FridaySteve
@FridaySteve@lemmy.world
- Comment on Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes 8 hours ago:
They would see cities designed for pedestrian and bicycle traffic. My city here in America is proud of the hundreds of miles of bike lanes but all they did was paint a bike stencil on the shoulder of the road and put up a sign telling cyclists to stay to the right.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 13 hours ago:
But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans.
I find it tedious when someone pretends not to understand a conversation just to make some academic point, don’t you?
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 13 hours ago:
The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
Who told you there was anything at all you could do in your life that there wouldn’t be something better than you at? Why do you let that stop you from doing anything?
- Comment on Political discourse 1 day ago:
You’ve already asserted that everything is politics whether I like it or not, including this conversation, and since I don’t get involved in “prove me wrong” political conversations on the internet I’ll just exit.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 day ago:
You’ve already asserted that there are no valid answers to that question. Why did you bother asking?
- Comment on Political discourse 1 day ago:
And this is what I mean. Everything is very much not politics but if you politicize everything then by definition it becomes so. People need to stop doing that.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 day ago:
People need something else to focus on. When everything is politics then politics is everything and it’s stupidly difficult to get people interested in doing anything positive.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
A lot of people are downvoting this because a 19 year old is an adult who can make their own choices and you are insinuating that there’s something so objectively wrong with dating an older person that it should be illegal.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 1 day ago:
So I went back to seeing myself as unimportant
If that’s how you see yourself, imagine what people think when they don’t even know you and meet you for the first time. Focus on what you have to offer other people, not what other people have that you want.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 days ago:
You even think you’re expressing independent thoughts right now. You’re not. You’re repeating a script. I was there when they wrote it. I saw them test the best ways to program it into your brain. Your weak, spongy mind sucked it right up because you were desperate for something to hold onto. Doesn’t it bother you that everywhere you go, your existing biases are confirmed? You really don’t understand that’s by design. Who do you think the designer is? It’s you. Rich, powerful people created the environment that reinforces your thoughts and behavior. One day you’ll look back on these wasted days and cringe so hard your neck will swallow your head like a turtle.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 days ago:
Your mind is gone. The corporate culture war has it now. Take my advice, don’t ever leave Facebook. It’s safe there for you.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 days ago:
I’m not going to punch anyone because I’m not a violent psychopath. I’m also not going to post whatever stupid video you’re talking about anywhere because I don’t flag my politics on the internet. I think people who do it need to stop.
Now that I’ve answered your question, answer mine: why did you get on the internet in the first place? Was it to read about culture war politics and get angrier and angrier as the days and weeks and years go by? Because that’s what you’re doing. Did you buy a smartphone and click all the happy little buttons and now you want to spread your opinions about dumb ass politics everywhere? When do you people all get bored and leave? Why don’t you all just go away? When are you going to realize nobody cares?
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 2 days ago:
Don’t get salty. A lot of folks don’t use that anymore, it’s a boomer platform for hate politics.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
No acknowledgement at all that I literally just answered your question?
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
1 BTU heats 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit.
- Comment on gaming 1 week ago:
What are these? Do they hang on a wall? Do they have stands on the back like a picture frame you put on your desk?
- Comment on Make America Great! 2 weeks ago:
The president is the leader of one branch of our three branch system. Cooperation between Mexico and the USA and Canada and the USA is generational and extends across various diverse dimensions like scientific cooperation, infrastructure protection, border security and law enforcement, fire protection and prevention, trade, and food safety, among others. It would take much much more than one presidential administration much longer than four years to make meaningful progress toward the goal of destroying all these cooperative agreements at all levels of government that took generations to build.
Donald Trump sucks but he isn’t America, nor should we be judging any country by the actions of its corrupt billionaire leadership.
- Comment on Make America Great! 2 weeks ago:
Spicy take incoming: it’s pretty great right now. We’re a continental country rich in natural resources. We’re very friendly with our only two major neighbors, Canada and Mexico, so tits hard to imagine us being attacked over a land border. We have tropical beaches and snow sports 365 days a year, and they all speak English and take dollars. Our universities are some of the best in the world and graduate Nobel Prize winners in arts, sciences, and mathematics. Yes the current American experience sucks but for a lot of people it always has and has even sucked worse. We’ve experienced massive civil rights expansions over the past three generations.
If you think America sucks you’re right, and always were, and always will be, but if you can’t think of anything nice to say about it then you’re just not paying attention.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
I can think of five reasons you shouldn’t do this.
Whoops now I can only think of 4.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t think you’re being fair. I was in chanology in Clearwater, Arab Spring in Rabat, the second Penguin Revolution in Santiago de Chile, and countless major demonstrations in support of worker rights and LGBT community issues all over the world. When I come on the internet (as I’ve done since 1994), I don’t want to endlessly talk about politics with the normies here. I want to talk about normie topics like cooking, cats, sports, and Taylor Swift. I save my outrage for real world actions.
According to you, I’m practicing an attitude of acceptance with regard to the state of the world because that’s all you see and hear from me. What do you think that says about your worldview and your outlook on people?
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re at a point where we can all agree that having interests beyond what’s serious and exigent is healthy and reasonable. Now we need to get past the idea that not liking something that’s popular (like sports and entertainment) makes you better than people who do. It doesn’t make you better.
People who like Taylor and Travis and want them to do well are not automatically complacent in other areas of their lives. They don’t have their heads up their asses for this reason. They have nothing to be ashamed of, talking about topics that, in your opinion, are useless drivel. Especially here, on the internet.