skisnow
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- Comment on Puff by boring puff 4 days ago:
That’s even more damning then, if the main pop culture connection between pyramids and cigarettes was already Camels
- Comment on Puff by boring puff 6 days ago:
ok no worries
- Comment on Puff by boring puff 6 days ago:
Howd they do that without malberrow red. That’s a joke wrapped up entirely in that image
It’s not a joke though. There’s no connection whatsoever between Marlboros and any topic even tangentially related to construction or pyramids. It’s a complete non-sequitur. It only makes sense if you’re about to get on as your alt to fake a witty comeback.
In the oncoming climate wars your thick head can help you rise through the ranks of a rag tag resistance group
What was the point of that? You just like being unpleasant to people online? Read Rule 1.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again. 6 days ago:
Emergency self/home defense
I’ve always found this highly questionable on its own terms. You’re way more likely to get yourself or your family killed if you introduce a gun into the situation. Gun nut fantasies always involve them getting the drop on an intruder in the middle of the night, when the reality is that they’re way more likely to have the drop on you.
- Comment on Bang! 6 days ago:
One of the biggest problems with violent revolution, is that it almost always seems to end up putting violent people in charge of the next regime.
- Comment on Puff by boring puff 6 days ago:
idk I wasn’t there. Maybe the camels carried their lunch boxes.
- Comment on Puff by boring puff 6 days ago:
Sorry maybe I’m being thick but I don’t understand the question in any context other than the given answer?
By which I mean the question only makes sense as a question if you already know the punchline, which means the person asking already knew, so formatting the joke as a comment replying to them like that, is fundamentally compromised. It’s like those Facebook boomer joke exam papers where the kid has written “hilarious” answers to questions that obviously have never appeared on any real exam.
- Comment on Citizens United was never about helping people 2 weeks ago:
There don’t seem to be nearly enough attempts to force corporations to explain exactly what their money is trying to say when they donate to candidates from both parties, as many of them have done and still do.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
big parts are private property
Surely that makes them easier to buy and develop on than if they were publically owned? Or am I missing your point?
- 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I’m not eldritch, I just look after myself
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 5 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. 5 weeks ago:
oh well screw them then.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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. 5 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 5 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. 5 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. 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
on the contrary, they love that shit. Gives them an excuse not to legislate poverty away.