friend_of_satan

@friend_of_satan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨place yer bets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully I live in the USA where we’re totally safe because we reject science! But don’t you try coming here for safety, we hate everybody else. You’ll probably just be sent to gitmo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ad bubble needs to pop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a northern border city. What benefit should I be on the lookout for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This person obviously hasn’t seen Cars 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. The truth is much worse. He knows what he’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a fan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked in a city with a warm climate I liked it. Now that I work from home in the suburbs and a cold climate I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how this so closely mimics nationalism and its assumption that somebody came from somewhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just join in. That’s what speakerphone is for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please create a non-secure password.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is ridiculous because it’s going to hash down to the same character set. There’s no way they’re storing your password with special characters unhashed, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not enough people buying Premium, eh?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Enhanced” bitrate? I’ve heard of high bitrates, and I’ve heard of low bit rates, but I ain’t never heard of no enhanced bitrates. Does Google know something we don’t, or do they think we’re suckers. (Rhetorical question, don’t answer.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I missed a lot of he’s already on #3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re right. I was imagining what a meeting of executives would be like in the wake of this, and I can just see them continuing to follow the almighty dollar, because that is the one true incentive that all others lead to. Anybody who proposed taking a hit to revenue to be more moral would be fired by the board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. CS Lewis - Screwtape Letters (preface)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to quote that you should quote the rest of it:

  but almost always from health complications or accidents. A targeted attack could have much larger implications.

  They’re not begging for sympathy, they go on to talk about the effect this act will have on the health insurance companies, which is what we all want to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ex US attorney Preet Bharara says that an important boundary is when a fantasy “graduates”, going from protected free speech to credible threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gnorts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We can be heroes. i.imgur.com/hdT6mQm.mp4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just watched the wrong version of Drive (2011), and didn't realize until the last 10 minutes. Any similar stories?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This happened to me with The Godfather in the Italy scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Disable Your Ad Blocker⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Disable your ad-blocker” is the internet’s “hey kid, want some candy?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Immigrants often have families in their new country. You can’t think about those people as individuals because they would likely stay for their family, which would be hard to move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨rollin' deep⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skaters of the world unite!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great except every delivery estimate at every point said Friday, November 22⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  theguardian.com/…/power-grid-battery-capacity-gro…

  US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It me, but excel is the bad option and plotly is the good option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there opposing institutions to things like the Heritage Foundation? Are there liberal policy think-tanks?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. For instance www.brennancenter.org recently did a tabletop exercise where they looked for all the worst things that could happen during a trump second term and looked for ways to stop them from happening. See (or rather hear) youtu.be/9SlnDvGHhBw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pumpkin curry is sooooo good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak performance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the people driving the dirt road outside my neighborhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a second I read this as “Dr. Strangelove” and was really confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It may be the Shaka, but in emoji it’s “call me” emojipedia.org/call-me-hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proud globohomo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, chapter 1 page 2 actually haha but the whole book is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proud globohomo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so Carl Sagan.

  And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.” … And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.