notsoshaihulud
@notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 days ago:
holy shit!
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 3 days ago:
“”“conservatives”“”. Sometimes I think the DNC is the last place to find actual conservatives these days.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 4 days ago:
Are you high?
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 days ago:
Ohh, sweet summer child.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 5 days ago:
oh look, a literal “free speech absolutist.”
Wrong platform
- Comment on So glad they are reporting what matters and not some mundane thing. 1 week ago:
It’s AI slop…
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 1 week ago:
Seems like a very good crossover of having teenagers as a parent, senior responsibilities at work, and the realization that you ARE getting old, and you can’t even hold your liquor the way you used to drown it all out (not that you should manage your anxiety with alcohol anyway).
- Comment on Common Ground 1 week ago:
people can take back economic power
- Comment on Common Ground 1 week ago:
If this “let’s reach across the isle” approach was viable, the present thread would not exist. I’ll go beyond, trumpists watched Jan6 unravel like anyone else and they still voted for him in 2024. So while I’m not advocating for hatred, I would not consider any plan viable that heavily relies on trumpists changing their minds.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
These people literally don’t know what mRNA is, they believe it’s the same thing as DNA because it sounds vaguely similar. It’s good to see actual experts calling him out though! We really need more of this.
People being clueless about mRNA is an abject failure of the US education system.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
True, and this is a very sad statistic. It would be great is we would actually work on mental health in this country.
It’s 99% the guns though. The US has shitty mental health safety net, but not worse than in Eastern Europe, the murder rates (which is driven by gun violence) are much lower there. If you exclude firearm deaths it drops to similar rates to that of Europe. I personally think that increasing fines and punishment for bad gun ownership is the way to go.
They lay the blame, and lay the groundwork, to wreck shit next time while shifting blame from themselves.
Yup. The funniest thing is how important the national debt becomes with a democrat at the helm, but how irrelevant it is with a republican presidency.
All of that, combined with the “perfect” storm of tRUmp, really sped it up.
Agree, trump is a symptom not necessarily the direct cause.these all happened because of citizens united and the influx of infinite money into politics that was bound to tip the balance away from actual citizens towards corporations.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
On civil war, if we were in the slow boil phase I’d agree with you, but the ghouls like stephen miller coming out the woodwork combined with a lot of people suddenly having a lot of free time (I mean fired), things are much more likely to turn heated.
they didn’t overthrow biden’s “tyranny” either. Instead of the overthrowing tyranny bullshit, guns have a great track record of killing kids and helping depressed men end it all.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
y on online outreach and have to be proactive IRL spreading messages that it really is a class war. There’s no better time than now, no more apparent point in history than today, it’s just pulling those people away from the propaganda for them to realize it. Somehow, We The People, need to convince the Boiling Frogs.
If you look at the stats on what proportion of US population can read beyond 6th grade level you can predict that there’s nearly zero chance pulling these people out of their bubbles.
On civil war, if we were in the slow boil phase I’d agree with you, but the ghouls like stephen miller coming out the woodwork combined with a lot of people suddenly having a lot of free time (I mean fired), things are much more likely to turn heated.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
’s the ghost of Lenin with a steel chair! Or maybe we’ll get something entirely new? It’s frankly impossible to guess while we’re living in it. I think cold balkanization is both the most likely and most optimistic scenario. IN THE MEANWHILE, yeah, you’re still going to see all the window trimmings of the USA; the maps will still say USA, we’ll at least nominally still have the things that make America America (like the constitution still sitting in its fancy protective case, as though the GOP didn’t just wipe Trump’s ass with it), it’ll all look weirdly normal while they make the republic’s corpse do a funny little jig.
to date, that 400,000,000 pew-pew stick and freedom rod are proving super effective against tyranny. Civil was is becoming more and more likely though.
- Comment on Entropy? Never heard of it. 2 weeks ago:
One of the interesting energy capture ideas I’ve seen with Solar and wind is based on kinetic potential energy in high-rise buildings. So you build a sort of heavy weight elevator that is elevated during windy and sunny hours and then it slowly gets released and gravity driven friction generating energy.
This coupled with solar windows and it’s a pretty neat idea (not sure how viable though)
- Comment on A daunting realization 3 weeks ago:
that was an edgy idea in the book, but stuff like that happens in ecological systems all the time. I read the book around the time of the election, and it read like a manifesto to justify oligarchic takeover as the next phase of human development (see the part how societal rules where assigned to the government and how the internet will take it back)
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 3 weeks ago:
Isotope alcohol? That’s what i call a real glow-up!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
then it’s definitely ALL CAPS: “WHY ARE YOU BLACK???”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“Your Romanian is great! When did you learn it?”
- Comment on Wait, I've seen this movie 1 month ago:
Competition from thinking machines is concerning, but happy for my Fremen.
- Comment on Wait, I've seen this movie 1 month ago:
My thread! Finally!
- Comment on Can we all agree on THIS 1 month ago:
I know this is a popular notion, but have you guys thought about:
- If the doctor sees someone who is 30 minutes late, their entire schedule slips. So y’all complain if they don’t see you if you are 15 minutes late (usually that’s the policy), but also complain if you have to wait.
- Have you guys thought about that primary care appts are in 15-20min increments (30min tends to be generous), which means, they either don’t address your issues if they are complicated. Or they’ll tend to run late?
Many people have no transportation, and it’s even harder to make it on time if one’s sick, so it’s just the right thing to try to squeeze in those who are late, but y’all can’t have it both ways.
source: am MD. And yeah I rather run late but see everybody and address everything I can.