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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the good old days?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang. You’ve gone from ‘that never happens (even though it does’ to ‘child labor is hilarious’. You just keep on digging, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the good old days?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here you go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

  -Isaac Asimov

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the good old days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… just to be clear, is your argument ‘because only a few plants have been caught doing it, that means no other companies will?’

  I want to be sure I have that right before I reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the good old days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize several plants in the US have already been caught using child labor, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Receipt checkers trigger me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually down in most areas.

  Broader claims about trends in retail theft have not panned out. Walgreens, for example, cited spikes in shoplifting as an explanation for falling profits and store closures. The claim has since been retracted. Target blamed theft for a rash of store closures. But an analysis by researcher Jeff Asher showed that, according to the limited data available, the stores Target closed in Portland and Seattle had less crime than stores that were not closing. Reporting by CNBC in September 2023 also cast doubt on retailer claims about the impact of theft, noting that “certain retailers” have “pulled back” from blaming organized theft as “a primary cause of losses.” In fact, to the extent it can be relied upon, industry data cuts against the idea of a recent national spike in retail theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people give their unwaivering support to autocrats?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

  -Sir Terry Pratchett

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Receipt checkers trigger me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing like being treated like a criminal when I go into a store to give them money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨woolly mice on rice all nice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wants it! They look so fluffy and soft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.

  The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.

  The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.

  We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They meant the question showed a viewpoint that seemed to center entirely around you (also a rather libertarian thing, honestly).

  ‘Someone who would never build something for you’ sounds a bit like you’re expecting a tit-for-tat, I-do-this-for-you-so-you-have-to-do-something-for-me in everything, and that’s just not how societies work.

  I’m curious; are you using that phrase to refer to, say, rich assholes who just take and take, or Nazi assholes that would rather cut off their own hands than build something a black person might use? Or are you using it to refer to people like severely disabled folks, or say, low-functioning autistic people, who society supports but who don’t have much capacity to ‘return the favor’?

  Or are you just referring to future generations, who will be around after you’re gone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just your question comes off as nihilistic and a little bit libertarian, and neither of those is mentally healthy really

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With Trump, it isn’t a difference in politics.

  It’s a difference in morality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Saying⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  11 whiny baby Nazis saw this and went crying to their mommies lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Did William Burrito Mean by This?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They still wouldn’t be white. Up until maybe a century ago Irish and Italian people weren’t, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Did William Burrito Mean by This?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. People who’ve never met one, and find it easier to blame others for their issues than blame themselves or their friends.

  2. People who think white people are better. It’s not that they hate Mexicans, per se, it’s just that Mexicans are obviously inferior (or they’d be white!), and they’re getting all uppity, wanting to be treated like equals or some such nonsense.

  3. A combination of the above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

  -Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

  Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair though, Texas seceded once already and within a year or two was begging to be taken back. They probably would have crumbled too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure you’re too old to be this stupid, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A troll (https://lemm.ee/u/shinigamiookamiryuu) is a new moderator of AskLemmy on Lemmy.world. What can be done about this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Go bark somewhere else, sealion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

  -Wilhoit’s Law

  That’s it. That’s all. They want an out-group to abuse. And they have to justify people being in that out-group, so they make them lesser somehow: they’re ‘stupider, crueler, useless to society’, unlike the Amazing and Super Perfect people in the in-group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t for a second think it’s by accident. This was done to make areas less accessible to ‘undesirables’. After builders and realtors were told to stop forcing PoC into specific areas, they just went ahead and built suburbs that you basically had to have a car to access, ensuring poorer people were kept out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a bit alarming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fight fire with napalm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking as someone who lives in the Pacific Northwest, that shit can take full sun to full shade, grow insanely fast, and choke out even the largest trees. Leave a small piece in the soil by accident, and you’ve got a new monster-sized plant before you can blink.

  It all depends on where you live. Lucky you that you live in a place where ivy behaves itself. Not everyone gets to be that lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming we’re discussing the Abrahamic God, He used to be much smaller in scope; in fact, He was the ancient Jewish War God, back when they had a full polytheistic pantheon. So if we’re going back to the original myths, He didn’t really create humans, nor was He all-powerful or all-seeing, or ‘above-it-all’ in general.

  (This is back in the days when Gods were more seen as local clan/town sponsors, like how Athena is the patron God of Athens. He was just a tribal patron god, one they prayed to in order to be safe and successful in war.)

  Also, back then Gods in general were written as being much closer to humans, in term of emotions and motivations—again, Greek mythology gives a good showing of this, but you can read a lot of ancient myths and see it in play.

  As Jehovah became more and more popular (due to all the wars in the region), He started to absorb many of the myths and abilities of the rest of the pantheon, which is why He seems kind of schizophrenic in the older stories. YHWH was actually the head of the pantheon, and as Jehovah supplanted Him as the ancient proto-Jewish tribes moved towards monotheism, the two Gods ended up essentially being merged with each other.

  Still, back then, while Gods were seen as powerful, they were still somewhat seen as limited and fallible. In fact even today there is a strong Jewish tradition of questioning God (albeit politely and a bit indirectly so as not to get turned into salt or whatever).

  But, as Judaism grew, and split off into Christianity and Islam, God’s followers began tack on more and more powers and abilities to make Him sound cooler (and increase the power of the Church). So that’s where the ‘all-seeing’ and ‘all-powerful’ Great-God-of-Everything business comes from, really.

  TL;DR ‘God wasn’t all-powerful and was ‘written’ to have emotions much closer to humans when those creation myths were first being told.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trans women are women. Therefore they should be allowed to play women’s sports. Seems simple enough. I don’t understand where the problem is.

  Race swapping if it goes against, say, the description of a character, irritates me a little—The whitewashing of the main characters of Avatar: the Last Airbender in the live-action movie was pretty immersion-breaking for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh-huh. Seems you already know your stance is wrong.

  Say it, you coward. You’ve already been blowing all the dog-whistles you can find, surely you have the guts to actually say the things you’re thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These dames wanting inclusivity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Ultra-woke garbage’ like what, precisely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Adviser Collapses On Stage At New York Young Republican Gala⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure are some loud sea lions in here…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational, inspiring⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, some instances (like .ml) censor swearing.