PapaStevesy

@PapaStevesy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If straight didn’t exist in nature, it would just be gays and nothing would ever procreate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I must con(FeS₂), this sparked a laugh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It travels in a straight line, just not in every dimension. Look at a waveform from above, it’s a straight line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give the People What They Want⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Moral hygiene” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Everyone Seem Ahead of Me? ???⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Teeeechnically that’s envy, not jealousy. But only technically, the definition of jealousy has drifted over the centuries. Really it’s more of a fun fact about the original meaning of those words than a real correction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh sorry, should be your, thanks for the correction. I’ll leave it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, you’re trolling attempts were quite heavy-handed, gotta work on your subtlety!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of civilization costs $5⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A bartender I worked with made his in a little igloo cooler, of course then you one big block that you have to cut into functionally-sized cubes. But he would also do cool shit like suspend pine needles into it the block so each cube had a little sprig coming out of it after they were frozen and cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this question is very different than the other question, but both are intentionally foolish misrepresentations of my statements so I reckon my answers would be “wrong” no matter what I said. So I’ll just tell you what you wanted to hear the first time: yes, I think “writing a book makes you a historian”. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, the votes are meaningless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wind doesn’t always blow and sun doesn’t always shine, but oil lasts forever!!! We’ll literally never run out! Can’t fail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  None of this is proof of sanity, especially the drinking fracking fluid bit. I’d argue just owning an oil company in this day-and-age alone qualifies one for some kind of major personality disorder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, selective reading is a tough diagnosis. Is there a pattern, like you only understand every other word or something, or is it just completely random?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I think anyone who writes a book of historical facts (hence the name “history book”) based on research is a historian. And if I were lost, that’d fall under cartography, not history. See, cartography is the study of making maps. Maps are to cartographers as history books are to historians. Make sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but I do think history books are by definition written by historians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you forget how you wanted to end that or…? 🤷‍♂️

  Regardless, if you don’t think historians are writing history books, what do you think they’re doing? And no, in school they taught me that the US founding fathers founded the US, pretty objective stuff. You know, names, dates, locations, etc. I’m fascinated to hear what else you think I was taught though, this is fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No you need to talk to people who have been dead for hundreds of years, your entire argument is based on not trusting historians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Must be more American propaganda though I s’pose 🤣🤣🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes we do, it’s literally the reason they left in the first place. There were protests all across the colonies, the British even repealed the Stamp Act due to the blowback. There are pamphlets, books, and vast quantities of recorded speeches and debates from both sides of the Atlantic on the issue. From before the revolution.

  Sounds to me like you’re a product of the Ignorant Blowhard educational system and have assumed you know everything about everything with little evidence to support the assumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, having a verifiably insane monarch sure couldn’t have helped.

  It’s obviously foolish for anyone to try and argue exactly what happened when for which reasons, we weren’t in those rooms having those conversations so we’ll never really know. We do know that the colonists hated what they considered overreaching British control (it was kind of the reason they left in the first place), and we know that the British were broke af and desparate to wring every penny they could out of the colonies to pay for wars on the other side of the ocean (sounds familiar). But you bring up a good point in Ireland, they were famously treated so well by the British and therefore were predictably loyal and peaceful subjects of the Crown 🤣🤣🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's that time again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The British were also being ruled by someone with a genetic blood disease that makes you irrational and some form of major personality disorder, not exactly the most trustworthy negotiators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to lose weight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that it’s difficult, it’s easy to drop frozen peas in hot oil. It’s just that doing so would explode hot oil (and peas) all over yourself and your kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck yea bro!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah man, I love that freedom, but if that’s my mood, I’m free-ballin’. Only if I’m freshly showered though, and not expecting to sweat too much. My main issues with boxers are lack of sweat-wicking (read: swamp-ass) and constant leg-bunching, both of which are solved by boxer-briefs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! And you, apparently, have a pipe down, hope it’s not an important one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try eating nothing but salt, see how that works out for ya. “Food” is metabolizable, salt isn’t. Salt’s as necessary as water, yes, but also like water, it’s not enough on its own.

  I never gave “my” definition of organic and logic really has nothing to do with it, it has an objective scientific definition already. With all due respect, if you’re out there buying organic salt, you’re exactly the kind of under-informed, over-paying consumer I’m trying to look out for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easier to squeeze out smaller competition that can’t afford to meet the requirements but aren’t necessarily cutting corners or providing unhealthy or even less healthy products, netting more money for the companies that can jump through the hoops. And like you say, it’s more expensive to get that organic label, that means someone is making more money. Now I assume I don’t need to explain conflicts of interest or political lobbying to you, but that’s because you’re seem much more informed and aware than the average American consumer.

  I wish I had as much faith in American regulatory institutions as you, I guess experience has left me too jaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, yes they are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’d do what Brad Pitt did at the end of that movie, one-shot kill is far too kind and reasonable for the state of mind I’d be in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was referring to the politician in charge of the USDA when they decided to redefine a scientific term for no other determinable reason than to make more money. Loads of people being ignorant and uneducated enough to misunderstand advertising is exactly the reason we have and need strong consumer protection regulations, like antitrust and fair competition laws.

  Idk what the last sentence is referencing or I’d address it, sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which part was misinformation? That inorganic things aren’t food? Good luck arguing that point lol. Everything else I said was an opinion so idk where you’re coming from there. I’m aware that a person or a committee or something somewhere was paid to redefine a word that already had a static, objective meaning for no reason other than to make more money, that doesn’t stop it from being misleading and unnecessarily ambiguous. Why that word? Sure you’ve done your homework about this so you might consider yourself “immune” to the false advertising, but the majority of Americans have no clue and believe everything they see, as far as they can understand it. Most people like you who would be curious enough to do that research probably already know what organic and inorganic actually mean so they weren’t really going to get duped anyway, but they make up a tiny portion of the population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if someone is uneducated about what food labels mean and which ones have a regulatory definition and which ones don’t

  Yeah you just described 95% of Americans, maybe more, thanks for illustrating my point! “They” (read: A politician) chose to use a word that already has specific implications for that market, which they absolutely didn’t need to do and, imo, they almost certainly did on purpose. I don’t like that, sorry 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newsflash pal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care where your pipe is or what pipe your talking about or what pipe location even has to do with any of this, if you’re too ashamed to eat Doritos in public, you don’t deserve to enjoy them in private.