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- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 9 hours ago:
People are downvoting based on what they want the law to be rather than how it actually is. Trump’s promise is functionally the same as promising tax cuts, it’s just that he knows how to phrase it in a way that makes people feel more directly connected to it.
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 1 day ago:
Thanks. I think the single biggest barrier to the population as a whole eating more ethically is the way that veganism as a movement has taken on this absolutist dogmatic stance that makes it a dealbreaker for most people. If you make people feel as though cutting their meat intake by 50% is pointless because you’re still going to call them murderers, why would they make the effort?
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 1 day ago:
the price increase still hits all the online shops
No, it hits the online shops that underpay their staff.
- Comment on Fox News sharing billionaire propaganda 2 days ago:
Retail isn’t as easy to maintain a monopoly as most industries. The moment Amazon gets more expensive than the next guy, the whole thing falls apart.
- Comment on White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin 4 days ago:
I’m confused as to how “MAGA”, a party political slogan, is allowed on a .gov domain. Seems like it should be illegal?
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 5 days ago:
I’m not eldritch, I just look after myself
- Comment on 6 days ago:
It is lovely, though in some sort of nod to nominative determinism it is also the only place in Japan I’ve ever been approached by a pimp on the street asking if I wanted to fuck
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 6 days ago:
I am over 500 years old and I have never once in my life seen someone dangle a pendant from the bottom of their t-shirt like that. Is this some new fetishwear that I’m not furry enough to know about?
- Comment on Extra Milky 1 week ago:
I’ve got some pepsi syrup that I sometimes top up my pepsi with
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 2 weeks ago:
The insidious part is that this type of investor doesn’t care anything about what each company actually does or even their long-term future, they’re driven entirely by what will get them their bonuses for this year. It’s why we get enshittification. CEOs who don’t deliver YoY growth get voted out in favour of ones who will.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
oh well screw them then.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 weeks ago:
I could be wrong but I charitably suspect they were referring to the term “roommate” rather than the actual practice.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
Obama brought in free healthcare
lol no. If anything Obamacare is a textbook example of what I meant - he entered office with a Democrat majority in both Houses and the Supreme Court and a huge public mandate to get it done, and still ended up abandoning all his stated plans for a system where big business interests got their entrenched positions solidified by law.
It would be wrong to call Obama a fascist, but he did the opposite of nothing to dismantle the oligarchy that lead to where we are now.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s a “ratchet effect” argument. Dems are opposed to fascism in principle, but have shown no interest in stopping the root causes that lead to it.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
I agree with your general sentiment, but major government buildings surely get a pass to fly one, if they do it in a tasteful manner.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 weeks ago:
It drives business people insane, that people who have enough disposable income to pay to remove ads, are exactly the high value customers that they can charge more money to advertise to.
Once you have a ‘no ads’ tier, your advertisers know that the only people they’re getting seen by are people who don’t spend money, and they won’t want to advertise with you. But if you make a special “here’s an audience who piss away money like it’s going out of fashion” tier, they’ll triple their spend.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
I know this is by far the least objectionable thing in that picture, but does anyone find it weird to fly four identical flags right up next to each other like that? Just somehow feels tacky to my mind, like they’re so bunched up that not any one individual one of them is able to actually function as a flag. Maybe just me idk
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
except blue is more like “we’re strongly opposed to diarrhea forever, but this undercooked fish should be good in the fridge for another few days right?”
- Comment on Whew, I better take a break 2 weeks ago:
yeah I get it’s supposed to be like a comedy fight but I’m still just thinking dude why are you aiming your attacks at the part of his body that he’s still able to defend, his shins are right there
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just rude, it makes you look dumb as well. People can have different experiences and views to yours without it being a symptom of mental illness.
- Comment on Gottem 3 weeks ago:
on the contrary, they love that shit. Gives them an excuse not to legislate poverty away.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 3 weeks ago:
to cut them off cold turkey
How are you reading it that way?
Having to “beg dad for money when I want a pizza” doesn’t sound like someone being coddled, it sounds like someone who’s been told a thousand times to get a damn job and move out. Plus they’re not even kicking OOP out immediately, they’re giving them until their birthday.
I mean it is obviously fake, but still
- Comment on Bring it back 3 weeks ago:
It’s in the same place relative to China and Russia. It’s not clear how much of that is because this isn’t a Mercator projection, how much of it is tectonic shift, and how much of it is questionable choices on OOP’s part. Some lat/long markers would have helped
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 weeks ago:
It’s sad to see how time and time again companies build up a big user base by being the best service out there, and then just assume that they’ll be the market leaders forever and ever no matter how much they enshittify.
The amount of vendor lock-in with something like Google Maps is very close to zero.
- Comment on culture 3 weeks ago:
I think it must be a spectrum or something because I’m fully capable of mentally picturing things in detail if I want to, but it’s a thing I have to actually /do/. It doesn’t just happen automatically when I’m reading, I have to make a deliberate decision to picture the scene.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 weeks ago:
no, but you’re not just comparing it with nothing, you might also want to compare it with other kinds of oil. The absolute number itself is barely relevant, what most people want to know is which oil products are healthier than others.
- Comment on Considering planting it in my garden at this point 3 weeks ago:
yeah I was gonna say, I once had mint and it sent the cat berzerk
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 weeks ago:
but that’s also true of literally any other keyword out there. They wouldn’t particularly be driving any more traffic since that’s not what the user was searching for, they’d just be getting their whole site delisted.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 weeks ago:
they definitely have the resources to whitelist valid combinations, but some shirt ran the numbers and decided it wouldn’t bring enough money in
- Comment on Delicious 4 weeks ago:
or the metabolism