Taldan
@Taldan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s explanation for socializing with Jeffrey Epstein 1 week ago:
I love that apparently no one in the comments actually wanted to listen to the clip. I only came to the comments to find someone quoting him because I don’t want to listen to his voice either
Here is what he said:
“I run into everybody in New York. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew- OJ Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house.”
His excuse is he hangs out with a lot of rapists
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
This is from 1976 (uncertain if this specific passage was change from the original run though)
The US education system has been slowly, but surely gutted since then
- Comment on US education 1 week ago:
Apparently it is real. Wild
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
Plenty of people got fucked over for America’s interstate system. You just don’t care about them because they’re poor minorities
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
R’amen
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 weeks ago:
Are you seriously slut shaming a 14-year-old who was groomed by a 27-year-old? Using a sexist misconception no less?
That’s fucked up
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
It’s a startup. He doesn’t get a golden parachute
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
Turns out he was a CEO and that was his secretary (tail as old as time
No it wasn’t. She’s the CPO, Chief People Officer. Basically head of HR. Where did you get the idea she was a secretary?
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
That’s the CEO and CPO, not her friends. She was recently promoted, possibly related to things like this
She’s making tens of thousands more per year to be complicit. I’ve seen people do much worse for much less money
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
Are you usually this dishonest, or do you have a particular bias against bikes? I dislike liars, and you are a liar. The law you cited explicitly contradicts your strawman
Here is an excerpt of the law you did not read:
If a stop is not required for safety, the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance shall slow to a reasonable speed and yield the right-of-way to any traffic or pedestrian in or approaching the intersection. After the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance has slowed to a reasonable speed and yielded the right-of-way if required, the pedestrian or person operating a low-speed conveyance may cautiously make a turn or proceed through the intersection without stopping.
Here is the law: colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_42-4-1412.5
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
Chicago is pretty different to most of the US. There is actual reliable public transit. The average resident isn’t doing nearly the driving of the average American
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
Vehicle fatalities are generally far higher than gun fatalities in the US. For decades it was the #1 cause of death under 45, only recently being dethroned to poisonings thanks to fentanyl
For Chicago, this is brought down by very low car ownership rate (by US standards), and a high gun fatality rate (including suicides by gun)
Still surprising guns have kept up though
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
Driver’s license requirements honestly should be much higher
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 4 weeks ago:
America has ~280M cars, and ~500M guns
Americans, at least, are very accepting of guns. There’s a reason the fatality rate is so high
- Comment on we are creators 4 weeks ago:
Eh, there were a dozen different guys that invented flight (or were close to it) around the same time. The Wright Brothers were just the ones to successfully defend their patent
The technology had just progressed to a point where fixed-wing flight was viable, so the invention became inevitable
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been pouring hot grease in glass jars for decades without having one shatter. You’re severely overestimating the risks
- Comment on Guess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav] 5 weeks ago:
Reddit still uses IP bans. It’s crazy how far behind the times some tech companies are
- Comment on Genius 5 weeks ago:
Half the candidates is 25-30. It would need to be at least $10 per drink for that profit number, and that’s only if he’s getting free electricity and drinks
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 5 weeks ago:
The costs of Doordash/Uber Eats gets socialized pretty heavily. Where I live, most restaurants just upped their prices 20-30% across the board to account for the DSP fees. Most of the time I’m ordering from Doordash, it’s genuinely cheaper than actually eating in the restaurant
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Menard’s has a perpetual 11% rebate program. It’s super obnoxious having to mail it in
- Comment on Protip: 1 month ago:
Those places don’t want to take liability for you potentially getting injured. Even if you would never sue a place for that, they have no guarantee of that, and US liability laws are absolutely ridiculous. I hope the US fixes the liability/lawsuit culture. So many things get killed by it
(For the record, I’m not one of the barefoot people. I find it weird, but to each their own)
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 months ago:
Will you still be saying that when Trump puts a resort in Gaza?
Trump has made it crystal clear: He plans for the complete and total ethnuc cleansing of Gaza. All Palestinians will be killed or removed
That’s what Arab and Palestinian Americans chose
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 7 months ago:
NYC used to be much more dangerous. Really goes to show how mislead we can be by emotions that you feel it’s only dangeeous now