ChunkMcHorkle
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- Comment on yes 3 days ago:
Yes. Yes, they do.
- Comment on yes 3 days ago:
That is correct. Most states have the governor appoint replacements to vacant seats, but McConnell himself got that law changed in Kentucky in 2024. Now, in Kentucky, a vacancy triggers a special election unless it is within three months of a general election, which in Kentucky is the first Tuesday in August.
I just wrote a longer comment elsewhere more fully explaining the situation: it’s complex, and the Kentucky law is itself badly written apparently, so no one is even very certain if it’s (state) constitutionally valid.
- Comment on yes 3 days ago:
Another old fart here. Yeah, I remember it too. That motherfucker. If it involved human rights of any kind, he was fully against it. And I’m still fucking salty about all that hateful “AIDS quarantine” shit that rolled out of his mouth.
But I temporarily lived in his district for a time right before his retirement, when he was visibly going downhill, and even then local people revered him. This is not an exaggeration. I didn’t get it until somebody explained it to me.
Simply put, Jesse Helms – and Strom Thurmond too, come to think of it – took constituent services to a very quietly insane level. The number of people I personally met who were like, “Yeah, so-and-so had this problem, Helms took care of it, we’ll always be grateful,” would blow your mind. EVERYBODY had either had his office help them personally, or knew someone who had.
That’s why the rural folks who literally believe that someone like Trump personally cares about them can still think that: this is what they’ve lived with. Someone like Jesse Helms who was a snake in a skin suit but if you called his office, he took care of you and you gave him your undying, eternal allegiance.
That actually gives me a tiny bit of hope, because it’s only the much older legislators that do anything like that kind of constituent services now. The new ones are just riding on their fumes, and even those are running out.
- Comment on yes 3 days ago:
When the EMS/CPR news came out, the source I read had John Thune saying he’d talked to McConnell the following morning and “sounded good,” all that shit.
No, lol. 84-year-olds who have had EMS pounding on their frail ribcages do NOT in fact “sound good” after that, as a rule. That’s when I knew McConnell was dead or dying.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
shitting on someone else just for being unlike you and having different standards for yourself
Isn’t that exactly what you yourself are doing?
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 5 days ago:
In the same way that being trans is not a choice but came with the human experience of that person, being of a certain age is also just not a choice. Getting randomly bitchslapped for it as I skim through comments is unpleasant, which was clearly your intent.
I’d expect someone who knows what it is to be othered as a matter of rote to also refrain from using othering terms.
Guess I expected wrong.
- Comment on Most 80s interior 2 weeks ago:
This is certainly a 70s interior, but not the most 70s interior.
In the same way that the Mariana Trench remains mostly undiscovered, I don’t know that anyone will ever truly plumb the depths of 70s interior design, but I can offer this as a counterpoint.
Shag carpeted walls, even all the way onto the ceiling. Even Graceland has it (here’s the entrance to the Jungle Room) though these days they claim it was installed for “acoustic shielding” lol. No, it was the style, like conversation pits and unmatched plaids and avocado or harvest green appliances.
And carpeted walls weren’t in every house, but they weren’t uncommon in the US as far as I know. At one point in my misspent youth, I lived in a house that had a den lined with lime green shag not just on the floor, but up and across the entirety of the far wall, while the other walls had matching green palm frond wallpaper with a chrome/mirrored background. This wallpaper visually delivered the carpet wall to you on the ricochet: even if you weren’t looking at the carpet up the wall, you were looking at the carpet up the wall. It was, mercifully, a dimly lit room that did not get much light anyway.
My spouse remembers similar. It was a thing. There is a reason there are so few pictures of it left.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 5 weeks ago:
Truth. I had a friend who worked at MS (not in Redmond) back in the early 90s post-IPO when Ballmer was CEO and when most of the people working there were temps so MS could avoid the legal repercussions of the toxic workplace culture they’d built and get around paying benefits or overtime, and even then Ballmer was the most personally repugnant trailer trash CEO imaginable. People put up with it because it was Microsoft and endless fountains of cash, but he was an even worse CEO than he was a human being, and that’s quite a low bar to limbo under but he managed.
- Comment on Amazon laid off 30,000 workers while CEO Andy Jassy got a 30% pay bump 2 months ago:
Well, being a member at Augusta isn’t cheap, Andy Jassy gotta pay those billionaire club dues somehow . . .
- Comment on The Meatstorm 2 months ago:
It’s a baby shower. Wanda’s meatstorm already came.
- Best GFY I've seen in ages - Cam Anderson from Blacktail Studio on the age gap in his new relationship [1:56]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 3 months ago:
Oh, yeah. Another one is Sad Eyes by Robert John, telling his his temp girl that his real girl is coming home today, she knew it was going to happen and he doesn’t want to see her cry. “I never used you,” lol.
There are quite a few of them. One that’s been in the news lately is Lola by The Kinks, which Moby called unenlightened and he’s right. One I always found creepy was Cat Stevens’ Wild World saying goodbye to his lady, because whatever he’s wishing her it’s not well. “I’ll always remember you like a child, girl.”
That’s not even starting with all the underage lyrics.
The 70s were amazing for music, but there sure are some clunkers in there.
- Comment on Saint Mercury 3 months ago:
It is a righteous text.
It’s hard to believe he’s been gone 35 years.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 3 months ago:
Yeah, it is bizarre. I’m on desktop so I opened the pic in a new tab, opened it to full height, and there are what look like a set of dark brown horizontal slat blinds compressed at the top as if raised, behind them another set of lighter brown horizontal slats down the right side as if lowered, and a square of glass in front of both.
Their decorator was . . . conflicted.
- Comment on In this house 4 months ago:
“Can we at least wait til he finishes?”
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 4 months ago:
That stache addon is gold. “When you care enough to send the very best.”
- Comment on Tune a fish 4 months ago:
Dad joke or name of a great album. That the the dad joke came first is pretty much beyond dispute, lol.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 4 months ago:
This is the real goal, right here. To get individuals so bogged down by a controlled firehose of propaganda that we will all just keep working the daily grind for less and less because there’s nothing we can do about it . . .
Yeah, no. That’s total bullshit. We can each do something, and it only matters that we each start somewhere. A lot of little things add up, like you said. Don’t give into the helplessness: there is meaning and action beyond it.
And conversely, don’t give in to rage, because the opposite end of this elite stick is to delegitimize any growing movement by calling it the whining of the disgruntled and the vandalism of hooligans. There’s no faster way to get your movement off the front page, shut down, and ignored by the world than giving into violence when provoked. Note all the non-US comments even on Lemmy that are trying to provoke Americans into fighting in the streets: it’s not because they want us to win.
OP, you’re on the right track. You’re already seeing for yourself that it’s just not adding up anymore. But like Cabbage above me said, don’t stop there. Find whatever thing you can do to help, to be a part of change. It doesn’t have to be great or massive, but find your niche. Look into what’s going on already in your own community, and see what people who live near you are already doing. You’ll find your part to play, and you’ll be so glad you did.
If you’re not sure where to start and you’re in the US, look at what’s happening near you:
- Comment on Trump audibly loses control of his bowels during a press conference - via Forbes Breaking News 5 months ago:
Not the Epstein files, but Sascha Riley. Stabbed in the ass with a tent stake.
For those who don’t know who he is, this is the original reporting: …substack.com/…/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find
A partial overview of the same reasons I personally tend to believe him: …substack.com/…/a-new-survivor-speaks-epstein-fil…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Me and mine sure are.
- Comment on People like this 6 months ago:
Trust Lemmy to answer the question I did not ask and to provide an answer that is essentially a regurge of the OP, lol.
- Comment on People like this 6 months ago:
Are there any instances where votes are public? In other words, where it shows on the post or comment who up/down voted? I know there are some, or were, but I don’t know the current status.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 months ago:
Yeah, you’re definitely getting a better experience in Ireland with both Amazon and Temu/AliExpress, so I don’t blame you. Kinda have to cross your fingers and hope for the best, or have it shipped with all the added shipping costs: no truly good options. But people who don’t do a lot of art will never understand why you have to have so many different supplies, or why one paint is not the same as another, or why paper isn’t just paper, and “But you already have fifteen blues!” Yeah, and now I’m about to have sixteen, lol. Just the way it is.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 months ago:
Try noai.duckduckgo.com – it really cuts down on the slop, even for images.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 6 months ago:
I don’t know where you are located so this may not apply to you, but in the US for branded art supplies I always go with DickBlick or Jerry’s Artorama, because in addition to the usual “stick it in a bubble bag and see how damaged we can make it before it arrives” Amazon shipping policy, branded art supplies are now being counterfeited on Amazon, like so many other things.
I already could not safely buy liquids (Gamsol, OMS, etc) or soft supplies (paper or canvas pads, single watercolors) because of careless shipping, but now I won’t even try because of counterfeits. If you want the branded version of something that already has budget knockoffs, say an item like Holbein or Caran d’Ache colored pencils where the real thing is vastly more expensive than others in its category, you’re taking your chances on Amazon. Amazon has been selling counterfeit fountain pens for years, even low end pens like Lamy Safaris which always blew my mind, but now it’s a lot of things in the art supply world.
So now I only get cheap knockoffs there, anything under $50. Anything over that, or anything liquid or bendable/breakable, I go with a real art supply store. It’s absolutely worth it, they pack it all very carefully, excellent return service when I’ve needed it, and I can still pick up deals better than Amazon without ever having to worry about the possibility it’s a counterfeit and I just wasted hundreds on a scam.
If you’re not in the US you may be having a markedly better experience, so disregard. But in the US, Amazon for branded art supplies is a big NO for me.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 6 months ago:
I don’t use an YouTube account and haven’t used for years for privacy reasons.
Same here. Trick is to not use the YT search function. My strategy changes depending on specifically what I’m looking for, but in general for anything factual I start with a no-AI text search on DDG and then go to YT once I know what I want to see, or just use DDG to trawl through the videos. It’s not perfect but it cuts out a LOT of the slop.
For entertainment, if my current list of “known good” seems exhausted, I keep my subscriptions in FreeTube and go with the recommendations there where I can hide channels more effectively, but that’s pretty rare because I collect what look like promising channels as I go along in regular browsing, like Lemmy or news articles, and not from any algorithm.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 7 months ago:
This is the way. I have a decade+ old HP OfficeJet that I more or less inherited, and it has pigment black ink but dye color inks. When the colors are fine but the black is not, it’s because the black (pigment) cartridge is blocked again. It does this with both HP and third party blacks, though, so it’s definitely pigment vs. dye thing. Easy enough to clean with isopropyl, as you said.
But just to be clear, when we bought new earlier this year, it sure as hell wasn’t HP. I’ll ride that old OfficeJet and my 20+ year old LaserJet until they die, there’s no chipping of cartridges and I’m quite good at printer repair as long as parts are available and it’s not too complex, but otherwise I’m done with HP.
- Comment on Popular Tech Youtuber Enderman looses his YouTube channel after AI error 8 months ago:
I think the one that was blocked was www.youtube.com/@Endermanch (but they’re both up now).
- Comment on Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution? 9 months ago:
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 year ago:
It is repulsive to me in its entirety but apparently the vibe coders dig it.
