fizzle
@fizzle@quokk.au
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 6 hours ago:
so… no one is using that?
I had assumed it was reasonably popular.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 8 hours ago:
Is jola postmarket?
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
I admit that I’ve never truly understood martyrdom, but I think it’s notable that Trump would get thrown under a thousand busses.
He’s objectively directly responsible for a whole lot of bad stuff. Right now no one wants to blame him for anything because he’s a petulant toddler happy to wield the worlds largest economy and armed forces against you if he feels your grovelling is insufficient.
However, as soon as he’s gone I imagine that dynamic will change dramatically. What’s the benefit of sucking up to someone who can no longer shit in your cornflakes?
Instead the opposite is true - his successors will be heavily motivated to blame everything on Trump.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
That’s true, but if you pop this particular pustule it’s not clear how long it would take for another to emerge - perhaps hears or decades. In which time there’s a chance you could at least partially address the underlying health issues.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
Trump has built a “broad tent” with support from a lot of different demographics.
I suppose I agree that MAGA cultists support him because they believe the same things. I think it’s more apt to describe it as Trump gives them permission to indulge their shitty beliefs, but I guess that’s the same.
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 1 day ago:
This is my take.
Trump’s death won’t change the shitty people who have elected and continue to support him, but those people will no longer have a focal point.
Among all his shitty traits, he does have the uncanny ability to engender support from shitty people in a way that no one else can emulate.
Vance will be POTUS. He will reverse course on Trump’s dumbassery… withdraw from Iran, hose down Hormuz, water down the tariffs et cetera. He will try to win support from the great unwashed and the oligarchy but will ultimately fail.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day ago:
The way I look at it is, the easiest 10% of the prep might get you most of the benefits.
A few weeks worth of water, a few days worth of tinned food, that kind of thing.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day ago:
Hey. I quite like Canadians.
- Comment on Is giving only formula long term "healthy" for a baby? 2 days ago:
I have to wonder what your angle is here?
I’m sure you’ve googled this and seen that there’s a lot of solid science indicating that kids raised exclusively on formula are at no disadvantage.
Breast milk isn’t necessarily better just because it’s natural. If mum has any nutritional deficits, or drinks coffee, takes medications, alcohol, et cetera.
- Comment on The difference is real 2 days ago:
Pathetic.
- Comment on Huge swings to ONP, against Libin today's SA election, small swing against ALP, towards Greens 3 days ago:
Can’t help but chuckle at how shit things are for the libs but I expect it will find myself longing for the gold old days once PHON establishes a platform.
Hopefully getting some more votes will temper them a little as they will have to cost policies et cetera.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 days ago:
Fair enough.
Im also angry at our guys in Australia. Our prime minister Albo has had a lot to say about how we’re managing the crisis and what we’re going to do, but absolutely no criticism or pressure on the one person who caused this and is the only person who can bring it to an end.
I really want Albo and other world leaders of “middle powers” to be unanimous in calling out Trumps absurd and reckless behaviour.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 5 days ago:
Things are pretty messed up right now and its not really surprising people are looking for an outlet.
Im grumpy with the US like everyone else.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 6 days ago:
Its got electrolytes or crypto or something though.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
It’s basically this.
With the US’ bonkers electoral system, and abysmal education levels, you’re pretty much cooked.
You have an oligarchy, a captured state, a corporatocracy. Oligarchs tell voters to vote for the leader who will benefit them most.
Research suggests that it doesn’t actually take that many people to convince those oligarchs that another leader will be in their best interests. For example, if 3% of people who regularly buy things from Amazon and visit facebook and use ChatGPT, stopped doing those three things indefinitely by switching to alternatives, that would likely be enough.
However, I just don’t believe that’s achievable.
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
No.
Some people really seem to get something out of hurting other people. My best guess is that its a learned coping mechanism. “I feel bad so im going to make you feel bad and your response might fix whatever i feel bad about”.
The only appropriate response is that whoever said that is a disappointing human.
- Comment on Bird leaf 1 week ago:
I did wonder if this is a translation thing. Like maybe not automated translation but the author.
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 1 week ago:
Yeah I don’t get it either.
Is it saying pushed up boobs dont just happen?
- Comment on Is there a way out of an NDA after signing? It just seems people are so affraid of breaking it 1 week ago:
Hah. Yes.
An NDA doesn’t actually stop people from disclosing things. For example, most things get disclosed to spouses et cetera.
Rather, an NDA makes you responsible for losses caused by any disclosure.
Suppose person A has a legal dispute with their employer company B. B agrees to pay A $x provided theres no further action and that they sign an NDA. A agrees, provided that B also agrees not to disparage A. Everyone signs.
“A” still needs to prep a tax return so they probably need to tell their accountant. An NDA isn’t going to stop them.
“B” cant really control what its employees are doing. The official narrative will comply with the agreement but everyone will talk about what happened to friends partners and peers.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
Obviously it depends on what is meant by a lie.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, at the time no one really thought those pictures were her, but it strengthens the harassment narrative. Whoever was doing it was a fkn creep.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
No positive irrefutable evidence, but the most credible explanation.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
I often find shitposts to be way beyond poor taste but apparently its ok if its “just a joke”.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
I just wrote up the story here:
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
Im struggling to remember the details if im honest.
Initially it was new accounts spamming Nicole photo and links to a matrix channel. However, there was no “Nicole” to talk to, just vague directions to find her at her work.
After a while someone started a community about Nicole posts and there were a few threads kinda collating theories on what was going on.
I forget the details exactly but IIRC someone postulated that is was a creepy stalker trying to prompt people to go find her IRL. On realising that the /c/Nicoled community was fueling creepy wierdo’s game, the mods locked some posts or something.
Thats when shit got real, and the same spam accounts started DMing gore stuff, but no confirmation of whether it was “nicole”.
That was it really. Nothing further.
At the very least, it certainly wasn’t Nicole DMing her own photo to everyone.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
The consensus in the end was that Nicole was a victim of harassment.
- Comment on Vast scale of overseas human remains held in UK museums decried by MPs and experts 2 weeks ago:
Honestly the stuff the British stole in the colonial era just really stinks. Its shameful.
Even when they didn’t colonise a place, they showed up and introduced syphilis and small pox and stole some cultural relics and were just generally huge assholes.
Just repatriate all of it. Every last arrowhead.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
What?
My guy said you can’t prove we did not send humans to the moon.
You can certainly prove that we did send humans to the moon.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 2 weeks ago:
“Humans landed on the moon” is a positive statement.
- Comment on the two party system is just one big party 3 weeks ago:
Don’t bother.
There’s like 4 of these idiots on lemmy that parrot these both-sides memes.
One of them posted in nostupidquestions last week asking how americans can be the ones paying tariffs because they’ve never been charged a tariff.
You can’t unscramble an egg. Just block them and move on.