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- Comment on be more like dogs 3 days ago:
There’s a classic Sam Fuller (B movie king) called White Dog about a racist dog. Actually a pretty good movie
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 6 days ago:
And this happened during industrialization too. The world keeps evolving and politicians will always use it to fear monger.
If you told someone in 1850 how many people we’d have employed today as automobile mechanics, airplane techs, computer engineers, etc., they would be so lost. Just like we would be if someone from 2150 tried to tell us about their economy.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It’s actually a brick of drugs, not a brick for building. You just get them to blow a line
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
As a millennial 30-something, my ilk are only slightly left of the older generation. Gen Z, of which I have some (in-law) siblings, is different. These are kids who saw the Trump shit, even if they didn’t totally understand it all. But it left an impression. They are also way more open minded and waaaay less religious. That alone indicates a shift left. And the old adage of shifting right in your 30s/40s has not held for millennials. Assuming it doesn’t hold for Gen X (why would it?), the US is going in a promising direction.
One problem we do have is an activation of boomer voters in response to this stuff. But y’know what Gen X has that Boomers don’t? Time.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Have you met a gen Z kid? The most conservative Americans are dying off and religion is TANKING at a record pace.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Than the US? Eastern Europe, sure. A lot of the rest is heading in the wrong direction, whereas the US seems to be moving in the right (left) direction.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
If you’re concerned about a rightward drift, you’re not going to like many places in Europe. I also wouldn’t leave a country because of a temporary political shift. America’s left is more powerful now than it’s been in close to 100 years and it’s only growing with the next generation. If politics is the main reason you want to leave, I’d seriously encourage you to rethink things. That seems very shortsighted, especially given the political tide in Europe.
- Comment on American wanting to move abroad, what's the best bet for an registered nurse? 1 week ago:
Personally, as a fellow Jewish leftist I’d advise against moving to Israel. If you think politics are toxic here (maybe I’m reading into what you mean by things driving you insane), Israel is much worse. I’m not sure which countries have the easiest visa process but you probably have some flexibility as an RN. You could look into a travel nurse job that lets you move across Europe and try a few different places out.
- Comment on When did the show "Suits" suddenly get popular? 1 week ago:
All the comments on this post and you’re the only one who got why it had a recent surge in popularity lol
- Comment on When did the show "Suits" suddenly get popular? 1 week ago:
People on this thread don’t seem to understand the REAL reason for its resurgence.
Meghan Markle. Y’know, Duchess… Harry’s wife? Not saying Suits was a bad show (only ever saw an episode or two because a friend used to love it 10+ years ago) but its recent popularity is all about her.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And Reggie Jackson!
- Comment on 1 day ban for spamming, yet the comment I made was unique 1 week ago:
That sounds bad. When did it happen? In this case it’s quite clear from the modlog that OP was doing what the mods said.
- Comment on 1 day ban for spamming, yet the comment I made was unique 1 week ago:
Most of the time when someone complains about a ban on here, it’s in bad faith
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Except meat is the least efficient protein source. You need land to grow animal feed, which largely could be used to grow crops to feed humans. You put in like 100 calories to get 1 calorie out.
- Comment on 1 day ban for spamming, yet the comment I made was unique 1 week ago:
You want an instance that allows someone to spam the same comment on every thread?
- Comment on Has anyone here noticed how reddit has gotten more racist against Indians in the last few months 1 week ago:
Probably just more now because the elections make international headlines and Modi has been pulling some weird stunts. It’ll probably die back down.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Seems like most people on this post have fallen into the trap of judging a group based on a loud subset of the group. Most vegans/vegetarians I know don’t like to share that they are veg precisely because of that stereotype.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
What privilege? Meat is the most expensive food out there. Eating rice and beans isn’t really showing privilege
- Comment on The PlayStation 2 1 week ago:
In terms of games, Kingdom Hearts and Guitar Hero were highlights of my childhood.
I thought the Dreamcast had the weakest technical specs of that generation? PS2 was also earlier than other consoles in that generation, so slightly lower specs makes sense.
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- Comment on Controversy and Censorship 2 weeks ago:
Changing designs due to market pressures isn’t censorship. Remember the Sonic movie, where they redid the animation due to criticism? Nobody was outraged at that change but when it’s tits, all of a sudden people care.
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you missed my edit where I included the ending. You definitely missed the main point of the article
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the article? It doesn’t seem hyperbolic. Just an explanation with humor.
This should be a very easy question! I want to say the man, I really do, but I can’t shake the idea that I would be safer with the bear. I am not sure if it is men or bears that are being most maligned in all of this, but there is no denying that is this a very revealing question.
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Funny, visiting someone else’s university is where I saw that. It was a highly regarded liberal arts college in New England. Still, I’d call that super rare.
The bear thing seems a bit exaggerated. Not sure what hair color has to do with this
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 2 weeks ago:
Who specifically said “men are more dangerous than bears” and in what context was that said?
- Comment on Requesting art@lemmy.world community 3 weeks ago:
I have never deleted a post or banned a user. Just trying to revitalize some smaller communities. Also, of the couple “power mods” I know on Lemmy, they tend to be among the most fair mods (shout out to @jordanlund@lemmy.world as an example) . It’s the random ass rogue ones who create some community lining up with their specific interests who then want to control all the discussion that do weird stuff.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to support@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Reporting abusive moderator behavior? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to support@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Buy an x ray machine and take x rays of your mouth.
That’s pretty much the only alternative. Oh, or pull out your teeth and break em open