starlinguk
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- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 1 week ago:
He was never cool, but he used to be considered a mildly amusing rich guy. He actually seemed to have a sense of humour at some point.
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 1 week ago:
It is normal. But it goes something like this: The Incredible Tale of the Tiny Red Dog.
Words like of, the, are, is etc. don’t get a capital.
Sauce: MA in English Language, and voluntary journalist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Indeedy. Hitler didn’t want to destroy the country, didn’t defund scientific research, had advisors who knew what they were doing, didn’t sell state secrets to the USSR, didn’t want to destroy nature… I can’t believe I’m defending Hitler.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I love that Romania declared its elections invalid because the winner had obviously been put there by Russia. Which is exactly what the US and the Netherlands should have done.
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 1 week ago:
The Colosseum was never abandoned. The reason its still standing is that people (including popes) kept paying for it to be maintained.
- Comment on My sister’s AMAB friend likes to look like a girl and even said she wanted to be a “Japanese woman”, why would conservatives think using she/her pronouns for her is forcing an agenda? 1 week ago:
They’ve picked trans people as a “danger” so people don’t realise what the true dangers are (like having a fascist president, for example).
- Comment on How do you go about getting rid of things around your home/apartment? 1 week ago:
I don’t even try Facebook Marketplace (or Ebay) anymore. I just ask on the local group “anybody fancy…” It’s much more effective. I think because then you get impulse buyers too instead of people looking for something specific.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Sure. But Popken, C&A, Bella Green, Bonprix, P&C (both iterations), Cecil, Braxx, etc. do not believe in boobs or hips. I found a French company that does, but they’re horrifyingly expensive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The Netherlands is tiny and has a right wing extremist government full of very, very stupid people. In fact, the Dutch version of The Onion sued the minister of foreign affairs because it’s impossible to distinguish between what she says and what they come up with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s not just the US. It’s the electoral system. There are just as many frigging idiots elsewhere, but they’re less likely to gain power.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 week ago:
Even though this means men are getting special treatment. Because research into prostrate cancer, for example, hasn’t been banned.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Did I end up on Ravelry?
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Have a look at German clothing sites for fun. There is no “choice”.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Don’t forget the snakeskin is usually a mixture of pastels.
- Comment on The weather is definitely changing. 1 week ago:
We’re not. Too warm. Winter was also too warm.
- Comment on The weather is definitely changing. 1 week ago:
We have blossoms. They’re 3 weeks too early. Even during a “hot” year the high season for blossoms was around 7 April. We will probably have a frost in April that will kill off the fruit.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
You think you’ve got a problem? Ours are stealing laptops!
- Comment on What if there really was a "pee tape"? 1 week ago:
I’m in favour of the Mussolini treatment, myself.
- Comment on Why do we even do mens vs womens sizes for clothes? 1 week ago:
Nowadays all women’s clothes are straight up and down, the only difference is pink. It’s a nightmare for women who are shaped like women.
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 2 weeks ago:
You can switch it off in Revanced. I’d completely forgotten about this nonsense (I live in Germany, until Revanched fixed it half the videos I watched were in robot German).
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
First of all, the economy was doing fine under Biden.
How is banning the words “female”, “women” and “bias” in research papers getting the economy back on track?
How is taking away the passports of trans people and changing their gender getting the economy back on track?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Tell them research into women’s medical conditions (like endometrial cancer) is no longer allowed. I’d love to know how they’d spin that one as positive.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 2 weeks ago:
I love how that part admits that there are other gods.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 2 weeks ago:
Hitle was a Mussolini fanboy. He got his ideas from Italy.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to the risks of natural-born US Citizens doing the same? 2 weeks ago:
In the UK, if you have dual citizenship, they will remove your British citizenship if they don’t like what you’re doing. I can absolutely see the US do the same.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to the risks of natural-born US Citizens doing the same? 2 weeks ago:
They arrested a German guy with a green card the other day, refused to say why, and then tortured him and locked him up.
Unless they’re a millionaire, immigrants are not safe.
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 2 weeks ago:
I quit after y2k. I worked nights for months and after it was over, my baby threw up on me one morning, I was 10 minutes late because I had to change, and my boss literally screamed at me.
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 2 weeks ago:
And now people are saying climate change is like the Y2K bug and “it will fix itself” 🙄
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 4 weeks ago:
Covid. It can cross the brain barrier. Losing your sense of taste and smell is a sign of brain damage. A nurse on reddit who works with Covid patients said they noticed an increase in irrational aggressive behaviour.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 weeks ago:
So why not get a cheap android instead?