TurtleJoe
@TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
Because if Biden can’t finish his term, a black woman will be president.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 5 months ago:
I don’t know if you don’t realize it, but you just agreed with the pithy quote.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 5 months ago:
Every single consecrated Catholic altar contains a relic of a saint. Usually they’re pretty small, maybe a piece of a fingerbone or something. You’re right that a good one like this would bring in lots of pilgrims (tourist dollars,) but it’s a tradition that way predates capitalism.
I’m not in the business of defending the Catholic Church or capitalism, just wanted to clarify.
- Comment on This has been your weekend PSA 5 months ago:
Just use your hand. If the beer is in a bottle, leave it so the neck is sticking out of the ice water and spin it that way (this also works very well for wine.) If it’s a can, stick it in vertically, and spin it for 30 seconds at a time or whatever you can stand.
Even if you aren’t constantly spinning it, it will still get cold much faster than any other method. I’ve worked in bars and restaurants for 15 years, and this is my go to, in case of emergency method for chilling beverages.
- Comment on Not to mom shame... 5 months ago:
Duh. Everybody knows the only thing that works is Velostat. You cannot use any other material.
- Comment on euphoric recall 6 months ago:
The social media algorithms were definitely much different in 2014. They tended to promote links to outside articles and trending topics, even if those links were to BuzzFeed listicles. In 2015/16 they had all changed to trying to keep people engaged on the original site, so they started pushing rage bait that would get people arguing in the comments.
In 2014, everybody was talking about what color that dress was. In 2015, Breitbart was like the number 3 most popular shared “news” site on Facebook.
- Comment on VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now 6 months ago:
This sounds exactly like Boeing (and a hundred other large corps.)
- Comment on Yup 6 months ago:
We don’t know what kind of equipment those ladies are working with…
- Comment on Progress can be seen in all parts of life 6 months ago:
I read a brochure at my local butcher shop. The chickens they sell are put in crates and gassed to death. Supposedly pretty easy on the animals. This seems much more efficient than individual submersible trips.
- Comment on Mushroom ID 6 months ago:
As somebody who has been through liver failure and transplant, it really sucks. I do not recommend it.
- Comment on Wage theft now outnumbers all other types of theft in the U.S., reaching $482 million 7 months ago:
The biggest problem is that it’s classed as a civil issue, not a crime.
I steal from my employer: they call cops, I go to jail. Very simple.
My employer steals from my paycheck: I have to call a lawyer, they have to agree to take my case, we have to sue, employer produces fake payroll documents, I better have proof of what my real pay should have been, we have to go to mediation, figures are exchanged, employer claims they can’t pay the full amount without going bankrupt, have to take a settlement, lawyer takes at least a third of that. Big pain in the ass, no guarantee you’ll see a dime. Even if employer pays you back, they can go right back to screwing the rest of their employees over.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 7 months ago:
https://www.epi.org/publication/union-membership-data/
Overall, it shows union rates being mostly a wash in 2023, but that’s due to a large increase in total jobs that year; raw number of members went up, rate slightly declined. Black workers made up almost the entire grid increase.
The point that maybe relates most to what OP was saying:
These statistics don’t capture the number of workers who want to join unions. Evidence suggests that in 2023, more than 60 million workers wanted to join a union but couldn’t do so.
- Comment on They really want people to RTO 8 months ago:
A redundant concept.
- Comment on tremendous 8 months ago:
Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”
Some other recent examples:
“We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”
Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”
I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline
- Comment on RIP in pieces 8 months ago:
“X” is such terrible branding that every news article always has to do what you suggest, otherwise people don’t know what the hell is being discussed.
- Comment on Huh 8 months ago:
It’s often still people in developing countries answering the questions.
- Comment on Stuck 9 months ago:
Cyber truck buyers are Elon worshipping tech bros, which means that they think they are smarter and better than everybody else. This leads to acts of hubris like the above picture, which are obviously very stupid and easy to see coming, but these types of people think, “I am very smart and know exactly what I am doing at all times. This will be fine, because I am doing it.”
- Comment on Good luck out there 9 months ago:
In the US, you can get a pretty decent ebike $1,500-1,800. I wouldn’t even consider them a luxury in many parts of the country, because we so often have to share the roads with cars.
- Comment on A fair trade 11 months ago:
Golf courses actually see pretty frequent use; anybody who has played a public course on the weekend knows what it’s like to be constantly waiting to take your shot because the group in front of you is still putting, and the group behind is waiting to take their tee shot.
A much bigger waste of resources and land are the sterile suburban yards that barely get used at all.
I do wonder how much fertilizer runoff, herbicide use, etc the average golf course is responsible for
- Comment on Trump McGill 1 year ago:
He’s using every trial to fundraise.
- Comment on there is Indeed a problem 1 year ago:
That and/or, “I’m such a raging asshole that I’ve created a terrible, toxic environment and everybody always quits.”