protist
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- Comment on rule 5 hours ago:
This implies that philosophers aren’t feral, which is certainly arguable
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 17 hours ago:
You’re crazy dude. I’m never going to donate to a Republican. I’m also not going to talk shit about one of the only Republicans in the House who regularly bucks Trump
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 21 hours ago:
The AFL-CIO says last year he voted on the side of workers 42% of the time, where the average Republican did so only 1% of the time. Fuck yeah I’m going to support this guy who represents a solid red district in Kentucky. The alternative would be someone who toes the party line and gets a score of 1%
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 1 day ago:
if the average is not sustainable they would need to raise the average or lower costs until a balance was reached
I think you misunderstood what you’re responding to. This would create a situation where being in politics is only not sustainable for people of average means. People who are already independently wealthy would have no trouble at all sustaining themselves on an average salary and have zero (0) incentive to do anything to make life easier for you or I.
The problem isn’t that people in Congress get paid a decent wage. The problem is they have so much money from their families, from their businesses, and/or from lobbyists that they’re more or less totally divorced from what life is like for most people
- Comment on Woman refuses to pay restaurant bill 3 days ago:
She was arrested for assault and theft, dude
- Comment on Woman refuses to pay restaurant bill 3 days ago:
and she said she’d pay but needed to use restroom first
Yeah that’s not how that works. She was given many opportunities to pay. Saying you’re going to pay means nothing when you’ve demonstrated repeatedly that you’re not going to pay, especially when you were given an ultimatum by the officer to pay or be arrested
- Comment on Woman refuses to pay restaurant bill 3 days ago:
This police officer very clearly gave her the opportunity to leave, however if she left without paying the bill, he planned to arrest her for theft of services. When the restaurant owner stated he wanted to press charges (which I think includes an assault that happened prior to this video), the officer was obligated to make the arrest
- Comment on Woman refuses to pay restaurant bill 3 days ago:
I don’t think this was stretched out at all, he has her outside the building in cuffs within 2 minutes of engaging her. When he was getting a statement from the restaurant, they said “if she had just left when we asked her to, we wouldn’t have even cared about the bill.” But now she gets to sit in jail for theft, trespass, and resisting arrest.
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 4 days ago:
I mean, they just asked the UN to use that name. No one is required to use it, and I don’t recall it really being a fit
- Comment on Anon becomes a landscape 4 days ago:
Shouldn’t’ve gone to school
- Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website 4 days ago:
In Türkiye, Turkey was always called Türkiye. They just asked the rest of the world to use the Turkish word.
- Comment on The Bane Of My Existence 6 days ago:
Does botox make your eyes point in different directions?
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
It came out on Fri 8/28 here in the US. Def recommend
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
I just brought my 8 year old son to see Coyote vs Acme, and he fucking loved it. We watched Roadrunner cartoons to lead up to it and he almost died laughing. This was the first he’d ever heard of Looney Tunes
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
Money has been giving management psychosis for generations. AI is just another iteration of that
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
I guess there are some spots with particularly awful cops, but most places, as long as you’re not parked illegally, you can totally take a nap or hang out in your car no problem
- Comment on the last season was so ass 1 week ago:
Am I alone in thinking Stranger Things wasn’t modeled after Twin Peaks in any way, shape, or form?
- Comment on I'm high on life 1 week ago:
Hallucinogens don’t show up on most workplace drug tests
- Comment on We must end rough sleeping but hostile architecture must go too 1 week ago:
In the US we usually call it unsheltered homelessness, as opposed to sheltered homelessness (living in an emergency shelter or program)
- Comment on We must end rough sleeping but hostile architecture must go too 1 week ago:
It’s be really easy to sleep on your side or back with your legs on the side or on top of that. Are you sure it was designed as hostile architecture and not just an art piece?
- Comment on 'Tis the season 2 weeks ago:
I think I’m invited so someone’s Christmas in July party every year at this point. I had a Christmas in July party in ’22. The Claus regime got me with their propaganda 😭
- Comment on 'Tis the season 2 weeks ago:
Costco is particularly infamous for this. They start putting out Halloween in July and Christmas in August. By September, Halloween is over and it’s all Christmas
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
Corey A. DeAngelis is an American advocate for school choice.
DeAngelis was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He worked for the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by Betsy DeVos, from 2021 to 2024.
He joined the board of directors of the Liberty Justice Center in 2022. He has appeared on Fox News multiple times to as a commentator on education policy.
DeAngelis has described school choice as “a winner for Trump”. He contributed to the Project 2025 document, in the section discussing education and the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2024, he released the book The Parent Revolution.
This guy’s literally done nothing his entire life besides get paid by right-wing think tanks to undercut public schools
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Wonder Bread, which is the OG American fortified “white bread,” is definitely available in Europe. I don’t think any of the ingredients are illegal in Europe, it’s just that it’s wholly devoid of the nutritional value imparted by proper fermentation
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 2 weeks ago:
Most of us have plenty really good bread options, it’s just many people choose poorly
- Comment on Anon visits IHOP 2 weeks ago:
One Moons Over My Hammy®, coming up!
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 2 weeks ago:
No! I’m Spartacus
- Comment on Simply Bananas 2 weeks ago:
They’re referring to Kubrick’s renowned intense treatment of his actors to evoke the emotions he wants to see, particularly Shelly Duvall in The Shining, who also played Olive Oyl in the live-action Popeye movie.
He kept Shelly Duvall terrified for almost that entire movie
- Comment on Anon makes conversation 2 weeks ago:
“maggot invested”
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but we’re talking about someone who lives with their parents and has that buffer