MacNCheezus
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 31 minutes ago:
You mean a million monkeys typing randomly on a typewriter until they happen to write Shakespeare?
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 33 minutes ago:
Believe me, the horses have already had their revenge.
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 37 minutes ago:
I don’t think this bus could draw a horse either.
Or take a photograph of it, for that matter.
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 12 hours ago:
Yes, this is what’s commonly known as a callback joke.
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 19 hours ago:
You raise a good point.
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 20 hours ago:
Hmmm… perhaps a pigeon took this photo?
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 20 hours ago:
Well, he DOES look pretty talented.
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- Comment on Leafwater island residents can't see Imgur posts. 2 days ago:
They voted for this.
- Comment on Beans 2 days ago:
Okay Satan
- Comment on Beans 2 days ago:
Not just Koreans. Chinese and Japanese are quite fond of red bean desserts too.
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- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 3 days ago:
IDK man, do you think the story would have gone any differently if the kid HAD actually seen the wolf each time, but he always disappeared by the time the townsfolk arrived?
And it’s not like people DIDN’T help IRL – after Trump’s first term, enough of his voters were dissatisfied enough with his performance that they voted for Biden instead. And everyone else in a position of power, from his own vice president, who refused to go through with Trump’s plan not to certify the vote, to all the judges presiding over the various voter fraud cases, all did their parts to ensure that he wouldn’t get a second term.
But then Democrats kept up their witch hunt long after he had already stood down and given up all the election lawsuits, and even went so far as to mobilize the FBI and the DOJ in order to nail him on some legal technicalities, simply to ensure that he would never be president again. THAT’s when people started getting tired of the constant cries about Trump being a fascist, because weaponizing the state against your political enemies is pretty fascist in its own right, and if you can excuse that as long as your side is doing it, then fascism has already won.
What they SHOULD have done is try to win people over with better policies and a return to sanity, but they utterly failed at that. Biden was extremely unpopular, and so was Kamala, and it’s really not that surprising people ended up voting for the wolf instead, because the alternative seemed just as bad (or perhaps even worse). After all, what is the point of defeating fascism if in the process, you become a fascist yourself?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
Hindsight is 20/20. The boy in the story was ultimately correct too, wasn’t he? The problem was that the townspeople didn’t believe the earlier warnings because they seemed exaggerated and blown out of proportion.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
Well, I’m pretty sure the Bible says that in order to be a Christian, you SHOULD go out and proclaim the word to all people, instead of just sitting at home and reading it in private.
That said, there are a few more things that are required as well, so don’t make this the only criteria for judging their faith.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
I think you might be confusing two different stories here. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop’s Fables. Peter and the Wolf is a musical by Sergei Prokofiev. They both have a similar setup (in the sense that both involve a boy and a wolf) but they play out quite differently.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 4 days ago:
Did he end up handing the presidency over or did he not?
This sort of argument is exactly what I’m talking about – you guys wanted so badly to keep calling him a fascist even when he did things that no fascist in history has ever done.
Claiming that the election was rigged isn’t particularly new. Hillary did the same after losing in 2016, and Al Gore did as well after he lost to Bush, so it’s not like Democrats would never do such a thing.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 5 days ago:
Okay boomer, why don’t you go to a museum or something like that?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 5 days ago:
You ever heard the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
I kinda think that’s what’s happening here. Leftists and Liberals have been calling Republicans (and especially Trump) fascist since AT LEAST the 2016 election campaign, and they’ve been doing it consistently ever since. People just got tired of hearing it, I guess. Especially since he really didn’t do that much fascist stuff during his first term, and even ended up handing over the office (mostly) peacefully, which isn’t exactly something that actual fascists are known for.
I’m sorry to say this, but the term simply has been overused to the point of meaningless in the past decade. Perhaps it’s time to face reality and come up with a new plan, because this clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 1 week ago:
Probably keeping track of people’s genders and preferred pronouns.
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 week ago:
You mean soffritto?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
Well, I let you be the judge. Here’s a list of outdated facts that were commonly taught before the year 2000 but have since been updated, courtesy of ChatGPT:
Science / Space
Pluto is a planet.
Back then, Pluto was still the 9th planet. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union reclassified it as a “dwarf planet.”
The universe’s expansion was slowing down.
Many textbooks still suggested the universe might eventually collapse in a “Big Crunch.” In 1998, evidence of accelerating expansion was found, but it hadn’t fully filtered into school curricula by 2000.
Dinosaurs were cold-blooded and scaly.
In 2000, the “feathered dinosaur” revolution was just starting. Today, we know many theropods (including raptors) had feathers and were likely warm-blooded.
The continents “drift” slowly but are mostly stable now.
Continental drift was taught, but the understanding of plate tectonics was less developed in school-level detail. We now know tectonic activity reshapes Earth far more dynamically than was often taught.
Biology / Medicine
The human genome was incomplete.
In 2000, the Human Genome Project had just released its first draft. Many textbooks underestimated how complex genetics really is — for example, they suggested humans had ~100,000 genes, but it’s actually about 20,000.
Ulcers are caused by stress and spicy food.
That was the classic teaching. By the 1990s, scientists had already shown that ulcers are often caused by H. pylori bacteria, but the update wasn’t in most classrooms yet.
“Junk DNA” does nothing.
The idea that noncoding DNA was useless filler was common. Now we know much of it plays regulatory or structural roles.
History / Social Studies
The internet is a fad.
You may have heard skepticism about the internet being overhyped. Few predicted how deeply it would transform society in just two decades.
Christopher Columbus “discovered America.”
By 2000, it was still widely taught that Columbus “discovered” the New World, though evidence of Norse settlements (like at L’Anse aux Meadows) was already known — just not widely emphasized. Now, school curricula are far more likely to teach about Indigenous civilizations and earlier arrivals.
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.
This “factoid” was common in classrooms, but it’s false. The wall is not easily visible from orbit without aid, while cities, roads, and airports often are.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Wrong. It’s a republic.
- Comment on Warning signs 2 weeks ago:
Now do purple-haired women.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 2 weeks ago:
Kinda answered his own question there, didn’t he.
- Comment on Amen 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on suspicion 2 weeks ago:
You must not have been here for long.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Broke: playing ding-dong-ditch or making prank phone calls
Woke: getting the Google AI to hallucinate the origin story of made up idioms
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 4 weeks ago:
The mod log certainly helps, because it leaves a public trail of evidence for each ban, but it ultimately still depends on the server admin, because they are in charge of choosing their mods. But at least no one can ban you from the platform entirely, at worst you can get banned from an entire instance.
