BarneyPiccolo

@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops hassling Santa for not having papers to be in the US⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The people they hire would NEVER feel that way. They filter out any trace of empathy in the interview process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I do. We aren’t going to let MAGA take that away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Obstruction of Justice, and a Cover-up. He didn’t have the legal authority to do that, just because another Sociopathic Oligarch told him it was okay. He needs to serve a few decades in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  AI makes EVERYTHING worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People who have had chauffers drive them their entire lives have no concept of road conditions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but I trust Waymo will get their shit together long before that psycho will, if ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Tesla is already broke, the magic bubble has popped, and they are on a steady slide to bankruptcy. They will NEVER recover their mojo. The institutional investors will keep them alive for a while, but they are already Wile E. Coyote, hanging in mid-air, and hasn’t realized there’s nothing under their feet yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He fired them because he knew his system sucked, and would never be roadworthy, and that was the department that would stop him. So he fired them, and here we are.

  I’m actually looking forward to a lot of good crashes, that they’ll explain away as Sleepy Joe’s fault, or it’s not that bad that a school bus full of children blew up on a fire crash with a Tesla, it happens all the time, or perhaps they’ll just deny it, and MAGA will cover it up. Let them kill a whole bunch of American citizens, and then be all dismissive of any criticism.

  This is the year to let MAGA fully flower, and do their worst. The Dems should just stay out of the way, and do nothing to stop them from themselves, and work the media to point out every disaster. I can’t wait for the Midterms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S TIME! ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Meet you at 4:20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Those Texas MAGAs are just sorry they didn’t think of it first. Give them a bribe, they’ll go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S TIME! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We had The Bridge. There was a path that separated the High School and the Junior High, and there was a small footbridge right in the middle, over a small creek. There was a smoking courtyard IN the school (70s), so The Bridge was where we all went to smoke weed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't touch my corn asshole.....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks to be at least part Pomeranian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  20/20, waterbeds were awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I live, there are tiny churches EVERYWHERE. There’s a street next to Walmart that has 13 churches in residential houses along that single street.

  Churches take money in, and provide literally nothing of substance in return. They are nothing more than tax evasion/ money-laundering operations, and at least 90% of them should be closed down. ALL of them should be taxed heavily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xmas at the mega church⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the 70s/80s/90s, we had The Mall. If you didn’t have anything else to do, you’d just go to The Mall, and see who was around. If nothing else, you could hang around in the book and record stores, or the food court. Or play games in the arcade. Or just sit on a bench and watch girls.

  Now kids just sit home and play video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was board so I made my own Nativity scene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So they did!

  I’m not Christian, so I don’t care. I’m a musician, and I started thinking how it would be cool to collected famous musical names. I got the idea when I saw Layla, one of my favorite songs. But no, I already collect enough crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was board so I made my own Nativity scene⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus could be their most popular name, since it would sell not only to people with that name, but also Christians who would have to have a Jesus Coke. If I was a Christian teen, I would definitely want one sitting on a shelf in my room.

  However, I’m betting that Coke would prefer to dodge any potential controversy, and several could be plausible, and never made a Jesus Coke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fair's fair.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So should all members of Congress and the White House.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People don’t get it. The Tooth Fairy isn’t collecting teeth, she doesn’t really even want them. She just has the ancient job of giving kids the traditional bounty for teeth. She just tosses out the teeth when she gets home. She’s ain’t going to the trouble of digging up people for their teeth. She’s got more than enough to handle already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up this morning pondering THIS question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m wondering now. When I saw him doing his dam behavior, I just figured it was instinctual, maybe seasonal/hormonal or something. Now I’m wondering if he can’t hear or sense the water running through the pipes, and it gets him hyped up to build a dam. Very interesting and cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up this morning pondering THIS question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know for sure, but probably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd buy it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a guitarist, a Game of Thrones fan, and a Dinklage fan, so I AM the audience for this joke, and I thought it was amusing on every level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke up this morning pondering THIS question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is more of a compulsion that that. I’ve seen videos from a woman who has a pet beaver she raised from a baby, and it demonstrates damming behavior without water. He will grab anything he can get his mouth on, and drageit to the opening of a hallway, and start piling random stuff across the doorway - stuffed animals, blankets, pillows, even a small decorative artificial tree.

  I don’t know what prompts the little guy to do it, but there is no actual water involved. I don’t think she was playing water sounds, either. It seems to be spontaneous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's ads on an apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Longer ago than that. I was sticking them on the inside of my kitchen cabinet in high school in the mid-70s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's ads on an apple⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw an ad for a guitar that had been sticker-bombed, and the guy had stuck his banana stickers on the back of his headstock. There were dozens of them, lots of different promotional ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I already have a teaspoon. I also could just drizzle it straight out of the bear shaped bottle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd buy it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe that people are getting offended by a mild joke that even Dinklage would probably think is funny. He knows he’s short, you know.

  People with characteristics that get made fun of, all know they have these characteristics, they live with them every day. They just want it to be normal, and not have it pointed out all the time. They don’t mind when someone notices something obvious, they mind when the response is mean-spirited or ignorant.

  Dinklage holding a shield is nothing, until it gets compared to a guitar pick. That’s not mean-spirited, it doesn’t make fun of him, or present him as less human, it simply highlights a physical difference that is funny IN THAT CONTEXT.

  I would never make fun of a small person for their size alone (their politics is fair game), but come on, some things are just objectively amusing, and this is one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd buy it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s ALWAYS okay to make fun of guitarists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd buy it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If they ain’t Jazz IIIs, they suck. - Guitar Gatekeepers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could use a teaspoon.