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- Comment on Major media company asks itself why major media companies aren't exposing what's going on--"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures 1 hour ago:
The railroad workers’ strike really gave the game away as to whom the Democrats actually represent: Biden made some reasonable points about how a transportation shutdown would affect the economy and national security, which would’ve provided ample justification to nationalize the rails and use access to them as leverage. (With the side benefit of fixing most of Amtrak’s problems.) But there was no talk of the railroad companies feeling any of the pain. Protecting the economy was a burden that the workers had to shoulder alone.
- Comment on Same day shipping 5 hours ago:
If there’s anything that I value most in my shitposts, it’s timeliness and accuracy. Now, I feel doubt creeping in… is horse plinko maybe not a real game?!
- Comment on GinkNo. 4 days ago:
Well, the pollen does grow an enormous (relatively) schlong to deliver its sperm into the stamen…
- Comment on GinkNo. 4 days ago:
No, it’s genetically the offspring of the plant, and contains at least one non-reproductive cell. Pollen produces the male gametes, so the seeds created from it produce the 3rd generation of plant, genetically speaking. (1st gen is pollen producer, 2nd gen is pollen, 3rd gen is seed.) It’s basically an ultra-minimal gametophyte stage.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Oh! Oh! Another good one to know is the Fundamental Attribution Error. That’s the double standard whereby people explain their own behavior in terms of extrinsic influences and pressures on themselves, so that even if they do bad things, it’s not their own fault. They had little choice, you see. But, in contrast, we can’t see the extrinsic influences and pressures on other people, so we explain their bad behavior as the result of intrinsic factors, i.e. they’re bad people.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The driving one is called the Lake Wobegon Effect. When everybody rates themselves as above-average at something, like driving, that’s definitionally impossible. The name comes from the segment, the News from Lake Wobegon, on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which Garrison Keillor would always sign off, “That’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
But yes, it’s so common that the phenomenon has a name.
- Comment on Give the People What They Want 5 days ago:
Also, the Donate button goes to the Immigrant Defense Fund.
- Comment on Large portrait of Hagrid 6 days ago:
Yikes, I’m not a Harry Potter follower, so this is not so bad having learned the connection, because at first I thought he had the poo emoji’s evil twin on his crotch.
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 6 days ago:
Disagree. These articles plainly, on the face of it, blame the car. You can infer whatever you like, but that’s just splitting hairs to avoid acknowledging that they explicitly state that the car did it.
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 6 days ago:
But neither do those articles actively discuss the crash as the driver’s fault, so the commenter is able to have a first-time-in-their-life experience.
- Comment on It's funny how we say "a bug hit my windshield" when we are the ones going 70mph. I'll bet the bug's family describes it differently 6 days ago:
It’s your lucky day, then!
Car crashes through Milwaukee beauty salon, causes major damage
Why would a car decide to do that? The poor driver just “lost control” of it when it did. The closest this article gets to blaming the driver is to note that they was speeding, which is an implication, at best.
Here’s another one:
Car crashes into garage on Northwest Side
No mention of a driver at all!
- Comment on Lemmy Shitshow 1 week ago:
Yes! Yes! RAAAGE against that machine!
- Comment on Hello, Lemmy! 1 week ago:
Right on cue, a sea lion trying to “both sides.” Look, my opinion is based on years and years of interaction with people holding right-wing views online, and observations of their political messaging. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the people that I have seen them indicate that they consider degenerate, evil, and not deserving of human rights:
- Trans people
- Gay people
- Women
- Liberals
- People of color
- Muslims
- Other non-Christians
- Disabled people
- Foreigners
- Journalists
- Democrats
- Educated people
- People who live in cities
- Politicians
- Librarians
- Teachers
- Judges
- Poll workers
Now, an a decent application of the scientific method is to formulate a hypothesis based on observation, and then seek evidence that would invalidate the hypothesis. I have yet to see evidence contrary to that hypothesis that right-wing ideology is axiomatically based on in-group and out-group dynamics. What would change my mind, then, is evidence. Evidence of empathy, demonstrations of actually asking questions of people and sincerely hearing different viewpoints. Evidence of being able to see the difference between the leftists, the trans communities, the Marxists, the femcels, the anarchists, the furries, the hornyposters, the solar punks, et cetera, not just as a monolithic Them. Heck, even something as basic as taking some personal responsibility for the rhetoric, and understanding that when you attack people, they’re going to be mad, and that doesn’t make you the victim.
But, instead, the right-wing stars and influencers are out there calling empathy a weakness, and the greatest mistake of Western civilization. And I’ve tried to ask questions of people with right-wing views for years, seeking to understand their viewpoint. And every single time my questions get too pointed, or hit on an internal contradiction, they disengage either by going silent, or sometimes hurling abuse.
Every. Single. Time. But I keep trying, so I’ll ask: What qualities does everybody on Lemmy exhibit that coheres us into a non-pluralistic, monolithic group?
- Comment on Amen 1 week ago:
Yeah, well, Jesus died for my sins. I can’t let him down by not committing them.
- Comment on Hello, Lemmy! 1 week ago:
Or, to put it another way, right-wing ideology is based almost completely on the axiom that normal people are lesser, degenerate, evil, and not deserving of basic human rights. Consequently, they see any disagreement (by anybody, including reality) with their shibboleths as an attack. Predictably, it doesn’t go well when a right-wing folks leave their echo chambers, and seem to expect respect from the very people they shit on. They tend to slink back to their safe spaces, moaning about The Left, and how they’re the real victims.
- Comment on courier transform 1 week ago:
No, it’s standard procedure.
- Comment on courier transform 1 week ago:
UPS in my area offers the service of adding ventilation holes to any packages that I receive. Once, the product even fell out, and I received an empty mailing tube. Good times.
- Comment on Using conservative logic 1 week ago:
But women are feminine, and so kissing them is feminine, and that’s gay.
- Comment on Wise 2 weeks ago:
Unless the point is to avoid getting kicked in the balls without one’s armor on. Then, it makes sense to cover your face, so your enemies don’t recognize you.
- Comment on playing innocent just makes things more fun💖 2 weeks ago:
Tried that. Didn’t get the job. 😔
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Also, being on fire. The way they pushed, “stop, drop, and roll” so hard, I presumed that being on fire was a routine part of life.
- Comment on Welcome to New York City 2 weeks ago:
On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I’ve never met a driver who doesn’t hate cars. Fuckcars is the concentrated form.
- Comment on Friends aren't worth it 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a tip: If you don’t tell anybody that you have no friends, they won’t know. Perhaps it’s not the part about not wanting to have friends that makes people suspicious, but rather the need to constantly tell other people about it?
- Comment on FACT: Belle did NOT know the beast could turn into a human, she was fully prepared to bang him as is 2 weeks ago:
It’s kinda lucky that she was also into humans, and not exclusively furry.
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 2 weeks ago:
Oh! Too cheeky for me. 😜
- Comment on How not to advertise 101! 2 weeks ago:
Indeed, but the theory of advertising is not to get you to buy a product that you weren’t otherwise going to. The point is that, if at some point in the future you needed to buy tampons, and were standing in the store, wondering which ones to get, well, the advertised brand would stand out as familiar and safe, even if you’ve long forgot the ad. Across a huge population, every day a few people are buying hygiene products for the first time, and the company wants their product to be the one those people choose.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I recently learned through the grapevine about a person who identifies as a man, uses he/him pronouns, but had bottom surgery to have female genitalia. Personally, I can’t grok the urge to do either of these surgeries, but it’s fascinating to hear about the diversity of sexual identities. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on bone 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 3 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, I’d call that a failure of collaboration, rather than losing the competition, assuming she communicated what works for her in some reasonable manner. I mean, I’m assuming that they wouldn’t dump an unskilled man who’s open to improvement?
- Comment on Wink Wink Nudge Nudge 3 weeks ago:
My T-rex is going to take a bite out of your flying saucer, if you know what I mean. *wink*