shiftymccool

@shiftymccool@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me when I hear about Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s just so hateable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just Lemmy, dude. Go out into the world and you’ll hear the same sentiment straight from human mouths.

  In this case, the “dangerously toxic” thing going on here is the US healthcare system. It’s broken and everyone knows it. Apparently, no amount of complaining, begging, and letters to Congress are going to fix it so, here we are. It speaks volumes to me that even after the fucked up election this year, dems AND pubs are backing this HERO.

  You might not like it but we seem to be in a spot where the talking has failed so the killing (or at least the threat of it) must begin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use words, but when does it end, and what makes you think you are going to end up better off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That ability is on cooldown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s on cooldown too. US even popped an ability to get two going at once

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aerodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lobsters go the other way though…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fritz Haber moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s basically the main reason we are able to support a global population in the billions

  Ah, so now I know who to blame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst amusement park ever.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was literally just thinking today, “I wonder where I could get some pallets…” I guess the universe has spoken

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Man’s Sky has some impressive storms. They change depending on the planet, and a recent update (still updated for free since 2016, btw) added a bunch of new atmospheric effects. Some storms have winds strong enough to throw around and, in some cases, off the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ailanthus⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or garlic mustard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think prisons could be replaced by being sentenced to Folger’s for periods of time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IQ Test⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We, unfortunately, aren’t subject to natural selection anymore. We have been left to our own stupidity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Middle-schoolers after pronouns are successfully banned once and for all (A conservative utopia)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t agree more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still crie evrytiem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5eva?

  youtu.be/baaSjb-Cihs?si=FVdfw3qHo5cBCuyK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨poni⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Santa Clarita Diet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll just run on over to the Seinfeld community and start posting things about The IT Crowd and if they don’t like what’s being posted there then that community isn’t for them and that’s perfectly OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Problem solved ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also pollinators love them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Craiglist's jokes forum is something else⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is the best part of this post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, we’re destined to make new words for colors because all the color words we have now are taboo?

  Blackmail was used in England and Scotland to describe money paid by tenant farmers to a chieftan: history.com/…/where-did-the-word-blackmail-come-f…

  Black sheep literally comes from black sheep. That one is really obvious… www.etymonline.com/word/black sheep

  Black market was more associated with anarchists that used black as their color than actual black people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market

  The goal here shouldn’t be changing peoples’ view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or… how about we use actual people names for people?

  White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can’t just make something racist because it has a color word in it.

  Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The aren’t even racial terms, they were used for unionized vs. ununionized workers. Maybe we should be working on not calling people by color names. Not being able to use colors to describe things in the world because it is racially-adjacent is getting a bit difficult

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Stop or I’ll Say Stop Again!” Yells Mom Known for Empty Threats⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpopular take: pain/discomfort is the only way nature can teach us what NOT to do until our brains can comprehend logic and consequence. Without the ability for a parent to cause pain or discomfort, the child (who has underdeveloped logic and concept of consequence) will percieve the parent as “that thing that makes angry noises but can’t hurt me” and won’t listen to them.

  It’s all fine and dandy to be “friends” with your kid, but you also need to be the judge, jury, and executioner too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who has some⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any chance we can get a Lemmy-wide ban on minions? Pretty please?