astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Inb4 they’re used to deport us all to Ecuador for not being Aryan Christian enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
We’vehadtosayalotofstuffwethoughtwasfuckingobvious
But yes
It’s O-K to punch Nazis!
- Comment on Watching the news can be dangerous 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Well you’re cranky, aintcha.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 5 weeks ago:
Looks like books are back on the menu, boys.
- 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 5 weeks ago:
ITT: people really upset at being called ‘vegan’ for some reason.
- 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 5 weeks ago:
Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 5 weeks ago:
I mean, would you not want to do this specifically to see it’s effects on marginalized groups? That seems like a pretty good reason to me.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 5 weeks ago:
Yes. We do this literally every day. We pay taxes on what we earn to support those less fortunate. We share with food with coworkers and tools with neighbors. We have EMTs, firemen, and SAR who wilfully run into danger to help people they’ve never met. It’s literally the foundation of society.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
Ah yes, because there are only two parties.
This is entirely an emergent property of FPTP voting. Just do PPV or something, smh my head.
- Comment on When reality smacks you in the face 1 month ago:
Yah that’s just driving.
Take a bus and watch Youtube the whole time. It’s glorious.
- Comment on What would happen to the US if it denaturalised and deported all non-whites? 1 month ago:
Irish and Italian people would like a word with you
- Comment on Financially rewarding and you will always have a job 2 months ago:
We need jobs programs
- Comment on I require nothing more 2 months ago:
Look at all the space for a mini painting station
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 3 months ago:
You realize you’re supposed to wash your produce when you get home, right? There’s still pesticides on there.
- Comment on Is America headed for an age of dumb phones? 3 months ago:
If my kindle played audio files / podcasts that would be half of what I use it for.
- Comment on LOVE THEM 3 months ago:
Skeuomorphism
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 months ago:
Did you see the photo in the article? It’s a ‘single-family home’ in the way a Mercedes SUV is a minivan.
I mean, yah, housing is way too fuckimg expensive. But that is very definitely not a no-frills family home.
- Comment on When you are ruining your day ranting about something remember THIS 4 months ago:
So you actually count by segments of the finger, using your thumb as a tapper. Crook your index finger and look at it - three segments, right? (At least for most people) The segment nearest your hand is 1, middle is 2, end is 3. Middle finger is 4, 5, 6, etc. So you can count up to 12 on four fingers.
Then you use your non-dominant hand to mark dozens. Count to 12 one your main hand,raise on finger on your second hand, repeat. So you can actually count to 60 just on your hands.
