:
We’vehadtosayalotofstuffwethoughtwasfuckingobvious
But yes
It’s O-K to punch Nazis!
- Comment on Watching the news can be dangerous 2 months ago:
So this is obviously saitire, but it gives me a bit of an SCP vibe. Like a Ronald Reagan Cut Up While Talking vibe.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 2 months ago:
Used to agree to this, until it turned out that SMS basically doesn’t work in rural areas.. Theoretically you can get a voice call with the code, but I’ve personally ran into instances where the 2FA voice call simply doesn’t work on landlines. If we’re going to do 2FA, it has to be something so universal anyone can do it. So far, I don’t think we’ve achieved that. I think people have a right to access banking services, etc, and if 2FA doesn’t work for them, we’re deciding to simply ban them from using those services. Doesn’t sit right with me.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
Tip your fellow workers. Agitate for companies to pay their workers a living wage, but in the meantime - tip your comrades.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
OH MY GOD! They tried to scam you out of a whole $1.49!!!
Don’t care. Round up to ten, you greedy cardboard cutout of a person.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 months ago:
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
That sounds like a ‘them’ problem. Veganism is based.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 2 months ago:
Well you’re cranky, aintcha.
