BlitzoTheOisSilent

@BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays spin the bottle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t read it as anon joining a game, I read it as he sat down with the group, and before they started, the girls said they would only hug anon.

  Agree it’s not true and made up, but I didn’t get the impression that anon was intruding on the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wallace & Gromit joke that was too British for Netflix⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, because this is only done to appease America, right? That’s why Hollywood doesn’t censor and change jokes/storylines to appease other countries like China, Saudi Arabia, etc when they have pro-LGBTQ+ messaging?

  Here’s 11 examples, some I didn’t even know about.

  Huh, A Streetcar Named Desire was altered for the Irish release to downplay/eliminate the themes of homosexuality, and the movie becomes unrecognizable as the main character visits her sister and just goes insane.

  The Die Hard terrorists were changed from German extremists to former IRA members who became mercenaries. There was a special release of The Sound of Music for Germany that eliminates basically everything after the wedding and the majority of the Nazi subplot.

  Disney also makes lots of changes to their movies, not even just to appease homophobic countries: they changed the animal anchors in Zootopia based on the release country, in Inside Out they changed the vegetables she eats based on the release country, etc.

  So maybe Wallace and Gromit could have, idk, recorded slightly different audio for those scenes so that everyone could be appeased? Since apparently not being able to make a joke about a “bog chain” makes Americans the biggest pussies in the world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally believe we should have the right to die, moreso as an individual choice than one a relative should make. We as individuals, who did not consent to living in this absolutely broken society, should have every right to just say one day, “Y’know what, I’ve had enough, I’m done.” This comment will likely be controversial, and I am not encouraging anyone to commit suicide, seek help where and how you can, suicide can be a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

  A friend of mine told me once she considered those who commit suicide (outside of terminal illness) to be cowards, taking the “easy” way out and leaving their loved ones to suffer. I argued back that how is it unacceptable for loved ones to suffer, but it’s perfectly acceptable for the individual to suffer to keep the loved ones comfortable? And that’s what mental health (tin foil hat time) is entirely about: not comfort for the individual, but comfort for the society.

  It doesn’t matter if you are completely disenfranchised with society, struggling to make ends meet, working multiple jobs with no benefits, eating the same meal 2-3 times a day every day to save money, none of that matters because you’re not contributing to society/capitalism they way you’re supposed to. When the VA was trying to force me onto SSRIs despite my objections due to the side effects they can have, I told them flat out I wasn’t taking a pill just so I could be “productive” for a society that will let me die in the streets at the earliest and cheapest convenience. And no “pill” is going to fix how sick and broken we are as a society.

  We as a species weren’t designed for this kind of society, we’re an analog species trying to adapt to a digital world we haven’t had time to properly adjust to. We aren’t designed to work 40 hours/week, 8 hours/day, 50+ weeks per year. We aren’t designed to work ourselves to exhaustion and forego social interactions in the pursuit of more money to try and keep the lights on. And we are watching the largest transfer of wealth to the ultra-wealthy, making the Gilded Age look like child’s play.

  So I guess, to sum it up: I think everyone should have the right to end their own life, regardless of the reason, but I don’t believe anyone should have the right to end someone else’s life outside of already-established practices (DNR orders, “pulling the plug” as PoA, etc). We are too broken as a society to trust ourselves to choose when others should die, but we should absolutely be allowing individual’s to end their own lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure everyone remembers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, they’ll probably make us pay back the economic impact payments we got during the last pandemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sydney student banned from year 12 formal for wearing Palestinian scarf⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s some people’s heritage to wear nazi swastikas. Doesn’t mean it’s acceptable.

  Wow…

  Comparing a high school student who wanted to wear the flag of their ancestral homeland on their graduation day to…

  Nazi Germany. Do you know where the swastika comes from? It’s actually an ancient Hindu symbol that’s been used throughout India for thousands of years.

  So are you going to tell the world’s Hindu population they’re not allowed to celebrate their religious heritage because white supremacists on the other side of the world decided to steal a symbol from it?

  I don’t think wearing a symbol started by the guy who invented airplane hijacking and suicide vests for children is a good one.

  Wow…

  First, the first use of a suicide vest was in 1881, and it was in Russia. The first airplane hijacking (or skyjacking) was in Peru in 1931. So idk where you pulled “invented airplane hijacking and suicide vests for children” from other than out your ass.

  Second, since this was a school function, how many country’s flags were flown in that auditorium? Because the British, and by extension the Australian, flag I’m sure is symbolic of a plethora of cruelty and inhumane actions throughout their colonizing history.

  And last time I checked, the Australian government didn’t have a phenomenal history of treating their indigenous population with the utmost respect and humanity.

  So maybe worry less about a kid wearing a scarf with the flag of their heritage on it and the “sYmBoLiSm” of it all, and just let a kid be a kid. Or, if you’re going to bar one symbol for being “unacceptable” due to individual interpretation, then they all need to be taken down. You don’t get to say a Palestinian flag is controversial and upsetting, but an Australian one isn’t, or any country’s flag for that matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The G looks completely unrelated to any of the other letters.

  I see this, since half of the letters appear to be uppercase, and the other half lowercase:

  JaGUar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not voting for genocide, explained⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Explain to me how continuing to support the genocide of 3 million West Bank Palestinian lives is caring about the lives of 3 million West Bank Palestinians? And remind me… What support were the Dems showing when, the day after the election, two congressional Democrats came out and said the DNC was too woke on trans issues.

  So… Explain to me how the DNC immediately scapegoating the trans community after their abysmal loss due to their own failed campaign… Is showing that they care about American trans lives? Where in her, or any Democrats campaign, was their platform for enshrining LGBTQ+ equality into law? Huh, funnily enough, drag, none of them had one.

  And then… Explain to me how the DNC and Biden refusing to let Ukraine use long-range American weapons inside of Russian territory for well over two years is showing care and concern for Ukrainian people? Or, why does Ukraine, who are fighting off a foreign invader, why do they have stipulations on how they can use American weapons, but Israel can just level hospital after hospital in Gaza and that’s completely morally justified? At least Ukraine aims for strategic resource infrastructure and not apartment blocks and schools like Israel (who still is receiving Biden, and then de facto because she doesn’t do anything against it, Harris, unconditional support from the Biden admin).

  Lives you are so apathetic about, you can’t even see them as different from any other statistic.

  So you’re completely fine with the 43,000 Palestinian civilians who have been killed at the hands of Biden and Harris administration, those are just a statistic that you’re completely fine with because… They’re worth losing because statistically there are more lives to save in your own country.

  Wow, I had to look it up, but you’re right drag… Someone choosing not to support a genocide is completely apathetic, but you, the one willing to trade Palestinian lives for American trans lives, you’re the most empathetic person I’ve ever met. Literally the definition of empathy right here, folks!!! The embodiment of the fucking Buddha right here, kill as many Palestinians as needed, they’re just collateral compared to Americans trans lives.

  Again, the same lives the DNC threw under the bus the day after the election.

  Good to see you’re continuing to double down on your absurdity, drag, still can’t find anyone to point the finger at besides non-voters? How many letters and phone calls have you made to your Democratic elected officials demanding they take more action against your morally just causes? I imagine none, since you seem more concerned with alienating and disenfranchising non-voters than you are actually fixing liberalism and the DNC as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not voting for genocide, explained⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re wasting your breath, drag is Lemmy’s morally enlightened philosopher who somehow thinks non-voters are to blame for not choosing to support a genocide, but the DNC is completely blameless in their unconditional support of a fascist committing a genocide because Trump would commit it worse.

  Drag’ll likely respond and start insulting your intelligence, will probably call you a nazi fascist who wants drag and all of drag’s friends dead, and then try to explain why not supporting genocide is significantly worse than supporting it.

  All while acting like drag’s the ooooooooonly one who understands how the world works, how morality works, how individual understandings of the world may vary from person to person to culture.

  And if you write more than 4 sentences, drag will complain that you’re long-winded and taking too many words to “be wrong.” And that you’re writing as much as you are because you “fail to understand what drag is saying.”

  In other words, drag let drag’s fleeting popularity due to a post regarding drag’s preferred pronouns give drag the impression that drag is morally and intellectually superior to those around drag.

  Aka, drag is a joke, don’t waste your breath arguing with Lemmy’s most enlightened fascism supporting liberal cOmMuNiSt. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do most celebrities/influencers & some normal people have those fake-looking teeth?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, look at the beauty standards and treatments of the Victorian era.

  Women would squeeze citric acid in their eyes because they believe it cleaned them and whitened them, and the burning sensation was just the germs being cleaned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck happened?

  Four years of a milquetoast, centrist Democrat telling the American people what they’re living isn’t the actual reality of the situation. Biden’s admin kept rolling out the “soft landing, economy is doing great,” schtick despite numerous news outlets reporting Americans don’t feel like it’s an economy working for them.

  Then that Democrat finally stepping aside, too late for his constituents to have a say in who they want representing them. And then she ran on a centrist, return-to-the-status-quo platform that didn’t inspire the majority of Americans, who are so apathetic based on decades of being ignored by politicians they just don’t vote. Because what’s the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is "son of a gun" an insult?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: The Navy uses the affirmative “aye” or “aye aye” as opposed to “roger” like the Army/Air Force/etc because of similar slang origins. Basically, sailors used to use the word “roger” to mean “fuck,” both as an insult and as a way to identify women they had been with while in port.

  “Yeah, I rogered her last night at the tavern,” kind of thing. But as sailors began to respond to officers using “Roger that (fuck that),” the Navy came down and made “aye aye” the official affirmative response for their personnel.

  And even then, “aye” is simply a “I understand” whereas “aye aye,” means “I understand and will carry out X.”

  The US Navy also launched an investigative unit during the 1800s (I wanna say the 1880s?) to find homosexual sailors and kick them out of the Navy. The unit only lasted a couple of years before being shut down, as the only people volunteering for the unit were homosexual sailors. 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my own bag a lot of the time because my usual grocery store (ShopRite) doesn’t put out baskets anymore. I don’t want a cart or need a cart, I want a basket, but they’re never out anymore. Like, they’re just gone…

  So either put the baskets back out, or accept we’re going to use our reusable bags as baskets. Granted, I flip mine upside down in front of the self checkout camera to show I’m not stealing, but ffs… Just put the baskets back. 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new middle-class retirement plan: Working into old age⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember my first year in the Navy (2013ish) we had to have one of those financial planning briefings. I distinctly remember them mentioning that the average American needs $1 million to retire comfortably, assuming their other assets are paid off by the time they retire (house, car, etc). And I remember that number because a friend of mine said the same thing to me once when we were in high school.

  I think it was a couple years ago, someone (some talking head on a news site) was talking about how the average American needs about $2 million in their retirement account to retire comfortably now, and that’s the number you should aim for…

  So the amount of money you need to retire comfortably doubled in 10 years, but wages are still stagnant as they are? Yeah, I’ve told my dad, unless some miracle happens, I will never be able to retire. I don’t even have health insurance, and I make $18/hr… With rent/mortgage, food, clothing, vehicle, etc expenses climbing and wages continuing to be stagnant despite this “amazing” economy I keep hearing about, where am I supposed to find money to put away for down the road? I’m one accident away from bankruptcy.

  For me, personally, it’s why I think “no one wants to work anymore,” what is the point when we can’t get ahead? Why even bother when we’re going to be doing this into our 80s while being told we should be grateful by people who think a day of work is expensive lunches at the country club followed by a round of golf, and a blowie from their secretary?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noise⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “High thoughts,” almost like shower thoughts, but driven by weed and, in my experience, learning an interesting fact or tidbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jd vance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first thing my brain grabbed onto is the fact they specified that he hasn’t ever fucked a couch to completion. I’m not a lawyer, but have been told I’d be a good one, but that’s some straight up lawyer-speak right there. Why are you specifying that he hasn’t fucked a couch to completion? Does this mean he has fucked a couch, but he didn’t achieve orgasm?

  The next big one was “gieven” and the other misspelled word (I’m on mobile and can’t get the pic back up). Like, this is supposed to be an official statement from the Republican candidates for POTUS and VPOTUS? And you couldn’t have your aid spell check the word “given?” Like, you’re being accused of being sexually attracted to furniture as a VP candidate, and you can’t be bothered to spell check a 5-letter word?

  And what’s with the last bullet about jello and other stuff??? Like, are you trying to get ahead of wherever accusations of couch-fucking lead? My brain stopped at couch fucking, but with that last bullet, now I’m thinking he fucks/fucked jello and fruit and shit. Why would you even bring that up?

  If this is real, and I’m assuming it is, just… Wow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was, yes.

  The deceased wasn’t the type that would want anyone to put on their Sunday best just for him, so it made sense. But when I mentioned it to my father, he commented that no one really wears suits to funerals anymore, or even weddings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ironing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most recent funeral I attended, only the deceased’s brother wore a suit, the rest of the family wore basically everyday clothes, as did 99% of the attendants. I left my suit jacket in the car because I felt overdressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4ish years ago when I bought a house I was convinced not to get a house inspection, would it be crazy to get one now just to make sure it's all good?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was 29 when I bought mine last year, but was only able to do so because of my Veteran’s benefits.

  My biggest regret was not buying a house while I was still in, in the area I was stationed, because since then (2017), houses have jumped in price and I much preferred living there then my home state. But… Life is just funny like that, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵 They’ll say, “Awwwwww, Topsy!” At my – Auuuuuu-topsy And no one will be… More shocked than me!🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw Uber!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in an uber with a friend in some Baltimore traffic when the driver almost rear-ended the car in front of us. She was distracted talking to us, I think, was telling us about her life or something.

  Immediately after she slammed on the brakes, she admitted to us she was high as a kite, and then went into explaining how she hides it from her rides (uses the ozium stuff to make the smell disappear, leaving a window of time between pickups to ensure the car aired out, etc). Vaping wasn’t as commonplace back then, as I think Colorado and only one other state had legalised it at that point.

  But, like, damn lady… Why are you telling your two passengers this right after you almost got into a nasty wreck? We just wanted to get to the bar 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Freebird will always bring back the Kingsman church scene.

  Tuesday’s Gone will always remind me of Happy Gilmore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smooth brained tick taster⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that may explain an interaction between a possum and my sisters dog a few years ago. When I lived with my sister I’d take their mastiff out on her leash and walk her around their property while I had a smoke. We’d do this all times of day and night.

  I’d drop the leash if we were in the backyard since it was fenced on two sides and only one gate to get into the front, which I could keep an eye on while she explored. One night, it had to have been about midnight, she was obsessed with this one spot in the tall grass, like, would not leave this spot. So after about five minutes I went to grab her, and she’s fighting me, nose buried in this spot. I finally turn my flashlight on and walk over, and there’s a possum curled up in the tall grass. And she’s licking it…

  I pull her away, since, I’m sure dogs shouldn’t be licking wild animals, especially ones that are dead, right? Like, only a dead possum would let another animal lick it, right? Wrong. As I’m looking at it to make sure she didn’t lick up any maggots or was eating any rotten meat, it turned it’s head towards me, eyes squinting, like, “Do you mind? I was having the most wonderful dream of a bath.” It wasn’t playing possum, I’ve seen them do that, it was literally just curled up in grass, sleeping, while a dog 6X its size was licking it head to toe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My body and I have an adversarial relationship⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵Standing beside you🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A wonderful day begins⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but even if they’re arrested and the charges are dropped, they still have an arrest on their record, which many/most colleges ask about on their applications.

  Watch the John Oliver episode about School Resource Officers, you’ll see one girl arrested and charged (I believe they dropped it though) with a felony/bomb charge for popping her water bottle cap like we used to do in school (y’know, twist the bottle, and then unscrew the cap and it pops off).

  Another kid, special needs, was arrested and manhandled because he lightly carved “[Name] was here” into a concrete wall, which his mother had him come back and clean off. John put the kids name on his wall so that everyone would know “a legend was here,” which is the reason the kid gave for why he did it in the first place.

  Schools don’t need cops, they need social workers, counselors, and proper funding. Not a chode with a gun and an authority fetish. Our school officer used to make friends with all the kids dealing drugs/getting in fights, while our principals/vice principals would scream at kids to take their hoodies off. And they wonder why kids think school is a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss vegetables⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A former roommate got me “What the Fuck Should I Make for Dinner?!” as a gift a few years back. Pretty funny book, written in the style that reminds me of Bill Burr a little bit.

  “We’re making fucking roasted chicken, alright? So buy the damn chicken, along with these herbs you probably don’t fucking have, and we’ll get this shit rolling.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not have carpets or what?

  I don’t, no. Only one room in my house has carpet, and they’re from the original owner and already gross anyway, and that room is a storage room. The rest of the house is hardwood (which needs to be redone) or linoleum.

  I couldn’t imagine fucking up all my carpets and furniture over time from being too lazy to take shoes off.

  It’s not always laziness, I prefer just having my shoes on unless I’ve got my feet on the couch, then it’s just socks. People have their own preferences, there’s nothing wrong with that.

  Plus I just don’t understand how it’s comfortable to wear shoes all day long. I usually can’t wait to get home just so I can take my shoes off. I don’t feel like I can truly relax without them off.

  🤷‍♀️ Don’t know, I just feel more comfortable in shoes an/or socks. I’ve never understood people who have to take their shoes and socks off as soon as they get home, you’re just getting dust and dirt and whatever else all over your feet.

  Do you wear your shoes when you’re in bed and snuggling on the couch under a blanket too???

  No, shoes don’t go on the furniture, unless I’d get too high in the past and fall asleep with them on. They’re warm and protect my feet.

  I’ll also add, I have a dog, so, to me, it’s a moot point. He’s not wearing shoes, and he’s going to drag even worse stuff in the house on his paws, and I’m not cleaning his paws literally every time he’s gotta go out and pee, so… 🤷‍♀️

  Idk, I see all of the points people are making about why you shouldn’t wear them inside, but I don’t understand why people are acting like they’ve never even considered the concept of just… Wearing shoes inside? Like, to me, it’s more astonishing (as a former chef) that people will cook barefoot, like, haven y’all never seen what hot oils can do to bare skin? That’s insane to me, but I’m not losing my mind over the concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Push to lower Australia's compulsory voting age to 16 as advocate says youngsters feeling 'disenfranchised'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “you get a sausage at the sausage sizzle” is going to be my phrase of the week, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a Test⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly didn’t know that, I tend not to live my life in a way that would preclude me being shot or being around folks who will shoot someone. Thanks for the info! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a Test⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gun safety courses actually discuss (at length, at least in my state) about how even if you’ve just got the gun on your desk next to you, but it’s loaded, it needs to be pointed in a safe direction. Even doing dry fire exercises (practicing, say, holstering/unholstering with the gun unloaded and the magazine removed entirely), you’re supposed to point the gun down at where the floor meets the wall to minimize any chance of anyone being hurt by an accident discharge.

  Basically, you’re supposed to follow the same rules as if the gun was loaded and you’re holding it: don’t point it at anything you aren’t willing to destroy, and know both what it is pointed at and what lies beyond that.

  I personally wouldn’t want a doctor on their 23rd hour of work to try to unload a firearm in a crowded and hectic ER, and don’t have the answer to how to handle this situation, but I’m not a medical professional so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, they’ll be allowed to retire early due to PTSD and receive a pension and disability for the rest of their lives.