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- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 3 weeks ago:
ABC News reported that Trump’s second-inauguration haul is on track to shatter the previous $107m record, as pledged contributions have already exceeded a $150m fundraising goal. Barack Obama’s inauguration raised $53m in 2009 and $42m in 2013, and Joe Biden’s raised $63m in 2021.
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 4 weeks ago:
Lol you weren’t joking. This dude is cracking himself up.https://youtu.be/3eNDNCe4rRw
- Comment on Thanks mom, I don't want any 4 weeks ago:
I dunno. 1.75 oz of tuna on my waffle is far too much tuna on my waffle.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Kaiser isn’t a typical insurance company though. They’re an HMO. Which means they tell you what doctor you can go to. Think you need to see a specialist? Too bad, the general practitioner doesn’t think it’s necessary.
So they deny a lot of claims by preventing you from going to the right doctor in the first place.
- Comment on LOL 2 months ago:
Haha I’m right there with you. It’s like someone going "Hey, remember when you used to do heroin and hate yourself? I know you’ve gone to rehab and cleaned yourself up, but wanna try this new Heroin-Lite?
- Comment on Cat Calibration 2 months ago:
into*
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
“This is you as an old man. I’m ugly and dead alone.”
- Comment on What's the capital of France? 2 months ago:
I’ve never seen a Whitest Kids You Know with such high production values.
- Comment on Caught in the act 2 months ago:
RIP trailcam.
- Comment on Trump cosplaying 3 months ago:
I saw an announcement yesterday saying it was from the onions.
- Comment on Riddler Trophy from the Batman Arkham games that i printed/painted for my brother's birthday 3 months ago:
That’s dope as fuck
- Comment on Riddler Trophy from the Batman Arkham games that i printed/painted for my brother's birthday 3 months ago:
How’d you pull that off? The question mark looks like filament, not like a neon tube.
- Comment on No excuse 3 months ago:
A bad driver never misses their exit.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 3 months ago:
Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.
- Comment on Hmmmm 3 months ago:
I feel like that’s good advice for reasonably intelligent people. But it’s kind of a slippery slope, especially for people that are dumb as shit. For example, my neighbor became a hard antivaxxer during COVID.
She mistrusted everything that was actually science, assuming that she since she didn’t understand what qualified professionals were saying, they must be wrong. But if someone could make a simple (even if incredibly wrong) argument on YouTube, shed eat that shit up.
- Comment on Megaflopolis 3 months ago:
That sounds interesting. I feel like that tiny but of context would probably draw more people to see it. Not sure why they kept it all mysterious.
- Comment on Megaflopolis 3 months ago:
Any idea on what the movie is actually about? I saw an interview with Aubrey Plaza where they asked her and she gave a very vague answer.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 3 months ago:
One day if we are brave, we will get rid of the U in a lot of British words like color and armor, but by God we will keep the British U in the word glamour!
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Hard to say. That study you linked mentions reductions in speed and crashes in the vicinity of the camera, which to me indicates that people are only slowing down because they know a camera is there. I suppose someone would have to do a study to see if speed cameras reduce speeds and crashes in areas where there aren’t currently cameras, but have been in the past. Meaning that people are slowing down in areas where they think there might be cameras.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I think the sentiment against them stems from the fact that there are ways to reduce speeds without feeling like they’re being used as a revenue stream.
Personally I like when there are warning signs saying “Speed camera in use ahead” since it has the effect of slowing down traffic and not feeling like a “gotcha” moment.
- Comment on No Poop Challenge Champion 3 months ago:
Godspeed
- Comment on No Poop Challenge Champion 3 months ago:
The Lemmy no poop challenge memes were when I realized this was where I belonged.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 3 months ago:
Orson Scott Card actually weighed in on a simple way to determine if something is fantasy or sci-fi since he writes both:
The difference between science fiction and fantasy…is simply this, science fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 months ago:
I have not, but I can’t remember the last time I was in a KFC. Is it any good?
- Comment on Something... 4 months ago:
My neighbor sent a text to his wife once that said something like “make sure to get that pussy nice and clean for me cause I’ve got plans for you this weekend.”
Except instead of sending it to his wife, he accidentally sent it to his dry cleaner.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 months ago:
I think it’s physiological response to that teal color in food. There are lots of green foods that are ok to eat, so the immediate revolution wasn’t as strong.
But yeah, that Baja Blast teal is something you only see in nature on mold.
- Comment on The four horsemen of the dogpocalypse. 4 months ago:
That Baja Blast one provoked a physical gag reflex in me.
- Comment on My Tool phase 4 months ago:
Back in the day, my stepdad worked overseas so we found ourselves at the airport quite often. Remember how they used to have those courtesy phones where you pick up, talk to an operator, and ask them to make an announcement in the airport to have someone pickup and connect you?
My brother and I would go to those phones and request that they page Reverend Maynard James Keenan. Then they’d announce over the intercom “Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone. Reverend Maynard James Keenan please pickup a white courtesy phone.” Then we’d lose our minds laughing. I don’t know why we thought it was so funny, but hopefully some other Tool fans at the time were walking through the airport and did a double take.
- Comment on Anyone else having trouble with links not showing as read? 4 months ago:
Yeah if you look at that GitHub link in the other comment, it mentions that a Lemmy variable was renamed in the latest release. So there’s nothing that we, as users, can do. It needs a code change.
- Comment on Anyone else having trouble with links not showing as read? 4 months ago:
Ah that explains it. Thanks!