ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 5 days ago:
That too, but usually when I think of the sort that use such slogans I picture the ones who think they need 3 handguns on them to got to Walmart.
- Comment on If the legalization of drugs reduces crime, why can't the same be said about the legalization of guns? 5 days ago:
In the USA we have an extrodinary abundance of guns and people who defend having a personal arsenal as ‘stopping a bad guy’.
Thing is that you exchange one black market for firearms for the ability for potentially anyone to kill at scale and range with little notice or chance to avert it. The ‘good guy with a gun’ theory only serves a trivial role when you create a situation where mass availability makes any unstable person with a will much more likely to have access to one
- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 5 days ago:
Seems a pretty solid use of space, if you’re gonna have all this paved space for cars anybow why not keep them cool and generate power at the same time?
- Comment on JD Vance visits a small british town 2 weeks ago:
Did they have a furniture outlet mall there?
- Comment on POV 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes I feel like my only friend
- Comment on SBA #256 Torsions 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s one of those sci-fi doors that just goesstraight up into the ceiling?
- Comment on Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re on an online platform it’s literally a copy/paste into search if you don’t know and care to?
- Comment on What happened to NFTs and what where they in retro spec? 4 weeks ago:
Like any market item it only has what value anyone is willing to pay for it.
It’s an interesting concept from a proof of ownership standpoint, same way you can ’own’ a piece of crypto by holding a specific key.
Of any practical use though, say someone wanted to put the deed to a house as an owned token, the adoption across jurisdictions, the costs to maintain this ledger, the risk of electronic theft that simply doesn’t exist with paper records, it all makes real use more complicated than it needs to be.
- Comment on How come reddit user is growing 4 weeks ago:
Did you actually just ask how having a platform full of bots and the population being indifferent to freedom and censorships is a bad thing?
You give away the troll game too easy of that’s the case
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a damn crime, both ethically in discrediting your view, and I would guess legally if they literally went ahead despite the protests of a parent?
- Comment on If circumcision is so insanely common in the USA, why do people tease about it on the internet? 5 weeks ago:
I got pushback when I told my ex and docs no to chopping my kid despite having been so myself.
‘But it’s cleaner and easier to manage…’
Don’t care, unless you can give a medical need reason he can make that choice as an adult if he wants.
- Comment on The last dips of summer 5 weeks ago:
Well if it’s uncircumcised it could be rolled out as an automatic cover…
- Comment on *Damn you all to hell!* 5 weeks ago:
KB Toys was around too in these buildings they called ‘malls’.
- Comment on US diesel prices hit a record high, pushing up transportation costs for a long list of goods 5 weeks ago:
Make all the things great, price tags, national debt, his book of crimes and general assholery is great enough to be split into volumes by now…
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 1 month ago:
Not an expert so take it with due caution, but as I recall when canning things like meat and I think tomatoes you have to use a pressure cooker rather than just boiling water to get the temps past 100 C, so I guess just cook the shit out of it?
- Comment on Why do a lot of frozen salmon thawing instructions say to remove the salmon from the individual wrappers before thawing? 1 month ago:
But free Botox without all the scary needles?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The USD, or any other currency, is given value by the backing of the government issuing it. Any currency has a value relative to another based on the volume printed and the economics of the home country.
To have some sort of universal currency, even if someone could get everyone to agree in a name and form, you would have to sort up regional differences in wages and costs, who has authority to make it, counterfeiting enforcement, a whole host of things competing nations are not likely to agree on.
- Comment on mildly infuriating 1 month ago:
Oof, the Facebook stink is overwhelming on this one…
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 1 month ago:
Yeah, chat bots and voice prompt mazes in phones both get an immediate spamming of agent/human/operator until it gives up.
- Comment on The prices of these NFL games…nope. 1 month ago:
Meanwhile you can go to a baseball game for less than $50
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 2 months ago:
They did, but I always took it with the notion that if they did find something that worked it would never be allowed to air.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 2 months ago:
True, there where often these little green chilies in her stuff she was sure to warn about. Not sure what type exactly but the did bite back.
- Comment on I didn't realize masala, was spicy 2 months ago:
From the few times I’ve had properly made Indian food, I’d generally not call things spicy, but certainly lively. The flavors don’t tend to be subtle at all. Lady I worked with made her own curries and just a tiny bit was enough to flavor a whole bowl of rice.
- Comment on We hate him no matter who he represents. 2 months ago:
At least Hannibal had a functioning brain that could maintain coherence.
- Comment on HEY PRICKS!!!! Guess who? 🤪😜🤪😝 2 months ago:
Very cool, glad you found a hobby… 👍
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 2 months ago:
They do that in regular court hearings too. The one asking questions has a story they want to present and details tend to make that more difficult.
- Comment on I have le moosells 2 months ago:
Guy spent more time injecting synthol than he did doing situps…
- Comment on Saudis Reach Deal With U.S. That Could Let Them Enrich Nuclear Fuel 2 months ago:
How much did Donnie get paid?
- Comment on A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August 2 months ago:
There are a sizable chunk of places where residents won’t pay $40K for a teacher per year for the entire class much less per student.
Spending that much to program their kids with some bullshit version of reality while minimizing their human connections and teaching them adults can’t be relied on. Sounds like a mass child abuse case that should happen here.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I would think of it as a difference in active participation. A colonist is just someone who lives in a colonized place, a colonizer is one who actively engaged in territorial expansion and flag planting activities.