Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 1 week ago:
Nah bro
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 1 week ago:
Um sure? As long as she is up for it. I love her, I don’t own her. Keep it safe, sane, and consensual, then who am I to argue.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 1 week ago:
Down payment on a bribe.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 1 week ago:
It’s an orwellian term for a package of anti-worker and anti-union laws. The centerpiece where the name comes from is making it illegal for a union shop to require workers to pay union dues.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
If not for the fact that a felon is about to become President again, I would want some form of justice in the law for the assassin.
Maybe we should run him in 2028. I think it would be a landslide.
“Deny, Defend, Depose 2028!”
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Making exceptions is never a good idea.
Why not? The whole reason we have judicial discretion is that every crime departs from the platonic ideal in one way or another.
The working class has been losing a class war for decades without ever properly noticing that it was happening. Working Americans have been dying in that war, and now someone struck back.
I’ll be sold on the “no exceptions” ideal when we haul in the corporate murderers alongside the people who fought back.
Jury nullification is the other acceptable option.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 2 weeks ago:
Where should he have been gunned down then? The footage was pretty good, but better lighting and sound would be nice.
Getting gunned down is exactly what should happen to mass murderers. That is exactly what this guy was. When the system fails as consistently as ours has, people are going to take care of justice themselves. The fact that it hasn’t happened at scale is the result of remarkable restraint on the part of the working class.
This isn’t a Lemmy thing. This response has been nearly universal in every space where public comments can be found.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 2 weeks ago:
True. The’re probably secretly happy to see the asshole gone too.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
They can trace the credit card. Whether or not that leads to the actual shooter is a different matter.
- Comment on Damn, "Thoughts and Prayers!" 2 weeks ago:
Thoughts and prayers for him and his family have been determined to be out of network.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
Disinformation coming out of the FDA is a real issue though, it’s just that RFK isn’t exactly the person we should want trying to fix it. His list covers the entire spread from significant real issues to batshit crazy conspiracy theory, leaning heavily towards the latter.
It’s notable that the areas in most need of reform were all broken by conservative politicians.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 1 month ago:
Me too. I’ve had a sinus headache for over 10 years straight. I don’t even remember what it’s like to not be congested. Three surgeries and more drugs than I ever knew existed have done nothing. Good health is definitely underappreciated.
- Comment on Relationship goals 1 month ago:
There are bidet attachments for standard toilets that take up almost no space at all.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 2 months ago:
That’s an accurate summation for my understanding as well. Things that the judge should look at when considering a minimum sentence are defendant cooperation, displays of genuine remourse, and indications that the defendant is unlikely to continue breaking the law. If the judge can find any of that, it’s beyond me how.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 2 months ago:
None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence
Strict adherence to sentencing guidelines actually would see him jailed on his current convictions. If he isn’t given some kind of imprisonment it will be because the judge was afraid of the aftermath.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 2 months ago:
I’m not so sure he’s much of a security risk, unless he is still in possession of sensitive documents. I sincerely doubt he is capable of remembering anything in the way of valuable secrets. Anyways, even if he did, any adversary would be daft to trust he remembered correctly.
- Comment on Marvel’s Most Exciting Franchise Could Be in Big Trouble 3 months ago:
After End Game they stopped being Marvel movies and started being Disney movies.
- Comment on Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research 6 months ago:
Their interests aren’t generally all that aligned, so that helps. It’s pretty obvious that the garbage coming out of the cable news networks is at a minimum deeply sympathetic to American corporate interests, if not straight up misinformation.
- Comment on Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research 6 months ago:
From a US perspective, I see these tactics being used far more extensively by wealthy individuals and corporate interests than I do Chinese interests. Unfortunately, our government and especially our politicians are often directly involved in spreading misinformation and suppressing the truth. We need strategies that function outside of government to close the gaps between reality and public perception.
- Comment on Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases 6 months ago:
Jamie Raskin is a prominent Democrat in the same way AOC is a prominent Democrat - not because of his influence over the party, but because he stands out for having a backbone and some integrity. He is sadly not representative of the party as a whole.
- Comment on Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases 6 months ago:
This sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the Democrats are too spineless to ever do.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 6 months ago:
Name one example of a serious problem being faced by humanity that isn’t solidly rooted in undue respect for unchallenged ideas. I think that any philosophy that inherently encourages that kind of behavior is dangerous. I know full well that some people think that makes me an asshole, but I also know they will never try to actually support that belief.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 6 months ago:
Why would anyone respect an opinion? I respect your right to have an opinion. I respect your right to advocate for an opinion. Opinions themselves should have to earn respect.
This is a perfect example of the kind of harm that magical thinking must do to society in order to preserve itself. Your words sound egalitarian, but they make you an asshole without your even noticing it.
- Comment on Volcel says what? 6 months ago:
Not really. Detaching one’s self from reality is inherently hostile to humanity’s future. It’s an asshole thing to do.
To be fair, we’re all assholes far more than we like to admit, religious or not. Being “spiritual” is not especially worse than a whole lot of other behaviors.
- Comment on Maybe Ukraine would win if we gave them bigger planes? 6 months ago:
I’m not sure that Ukraine sees this as a test war, but I get your point.
- Comment on Maybe Ukraine would win if we gave them bigger planes? 6 months ago:
They do, but these drones are far cheaper to build than the missiles usually used to shoot them down. They are also being produced in massive quantities.
- Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism? 7 months ago:
My experience as a suburban white kid growing up in the Reagan era was that racism was just something to learn about in history class. Part of me really misses being that naive.
- Comment on A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson 8 months ago:
Here are some that I like on YT
PBS Space Time PBS Eons Fermilab Anton Petrov Fraser Cain Sabine Hossenfelder (good, but often goes against mainstream science with mixed results)
- Comment on Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ 9 months ago:
A few years ago when I was working from home and on the phone all day, I much preferred my landline. My cell service was decent, but the landline was better. No dropped calls, no static or garbled audio (from my side anyways), and no latency causing me to talk over other callers. I always hated getting on calls when I was remote from my home office.
- Comment on Merry Christmas 11 months ago:
List them all then. It won’t matter. The plural of anecdote isn’t data. The one example you gave is clearly the exception that proves the rule, otherwise you wouldn’t have to go back 80 years to when pretty much every public institution mistreated and disrespected women.
You are not an honest actor, and I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. It sucks that assholes seem to worm their way into every corner of the Internet.