Small_Quasar
@Small_Quasar@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 3 hours ago:
I’m not American… but I am Scottish/British and I’ve never quite understood the whole being proud of your country thing.
Unless one is a hypocrite it’s always been clear to me that if you’re going to be proud of all the good shit your country has done you’ve also got to be ashamed of all the bad shit.
And with a few centuries of colonialism under the UK’s belt (and before anyone says different, no, Scotland very much partook and benefited from it) I seriously don’t have the emotional fortitude to feel that much shame.
Feeling pride in your culture? In your community? Fine. But in your nation state? A bunch of administrators with delusions of grandeur wrapped in a flag? I’d argue that’s unnatural because nation states in no way played a role in our evolutionary psychology.
Maybe I’d feel different if I was born in a wee inoffensive country somewhere… but I hope not. Nation states are pragmatically necessary but I don’t think we should be getting too invested in them.
- Comment on Can't wait for summer roadtrips <3 2 days ago:
I refuse to make fun of dietary restrictions after spending five years as a waiter rolling my eyes at gluten free people and then developing a gluten intolerance.
The universe is a tricky bitch. It gave me a literal pain in the ass.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 4 weeks ago:
Buffalo wings
…and the buffalos came " this close to extinction so that was almost one less dish.
- Comment on 15 degrees fahrenheit feels almost the same as 5 degrees. However 35 degrees feels WAY colder than 45 degrees. 4 weeks ago:
What the fuck is Fahrenheit.
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 5 weeks ago:
Fucking Cardie spoonheads. They totally fucked Bajor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Shitification.
It means shitification.
- Comment on Facial recognition to be rolled out nationwide in major police reforms 1 month ago:
“nationwide”
“England and Wales”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Why are the plushies on the left side on the right side and why are the plushies on the right on the left side?
- Comment on What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot? 2 months ago:
There’s a video of one of the stormtroopers taking a handcuffed woman into a portable toilet. I’m assuming that’s what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 months ago:
And thus you have a deep psychological need to defend the barbaric practice.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 2 months ago:
It was a lollipop you bit down on and you could hear music played through your teeth.
When I was about 12 I started a short lived fad in my extended friend group of wearing headphones in your nostrils instead of your ears. If you turned them up high it sorta worked.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 2 months ago:
And people think I’m weird for despising Amerikkka with every fibre of my being. 🤷
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 months ago:
Command Yellow
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 months ago:
Handegg.
- Comment on one bright second 4 months ago:
Infinite energy is cheating. Same with travelling backwards in time.
My intuition tells me the universe doesn’t allow cheaters.
But then I’m just an evolved bag of water cells clinging onto a clump of rock so what the fuck do I know?
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 5 months ago:
Sounds like something a tax dodger would say…
- Comment on I'm evolving! 5 months ago:
Why is Jared Leto screaming at the crocodile?