TempermentalAnomaly
@TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Delicacies 1 day ago:
Almost certainly contains ass pennies. I’ve been sticking $30 worth of pennies up my ass for 11 years. That’s twelve million twelve thousand pennies. Eight times the population of Nebraska. That coin milk almost certainly has one of my ass pennies in it.
- Comment on We dumb 6 days ago:
This guy sounds like management material.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 week ago:
This is probably a weird cropping, but I like to think this doors pushed open since there are no hinges on this side.
- Comment on This map will hopefully clear up any further confusion. 2 weeks ago:
Some how these maps always forget the Falkland Islands.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 weeks ago:
The loss of Roman concrete happened before the collapse of the Western Roman empire. This is one exception to your insightful comment. Major public works were halted in the last century before the collapse. The last major project in Western Europe was the Temple of Minerva around 325 CE.
In Constantinople, a small church, tha Hagia Irene, has concrete walls. Larger works, like the famous city walls, don’t have any concrete. It honestly may not have been an appropriate material choice, but other projects didn’t use Roman concrete either. I think this might be because volcanic ash wasn’t readily available.
- Comment on Guys, what did you buy during the Steam autumn sale? 3 weeks ago:
If dying over and over again is what’s making you angry, turn on God Mode. The story is amazing. Without God Mode, I would have thrown it on the heap of games started that never hooked me. It was worth setting aside my pride to see a beautiful, intriguing set of stories and relationships unfold.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
I think you have it backwards. The national statistics are a result of what happens on the state level in aggregate.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see how.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
43 states and one district didn’t matter this time.
Only seven states mattered. - Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
These are national statistics. They bear no direct relation to the outcome.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
The first two columns is what percentage each party receive for that particular demographic. The third column is the percentage that demographic made up of the total votes.
So the each rows first two columns should add the 100%. The final column should add to 100%.
- Comment on Anon needs cooking advice 4 weeks ago:
So is crystal meth. Mama TemperamentalAnomaly used to add just pinch to her gravy and it was magic.
- Comment on What do you create? 4 weeks ago:
an entire world setting inspired by the tarot deck
This just makes me so happy!
- Comment on Absolute slander 4 weeks ago:
I could finish that cat with only two packets of sauce. But kitten has a delicate flavor and I don’t like drowning it in sauce.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 4 weeks ago:
Britain is the land mass that includes England, Wales, and Scotland.
William the Conquerer was the first Norman king of England and never had power over Wales and he was mostly successful in gaining homage from King Malcolm III, but never king over the lands.
Edward I about two hundred years later almost pulls it off, but doesn’t quite get a firm grip on Scotland. James I in the early 17th century holds the crown for each of the lands. In 1707 they formalize the relationship with a treaty.
So… No the French did not found Britain.
- Comment on Can someone give me atleast 5 examples of Democrats being against the working class? 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t a recent phenomena. Bernie’s statement calls out the Democrats behavior over the last 30 years which puts you right in the middle of the first term of Clinton. However, Clinton was the first Democratic executive that had a chance to really enact a strategic change in the Democratic party that was first formulated after the chaos and losses of 1968.
Before 1968, the democrat party was tightly knit with union interest and the selection of a presidential candidate was done behind closed doors by party bosses. This is how it was done in 1968 resulting in Hubert Humphrey. Hubert Humphrey was an establishment candidate and VP to a very unpopular president who decided not to run for a second term. Robert Kennedy was very popular, but assisted before the convention. There were other candidates, but Hubert Humphrey enters the race after the 12 primaries had closed, but before the convention. There were a lot of reasons for chaos at the Democratic Convention in 1968, but this was one. Humphrey was chosen in an undemocratic fashion by party bosses despite lacking wide support by the base. I’m not saying history repeated itself, but it sure rhymes.
So Humphrey loses. The next four years results in reflection buly the party, an internal document called the *McGovern-Frasier *report is created, the selection process becomes more democratic causing candidates to make a wider tent for an intra-party coalition resulting in the nomination of McGovern eho whose major focus was to get the US out of Vietnam. Major unions decide not to back him and, well, he gets his ass kicked.
More reflection and the Trilateral Commission conclude that “excessive democracy” had resulted in the erosion of economic and political stability. So unions are still important in America at this point, but there’s a growing shift from an industrial society to a professional services society starting to happen. The members of the Trilateral Commission see this and start to court this group. Meanwhile, colleges increase enrollment accepting non-traditional students to matriculate.
Jimmy Carter, a member of the Trilateral Commission, is elected and enacts several neo liberal policies such as deregulating the airlines and creating natural gas markets. He fails a bid for a second term, but the tenor of what is yet to come has been sounded. Atari-democrats, young ambitious tech savvy, step to the fore and represented by someone like Gary Hart. He fails to get the nomination mainly because he had an affair and Mondale gets the nod. Mondale was an old school dem who supported labor and Carter’s VP. He loses worse than McGovern in 1972.
In 1988, Dukakis runs trying to bridge the old Dems and the new Dems. Like riding two horses, he fails. That’s four out five election losses. 1992, a young whipper snapper from Arkansas steps to the plate and wins with an outstanding 43% of the popular vote. Wait! How could be, you ask? You see, Nader isn’t the only spoiler candidate. One free wheeling Texas business man named Ross Perot got about 20% of the popular vote. I still remember is slide presentation on network television.
But I digress. This administration, knowing they just barely won, does what anyone who hasn’t won in a whole and makes radical changes. Good bye old guard and welcome the new way of ruling. One notable survivor of the purge was Joe Biden. They deregulate more industries and open more trade with NAFTA, CAFTA, China and help rebuilding a newly democratized Russia. Not all of this happened in the first term, but these were all important events. W campaigned on an isolationist strategy in response to much of this. From 1993 to 2013, we lived in the Clinton era. Biden isn’t really aligned with it deeply. He’s been the middle ground man and probably is more closely aligned to Mondale or Dukakis.
The stock market takes off during the first tech boom, but the vast majority of the spoils go to the professional class and the rich. The working class is doing better because everyone is doing better, but not keeping up. Meanwhile factories are closing and we aren’t investing in infrastrcuture. Also, if you want your kids to have a future, send them to college. Can’t afford it? No worries, here are some loans. It’s for your children. Good luck!
It’s during this time that you see them not resisting neocon war mongering. War mongering guts the working class. You see Obama not helping out the working class after the 2008 financial crisis. But who cares? The stock market is soaring! What do mean you don’t have any extra cash to invest. Good luck!
2016 had primaries, but everyone knew they’d regret it if they got in the way of Hillary. It was her turn and we deserved a woman president. Biden regrets sitting this out. I don’t know if he would have had a chance, but being VP, it would have been a fight of two different visions. Throw in Bernie and there’s a real decision to be made.
Well damn… This was far too long. Hopefully it was an interesting read. Yeah, there’s five examples in here, but the damage is far more subtle over the course of several decades. The working class, when unionized, were powerful. And politics were fucked up. Then we gutted them and an industrial base and shit’s fucked up in a new way. No easy answers. Just grinding.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Why not just ask this question in the OP?
- Comment on Please be patient. 1 month ago:
Positrons are different from protons. Both have a positive charge, but a positron is an elementary particle of a similar mass as an electron. They are rather rare in nature which OP was noting. Protons are made of three elementary particles, much heavier than positrons, and are, I imagine, present in nature in about the same order of magnitude as electrons.
- Comment on Fead 2 months ago:
To imagine you wrote this sentence by purpose.
- Comment on Do you actually care about your friend's new baby, vacation abroad or similar life events or are you just being nice? 2 months ago:
I care about my friends. I care about the goals, concerns, trials, joys, and more. I listen and I dig deeper. If I don’t care about they did, I questions that reveal how it made them feel.
Now that’s a lot of emotional labor, but for a select few confidants, I am more than happy to that work. It bonds us and makes each other feel seen and connected.
- Comment on what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care? 3 months ago:
Sounds like you had a wonderful patient who was grateful for you doing your craft. Do a compliment sandwich, but don’t sincerely.
Complement Boundary Complement
“Oh my. I’m flattered. Thank you, but I’m not comfortable with that right now. You’ve been a wonderful patient and I enjoyed working with you too.”
This is just an example of the compliment sandwich structure and you should adjust the wording to serve you.
As for the phone number, just tell him that you were doing your job and seeing him better is all the reward you need. Again, adjust the wording for your truth.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 4 months ago:
Noice.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 4 months ago:
How do you measure that for weight loss?
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 4 months ago:
The one struggling to keep it’s head above water?
- Comment on I drew the Mexico states by memory 4 months ago:
Brazil is no longer a state in Mexico after it moved to China.
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud 4 months ago:
Same. My kid isn’t into it, thankfully, but he was the topic of the week a fews ago.
- Comment on Windows 11 4 months ago:
This article has a hard paywall, so I found another source.
According to this article it seems the impact was limited because it only effected the most recent Debian server release. So the issue was limited, discovered quickly, and easily fixed.
The recent windows issues was extensive for all windows machines, discovered after massive outages, and difficult to fix.
I’m not sure this is a win for Linux, but there a number of decisions that CrowdStrike made that failed to live up to the trust issue by WHQL certification.
I think that this didn’t have the same extent for Linux is pure luck.
- Comment on Boy meat 5 months ago:
When learn about and discover the missing child in the same instant.
- Comment on Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? 5 months ago:
You’re using rationality to defend your behavior instead of connecting emotionally around a fundamentally emotional issue. This doesn’t mean that her behavior was justified either, but rationality will only get you so far in solving this problem. Arguably, there’s an intimate and emotional reason you’re together. If you’re both not engaging in protecting and growing that first, then you’ll end in a you vs her situation.
- Comment on I wish I was as bold as these authors. 5 months ago:
Best movie ever.
