MisanthropiCynic
@MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 week ago:
Diabolical.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
Fair point. I didn’t even consider the ramifications of wording it like that instead of just saying it has a small throat. I tend to use analogies a lot
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 week ago:
Whales suffocate to death; they don’t drown.
Human breathing is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. We have to hold our breath on purpose to stop ourselves from automatically breathing. This makes us passive breathers. Whales, however, are active breathers. They must choose to inhale which is why they can sleep without sucking in air. When they get too old, sick, or weak to surface, they suffocate.
Bonus fact: whales can’t breathe through their mouths; it goes straight to the stomach. The blowhole is the only respiratory tract.
Bonus bonus: a blue whale’s throat is so small it could choke to death on a grapefruit.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
No. The government has no right to accessing anybody’s materials. Warrant or not.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
No. Even that limitation is unconstitutional. Look up the actual convictions and appeal rates for them
The most recent one is just a couple of months old where a guy threatened Kevin McCarthy, the House speaker, over 100 times on the phone and he only got probation because the judge knew the prison sentence wouldn’t withstand appeal.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
I thought you were replying to me at first, but it just reaffirm what I said so now it looks like you were replying to someone else maybe
The ruling reaffirmed that the government cannot punish speech just because it is offensive or upsetting, reinforcing strong protections for free speech under the First Amendment.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Is it so hard to believe you think Free speech should be absolute weapon should be unrestricted, abortion should be unrestricted, people should be able to harness electricity from solar and harness rainwater from the sky?
Because these are all things that are restricted here except for speech, so I am sure as fuck not going to budge on it
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
When? Brandenburg V Ohio long predates them
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Gaza is not a problem to me. I honestly don’t give a shit.
I don’t want anything except to be left alone, and neither party seems to be capable of doing that
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Yes, it is.
That’s why all the Westborough Baptist people can stand around with God hates fags signs and nothing happens to them
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Chinese and Japanese soldiers during that time period would be a much more accurate comparison, and the answer is yes
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Barack “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone.” Obama shows the same attitude from the other side.
It’s more palatable, but it’s still the same oppressive bullshit
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Society and laws are at the mercy of those who are in control. Right now in the US it is the Trump administration, but I remember Barack Obama saying, “I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone,” emphasizing his ability to take executive action without waiting for Congress to push his agenda forward.
That’s not freedom.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
It doesn’t. It says free, meaning unencumbered. The breadstick analogy was for unlimited not free so it was disingenuous and I was countering it.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
I’m banned from that platform because they do not believe in free speech absolutism, especially when you start in on churches and cops
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
There is no difference between those two phrases if you actually have free speech
And in fact, saying “I voted for Donald Trump”, is way more offensive to me than saying “kill everyone in Gaza”
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
The phrase “shouting fire in a crowded theater” is outdated and legally irrelevant to modern free speech discussions. Its origin from Schenck v. United States (1919) was overturned by Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), which set a much higher standard for restricting speech. Modern First Amendment doctrine protects almost all speech unless it directly incites imminent violence or crime.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Participating in an election means you are agreeing to abide by the outcome of the election. By not participating you are protesting and saying I not recognise the legitimacy of this process.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
No, because it is unconstitutional to put someone under oath
By definition, it means a solemn promise that is beholden to a deity therefore it is illegitimate in court and law by the First Amendment.
You probably also think it should not be legal to kill people that break into your house to steal your TV.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Advocating for hurting people is not a crime. Even an inactionable threat is not a crime. Look up precedent for arrests of inciting a riot and see how many of those charges actually stuck or help up on appeal.
The fact that people are saying yore okay to punch Nazis in the face would be a violation of what you are advocating for but you have no problem with that because you don’t like Nazis.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Don’t be pedantic. A limit would be “free breadsticks only if you decide to pray to our god in front of us.”
If you say unlimited and then put a limit on it, that is illegal, as Verizon and AT&T found out in court
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
If it has a limit, it’s not free
If I can’t do a Nazi salute, then I can’t say “I want to shoot Donald Trump in the face”
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
Exactly. And you have people like me who refused to vote for Democrats because while they might not be as horrible as Donald Trump, there is still too much wrong with them for me to support them. I get called a Tankie bot whether I don’t vote or I vote third-party so fuck the DNC
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
The problem is it cuts both ways. The Democrats saying they want hate speech to not be protected and Nazi propaganda to be censored is just the flipside of the same coin.
Either you have free speech or you don’t
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
The lesser of two evils is still evil
- Comment on fuck this asshole 1 month ago:
The DNC are Nazis that just focus on different issues
- Comment on Ads are a plague 1 month ago:
I’m not saying they are bland boxes on wheels, I’m saying the company leadership is bullshit and goes in the wrong directions and the products they make are horrible and not mechanically sound
- Comment on Ads are a plague 1 month ago:
That’s a good example, considering its Ferrari/Lamborghini maintenance costs, to compare with Volkswagen’s Mercedes/BMW maintenance/repair costs.
- Comment on Ads are a plague 1 month ago:
The ads aside, nothing from the Stellantis family should be on your radar anyway
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 1 month ago:
How’s your anxiety level? Depression and anxiety are linked pretty closely and with you mentioning the expense of things that sticks out to me you might have other issues.
It sounds like a mental health evaluation would benefit you, honestly. I would not want to be alive today if not for medication.
I still don’t feel like doing anything or being with anyone but I don’t feel worthless.
I hope you can find something that helps