TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 4 hours ago:
I actually don’t disagree. That’s certainly the connotation that comes with “terrorism.”
It’s also not how the legal definition works, unfortunately, which is just vague enough to let the FBI decide what is and isn’t terrorism based on how they feel about something. As I understand it, anyway. And since what he did falls under the legal definition, they can charge him with it.
- Comment on Happy Holidays my dudes 20 hours ago:
Shit, is it Wednesday? I thought it was Friday!
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
The perpetrator of an act of terrorism isn’t part of the definition. They need not be affiliated with a group or military.
I find it curious how many people on Lemmy were gleefully posting about CEOs and billionaires being scared because of this attack, and then to see push-back about the label of terrorism (where fear is part of the outcome, hence the name).
The saying is “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter,” right?
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
Well then define non-combatants.
“a person who is not engaged in fighting during a war, especially a civilian, chaplain, or medical practitioner.”
Sure he was responsible for deaths due to denying health coverage. But he’s still a civilian.
- Comment on Glorious 2 days ago:
Mizz and DotGov was such a good joke in a show absolutely filled to the brim with good jokes.
- Comment on Then what happened? 3 days ago:
Psychic interrupting cow who?
- Comment on Province Speed Sonner 3 days ago:
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 5 days ago:
That story is REMARKABLE. I’ve seen the Air Disasters version and the Mentour Pilot version and both are told very well.
- Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out? 5 days ago:
Dude… I’ve gone pretty fast down some hills. It feels way safer to be going real slow and fall over than going 50 mph downhill on a road bike in a nice straight line.
FWIW, 50kph is 31mph, not 50mph.
I frequently bike around 28mph (45kph), cause that’s where my eBike maxes out its pedal assist. It’s not so bad, assuming your gearing is set up so that you aren’t pedaling so hard it destabilizes the bike (I had to swap in a larger chainring to safely maintain those speeds).
But also the comparison isn’t whether it’s safer, it’s whether it’s more stable. A bike going fast is more stable than a bike going slow because the motion of the bike keeps itself upright. It’s not a perfect analogy for gliding, but it’s similar enough to help understand. What may seem to someone inexperienced to be the less-ideal condition is actually more ideal.
- Comment on This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason 6 days ago:
my wife threatened divorce if I “cluttered” our house with all the books.
Storms, that would drive me nuts. Then again, I don’t have 1800 books. 😅
- Comment on I'm an educator and have to tell my students the same lie every day. 1 week ago:
Being kind is its own reward. Life is generally better if you try to make life better for others. Not like life will be perfect, but better than it would be otherwise.
Like, when I used to work shitty part-time jobs, if I went in with a good attitude and was as kind to those around me as I could be, I had a better day than if I was grumpy and did the bare minimum. Got paid the same shitty wage either way, but my life was better when I was kinder. Sure some people take advantage of that kindness, but most will reflect it back to you.
There can be ways that hard work and kindness lead to material rewards. But in general it is worth being kind simply because you’ll enjoy life more.
(Also, I wouldn’t have married my wife if I hadn’t been kind and befriended someone a lot of other people thought was frustrating or annoying. I had met my wife previously, but only knew her in passing. Years later, we re-met at that friend’s birthday party. Started dating a few months later, and now we’re married! That mutual friend can still sometimes be frustrating or annoying, but we always try to be kind to her because that’s what brought us together.)
- Comment on No one showed up to his party 1 week ago:
Not that I have any horse in this race, but for the record there’s a profound difference between abstinence and moderation, and if you don’t think there are gradations between “alcoholic levels of ethanol consumption” and “no alcohol consumption,” then perhaps they have a point.
Be good to yourself, my friend.
- Comment on Good morning I choose violence. 1 week ago:
I’ve seen a setup like this where it made sense. Not nearly a long enough run for proper steps, but alternating half-steps allow you to get height faster. But this just seems like they did it for fun.
- Comment on Subway lovers posted 1 week ago:
A footlong sub can be a meal, if you put enough stuff on it. And the veggies don’t make it cost more. Just load it up with everything and get your money’s worth.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 week ago:
Poo-casso
This got me.
- Comment on Writing tip: just start brain dumping 1 week ago:
Unplug the computer, set it on fire, and never come back.
- Comment on meow meow meow 1 week ago:
Thus far a rather uninspiring thing.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 2 weeks ago:
Hey man, maybe it was on purpose to get the toys on the news!
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
David Hahn? What are you doing on Lemmy? I thought you died!
- Comment on Why do I tend to reply in the same amount of time it took my friends to? 2 weeks ago:
Much better than those people that send 10 messages one after the other as they think of each thought, and your smartwatch is left vibrating for the next minute 😅
Hey, don’t talk about me like that!
- Comment on i hate hate hate stuart little 2 weeks ago:
Wot wot!
- Comment on Q-tips 2 weeks ago:
You can actually irrigate at home, the sprayer is cheap and easy to use. I do it for my wife, whose ears get clogged frequently (no she does not use q-tips, she just produces a lot of wax and inherited the genes for it from her dad).
- Comment on human anteaters 2 weeks ago:
Yes because it makes you worse at finding and disposing of those damn stink bugs, whose stink smells vaguely like how soapy cilantro tastes because of aldehydes.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 3 weeks ago:
I can only hope the changing mating habit is that they’ve all stopped mating. I hate those damn bugs.
They’re invasive where I live, and it seems like they don’t really have predators. And they’re so damn loud when they fly around inside your house. And they smell awful if you startle them or squish them. Only thing I can do is catch them in a cup and flush them down the toilet.
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio meets a woman 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s probably more the former. He’s wealthy and has spent his life being absurdly attractive, I figure he is able to rotate through young beautiful impressionable companions, so he does.
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio meets a woman 3 weeks ago:
I think he said in an interview somewhere he has no desire to or intention of settling down and starting a family. And he has this idea that women will start to want to do that in their mid-to-late 20s, so he makes it clear to the women he dates that it won’t last. They get to live his lifestyle and whatnot for a few years, then he moves on. He claims to be pretty upfront about it.
The older he gets the creepier it gets, but I suppose if everyone is informed and consenting it isn’t ethically wrong.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
Being from Oz
Did the Wicked movie get the look right? It seems like a fun place apart from all the fascism.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 3 weeks ago:
Feels like beating a dead horse.
At least that horse won’t have parasites with all the ivermectin RFK Jr. is going to feed it.
- Comment on Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬 3 weeks ago:
Some have a difficult time understanding when they are being made a fool of.
No offense, but I feel like this sort of also applies to you here, too.
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” -Mark Twain
- Comment on Oedipus pasta 3 weeks ago:
Something something broken arms.