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- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 18 hours ago:
I think they’re trying to justify his lack of compassion for workers because his company’s profitability is so personal for him and central to his identity (d’awww).
- Comment on Fuckin CEO's and billionaires gotta go 18 hours ago:
even with these horrific conflicts occurring today, >humanity as a whole is still living through one of the >least violent and most peaceful periods in recorded >history when measured against the enormous scale >of human history and global population.
Across the globe, humanity is gearing up for an enormous war over dwindling/ shifting resources, as we deplete the liveability of the planet thanks to the consumerism fostered by your beloved Capitalism.
I also really hate how all of these Capitalism apologists like to attribute advances in the standard of living to an economic system. No. Improvements in quality of life and the standard of living were made possible by technological advancement. The scientific, rational thinking that enabled that technology began with the Enlightenment, which predates ‘The Wealth of Nations’ by several hundred years. The most Capitalism can claim is providing the motivation for distribution of those advancements.
And any examples of non-Capitalist countries that suffer from impoverishment, should be evaluated for whether the Capitalist West has been engaged in economic warfare/ exploitation against them for a half century.
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 21 hours ago:
Oh, thanks for the clarification!
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 day ago:
Ah, I guess they had fixed the autocorrect by the time I saw it.
Apparently it is most, but not quite all, of of Spain that does the ‘th’ business: youtube.com/shorts/dxBoVaOuw4Q?is=uFdY_uC6q6AjdcD…
- Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote 1 day ago:
The weird ‘th’ handling of ‘c’ isn’t just a Catalan thing? Is that all of Spain? I know I’m biased as a North American, but preference for Mexican Spanish.
- Comment on Excellent rant 2 weeks ago:
We just went snorkeling with stingrays in the Bahamas, and they had the same thing happen. The enclosure was only females, and yet one of them has gotten pregnant.
I assumed she was pregnant when the put them in the enclosure and they didn’t know it? Or that they weren’t as good at distinguishing make/female as they thought they were.
But you know, maybe there are some cool optional hermaphroditic traits in sting rays that biologists are just currently unaware of.
- Comment on corporate America just posted record profits this week. The stock market is at all time highs. If your paycheck didn't do the exact same thing, take a wild guess why. Their record margins are literal… 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just energy prices, it’s also climate change causing shortages, and tariffs levied on imports by the big orange.
- Comment on Theft 4 weeks ago:
For those who have forgotten the 2020 primaries, she also had no rizz.
I get it, they were afraid of losing the funds they had raised, but it stood to reason that everyone who wanted Biden to step down would see her as partly responsible too.
I’m a tin hat wearer who doubts the veracity of some of the 2024 election results… So I’m on the fence of whether that would have been different with a more compelling Democratic candidate.
- Comment on The perfect date 4 weeks ago:
I wish US Americans would do this, but when I try to use it, it’s too ambiguous with our mm/dd/yyyy format that already exists. So, I think the US will have to go with YYYYMMDD. That’s the most straightforward and easy to understand methods of switching to an entirely numeric date sequence that is logical.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you think it means to take things personally? None of my response had anything to do with my personal experience in life.
And I could provide some! I’ve been on a road trip through the Spanish countryside where I was scoffed at and waved away at 3-4 restaurants for asking (as someone with Celiac!) if they had comida sin gluten. So I’ve definitely gone hungry as a tourist before. Didn’t love it! Wouldn’t recommend rural Southern Spain to anyone with Celiac!
I’ve done the bread and cheese thing in Paris back when I could eat bread. It was fine, you know, since I didn’t have to go hungry.
Due to logic like yours, I guess the most rational thing is to recommend against visiting Japan for anyone who isn’t Japanese? Or Japanese speaking at least. Save your money, folks!
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 5 weeks ago:
your poor planning for mealtimes isn’t an emergency on their part
What does this even mean with regards to a tourist staying in a tiny hotel room? How much grocery shopping and meal preparation of their own are you expecting tourists to engage in?!
Your response in general is crazy. “If they won’t serve you, just don’t eat.”
“If Kim Davis won’t give you a marriage license, just don’t get married.” “If the school bars your children from attending, just don’t send them to school.”
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 1 month ago:
This is really the whole thing, regardless of how developed the baby is.
Imagine a fully formed child or adult with a liver problem. Science comes up with some way that someone of similar genetics can be physically connected to them and filter their blood for them and keep them alive while they wait for a transplant. Should the person who can physically sustain another person’s body be legally required to do so?
So far, less invasive versions of this say no: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFall_v._Shimp
You can’t even force dead bodies to donate organs.
- Comment on Day 107, suspicions are high and a fear I must soon leaf 1 month ago:
LoL. Sorry, no. I just copy/paste stole it from a Google search.
- Comment on Day 107, suspicions are high and a fear I must soon leaf 1 month ago:
The palm tree ones are kinda cute though Image
- Comment on Men against bush 2 months ago:
You see how that works, cave person?
I see how you can’t distinguish between preference and hatred, yes.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 months ago:
If a beard hair getting in your mouth isn’t a strong enough reason for you to shave your beard, then it’s not a deal breaker/ you don’t hate it.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt that your feelings between your own hairs and her are similar.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 months ago:
Having a preference for A over B is not the same thing as hating B.
- Comment on Men against bush 2 months ago:
“I love you… But only when you go through extra effort to modify yourself for me.”
- Comment on Men against bush 2 months ago:
Nah man. If you hate how it comes naturally, then you don’t actually like it.
But I’m a middle aged woman, so I think the ‘male gaze’ and its judgemental subjugation can fuck all the way off.
- Comment on Science is iterative 3 months ago:
Gawd I love this meme.
- Comment on Teenis 4 months ago:
I tried to reference my husband’s penis as “our penis” to him, and he was all “Absolutely not.”
I was like, “We only have the one between us! We have to share!”
He was unmoved.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Stop living in a gravity well and we wouldn’t have to expend energy to get out of it!!
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 months ago:
Whoa whoa whoa. I said will never be punished, not should never be punished.
And Trump and Putin are both still alive.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 months ago:
Ok ok, hear me out, what if they were harvested neurons from someone everyone wishes had gotten punished for their crimes, but never was? Hitler or Stalin? Or Trump! Or Putin!
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 5 months ago:
When contractors get buckets of money from the government, for their own purposes and maybe for contract legality purposes, they have to allocate/ specify how that money is spent towards each aspect of an effort. So they break a program down into tasks, and assign specific pots of money towards each task with an associated code to enter when you log your time working on those tasks.
So someone in the management of his current program got obsessed with how every single dollar was spent, and decided they needed to triple the amount of charge codes they had to more closely track the work. It sounded annoying as fuck. But it was also annoying as fuck to have to discuss something so trivial for hours.
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 5 months ago:
Oh my gawd, I had to walk away from my husband on his fourth rant of the week about his deputy PM’s obsession with charge numbers. I can’t handle another rant about those fucking charge numbers.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, only rich communities’ public school were/ are like that in Texas. Schools are funded at the district-level in Texas, so poor communities go to poor schools and wealthy kids go to wealthy schools. If districts get so big that they encompass both, sometimes the wealthy residents try to stage a coup and split the district into wealthy and poor.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 6 months ago:
Sigh. It do be like that thought.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 6 months ago:
I think it sounds wrong because the letter “U” is pronounced “yew”, and y is not a vowel. You would never say ‘an yurt’ or ‘an yogurt’. If it was prounced “oo”, then “an oo F O” would sound correct.
But as it is, it just sounds wrong. And whether technically correct or not, I reject it!
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 6 months ago:
Tbf, I like this distraction better that bombing Iran.
