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- Comment on this is exactly the shit fucking job you'd expect from him to repair a national monument 2 days ago:
The paint might be but… it’s an outdoor pool with a huge surface area where ducks live. Previously the bottom was grey duck-pond-sludge color so you couldn’t see that it was full of grey duck pond sludge.
That is to say, the paint might be algae resistant but the shit that will be all over it will not be algae resistant.
- Comment on this is exactly the shit fucking job you'd expect from him to repair a national monument 2 days ago:
Not trying to defend Trump but I don’t think that’s necessarily what’s going on.
Someone linked an article. The thing has cost heaps of money to maintain over the last hundred years. It leaks so bad it costs $1m a year just to keep it topped up with water.
The article says it’s the marshy soil, which makes sense. The whole thing has sunk quite a bit - article says 12 inches which seems absurd. Different areas would decompose at different rates so the joints would open up all the time.
Sounds like they decided to “fix” it with a spray on pool liner stuff, which of course is blue because swimming pools are blue.
- Comment on this is exactly the shit fucking job you'd expect from him to repair a national monument 2 days ago:
Jenny from Forrest Gump did.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
Well ackshually…
Here in Australia our servos (seppo: gas stations) sell this little plastic flags that clip on to your window or door frame. Dickheads can easily self identify by attaching two of these to their fucktard conveyance machine.
I’m sorry to tell you that toxic patriotism technologies have progressed beyond flags in the backs of pickup trucks.
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
Oh man. The US has lost its edge in everything. Its a real shit show.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 weeks ago:
This is the answer as i understand it.
They’re a strategic partner.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
Interesting.
That particular example is often a subject of discussion in our house.
The preface is, im absolutely aware that an individuals experience is what matters, rather than my perspective. For example, if a 10 year old child says they’re very worried about a truck they left at the park, its not helpful or relevant that my own stresses and concerns are more impactful - like I lost my job and cant pay the mortgage, what matters is that the child is distressed.
That said, my partner and I often bicker about whether “it’s cold”.
We have twins, who are toddlers. Shes from the “fully dressed in warm clothes at all times” school of parenting, while my approach is… less prescriptive.
Obviously if a child told me they’re cold i wouldnt simply tell them that its not cold, but give them some warmer clothes.
Another point of contention in our house is the heater. We live in a temperate climate and the cost of heating is a significant component of the household budget.
My partner tends to run the heater more often than I would, but often times shes wearing a thin nightgown. Not surprisingly, the accepted approach in most households is to put on more clothes if you’re feeling cold, but of course you can turn on the heater if you’re still cold.
Im really just trying to figure out whether I am in fact a gasslighting asshole, given your example 😆
I suppose a disagreement around use of a heater is not at all the same as telling someone whether “its cold”.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 3 weeks ago:
Satisfying homogenised mammalian excretion.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never really understood gaslighting.
Yes I know the original definition.
Yes I know the phrase is overused to describe behaviour it really doesn’t apply to.
I just cant imagine someone actually planning to manipulate someone in this way.
- Comment on NSW premier told to resign after protest laws struck down by top court 3 weeks ago:
LOL. Who would want to live in Palestine?
- Comment on Hey... so, uh, whatcha doin' in there? 4 weeks ago:
It only takes me a few minutes to drive home from my office. Its good to just take a breath
- Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger? 5 weeks ago:
There are also no others that have a good web ui, Google Messages web ui is pretty great honestly.
That said, they recently rolled out a requirement to log in to to your google account to use that and I think that might be the line I refuse to cross.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You’re game.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 5 weeks ago:
So you hold that ReiserFS instantly became evil when Hans Reiser murdered his wife, even-though ReiserFS was a filesystem, developed by multiple people .. too?
Text book straw man, well done.
As I said, a person’s work is tainted by their beliefs, or in this case actions. Reiser’s work is obviously “tainted” as you’ve mentioned it here in this context.
Whether or not a person should continue to use the file system he developed is of course something each individual needs to weigh and decide for themselves. I note however that Reiser is not publishing essays on the art of murdering ones wife, and did not develop his filesystem with the intent of using it to host a community of murderers.
As I also said, using the software is tacit support. It’s not possible to steal the design and reject the doctrine. If you use firefox or libreoffice you support mozilla and or the document foundation. If you drive a tesla that you bought second hand you support Elon Musk
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 5 weeks ago:
Obviously, because using their software is tacit or implied support for that person.
How many millions of people would say they “support” mozilla when really the only support they provide is using the free software.
A person’s work is quite obviously tainted by their beliefs.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 5 weeks ago:
Forgive me but, describing age as “a useful proxy” just sounds like shitty behavior to me. I’m not trying to say you’re a shitty person, just that your comment seems to be sane-washing prejudism.
FWIW I agree. A 50 year old guy “dating” a 25 year old woman has an increased likelihood that a power imbalance exists. However, it’s still profiling and prejudiced and a generalisation.
For example, domestic violence may be more prevalent among indigenous communities, but suggesting that indigenous status is “a useful proxy” for a determination that domestic violence is more likely is obviously inappropriate.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 5 weeks ago:
You’re welcome to be amused.
Lemmy aside, if a developer was a fascist, or paedophile, or murderer, would you use their software?
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 5 weeks ago:
People on reddit and lemmy have weird ideas about relationships ought to be.
Provided that both people are adults then age in itself isn’t a problem.
I mean, if a 25 year old has several 50 year old “boyfriends” who each give her a stack of pocket money each month and pay her rent and everything, more power to her right?
The problems arise from a power imbalance. If an older guy has manipulated a younger woman into getting trapped in a shit relationship then that sucks but its not the age that’s the problem.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 5 weeks ago:
You don’t seem to understand.
The guy who develops the software that runs on all the instances has strongly held political and societal views which are incompatible with mine.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 5 weeks ago:
All work with the activitypub protocol and are interoperable. There are others which are more like microblogging instead of post aggregation, like mastodon.
Lemmy is the most popular but the dev has some strongly held ideological views which… are unusual. I’d prefer not to support their work on that basis.
Piefed is IMO a direct alternative to Lemmy. I switched to piefed several months ago and there’s nothing missing. On mobile I just use a browser to access my instance’ web page. It’s fine.
mbin and kbin aren’t viable alternatives for most users.
- Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us? 5 weeks ago:
God this is a weird thread.
How come human laws don’t apply to animals?
Sorry to break it to you kids but billions of people all over the world literally eat animals every day.
Barbaric ? Perhaps, but it’s fair to assume that 100% of your ancestors in the last 100,000 years have delighted in this activity as often as possible.
You may not wish to acknowledge this but the reality is: your beloved dog or cat is a lesser being, assigned very few rights.
Obviously if you have a pet dog then you treat that dog differently as you would a chicken living in a cage in a shed with 10,000 other chickens in cages but that dog’s right to life is merely an extension of your rights as that dog’s owner.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 5 weeks ago:
We need police too dumb ass.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
I would argue that neither you nor most other people like making bad decisions, right?
I might have thought that a decade ago, but it’s become very, very obvious in the interceding years that people vote against their own interests all the time for a variety of reasons, and do not engage in any kind of self-criticism regarding their previous decisions.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
Even with the best forms of representative government and transparency and so on things are still shit.
There will always be people who crave power and influence and money and are willing to do anything they can to acquire more. Only laws and regulations can mitigate that.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
Nah.
People (yes including me) are pretty much lazy idiots who tend to believe whatever plausible thing was told them most recently, without really investigating supporting arguments and comparing them to counter arguments.
Imagine if you had any vote that might effect an industry or a large corporation. That industry would influence the narrative and hence the outcome.
You may as well just form government by having your largest 500 companies nominate a representative from their board.
- Comment on Why does Finland have a lower recidivism rate than the US? 1 month ago:
I don’t understand the question.
Rehabilitation has better outcomes than punishment. Amazing.
- Comment on Anti-Brexit protesters in front of the Big Ben. 1 month ago:
Since the day after the referendum it was obvious the UK would spend the next several decades renegotiating all the same benefits they had as part of the EU. Essentially a return in all but in name.
Actually returning is problematic.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 month ago:
Its not the individual instances but the underlying project.
Its not even the maintainers fault. Its a cat and mouse game. The devs have done an epic job of keeping up, but ultimately all of these projects are unreliable.
yt-dlp is the gold standard and provides the back end for many of these projects, but its cli only.
Ive found freetube desktop app to be more reliable than invidious. Also pipepipe for Android.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 month ago:
Do any of these instances ever work ?
I loved invidious for a long time but I just gave up about 6 months ago.
Even hosting your own instance it was almost always not working waiting for a new release or workaround to be pushed.
- Comment on Why do people call Fiji and Voss Water “Rich People” Water? 1 month ago:
Maybe try being a little less judgemental?
I do make coffee at home in the morning but at lunch time I buy coffee because I don’t want to go all the way home.
I also some times like to buy poncy sparkling mineral water in tiny bottles because I find it refreshing. I don’t smoke, or drink alcohol, or soda, or even juice for that matter.
If you want to judge me for that I think that says more about you than me.