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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Anyone who has been paying attention to the healthcare thing in america should know that what you call something influences immensely what people think about something. Just look at the difference in support in polling when they call it the affordable healthcare act OR obamacare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is starting things from a place of outright suspicion.

  I would understand it if they are going to someplace private, like the apartment or a dark alley at midnight, but who the hell goes to those places on a first date? I’m not freaking out about a guy asking me to a coffee date at 1000 hours in the middle of a city on a saturday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THEY'RE EVOLVING⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  mud daubers usually are as far from aggressive as yellow jackets are assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THEY'RE EVOLVING⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a toy, it’s a revolution! proudly waves the vibrator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What they do with the pulp?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if it’s being super efficient with all of the water, most of the body will have been gassed into methane and such, a little lipid slick here and there, and only the inorganic mineral contents will be visible. Surely their technology can handle a little rapid putrefaction. Why leave carbonyls intact if you can do a nucleophilic attack and knock off oxygen (as a hydroxyl, sure) to be buffered by a little acid into water?

  …calm thy tits, gentlemen, I’m joking…

  spoiler

  because we don’t use acid, that’s barbaric. Lye is much more appropriate! Only 2% of the original body mass is left as ‘dry’ material afterwards. Much much efficient!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Thy Enemy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  whaaaat? Even in warships you can still shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨facebook ai⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t that one of the boy bands? So the late 90s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whats your dumb purchases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AND don’t forget that B.O.A.T. is actually an acronym for ‘break out another thousand.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop

  I can’t, you’re being intellectual on lemmy and we have an anti-intellectual bent here. I am compelled by the lemmy force to do this again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re*

  wrong right

  FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Catalogs are still a thing. I pick up the mail and not only get catalogs from stores I purchased things at ten years ago, but the amount I see in the ‘instant recycle bin’ is insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird half melted candle morph? The enemies are getting weird out there, yo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will we even make it to the 35th century?

  1: '97

  2: '99

  3: '01

  VC: '02

  SA: '04

  IV: '08

  V: '13

  VI: '25

  So, 2 -> 2 -> 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 5 -> 12… Taking the first 2, 2, 1 as a downwards arc of the parabola, we should be seeing:

  VII: '42

  VIII: '71

  IX: 2122

  X: 2227

  XI: 2456

  XII: 2844

  XIII: 3495

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Practical Magic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a part of me that knows, if the fbi or other goons draw up a search warrant (well, I guess subpoena since it’s bank record) for that transaction, we will be hearing about some poor folks getting harassed for ‘cursing’ kirk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waived.

  Sovereign immunity is one of those strange times when the ruling class straight up admits that they own you. It’s completely an obvious concept, and so strange that it’s literally just out in the open and they talk about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little memorial at the local dump⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Booby traps would be better, but I suppose we can all understand how that would be bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DC Comics Cancels Gretchen Felker-Martin's Red Hood After One Issue Following Charlie Kirk Comments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, good on her, but isn’t this why the majority of us DON’T use our real names on anything we do on the internet?

  Signed, Brad Burndock Burntbacon, first of his lame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear, I now have two strangely smelly women and one weird methodist lady waving pregnancy tests at me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked at the map of known cameras in my area, and I think I could take many of them out. Especially if a drone with spray paint is available. The issue is that those are the known ones, and there are plenty of cameras or license plate readers that aren’t from flock. I know for a fact that when my neighbor went missing in 2020/2021, they tried to find him using license plate readers, and those weren’t flocks, I’d bet. Plus you have just the regular surveillance cameras that a lot of businesses have, and we now know that police can put in work when it’s a big money person’s interests on the line, like with the uhc ceo and, in this case palantir’s deep pockets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While the laws are probably fucked in their ability to be applied, jugging is a pretty common thing in texas. A town of about 70,000 had about 3 of them a week, when I was following police reports. It was a pretty common pattern, too (one atm at the back end of a parking lot for a walmart that had a bank between the parking lot and the street, then the victim drove to another store like fast food or any of the strip malls up and down that street, and then the car’s window was broken and the money removed from the atm taken if it was still in an easily grabbed envelope), so this was despite the police caring enough to scope out the particular atm where it would happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just as curious about the drones. Do they have a ‘stop-and-hover’ mode if you jam them temporarily, or do they set down? As to the cameras, well… it’s a nice fantasy that you’d get away with it, but unless there’s a civil war going on, you’re going to be caught shooting buckshot at them. That’s what they’re truly trying to build, and they’ve gotten there if they can monitor your car from nearly at your home until you leave it (the car), track you walking to wherever you commit the crime and back to your car, then track you as you drive away until you get nearly home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooooooo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He leered at the women so openly they all left the car, I bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only at christmastime.

  ‘Twas the night before Christmas An’ all t’ru de house…’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s just the nostalgia of it, but the flying through the tunnel while andross monologues at you, then the tunnel ends and this evil dude, who you’ve never seen as anything but a disembodied face, he just appears as a disembodied face for starfox 64 was fantastic. inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=BSUW2Rsej7I

  Spoiler for the forest:

  spoiler

  The little girl, with everything in the game building up the tension and discovering just what the hell is going on… and then you slowly walk up behind her and she looks at you, giggles, and explodes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨banger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly (now) past middle aged white women, from what I hear my friends and coworkers yammer on about when the conversation turns to movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought expats had to live in little expat communities, keeping themselves aloof from the rest of the population. It’s a level of snobbery beyond even still caring where you’re originally from. That was my understanding from all the little compounds I saw in the global south.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I occasionally hear the fucking stupid doj advertisement about how trump is arresting murderers and violent felons. I always want to shake the people around who are nodding along with it and ask them how they can only bring up a few cases out of the massive amount of people snatched off the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, just in case, maybe spoiler that? It’s not like that first case was difficult to figure out, but still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, my parent gleefully explained that they were writing AN EMAIL to the PRESIDENT HIMSELF using my disease to assuage their feelings as they demanded he not let stem cell research happen. That’s a level of mental fuckery I could be happy about disappearing.