ExtantHuman
@ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
- Comment on Markets cheer court ruling to block Trump tariffs 6 days ago:
And already unblocked again, without even a reason. This is so fucking stupid.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 1 week ago:
They need to add a backdoor
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
Other people also second hand referencing the circulating myth/rumor is not the same thing as a first hand account of the person. References to him popping up “within a century” is not a firsthand account-just people writing down hearsay.
- Comment on What's the deal the miracles jesus chose to do? 1 week ago:
Obviously not, Herakles was named that as Zues’ hamfisted attempt to appease the wife he cheated on by naming his bastard after her
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 week ago:
However, I’ve seen plenty of butter cows
- Comment on Number neighbors! 1 week ago:
And Barr choose the prison he was sent to, and visited the cell just a few days before he was killed.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
Global median include countries that might not hold school in a dedicated building, for starters. Also shit just costs more here in general.
Those fundraisers.are usually for extra stuff, too. Big Field trips or events.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 1 week ago:
Yeah, at 3 most are still working on not shitting themselves
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 2 weeks ago:
3? Lol, we know you don’t have children.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Maybe your parents should have leashed you, maybe you’d wander off the fucking topic less.
HOW is giving your toddler exercise when they’d otherwise be out in the stroller wrong? They’re not embarrassed by it. They often enjoy it. Where is the harm? This is you PROJECTING your own stupidly conceived feelings into someone else who isn’t feeling those things.
You still can’t grasp your video thing isn’t indictive of literally anything. You looking at videos of shit where the topic wouldn’t be occurring will obviously show that thing not occurring. How fucking dense are you that you think this proves Jack shit? Common also doesn’t mean literally everyone is doing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Prove it
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I specified TODDLER. You keep only saying kid. There’s a difference. I know you know that. But your are determined to have a completely different conversation than I am here
I didn’t say you had to do anything special. That’s my point. It’s really fucking easy to find videos that are completely off topic from the conversation.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can find one video of people not doing one specific things, really easily. I’m not sure what you thought this proved.
I was always, and still, only talking about toddlers. Are there 3+ toddlers in a crowded public space in that video?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I do not believe for a second that a 12 year old would sit there allowing themselves to be leashed. Some 12 year olds are basically full grown adult sized people.
I’m talking about toddlers. I’ve said that multiple times. You keep imagining dumb shit that is not happening. So you’re right, the vast majority of non toddler children are not on leashes. Congrats. What a fucking stupid conversation this was. No one said otherwise. You invented a thing that wasn’t happening to be angry at.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Traveling across the US doesn’t mean you went to places where small kids congregated. It’s also more common NOW than it was back then.
Why are you acting like people are leashing 8-10 year olds. You use them when the kids are 1-3 so they’re not stuck in their stroller the whole time you’re at some public place (which is probably what your parents did with you). It really sounds like you think parents are tying their kid to a post, instead of having a connection on their wrist. Your arguments come across as if you have zero idea what we’re talking about and only had a visceral overreaction to just hearing this concept for the first time.
The kids often enjoy it, too. They think they’re the ones leading their parents.
try to find video of a place where more than 3 are leashed in the background of a news report or puff piece.
What a stupidly arbitrary and specific demand for proof.
- Comment on Speak American 2 weeks ago:
Except American English is the traditional. England kept fucking with their language and spelling, and now everything has 6 unnecessary vowels
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just because YOU weren’t didn’t mean it isn’t common. Your parents did it the hard way. For no reason.
I was leashed as a toddler in the early 90s. I am not ashamed of that.
You don’t leash kids at parties, that’s an enclosed private space with little risk of them running off, what a weird pointless anecdote. You apparently being sheltered isn’t a good argument.
Sounds like you weren’t going to places where very young children were in attendance. You use them in busy public places that require movement. Like a zoo. You see them all the time at places like that. It’s better than a stroller and you don’t have to worry about a half second of taking your eyes off the kids, they’re jetting into the crowd. Even more useful if you have multiples.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I was a leash kid in the early 90s. I do not feel dehumanized knowing that was the case, like some of these childless reactionaries in the comments are claiming.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wrong, it’s perfectly normal.
From the sounds of things, you are not a parent trying to comment on things you know nothing about. The leash actually gives toddlers freedom they wouldn’t otherwise have. It lets them walk around, with some constraints, instead of being stuck riding in a stroller all the time. Kids at that age will jet off real quick. You take your eyes off then for a second and they’re gone.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No it’s not?
They make leashes specifically for toddlers. They’re pretty common.
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 2 weeks ago:
Most office workers are categorized as committee work, which was lobbied to be exempt from overtime laws.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
I never said it did. First past the post is what allowed that to happen.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, obscenely gerrymandered Republican supermajority in the state legislature really sucks.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
He’s been trying to pretend he’s brokering peace between Gaza and Israel, and the dome made a lot of headlines at the beginning of the genocide. If he’s been talking to netayahu, it’s bound to have come up.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Perfect, I need to move a button on my jacket.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
The magas only gained their stranglehold on the party, despite being a minority, due to the neocons splitting their primary ballots.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
Ohio is trying to ban it this year.
- Comment on Hindsight is 20/20 2 weeks ago:
20/20 is average vision, not perfect. Please stop using this idiom - it is factually inaccurate to what it is attempting to convey. There are people out there with better than 20/20 vision, for whom this saying makes zero sense.
- Comment on Trump unveils plans for 'Golden Dome' missile shield for US 2 weeks ago:
He’s jealous of the Israeli one and wants some kind of military accomplishment to point to. It’s okay of his strongman schtick that some idiots somehow fall for
- Comment on Doctor who worked with Biden says he had cancer ‘while he was president’: ‘He did not develop it in the last 100 to 200 days’ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, extremely. It changes the entire meaning of the headline, giving it authority it doesn’t rightly have, as NYPost intentionally does. Trash source