BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on A fine vintage! 17 hours ago:
Sweet Pea/ Sweet Pee
- Comment on Me after realizing Crown is a Canadian product.... 21 hours ago:
Why would you drink different whisky while backpacking?
- Comment on Horse radish isn't a nuclear weapon of mass destruction either. 22 hours ago:
Horseradish? Oh yes it is. Plant some horseradish in your garden and say goodbye to your yard. It quickly spreads underground, and puts up these thick ugly stalks, and will take over your yard in a single summer. I had a competitive friend who tried to match my beautiful garden, and planted horseradish, and lost his entire yard.
I used to know another guy that did that, so he just became the horseradish guy in the office. Once a year, he’d bring in jars of fresh horseradish, and distribute them throughout the office.
- Comment on Pain 22 hours ago:
Car won’t start, AAA is on the way. Give me about an hour.
- Comment on Pain 22 hours ago:
*can’t, according to the restraining order.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Isn't Living Wage 1 day ago:
Minimum wage is your boss yelling you that he’d like to pay you less, but it’s AGAINST THE LAW!
- Comment on He Has Arrived 1 day ago:
Everybody needs a side hustle these days.
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 1 day ago:
Every grocery store in my area has their cashier’s standing up, except Aldi, they have chairs for their cashier’s.
And of course their service is awful! JK, it’s perfectly fine! Publix cashiers aren’t any better because they can stand. It’s not like they have to run around or anything. They’re stuck in the same spot for hours at a time. Why can’t they sit? I wouldn’t even notice if they didn’t have legs. Who cares? Let them sit.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 days ago:
It’s a good lauchpad to reach farther distances. It’s much easier to launch through the moon’s atmosphere than the Earth’s, making it the best staging ground to go to Mars or the Asteroid belt, where there might be some valuable minerals or something.
- Comment on Amanda 4 days ago:
Turtles are cool, I love them, but red eared sliders are invasive nearly everywhere, and they always end up getting released in the wild, where they mess with local.populations.
- Comment on The right kind of vibe 4 days ago:
What’s Weird Artificial Intelligence? It sounds interesting.
- Comment on Amanda 4 days ago:
You’re stuck with those red-eared sliders. Nobody wants them. The guy who gave you those was celebrating as you drove away.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 5 days ago:
The organic meatbags seem to enjoy it.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Officially Rewriting ‘Strange New Worlds’ Winning Formula for Season 5 6 days ago:
Weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever seen a show attempt. I can’t say it was a success, it was a bit of a train wreck, but not as bad as what I was expecting.
- Comment on People used to do this 6 days ago:
They no longer teach cursive in America. My son graduated in 2017, and he didn’t learn cursive.
Now I’m starting to see Insta posts of young people trying to read an easy phrase in cursive, and they can’t do it. Frankly, from what I’ve seen, part of the problem is cursive, but at least part of the problem is that many of these young people just can’t read at all, which is an entirely different problem.
- Comment on People used to do this 6 days ago:
These were the modern version of Fountain Pens, which used a watery ink in those little cartridges. I was in elementary school in the 60s, and when you got to 3rd grade, it was time to learn to write Cursive, and ball point pens were prohibited, for some reason. We were required to use these types of Fountain Pens,.probably because it was traditional, and some ancient old school curriculum writer couldn’t let go. In 4th grade, we could use ball points, but for learning, it had to be Fountain Pens.
It took a minute for the ink to dry. In the olden days, people would keep a big curved thing on their desk with a pad on the curved side, and a knob on the flat side. When they’d sign something, they’d roll the pad over the signature, and sop up the excess wet ink, drying it instantly.
My problem was that I was left handed, so as I wrote, I would drag the side of my palm across the wet ink. The side of my palm was always black from pencil graphite anyway, and now I was adding blue ink to it as well, along with smearing ink across the page. I hated fountain pens, and switched to ball points as soon as I could.
I also hated cursive. By 6th grade, I was writing everything in capital letters, with small caps for lower case. I write that way to this day, many decades later.
- Comment on Doof doof 6 days ago:
They do look good.
- Comment on Doof doof 6 days ago:
Sure, why should they miss all the fun?
- Comment on Doof doof 6 days ago:
Now THAT I can get behind.
- Comment on Doof doof 6 days ago:
Hey, Dumb has a B? I’ve heard someone talking about that lately, but didn’t believe it, because I’m DUM.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 1 week ago:
“Out of my way, Peasants!”
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
There is a difference between theory in a book, and the way it operates in the actual world. There isn’t a single nation, government, or political system that exists by following textbook theory alone. So are we talking about Philosophical Political Theory, or are we talking Real World Politics?
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
It’s not blatantly wrong, you just can’t understand nuance, which is common for people who trust definitions over actual life. Fire departments were the earliest versions of insurance companies, who morphed into that business when their firefighting responsibilities were taken away by local fire departments. The original fire brigades would definitely have been considered a socialist concept, if the word had existed at that point. Eventually, as governments evolved, they took over fire brigades, and became fire departments.
Just because the government is the vehicle for offering the service to the citizens, doesn’t mean it isn’t made possible by the support and cooperation of the citizens, which is the basic concept of socialism - the people supporting a concept that benefits all.
And MAGA recognizes this, which is why they want to destroy anything that has socialist roots, like all those things I mentioned - libraries, museums, parks, schools, etc. The entire reason that MAGA is constantly trying to kill those things is precisely because they consider them Socialist influences on their obsessive objective of a purely Capitalist society that benefits only the wealthy, rather than a successful one that benefits all of its citizens.
There is no reason that both Socialism and Capitalism can’t co-exist successfully, as the Scandinavian nations have been demonstrating for decades.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
Get your nose out of your schoolbooks, and look around you, there is a socialism mixed with capitalism everywhere you look, over the entire planet.
The Fire Department is a perfect example of a capitalist concept (buying fire protection from a company), that was replaced by a socialist concept (pooling the community’s funds to pay for a municipal fire department that benefits all citizens), and exists within a capitalist system. Same with public schools, public libraries, parks, law enforcement (in concept, anyway), and more.
No political system could survive in its purest form. Any successful government is going to have to mix the best of all political systems, and reject the worst parts of them. That means lots of grey areas, which are hard for many people to accept. Many people need clearly delineated lines, and that’s not possible when your government is a Frankenstein’s monster, so they want a pure system, even if it doesn’t work as well.
- Comment on It's worth a try for just a quarter 1 week ago:
Their mom used to say “If you keep making that face, it will stay like that,” and it did!
- Comment on Former shoplifter ran 'steal-to-order' Whatsapp group 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Small family businesses are off limits. Major corporations only.
Boycott big chains, shop at small businesses, especially restaurants. Find those little family restaurants with the great food, and visit often. Take friends. Pay in cash. Tip heavy. Write five star reviews.
- Comment on Former shoplifter ran 'steal-to-order' Whatsapp group 2 weeks ago:
The Robin Hood Economy is dawning. The wealthy steal everything they can from us, nothing wrong with taking whatever WE need.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you do, just don’t forget the sunscreen.
- Comment on Interesting problem 2 weeks ago:
He’s already conditioned to perform behaviors for treats, so teach him to hit on something different, like your mom’s vibrator collection. He’ll starts barking inssessently every time he hears buzzing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Fake News