MyBrainHurts
@MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca
- Comment on My hands are filthy, burned and calloused so hers can be filled with chicken nuggets. 5 hours ago:
As a Canadian, driving or biking on American roads is wild, it’s like you’re rolling a couple of years after an apocalyptic event.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
This is just silliness. Jobs and futures still exist, just because your corner of social media is going nuts doesn’t change that.
The generation prior grew up with the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation and still managed to go put on their shoes and work.
A good number of my friends are electricians, plumbers, pipe fitters or in HVAC but uhhh, sure there buddy.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Lol.
Yes, losing half your workforce, mostly the best and brightest, is no impediment at all…
What a silly Billy.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Basically all of what you said was equally applicable 20 years ago and folks atill managed to get degrees, handle a real courseload, pay attention for a whole lecture etc. And then we graduated into the worst financial/employment crisis of the last 100 years.
A lot of this feels like made up gripe reinforced by being online way too much. Maybe it’s the result of rocking a smartphone and the resulting doomed echo chambers since childhood but it seems to have broken a whole generation.
You don’t want one of the lucrative credentialed jobs like lawyer, engineer, doctor etc? Sure. But my God, we can’t even get kids to join the trades which pay great, cost almost nothing to enroll and are all but guarantees of job security.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Did you mean to respond to someone else? What words were put in your mouth?
And you might note the thousands who have resigned from the DOJ, leaving mostly incompetent goofs behind who cannot secure convictions. (Because, yup, they respected the DoJ’s independence. In other words, one of those guardrails working.)
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Those same guardrails have repeatedly stopped trump this term.
Just because things didn’t happen as you wish they did does not mean they failed, full fucking stop.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I know every generation says it about the next but gen Z is just fucking weak. Some great people and an admittedly, dealt a shitty hand.
But.
I’m going back to school as an elder millennial and my God, some of the craziness I’ve heard. A buddy teaches a film theory course a lot of kids use to satisfy early arts requirements at universities and he quickly realized if he didn’t show the movie in class, 2/3 of the class wouldn’t watch it despite being available through the school website. So, essentially, these kids (or their parents) are paying hundreds of dollars to watch movies instead of engaging.
The degree for which I’m going back recommends only 4 courses a tern with no work.I knew engineers who rocked 6 or 7, worked and were party animals.
Every advisor with whom I’ve spoke has basically said “look, if you’re going to treat it as an adult with adult work habits, you can handle 5 courses without trouble.” But they have all these disclaimers because kids and their parents go nuts when Johnny, who was just streaming hockey highlights all class somehow didn’t get a good grade.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
Firing the AG for not prosecuting the cases you want prosecuted, IS nakedly political.
The DOJ’s independence is one of the strongest guardrails protecting American democracy and why so many decent people have resigned rather than submit.
Look at trials in Russia (about which there are some amazing albeit depressing documentaries) to see where a coopted justice department ends up.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
As much as I personally would have liked it, I cannot support making the justice department nakedly partisan/political. It’s horrifying that trump has tried to do so and I’m relieved the guardrails are still (basically) holding.
It’s hard to be the good side. Like how the movie villain gets to throw babies for the hero to rescue (God, Hard Boiled is so good) but we don’t win by becoming the bad guys ourselves.
- Comment on To each their own 1 week ago:
There are many things about which people should complain. Doing the dishes is not one of them.
- Comment on To each their own 1 week ago:
Huh, I guess no one is ever happy. We are among the most pampered people yo ever walk the Earth and we still find things about which to complain.
I can’t help but giggle as I imagine you complaining about this to the children who sew your clothes or mine the cobalt in our phones.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 2 weeks ago:
You are hilarious.
Either you’re desperate to be a contrarian or you honestly believe a local brewery is going to risk their entire reputation, in a reputation industry, to pretend they aren’t using ai?
Get a grip.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for doing the research, I was super curious about that!
- Comment on William Shatner, 95, and His Daughter Melanie, 61, Reveal They Fought Stage 4 Cancer at the Same Time (Exclusive) | PEOPLE Magazine 4 weeks ago:
Admittedly, when see big Bill followed by a year, I assume he died, which made this post a real rollercoaster.
- Comment on Why do Brits think being pushed into waist-deep, stagnant water is some sort of death sentence? 1 month ago:
Why do weird bots keep signing up for Lemmy only to push this dumb ass canal shit?
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 2 months ago:
Well, doesn’t have a tv app (that I know of at least) but for what it’s worth, I’ve been using Qobuz which is a little French outfit. Great selection, a vehement anti ai slop attitude and I believe that per stream they pay out higher than most services.
- Comment on And what was wrong with my old widget? 2 months ago:
I’ve been using Qobuz, it’s a French alternative (so, not supporting Google or other American companies!) I’ve really enjoyed the selection and some of their suggestions are fantastic. They also have really high quality options for streaming/download which I’m too tone deaf to fully appreciate.
- Comment on failed to load your meme 2 months ago:
Oh boy, if you don’t repurpose this for fedimemes, I’ll have to.
- Comment on Dammit 2 months ago:
Admittedly, we are now significantly less likely to be dismembered by much larger fish.
- Comment on Apparently Hunter Biden enjoys trolling people on twitter these days 2 months ago:
Gotta respect someone who can handle that stuff with humour and grace.
- Comment on Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior 2 months ago:
This particular NYT story just has the stench of a “swift boat veterans” operation.
That seems like a wildly inaccurate comparison. I’m old enough to remember the Swiftboating and had to double check but comparing his actual exes to folks who weren’t there just doesn’t make much sense. To refresh your memory, Swiftboating was super sketchy because, as Wikipedia notes:
These claims caused tremendous controversy during the election, particularly because the organization’s members had not been in a place to assess Kerry,
To the larger, meh, I don’t care, well, to each their own. I personally feel that some of the physical shit to partners about a dozen years ago is a marker of character and some shit I’m not sure I’m comfortable with. Also having what you know to be a Nazi tattoo and covering it up when you have aspirations of office is, at best, icky.
Were he Republican, I’d be pretty unimpressed. Were he dating a friend or family member, I would damn well be looking for any suspicious bruise and be ready to do something unadvisable if I saw one.
- Comment on Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior 2 months ago:
Probably, because there seems to be a lot more scrutiny of this guy’s behavior than a lot of other candidates and sitting politicians.
This doesn’t seem particularly accurate. On the Dems side, they’ve thrown out a lot of members for less (Al Franken screams to mind) and I can’t think of anyone who has had a Nazi tattoo… Platner’s getting hit in part because it’s his first campaign so he hasn’t been any similar scrutiny and sure, if you want to say the DNC elite are working with the media somehow but they’re unearthing the same stuff that’s going to come out in a general election, but it’ll be nastier and harder then.
It’s worth actually reading the article, there’s a lot there that makes me feel *really * uncomfortable. If I were voting in that election, I’d have to think really hard about whether I could in good conscience vote for him and whether that might be betraying who I am and the women in my life. And in a race as close as Maine is going to be (Not sure I would want to bet against Collins) this stuff can make the difference.
Some of the women also raised questions about his trustworthiness. Mr. Platner’s insistence that he did not know that his tattoo was a Nazi symbol until it became a campaign issue last fall was simply not true, Ms. Fifield said. After all, she said, he had taught her the word for it years earlier, referring to it as “my Totenkopf.”
Mr. Platner could be rough with her, Ms. Fifield said, particularly when they were drinking, leaving her shaken and sometimes afraid. In the interviews, Ms. Fifield grappled with how to process her experiences. She was quick to note that he “never hit me, he never punched me.”
But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.
During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.”
If you think back to other candidates in their first campaign, a lot of crazy stuff comes out. (Remember Mark Robinson?) I’m not sure covering our ears is a good strategy. I’d much rather dig pretty hard so we know for danged sure nothing worse is coming out anytime soon. (What do we do if one of his exes alleges mental abuse? Physical?)
I dunno if this is disqualifying but as the party that’s supposed to be the good ones…
- Comment on Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior 2 months ago:
I’m so curious about the downvoters. Is it that Platner is on “our side” so they don’t want to see anything negative about him? Are we at the point where we’re the “believe women unless the accusations are levelled at our guy” party?
- Comment on Sex Education 2 months ago:
It’s our problem plagued philosophy!
- Comment on How men are different than women 2 months ago:
I guess someone’s always looking to take offense online.
There’s the same insipid conversations we have all the time with colleagues/acquaintances, there’s the deep conversations we have with a 1 or 2 friends at atime and the fun silly ones we have with a bunch of old friends. If you don’t know the difference between them, that’s heartbreaking and I’m so sorry for you.
- Comment on How men are different than women 2 months ago:
Damn, four days without having to talk about the usual bs sounds like paradise.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 months ago:
By voluntary associations (like a fediverse instance) absolutely not.
By government? Absolutely. What happens when disparaging the One True God Baby Jesus or His Followers is declared hate speech?
Whatever powers you give the government, you also give to the worst form of that government which you can imagine. The civil liberties that protect rapists and drug dealers are the same ones that are helping keep more people from being kidnapped by ICE in America.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 3 months ago:
Yelling isn’t the critical ingredient there…
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 3 months ago:
To each their own.
Generally though, the person yelling “that’s not funny!” Tends to not be a great arbiter of humour.
- Comment on Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy 3 months ago:
Yeah, I fully agree they aren’t as polished as the Onion. They tend to overwrite their jokes. But, I do enjoy them coming at things from a different angle. While dealing with trump etc, the Onion feels just the same as it’s been for the last decade, whereas the Babylon Bee feels just a bit different.
I think of them as an unpolished comedian with good takes and if they tightened up, could be killer. Like, Josh Johnson. Guy is prolific as hell and has great ideas but, in part because he’s producing so much, doesn’t have the time or inclination to tighten it, if that makes sense.