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Compassion >~ Thought
- Comment on Top 10% of Americans Have Double Wealth of The Bottom 90% 2 days ago:
(1) clickbait title gonna clickbait
(2) They are not aiming to convey facts - which we’ve known for several decades, like the wealthy have all of the um, ah, wealth - and rather to convey an emotional punchline. So just one sentence phrase, without any compound portions.
(3) I do not know about this source in particular but in general all news media is owned by oligarchs, and presumably the author felt that a story talking about the top 0.1% would not be published, so they misrepresented the situation in order to make it more tolerable. This serves the oligarchy by redirecting anger away from billionaires that you will never see, to the local millionaires in <insert your local area name here>, or even to Taylor Swift that you will see in entertainment. Meanwhile, people like The Musk still control the outcome of the Russian vs. Ukrainian genocidal war… but sure, show a picture of Taylor Swift as if that is remotely comparable as the literal “face of this issue”.
- Comment on yum yum 😋 2 days ago:
- Comment on it's just science 2 days ago:
- Comment on truly I am cultured 3 days ago:
(/s)
- Comment on there is another 3 days ago:
You dare speak of the degeneracy!? 🤪
- Comment on Every day 4 days ago:
Help me Obi-Wan, you are my only hope!
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 4 days ago:
Manatees Very Precious indeed:-)
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 4 days ago:
They took a mental health / exercise break before they get back in there…
- Comment on 5 days ago:
If 30 is old then I am… nevermind! 😬
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 5 days ago:
Well, “life as we know it”. But for all we know energy rather than matter-based beings could have existed more readily back then, and perhaps struggle to exist now under lower density conditions. Thereby making that earlier era more habitable for their type of life, even as our current era is more habitable for our own type.
- Comment on The sun is a deadly laser... 5 days ago:
WRONG! It is turtles actually. It’s elephants alternating with turtles (and then every tenth level is capybaras) all the way down.
- Comment on Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings | The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades. 1 week ago:
This makes perfect sense.
“The BEST is YET to COME”, and all that.
I can’t wait to see what… excitement the rest of 2026 will bring.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Is that you, little red riding hood? 🐺👵
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 1 week ago:
Next up: vampires.
Very long-living beings that regenerate (have access to healthcare?) and don’t need to work, but do need to extract your lifeblood to feed their lifestyle choice. Typically has much exaggerated appetites compared to a normal human being.
Hrm… 🤔🧛♂️
- Comment on You earned some more dislikes 1 week ago:
(checks notes, statistically analyzing frequency patterns, outsourcing to consulting firm) Apparently not!
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 1 week ago:
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
I see what you did there 🐴😂
- Comment on Hehehe 2 weeks ago:
No, I refuse!
- Comment on Nope, not visiting that 2 weeks ago:
XKCD rule: lame ass-party.
- Comment on Why I gave up electronics club 2 weeks ago:
Damn time travelers,
alwaysnevermessing things up! - Comment on 17 years* 2 weeks ago:
Iykyk
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Windows 12 be like
- Comment on No magnesium 2 weeks ago:
The best kind of correct!! 😉🧐
- Comment on No magnesium 2 weeks ago:
That’s… actually good!
- Comment on I'll do it 3 weeks ago:
You don’t know that for sure!! (/s obviously:-P)
- Comment on Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads 3 weeks ago:
Haha lol I use none of those, but I guess it sucks to be them that do.
Really, why people would be “surprised” at this point… I don’t even know anymore. Fool me once, shame on you, but…
- Comment on AAAAAAA 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on HELLA TITE 3 weeks ago:
Oh it’s far worse than that: we are a fungus that ate a bacteria and thereby gained superpowers that we used to conquer the whole world… (or so we tell ourselves)
And then some of us ate a different bacteria and became plants, which now we use as fuel for our cars.
And don’t even get me started on viruses… or prions for that matter:-).
- Comment on lemmy irl 3 weeks ago:
Easy:
- go around the 4th wall
- climb above the top
- tunnel down beneath the wire
- why is this so hard, who wants the stupid yogurt anyway?!
- Comment on i want to believe 3 weeks ago:
Including the one in your… <ahem>, I mean “yes”.
