BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on GOP brass claim not even death can stop McConnell from finishing his term 2 hours ago:
The Constitution says that only MAGA can make the rules. It’s right there in the Constitution. Don’t bother looking for it, any MAGA will tell you.
- Comment on "The airport is proof that people actually can be on time when they really want to be." 6 hours ago:
Nah, plenty of people are missing their planes because they can’t get their shit together.
I hate people who can’t manage their time when it’s important. When I am forced to accompany those types, I am merciless. They follow my schedule, or they get left behind. I’m not missing my flight because you’re a lazy, inconsiderate pig. Get your shit together or you’re on your own, and we’ll just meet you there, if you ever arrive. Not my problem.
- Comment on Trump Administration Delivers Lucrative Win for Its Kratom Allies 7 hours ago:
The whole story is filled with Senators and agency directors flipping from No to Yes, following large campaign donations from lobbyists. The only positions those parasites have are the ones that they are paid for.
We will NEVER save this country until we get all money out of politics, and make the most valuable thing in every election The Vote, so that candidates fight to earn The Vote of each citizen, instead of fighting for favor from the Sociopathic Oligarchs.
Campaign Finance Reform is the single issue from which ALL other issues flow.
- Comment on Same day shipping 7 hours ago:
Yeah, that’s not common, don’t count on that. Most of the time that you fall from a plane, you’re gonna die.
- Comment on Ladies, is this actually possible? 2 days ago:
Something something Waffle House.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 2 days ago:
Tax Wealth, or well shift from Trickle Down Economics to Robin Hood Economics, which usually doesn’t turn out well for the leadership.
- Comment on Sony 5 days ago:
The fundamental difference is that when you buy those formats, you are getting a final product. Nobody is stopping your disc in the middle, to ask if you want to download the special remix of this song, or a deleted scene.
Video games are now constantly upselling, and they can’t do that if the consumer is isolated on their PC.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 5 days ago:
I don’t have a problem with people resisting the societal pressure to wear expensive clothes, it’s just another way to separate the rich from the poor, but buying those clothes from predatory corporations like The Gap isn’t the proper solution. Thrift shops, Goodwill, Facebook Marketplace, etc.
- Comment on This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school. 5 days ago:
It sound like you might have wide feet. I do, too, and have to look hard for good quality wide shoes. The sole should ease up with use.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 5 days ago:
Just because a few enlightened philosophers understood human thought, doesn’t mean the ignorant masses, whose entire “education” is what the clergy tells them, didn’t believe something totally different.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
Sure they do.
- Comment on foil 5 days ago:
That’s a separate issue. Some are concerned that Y’all is spelled Ya’ll, but you’re concerned about the quotes.
That’s to alert the right people to the open foil. The writer knows who they’re addressing, and the right people reading it understand. It’s kind of a “If You know, You know” sort of situation.
Someone like my mom would think the store was being considerate, leaving a sample roll to inspect the quality, like when you check out the eggs.
She doesn’t know it’s to keep the tweakers from stealing the corner of every piece of foil in the store. Honestly, she doesn’t even know what tweakers are.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
The Far Right is rising EVERYWHERE. Before criticizing America, they should realize that we’re just the canary in the coalmine, and they should take care of their own countries, because THEY are next. They should be rooting for the Left to take back America, because that’s what they have to do in their own countries, too.
Besides, wishing for America’s demise is stupid. The economies of every country in the world is tied directly or indirectly to the American economy. If America truly collapses, it will bring down the entire world. Like it or not, it’s the TRUTH.
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
I’d wake up and say “God says that he’s pissed that you keep doing dangerous stuff, and expecting Him to pull your sorry asses out of the fire. He says it ends now, and you’re on your own. If you pass out in the hot summer sun, you’re going to die, and your constant annoyances mean that your place in heaven is not secure. He’s not real thrilled about have to live in close proximity, whee you’ll be dropping by every day for coffee. He thinks Satan ought be able to settle y’all down a bit. Just something to think about…oh yeah, Sweetie? We’re over. Bye!”
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 6 days ago:
We laugh, but the concept of independent thought is a relatively new one in human history. Until just a few hundred years ago, humans generally attributed the thoughts in their own heads to the Gods. If you had a problem, and conceived a solution, God provides that solution, you didn’t think of it yourself.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 6 days ago:
He’s thrilled, huh? You know what’s going to thrill me? When he shits his pants when he hits the end of his rope.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
Good plan.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
You probably shouldn’t be eating an entire pie every day. That isn’t going to be good for you, even if it was made with the very best ingredients available.
- Comment on james 1 week ago:
I’ve been having an interesting debate with myself about Clanker Ethics. On one hand, I am 100% against treating robots or AI with respect, since they are inanimate entities, and treating them with respect only conditions me to accept them, rather than conditions them to protect me.
On the other hand, I feel like allowing myself to treat ANYTHING else with a lack of respect, ultimately makes me less of a decent person. How you behave eventually become who you are.
OTOH, the few times I’ve tried to use CoPilot for something, I’ve ended up screaming at it. It is the most incompetent “employee” I’ve ever experienced, and if it was real, I would have fired it multiple times. I treat it exactly like I would treat any other incompetent employee who seems to think they can get away without doing a job just by asking me a zillion irrelevant questions, and avoiding the actual work for as long as possible, and then getting it wrong again and again anyway. I’d yell at THAT human, so why shouldn’t I yell at an equally incompetent AI?
- Comment on Fuck yea bro! 1 week ago:
Regular boxers don’t give the kind of support that testicles need, especially over the long haul. Men should wear tighty whities, or boxer briefs.
If you don’t, then as you age, your scrotum stretches out, and your balls start hanging low. Men often first realize it when they sit on the toilet, and the boys take a dip in the pool. Testicle tucks are one of the most popular plastic surgeries.
Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.
- Comment on Before the revolution 1 week ago:
The British have always based their government on a similar mechanism, despite the occasional protest:
“Listen: strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
It doesn’t work with bicycles either.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
Processed food was designed to make profit.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
I’ve always preferred single player games. I hate multiplayer, all those strangers running around in my TV, chaos everywhere. I want to relax and explore, but multiplayer is stressful. I don’t want to deal with other people.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 week ago:
Simply not true. Not all fascist regimes came out of elections. Many, many governments arose from coups, usually military.
You can’t shift a government from Democratic to fascist, if it was never democratic in the first place.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 week ago:
The idea that we have to wait until the worst cas scenario actually takes place before doing anything about it is ridiculous. We have seen all of this, many times before. We already know where it leads, unless it is stopped. We don’t have to wait, just because the people who benefit by that waiting demand it.
We don’t have to do what the worst people in the world demand. We’ve seen how this exact scenario leads to death camps, and the wholesale slaughter of millions. We have the people in place who think that’s a good idea, and they have already built and are populating concentration camps with cremation facilities. Do we have to wait until we smell roasting flesh from the smokestacks before we do anything? Are we going to accept their excuses when they claim they are only burning the bodies of those who died “natural” deaths? In a concentration camp?
We already know where this leads, every time. We don’t have to make them prove it, and we don’t have to accept their lame denials, or their rationalizations. We know what they want, and we see them moving quickly and decisively dealt in that direction. We don’t have to wait until it actually happens before we stop them.
- Comment on oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members! 1 week ago:
They just gave a woman 30 years in prison for having leftist poetry on her car, and her husband got 50 years for taking it out of her trunk, because taking a box of stuff out of your wife’s trunk is considered obstruction.
Yet Trump got nothing for steak ng hundreds of classified documents, selling them, and moving them around to avoid detection by the FBI, which is real obstruction.
But yeah, let’s clutch our pearls for the evil soccer mom with empathy.
- Comment on We found their kryptonite! 1 week ago:
Horseradish spreads quickly underground, and it’s ugly. A friend of mine destroyed his backyard with a small patch of horseradish. Within a few years, his backyard was unusable.
- Comment on Arizona Green Party warns of 'sham' candidates running under party monikor 2 weeks ago:
“Don’t vote for us, we’re phonies!”
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it plays out."
- Comment on Sound of silence 2 weeks ago:
“I BRING THE PARTY! YEEEEAAH!”
Fuck.
- Comment on Little treat 2 weeks ago:
A CAPITALIST society.