PrimeMinisterKeyes
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Astral Weeks
- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 2 days ago:
Wow, really?
Quotas were introduced in the USSR at one point in the 1930s, I think. Before that, you had to prove that you were innocent to have a shot at escaping imprisonment. Before THAT, authorities had to prove you did something wrong (they almost always found something, though).
Both of these early approaches were simply too inefficient to man the gulags and run the country into the ground, I guess. - Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
s/Poland/Slovakia/
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 week ago:
Just take a look at the large communities on Lemmy:
- News: American
- Politics: American
- Memes: American AND political
I could not find any European meme community at all, and if there was one, I have a hunch it would be flooded with things Trump said or Musk said or whatever is new on Netflix. I guess news about the Circular Economy or the microplastics regulation, being rolled out slowly and in phases, though absolutely affecting EUropeans’ everyday lives, are just not quite as entertaining from an existentialist POV.
- Comment on One of those things you never forget 1 week ago:
The Kama Sutra has you covered: Deer, mare, elephant as metaphors for the various sizes of human womens’ genitalia.
- Comment on Happened to look up "ghoul" on Wikipedia 1 week ago:
Fun fact, the name of the star Algol means “the ghoul.”
- Comment on I can still smell them 1 week ago:
NOW you tell me.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Loose like sleeve of wizard.”
- Comment on Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination 2 weeks ago:
I’ve read his treatise and I liked it a lot, but it appears to be full of wishful thinking. “Disenshittification”? Oh my sweet summer child, enshittification not only keeps getting worse, it seems to be accelerating. Also thinking the world would somehow, magically, unite against Trumpism, that there are cracks starting to form in the American digital hegemony… I don’t share this optimism at all.
- Comment on Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
A lot of things are possible with a knife and a lighter.
- Comment on Stay under the speed limit, guys. It's not worth it. 2 weeks ago:
That is illegal where I live.
- Comment on The void can be loud sometimes 2 weeks ago:
Speaking of loud…
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AAAAAAAAAH!(Yeah, that’s Kurt Cobain)
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 2 weeks ago:
A new, horrible torture method just dropped.
- Comment on Belief 2 weeks ago:
Depends. A lot of people build bubbles and spend the rest of their lives reinforcing their walls. They will deeply interact only with very few hand-picked people, and their mutual trust keeps getting stronger. Also, you might be surprised that a lot of people never even read or watch the news.
From this POV, your faith in what you think represents humanity might as well increase over time. - Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 3 weeks ago:
“Justice is a snake, it only bites the barefooted ones.”
- Comment on No regerts 3 weeks ago:
It’s filled with regret.
- Comment on Blasting creed 3 weeks ago:
Boaneur?
- Comment on Delicious rocks 3 weeks ago:
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
- Comment on Delicious rocks 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, Hg is actually safe to lick. It’s a lot more noble than, for example, silver, so acids and bases won’t attack it. Lots of people even have it stored in their teeth, permanently.
- Comment on TV watch you and... 4 weeks ago:
Perhaps it’s time to rehash an old Soviet joke, with switched roles:
European: I can walk into the Berlaymont building, I can pound the president’s desk, and I can say: “Mrs. President, I don’t like the way you’re running the EU.”
American: I can do that.
European: You can?
American: Yes. I can go into the White House to the Oval Office, I can pound the desk and say: “Mr. President, I don’t like the way President von der Leyen is running the EU.” - Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 4 weeks ago:
To quote David Salomon:
The more closed a worldview, or - phrased differently - the more systematic and scientific an ideology is, the less it will be able to muster the pragmatism necessary to establish a hegemonic position. A worldview, a doctrine, a system in its pure form is never capable of hegemony. The capacity for hegemony contaminates thought structures. It manifests itself downright in the willingness to integrate other positions and ideologies.
Pessimistic Corollary: Ideological purity is a moral consolation price for those with no shot at power.
Optimistic Corollary: Ideological purity is an essential requirement, as a means to inoculate a budding movement against the inevitable corruption and adulteration caused later by real life conditions, and to sow the seeds of a future enlightened society. - Comment on Word. 4 weeks ago:
Nowadays, it appears to be little more than a Word clone, though.
- Comment on life hack 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 👁️ 👁️ 5 weeks ago:
Credit: El Paco Puente
- Comment on 👁️ 👁️ 5 weeks ago:
The exact stipulations strongly depend on the jurisdiction because there is no EU-wide legal framework.
For example, you may put them up, but then you are also required to put up warning signs so nobody runs the risk of being accidentally caught on camera. Or the cameras might not be allowed to directly face the street/ public areas, only your immediate private property. - Comment on :3 5 weeks ago:
How to: Bale a body.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 5 weeks ago:
We could call it… “Artificial Emotions,” or AE.
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 5 weeks ago:
It’s bound to happen soon.
And you know what they say, the difference between a trillion and a billion is about a trillion. - Comment on hl shirt 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on American exceptionalism 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, because it kills you. Kerosene and similar low-viscosity hydrocarbons in your stomach migrate to the lungs, causing them to collapse. Not a nice way to go.
They only found out after some kids mysteriously died upon ingesting minute amounts of lamp oil.
