tourist
@tourist@lemmy.world
- Comment on The State of the Union 3 days ago:
Counting or not counting gang violence
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 3 days ago:
I haven’t held a bottle at that angle since I was 19 years old
Maybe I could be the FBI director if I start drinking again
- Comment on 💀🌈🙏🌈💀 6 days ago:
Do I really want to know?
- Comment on Harm production 1 week ago:
I think there’s a huge spike in gambling if that counts.
House always wins, my main takeaway from a few high school probability classes, a horrible first time at a casino and Fallout New Vegas probably.
So many people are desperate and throwing their money and hope at that predatory and shockingly under-regulated industry
I’d say it’s probably worse and less manageable than most central nervous system surprises available at the gas station
Hope you’re less afraid? I am high, so I could all be, like, stupidly wrong.
- Comment on Checkmate, atheists! You are going to vagina hell! 3 weeks ago:
I can’t save this if it’ll show up in my media roll
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 weeks ago:
The people running that site must be extremely overworked
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
Not that it makes it any better, but at least they tried hiding operation paperclip. Hopefully indicating some kind of shame.
Volkswagen didn’t even change their name
Barely changed the logo
“Yeah we were the nazi car company who helped do the holocaust. That was a doozy. Anyways, wanna buy a nazi car?”
- Comment on Hostile architecture 1 month ago:
I normally don’t read usernames, so I got fucking brain fried trying to figure out what a Finjamin is
Like, it looks like a word I should remember but it isn’t even a word
- Comment on Do drug dogs ever get addicted when working or during training? 1 month ago:
Bomb sniffing dogs don’t become explosive after a few successful shifts, for similar reasons.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
hello Mike D never showed up
may I have the water
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 1 month ago:
maybe op was doing it a lot
and/or the litter was plutonium or something
- Comment on Deeper babe 1 month ago:
“honest to god that’s as far as I can go”
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 1 month ago:
You have to retroactively do what I did and cripple your attention span to a point where if you see any piece of text longer than a few sentences, your brain just automatically skips past it
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 months ago:
“Broadcast English”
Interesting term
I’ve always noticed that In movies and TV shows, North American accents mostly sound “normal”. But when I talk to Americans/Canadians in person or online over voice chat, I cannot pinpoint the accents, it just sounds “American” to me.
I almost never hear the
“I’m walkin here”
“Folks won’t take kindly to you around these parts”
“I pahked my cah at the Hahvahd yahd”
“I’m sorey aboot that”
I’m totally down, I just need to, like, check my schedule?
etc.
kinds of exaggerated accents
everyone sounds like someone from CNN to me and then they say they’re from Arkansas or something
- Comment on devastated 2 months ago:
I wanted to see my recommendations :{
Not rooted, or flashing a custom ROM, so I can’t delete the play store.
Also, my bank app wasn’t installing properly from Aurora. I don’t remember what the exact issue was, but it was too much of a hassle to figure out (or change banks)
But that second profile idea is smart
I should have done that
- Comment on devastated 2 months ago:
organic recommendations:
apps for which I already have F-Droid equivalents installed
sponsored recommendations:
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- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 2 months ago:
Interesting thought
I don’t think the other nations are too bothered by it in most cases.
The country that comes to mind first is Germany. They call it Deutschland. I never looked into why we as English speakers call it “Germany”. I just do it because everyone else does.
I haven’t heard of Germans getting upset about it. If they were legitimately offended, I’d start calling it Deutschland, no problem.
The real issues come in when there’s a historical context. Like, if the name contains a slur for the people in that nation. Or if you mix up the names of neighbouring Balkan countries.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 2 months ago:
Depending on how serious you are:
Choose weed instead
Or the crisis line. You probably already know where to find it. Help is available. You do not have to suffer alone. I love you homie.
- Comment on A Drunk Raccoon Passed Out in the Bathroom of a Virginia Liquor Store 2 months ago:
man, imagine getting blackout the first time and it ends up in the NYT
so fucked up what they did to this homie
- Comment on Give the people what they want ... Hairy Baals 2 months ago:
News crew pronounced it that way on purpose with a straight face.
Pure dedication. How many takes did they need for that?
- Comment on girlfriend 2 months ago:
You’re not wrong, although I feel like the implication in this context was slightly more antagonistic.
i.e. “It’s only a matter of time before she leaves your sorry ass”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
He’s not accusing televangelist fraudsters, war criminals, or deceptive, charismatic, powerful world leaders that threaten religious freedom.
Isn’t that him and his entire social circle?
if you asked a random person off the street:
hi which one of these people do you think is most likely the Antichrist:
- Greta Thunberg (Climate Activist)
- Eliezer Yudkowsky (AI researcher)
- Peter Thiel (Chairman of Palantir)
I’m going to guess most people will pick option 3.
I didn’t even know who Eliezer was, I just skimmed his Wikipedia page.
I’m an atheist, but hearing about a billionaire defense contractor who goes on rants about the antichrist makes me think “hmm maybe this dude is the Antichrist”.
It just reminds me too much of those super anti-paedophilia guys who make anti-paedophilia their entire personality and then turn out to have terabytes of CSAM on their laptop.
- Comment on What are they hoping to find there? 🤔 2 months ago:
I had a colleague from overseas looking to visit Soweto
I said something to the effect of “Brother why would you do that, don’t you have a family?”
But apparently there are legitimate tour programmes that go in there now. Super safe for visitors. I had no clue.
I mean, you still basically get robbed by the tour company, but if you’re used to dollars or euros, you probably won’t even notice.
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 2 months ago:
I like this one because you can append prefixes and suffixes to it
Fat ass in the tall grass
Asshole in the grasshole
etc.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 3 months ago:
SHIT BRO LOOK OUT
A GANG OF LINUX KERNEL CONTRIBUTORS ARE APPROACHING YOUR HOUSE
THEY’RE HAULING AN IMPROVISED MRI SCANNER
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 3 months ago:
The Economist has a tendency to put out articles seemingly designed to make conservatives bust nuts through their trousers at mach 4
Is Lucifer’s Poison Ivy destroying the fabric of civilization as we know it?
- Comment on A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient. 3 months ago:
fecal transplants
wait
does this mean “eat shit” counts as unsolicited medical advice
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 3 months ago:
you make a good point
where do I sign
I have a really bad credit score
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 3 months ago:
idk I’m not sure
tbf I took a quick glance through some other years and they all had major tragedies
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 3 months ago:
Also, doesn’t this shit just waste like a fuckton of taxpayer money?
