Thebeardedsinglemalt
@Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Libertarians are just conservatives without the religion and/or who smoke weed. They hide behind the label because they agree with right-winger s but are too chicken-shit to admit it and can say “bUt I’m LiBeRtArIaN” when something heinous happens
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 4 days ago:
Sale, up to 90% off!
Where the 90% off is the triple clearance table that’s been inventory they genuinely can’t get rid of, while everything else is 10-15% off
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 5 days ago:
The guy is a convicted felon, and I’ve seen a shockingly high number of people wearing t-shirts outright acknowledging that fact.
For the upper tier of the socioeconomic scale, they only care about money and power which we had shifted in that direction. For the lower half, he continues to convince them all their problems are because of minorities, immigrants, women, poor, or any other marginalized group
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 5 days ago:
Because it nurtured the racism in a LOT of people bringing it out in the open…which led to the rise often hat orange turd in the first place, who went from a reality tv star that nobody gave half a fuck about to spewing anti-Obama shit left and right solely based on race and because he got his fee-fees hurt at a WH correspondents dinner. Large parts of the repub base are still reeling in from “black president” 16 years ago that they can’t fathom “black woman president”
- Comment on People on Tik Tok peddling these scams 1 week ago:
Man am I glad I killed my FB back In 2012 when it was mostly pictures of peoples babies and people acting like hating Obama was a personality trait
- Comment on First contact when? 1 week ago:
I thought i had it on my drive but apparently not.
The whole premise was on some rando day all screens with sound on earth (kinda live V), started broadcasting a message from the ambassador from the Concordium, and it’s all one giant monologue from him. He just says that anytime they find advances, intelligent life in the galaxy they monitor them for roughly 11 of our years to ensure they’re advanced enough and are able to exist within their structure and harmony. But it took less than 3 for them to determine we are not, cannot and never will functionally capable of it. One cited example is there at 10 individuals on the planet with enough wealth and resources to legitimately end hunger and poverty, and advance the civilization 100 years in maybe 10, but they’d rather burn the planet and let over 1/3 of the population suffer just to increase their already obscene wealth. Others include individuals damaging or killing themselves and others in displays of barbarism for mere entertainment, hate based on superficial features, and constant warring not towards the advancement of peace and prosperity but material goods and archaic resources that only further destroy the planet. As a result, our solar system is considered quarantined; they will not enter it, nor are we allowed to leave. If we attempt to they will eliminate us so we don’t poison the rest of the galaxy as we have our own planet. Only twice have they encountered warring species similar to us, and both times their intention was to try and build advanced warships to conquer their way out of their solar system, but because of their nature they both ended up destroying themselves and their planets for control.
It ends with the transmission being cut, and the ambassador being asked if he thinks this could make humans unify and work towards the goal of bettering themselves to the point of being welcomed into the Concordium. He replies it has never happened in their recorded history
- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 1 week ago:
It’s not so much technobabble, but from mid-TNG on through DS9 and VOY it seemed that, at least once per episode, “Some kind of…” was used to describe anything new.
- Comment on Worst examples of Treknobabble 1 week ago:
What blew my mind about that whole intro is they hid the entire ship UNDERWATER AT THE SHORELINE with a severe risk of damage to the local terrain and sea life instead of, you know, being in orbit.
- Comment on First contact when? 1 week ago:
Well they did say that most governments were wiped out in WW3 so that probably had a big impact on why
- Comment on First contact when? 1 week ago:
I wrote a short story about that. The basic premise being all intelligent life is part of a concordium, and they monitor a planet when life is discovered to see if they’re ready to join. But it took a disturbingly short period of time for them to determine we aren’t fit. They said they’ll quarantine our solar system and if we ever breach the boarders we’ll be wiped out.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Or if they’re like a few people I know…whose critical thinking skills are “parrot opinions from someone who I think is almost as smart as me (according to me) because I exclusively listen to them”
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
2 of my cousins (brother and sister) are 2 very opposite people. The older brother has been a career fuck-up since grade school; always getting in trouble, failing, not caring, running with the wrong crowds, knocked up a girl when they were 16, got kicked out of 1 school and barely graduated. He’s never held a job more than 6 months, if that, each job is minimum wage with minimal skills, been kicked out of the house a few times, has a sordid legal history, dated some questionable women, and eventually got into a relationship with a single mom of 3 kids who inherited 6-figures when her dad died and dude thought he was on easy street from that point forward…until 6 months later when he blew threw half the money and she kicked him out to where he’s now crashing in a camper working a lawn job.
His sister, honor student in HS, went to college, got a degree but had difficulty finding a job in graphic design that wasn’t freelance. Seeing the 27 2nd chances her enabler-parents afforded her brother…she stopped caring and moved back in with the parents bouncing from middling job to middling job. He’s in his mid-30s and she’s in her upper 20’s
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 weeks ago:
Especially against a (1) colored (2) women (3) democrat
- Comment on I'm so sorry 3 weeks ago:
It almost looks like Biden’s smile
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 3 weeks ago:
One for my favorite fun facts about Andre’s drinking…There were times he got so drunk and would pass out in hotel that they’d have to simply leave him there because he was too big to move.
- Comment on I once did a toke at a party and then I died true story 3 weeks ago:
Did you freebase the devil’s lettuce from the needle or did you huff it from a used crack pipe you found in a medical refuse bin
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 4 weeks ago:
Cris Collinsworth openly admitted to it
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 4 weeks ago:
Just ask Steven Tyler
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 4 weeks ago:
Plus it was easier to cover up back then.
- Comment on Never store gerbils up your ass, we went over this! 4 weeks ago:
One time my cousin Walter got this car stuck in his ass, true story. He bought it at our local mall so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all, but the next week he did it again! Different cat, same results complete with another trip to the emergency room. So I run into him a week later at the mall and he’s buying another cat and I says to him Jesus Walt what are you doing? You know you’re just gonna get this cat stuck in your ass too, why don’t you knock it off! And he says to me “Thebeardedsinglemalt, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?”
- Comment on Where Are You Supposed To Buy Pajama Shirts? 4 weeks ago:
Most of my sleep shorts/pants just come from whatever section is on sale at kohls, target, belk, etc. the softer the cotton the better. I don’t have any dedicated sleep shirts, most of the time they’re the T-shirt I wore that day, or just some older larger shirts.
- Comment on Where Are You Supposed To Buy Pajama Shirts? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, as much as I love poly dry fit stuff during the day it all rides up so easily at night and I end up feeling constrained
- Comment on Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses 4 weeks ago:
In my last job, I spent about 5 consecutive years kicking nothing but ass, getting 4.0 or higher annual reviews, customers saying how good and quick I got shit done. My “reward” for all that hard work…blanket 2.5% raise.
I would spend weeks at a time at my desk, watching youtube, reading imdb or fandoms, playing games on my phone, or online shopping. I built a new AR pistol and a PC over the span of 3 months doing all my shopping and comparison from my work PC. Then, after some personal stuff went down, and my last review (4.5), I told my boss that there’s no reason I shouldn’t be a Sr Programmer at this point. His response was “Some people get promted quicker than others, some get promoted too soon. You need to be patient”
I completely checked out at that point and started applying for new jobs. It took about 6 months but even when I went to turn in my resignation my old boss is so damn scattered detached it took me 3 tries to slip it into conversation instead of just saying “fuck it i’m out”
My new job? Kinda the same. But I make over 10% more and am far ahead of the current peer that anything I do look like magic. I still don’t care.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 weeks ago:
I try to stick to what’s on sale, and go store brand when possible… except for cheese
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t it always funny that the last 2 Democrat presidents inherited absolute economic shit shows from republicans and managed to turn things around only to be blamed for causing the problems that were left to them…
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 weeks ago:
Aw man, goodbye Johnsonville beer boiled brats
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 5 weeks ago:
I used Textra for years across maybe 4 phones. The customization is great, but it started randomly dropping ringtones on my Pixel 7 Pro…it’s the P7P that sucks ass, not Textra.
I eventually quit Textra because it doesn’t support RCS
- Comment on Found These on Etsy 5 weeks ago:
Or put em on those yard signs people have out
- Comment on Found These on Etsy 5 weeks ago:
And anyone who followed things around then, is was actually the cheeto that had an impact on those gas prices than Biden did…when he threatened to withhold aid to certain countries if they’d cut back on production IIRC.
But then again those morons think the president wakes up in the morning and sets national gas prices so facts don’t mean anything to them
- Comment on Hugh Jackman as The Wolverine 2000 vs 2024 5 weeks ago:
I think they originally wanted a slightly more grounded approach at the time. But as the movies went on they wanted the characters to be more impossibly comic-chatacter-cut.