Not_mikey
@Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Arg 3 days ago:
And she lost her leg
- Comment on Away down South in the land of Traitors, 4 days ago:
Nah, sherman did his job, it was that drunk andrew johnson who threw away the victory sherman, and that other drunk grant, had fought so hard for.
- Comment on Lmao 5 days ago:
I figured that area would be full of extremely violent megastorms due to the heat differential.
- Comment on Lmao 5 days ago:
tidally locked
Wouldn’t that be a non starter for life? One side would be perpetually baked and the other would be frozen.
- Comment on not sorry actually 6 days ago:
What if my politics is empathizing with people?
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 week ago:
Maybe the solution is some Spotify like service for journalism. Ie. Pay $20 a month and get access to most papers, and the revenue is split by view count. Even better would be making it a tax so since everyone is paying there’s no need for login.
- Comment on Slippery 1 week ago:
The coffee thing shows either a contrarian attitude or a naive one. Im tempted to say, go do a bump of coke and tell me thats a similar animal. Its not.
I have done coke a couple times, and idk if it was just bad coke or didn’t take enough but I felt it was overrated. Didn’t mix it with alcohol though which apparently enhances the effects but would say it’s on a similar level to a high dose of caffeine. Like a bump of coke I would put on the same level as an energy drink. Maybe a line would make me think differently but I’ve only ever done bumps/keys.
- Comment on Tryna catch me riding dirty 1 week ago:
Yeah, a pound of weed is probably around the size of a pillow, you’d need a campfire to burn that, not joints
- Comment on Slippery 1 week ago:
How do you separate that definition of addiction from psycological medication usage. Like someone with depression could feel the need to alter there state of being everyday with SSRIs, are they an addict? Same with someone with an anxiety disorder who takes Xanax.
Addiction, in my view, requires continued use despite negative consequences, otherwise it’s just dependence. If you’re dependent on something that is neutral to or helping you live a good life, however you want to define that, then that dependence isn’t a bad thing. This applies to people’s relationships to both substances and other people.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 week ago:
Mint still takes upstream changes from Ubuntu though right?
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 1 week ago:
Might be more common with the spike in gas prices, gotta take “savings” where you can get them
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
One thing some people fail to consider is the personnel costs. Crewing an aircraft for 2 hours is half the price of crewing a train for 4 hours to get the same distance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: the trees used to mark those boundaries are called witness trees, and since they were never chopped down they are the only remaining old growth trees in a lot of areas.
- Comment on Did you do this at your highschool? 2 weeks ago:
Never stop for an orb
- Comment on the more you know 2 weeks ago:
Acidity does damage to tooth enamel
Sugar does damage to tooth enamel
So I guess it’s multiplication and two negatives make a positive ?
- Comment on It's me again 2 weeks ago:
Now way to know if it’s coke, they could be snorting sugar to pretend to be rich.
Only one way to find out.
- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 2 weeks ago:
Iran is just the testing ground, they’re doing over there what they want to do here but can’t… Yet
- Comment on Two blocks from the White House 2 weeks ago:
I’d help if only I had a printer
- Comment on po-tay-toes 2 weeks ago:
Thanks to the andeans who gave us the potato
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Serious question, not trying to justify creepy behavior, but assuming you want them to be seen what is too much for you / what makes you feel uncomfortable? Glaring for longer than say 5 seconds? Repeated glances? Facial expressions or comments?
Obviously this will vary case by case for each woman, just want to get a perspective.
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 5 weeks ago:
I guess that’s a positive spin on heat waste, I’m sure there are a lot of negative consequences from hot waste water going into streams…
Not like nuclear is the only thing that does this though, this is a problem with data centers too.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 month ago:
Always gonna plug disc sports when threads like this pop up. Ultimate Frisbee is fun and if you live in even a minor city there’s usually a rec league to join. Has the best culture of any sport IMO, full of the chilliest most accepting people who are always looking for more people to join and with rec leagues people will sometimes go out to the bar after to hang out.
Disc golf is also great for meeting people if you’re not as into cardio. Can join tournaments and they’ll usually pair you up with people. Or just go solo to the course and occasionally someone else will offer to let you join their round or if you’re waiting with another solo at a hole you can offer to let them join you.
Both are also very cheap activities, Frisbee you just need cleats and to pay ~$50 for a rec league season. Disc golf is basically free once you get discs.
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 month ago:
OP said he’s in car centric america, in my experience those are the only people who regularly ride bicycles.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 month ago:
Israel was able to pinpoint the location of top political figures extremely easy. That means that the civil society hates more the government than israel.
This shows more the competence of the mossad / CIA then broad support for Israel. They just need to compromise/ payoff one person at the top of the regime to get the ayatollahs location and then bomb it.
I think you’re vastly underestimating the hatred of Israel in Iran. It’s not like here in the US where people are just starting to come around to the idea that Israel is a bad actor despite the efforts of the media. In Iran the media has been constantly showcasing the atrocities of Israel and the plight of the Palestinians for decades. Even if that wasn’t enough they just bombed the country and started a war with no reason given. Even if some people hate the government more than Israel they still hate Israel, and if given a chance to decide their government, if this one falls, they will probably pick one that is antagonistic to Israel.
Same in Gaza and this is why Israel will never let there be elections in Gaza. They know that if people can vote they will vote for a government hostile to Israel, just like they did in 2006. They don’t want a government with popular support and legitimacy because it’ll make them look even worse when they bomb them.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 month ago:
Yes, and a lot of Iranians support their government, or want a theocracy that’s even more paternalistic. If the regime falls now you’ll most likely see either a military dictatorship take over to suppress the various conflicts and contradictions in the country, or those conflicts flare up into a civil war between theocrats and Democrats similar to Syria. Israel wants the civil war because a military dictator is still probably going to shoot missiles at them, arm Hezbollah and Hamas etc. while a civil war all the missiles are fired within the country.
- Comment on Is factory farming humanity’s biggest crime 1 month ago:
- The video can just be about a problem in the west. The problem is heavily concentrated for both production and consumption in the US, China, Europe, Indonesia and India. Really poor nations like those in Africa actually can’t afford to do factory farms because it requires a shit ton of antibiotics to keep a concentration of animals like that from dying or killing the farmer tending to them from disease.
- Poverty is not an excuse for eating meat, there are plenty of dirt poor people in India who are vegetarian. Plant sources of protein, like beans and lentils, are almost always cheaper then animal protein unless the animal protein is heavily subsidized.
- The fact that a practice makes a product cheap enough for poor people doesn’t excuse the moral implications of that practice. Slavery made it so cotton clothing was cheap enough for poor people, that doesn’t absolve the great sin that was slavery.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 month ago:
Trump is torn between the neoconservatives like Rubio, formally bolton etc, and Israel that want regime change and his own unwillingness to go full troops on the ground. The neocons successfully get trump to blow up Obama era deals designed to keep the peace by catering to Trump’s ego telling him he can get a better deal than Obama, in reality they don’t want a deal and want to escalate but this is the best they can get.
So trump goes to the negotiating table only to find out that Obama’s deal is the best he can get. Frustrated and unwilling to admit Obama was just as good a negotiator as him he begins to blame the leaders for their intransigence. The longer this goes on the dumber he looks for blowing up the original deal and not being able to get a new one, all the while Iran is enriching more uranium to try and push the US to accept the old deal.
Then Venezuela happens and he comes up with a new plan, if you can’t change the deal you can at least change the negotiating team. He can take out the leader, use them as a scapegoat for the long stalled negotiations, sign the same deal and call it a win. Maduro repeatedly said he was willing to play ball with Trump but it would be on similar grounds to the Obama era deal but trump couldn’t go back to the US and say he re-imoosed all these sanctions for nothing, so he took out Maduro, got a reason to declare victory and went home.
My guess is he’s trying to do the same here, say all the issues with negotiations were because of the Ayatollah, sign a new version of the same deal with Trump branding like the USMCA , declare victory and head home.
Is Israel gaining something that I’m not seeing? Destabilization the main goal?
Yes, Israel doesn’t want regime change because they know hatred for Israel is so broad that it will survive a regime change. They want to turn Iran into the next Syria and get them to turn all of their ire inwards instead of at them.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 month ago:
By doing this Israel wants a more friendly government.
Israel knows there will never be a friendly government to them in Iran, Israel knows that hatred for Israel is broad and will survive a regime change, especially one triggered by a war of aggression from Israel. They’re hoping to turn Iran into the next Syria, keep them fighting amongst themselves so they can’t turn their ire towards them.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
No, that works on stuff recommended on my home, but for this, the popular episodes section on the explore tab, there’s no option.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
This is mildly infuriating, it’s meant to show things people find offensive or objectionable. If you don’t want to see offensive or objectionable shit block the sub. There’s no way to remove this section on my explore tab, or even down vote or say I don’t want to see episodes like this.