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- Comment on Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. 3 days ago:
this is also who ICE has been all along. Black people and irregular migrants have been trying to explain it for 2 decades now. people with access to power to do anything just simply didn’t listen
- Comment on What launcher should I replace Nova with? 4 days ago:
you wanna get weird? give KISS a try
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 6 days ago:
the superbowl is the great american holiday of spectacle. the people who watch it for the game are frustrated the best games happened in the playoffs, not the superbowl and that it’s bloated with ads. the people who watch for the commercials are frustrated that they’re less inventive and that they get pre-released before the super bowl. the people who watch for the halftime show are stuck for 2+ hours waiting for the part they like. the people who watch for the bloodsport don’t like that the rules have been adjusted to reduce the harm players experience for their entertainment. the only thing that’s holding all these groups together are a mutual desire to eat tortilla chips, dips, and sausages.
and nearly 50% of all americans watch. more people watch than vote. and none of them are happy with it. and we don’t even get a day off for it. it’s our most bizarre national ritual.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 1 week ago:
and given nintendo’s history, the RoW market is a fun side project for them
- Comment on Simple 1 week ago:
in europe the kinder chocolate is much higher quality than in the us
- Comment on Simple 1 week ago:
and to any americans wondering why someone would even eat a cadburry creme egg outside of easter: in britain they’re made of this magical substance called “food” and it really elevates the experience
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 2 weeks ago:
nah lefties love bigfoot. the “believing in bigfoot” community is very split on trump. i think there should be a sociological/anthropological investigation into bigfoot beliefs as well as how our media environment promotes far right cryptozoologists (cryptofascist cryptozoologists) more than far left cryptozoologists
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 2 weeks ago:
there are many species of bigfoot. there’s Yeti, Yowai, Sasquatch, and Woodbooger just off the top of my head. to treat them all as the same species ignores how different their local environments are, and therefor that they would surely required different physiologies to survive.
unless of course we assume that bigfoot is some manner of hetero sapien with similar skills in tool use and adaptation to homo sapien
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 2 weeks ago:
we been tasting this medicine for 70+ years. just some of us refuse to resist out of fear
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
indian the same as pizza is italian. invented elsewhere by emigres to another country who then had family bring back the crazy new fusion food for the people of the homeland to go “oh that’s good.”
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 weeks ago:
it’s incredible how many people just need to hold onto the ball and run out the clock and they still can’t fucking do it. I guess on the bright side it shines a light on that no one should be a billionaire. But from their perspective the thing to do once hitting a billion is to sit on your fucking hands, avoid interacting with normal people so they can’t realize how fuckin’ weird you are, and await death
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
okay. there’s been research out about the disorienting nature of of grocery stores since the 1970s when piggly wiggly was first normalizing a certain sales area experience.
and yes. i am talking about the sales area. i wae never trying to claim otherwise. the context this entire time was the experience of being a customer inside a building whose only purpose is to extract value from you as you try to acquire basic living necessities.
and impulse buys in that context are a desired outcome of the overwhelming experience.
is your objection just my use of the word bombard? i can use a different word. overstimulate you. better?
like i can find more articles this was just literally the first thing i found and i hoped it would point you in the right direction and help you understand. but reading your comment here it almost feels like you’ve taken such great offense to how i’ve worded this that you can’t be bothered to engage with what i’ve been saying since the start
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
did you design the store layout?
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
it’s the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you’re describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
people lack spacial awareness in the grocery store because a supermarket is an example of hostile design. it is intentionally disorienting and overloads you with information
- Comment on Honestly how????? 1 month ago:
i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn’t true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 1 month ago:
i was coming in here to say that while this post is a joke, there is a non zero number of solar farms that use hyperbolic mirrors and glass tubes to super heat water generating pressure to spin a steam turbine
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
that’s where i’m at, too, but i’ve known a few people who view their body’s need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they’re very sad people…
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
i mean. have you encountered soylent culture? white people get marketed to like eating sucks and all your nutrients should come in a tube
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
most stainless steel is not true stainless steel and instead simply stains less. to deal with the low pH environment of honey (4 pH), you would need a high performance stainless steel or alloy to avoid leaching flavor from the alloy into the honey. most cutlery is 416 which will corrode under the conditions of being in honey. true silver, i think, would be fine in that environment, but i wouldn’t want to put a spoon in honey without being confident it was a higher performance compound than 416, and at that point i could just get a cheap dipper
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 1 month ago:
only if you’re using a wooden spoon. a metal spoon will leach its flavor into the honey
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
and that’s fine. good for you. you don’t have to buy a dipper if you don’t feel like. i like mine because it’s easier and i was tired of using the edge of the jar when a dipper costs a few cents (i think i got mine for 75 cents)
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
i have and that’s what i’m comparing against. thank you for your unconstructive input. with the teaspoon you can’t twist it to break a run before putting it in your mug and adding the hot water. so the teaspoon ends up being messier.
also what… did you think i was comparing against? my hands?
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
the honey that comes in the squeezable bottles is lower quality and the bottles themselves are wasteful. i’d rather pay a little extra, get honey from a beekeeper, know my local agriculture is being pollinated by a local beekeeper, and deal with a little piece of wood i have to rinse a little bit.
the convenience is distinctly not worth the degradation in all of the things i like about honey
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
it’s the easiest tool to use to get the honey out of the jar and into your mug for tea. i got mine at the farmer’s market because local honey is thicker than store honey, but even stores that sell local honey don’t sell these. highly recommend one if you’ve never seen one. it makes making tea so much easier
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 months ago:
it reduces the risk of missing because the target bent over to pick up a quarter, or stepped to the side because they saw something interesting. the knives in question are basically swords that deploy radially from the missile body like an umbrella.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 2 months ago:
the knife missile is so emblematic of the entire military industrial complex. can’t stop engaging in unnecessary resource wars due to unnecessary casualties. instead, the military industrial complex will develop and sell a product to allow the killing of specific people in public spaces. and the more you think about the idea of being at a produce stand and someone standing next to you turning into a fine red mist, never to exist in physical space again, the more distopian it seems.
it reminds me of the episode of star trek where they encounter a planet that has eliminated war via coordinated computer simulations and voluntary genocides.
- Comment on Two types 2 months ago:
the difference between Virginia and Philadelphia has never been so succinctly summarized
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
a company has no moral guiding principals outside of monetary gain. its board of directors members may have their own individual viewpoints, but as a collective, a corporation is representative only of the shareholder’s shared interest in making some money. if they wanted anything else, they would collectivize into another form.
generally speaking the best, i mean the best, you can expect from a BoD member is liberalism and all that entails. from a liberal perspective, pacifism is a virtue to be signaled, not an overall approach to the world with a goal of bringing about a just and fair society. liberals preaching non-violence don’t really care if someone is preaching violence so long as they don’t practice violence and the results of the preaching of violence remain unseen.
that’s how you wind up with liberals saying that the founder of turning point usa did things the right way and denouncing someone doing exactly the things he said were good to do, but moreover, denouncing people who have trained in violence accessing that violence in self defense. in the fight between fascism and anything other than fascism, violence must be used to denounce fascism because it is the only language fascists speak. you can use non-violence to interact with other political positions. those are positions who do not practice solely violence. but fascism believes access to violence grants license to use that violence. you can only counter this belief by rendering it scared to show itself in public