obsoleteacct
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- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 3 days ago:
Me: Imagine reddit for left wing, privacy obsessed, Linux nerds.
Anyone else: I really don’t want to.
/scene
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
They don’t. Any time a Democrat exercises the slightest bit of executive authority they scream fascism
They know the difference. They just play ignorant when it’s convenient.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 2 weeks ago:
I lived through all these. 2001 and 2008 were horrible, but sort of felt like a normal kind of horrible. Recessions and terrorism were things I’d seen before. It was only the scale that made those anomalous.
From my (American) perspective 2016 was when shit started getting very weird. We were relatively stable, relatively prosperous, foreign wars were tapering off… And half the country decided that a game show host was her best bet going forward.
Then it started snowballing… Bill Cosby’s a rapist, there’s a global pandemic, Kanye put out a pro-Hitler song, Pete Davidson is a sex symbol that no starlet in Hollywood can resist, The secretary of health had his brain eaten by worms, everything you own or use became a subscription service, The fear Factor guy became a political king maker, The first lady has a crypto scam that everyone’s kind of okay with, we created AI but it’s only good for spam and rule 34 tweets, we decided political corruption isn’t a crime if you brag about it, America’s war machine is being turned on its cities… Oh and the US is building full on concentration camps.
It’s a very strange time even compared to occupy, The tea party, or Bush riding out 9/11 Reading a children’s book in an elementary school.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t read the DOT code in a while, so I genuinely don’t recall if they’re mandated, but I recall that all my trucks had them.
This is of absolutely no use in preventing people from a close merge on the passenger side where the driver definitely cannot see. Often the driver’s first indication that this has occurred is the crunch. I’ve never seen one of these accidents that wasn’t completely avoidable.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 3 weeks ago:
I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.
And the drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 4 weeks ago:
Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 1 month ago:
Due to the inherently competitive nature of living in a society that competes for resources, many people assume that a kind, upbeat person will be easy prey for someone tough and pushy. They lack the emotional intelligence to understand that you can be both kind and assertive.
In reality, you catch more flies with honey. Pretty much every study of game theory concludes that nice but assertive is the optimal strategy in any ongoing interaction. A nice person with a backbone is likely to be healthier boundaries, lower stress, and better relationships with people.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 1 month ago:
It’s not most Americans. It’s about a third (which is still huge) and less than half of the population living in a gun owning household.
Then there’s a spectrum of how “important” guns are culturally. There are in my experience 3 categories of gun owners.
- People who own a gun or two. They may take it to the range or hunt, but mostly it’s tucked securely away and they don’t think about it or use it.
2)Then there are collectors and enthusiasts. They enjoy firearms as a hobby. They have multiple. They watch firearms videos on social media. They go to gun shows and might join a club related to the hobby.
3)Then there are the paranoid psychopaths for whom gun ownership and the insistence that they could have to defend themselves at any time is constantly at the forefront of their mind. They wish they had a reason to shoot someone and may end up shooting someone anyway.
- Comment on The long hard road 2 months ago:
Just say you make bat soup. Don’t try to make it sound fancy.
- Comment on Please tell me 2 months ago:
There is so much of that kind of marketing at this point, that it had not occurred to me until reading this discussion that “Liquid Death” was intended to ironically over the top.