captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Deez peets 4 hours ago:
When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.
- Comment on originality 2 days ago:
The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. “AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!”
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 days ago:
I got gas from Sheetz today and it put up a silent and stilla ad on the display while the pump was running.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 3 days ago:
touch boards are so shit they barely work wothout assistance.
- Comment on I've got something special for you 4 days ago:
This is why I just…hate touch screen keyboards. T9 never made that kind of editorial decision, and a physical QWERTY keyboard with no software correction running at all didn’t either.
- Comment on kwah 5 days ago:
Oh my god I forgot entirely about Pierre Escargot. Some neurons have just fired for the first time in decades.
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 5 days ago:
They’d have been alright in 2009.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 5 days ago:
Prove me wrong: Fine art is a money laundering scheme.
You get some guy who went to art school to slosh some house paint on a sheet. You then hire a white woman who dresses like Malian royalty to come describe it in contradictory adjectives “It’s subtle, yet bold” while her gay sidekick in a turtleneck flamboyantly slaps his face and gasps. Sell $20 worth of cotton and $30 worth of Valspar for $3.247 million, and you’ve just successfully covered up the sale of 94 more brown women.
- Comment on frienemies 1 week ago:
There are some tech circles where you’ll get more and better help posting a blatantly wrong solution than if you straight ask for help.
- Comment on what is north? 1 week ago:
It still narrows it down to about 1/8th of the Earth’s surface area.
- Comment on what is north? 1 week ago:
Yeah even “near Antarctica” narrows it down to the South Atlantic, South Pacific and South Indian oceans.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 week ago:
Basically the only thing that help my headaches is caffeine. But that’s probably a me problem.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 week ago:
I used a Dbrand skin for awhile.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 week ago:
I’m not convinced OTC pain meds do anything, especially Tylenol.
- Comment on Calm down 1 week ago:
when my cat is being a little too impatient while I’m givong her her dinner, I tell her to calm all six of her tits. hasn’t worked once but I find it funny.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh I should mention: each state has its own government as well, the exact shape of that government varies state to state but many states also have a two-house legislature and the upper house is usually called the senate. For example, the North Carolina General Assembly has a senate and a house of representatives. “My father is a senator” could also mean that, though “US Senator” would imply the federal government.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
There’s a somewhat obscure Robin Williams vehicle called Club Paradise. Critics panned it but it’s a favorite in my family, we quote it all the time.
“Mr. Gundy: As the official represenatative of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Second, I order you to withdraw at once or I shall be forced to shoot you between the eyes with a rather large bullet.” -Peter O’Toole
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
Kung Pow is the world’s best example of a transformative work. It took some obscure kung fu film, and fucked it up in all the right ways.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
I think Tremors 1 just edges 2 out as the better film, but Tremors 2 is very, very good. I wouldn’t change a thing about it, it’s an example of a truly well-done sequel.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Many European nations, and I believe the EU itself, has a parliament. A legislative body made up of representatives of a group of people. In the EU parliament, maybe each nation sends a representative.
For reasons that I think have to do with getting rid of royalty/nobility, the US legislative body is called the Congress. Much like the British parliament has a House of Commons and a House of Lords, which have different functions, serve different interests and serve as a check on each other, the US has a House of Representative and a Senate.
The House of Representatives is the lower house, it has more members, over 400. Each state gets a number of representatives based on population; small states like Rhode Island or states where nobody lives like Montana may have as few as one, big states with lots of people like California, Texas and New York might have 30 or 40. The idea here is equal representation of the POPULATION, though a cap on the number of members has kind of ruined that.
The Senate is the upper house. Each state sends exactly two senators. With 50 states in the union, there are 100 senators. Early on, senators were appointed by the governments of each state, but by amendment to the constitution senators are now elected directly by the people. Both senators are supposed to represent the state as a whole. Weird thing about our senate: The Vice President is nominally a member of the Executive branch, but the only job the constitution lays out for the VP is to preside over the senate and cast a tie breaking vote (because each state gets 2 senators, no matter what we do there’s an even number of senators, so ties aren’t uncommon). Otherwise the VP has no powers other than to be the hot spare for the president.
For a bill to become law, it must be deliberated and voted on in both houses. If both houses pass the bill, it goes to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
There are details like which house what kind of legislation is to come from, etc. There are some powers that ONLY the House of Representatives have, and some that ONLY the Senate has.
There are certain appointed positions, such as cabinet members, supreme court justices etc. that the President appoints, but the Senate must approve. If I understand it right, the President/executive branch makes treaties but the Senate must ratify it for the treaty to go into effect. The House of Representatives has the power to impeach federal officials (impeachment is kind of like indictment) but the trial takes place in the Senate.
Being a senator is seen as more prestigious than being a representative; senators are considered senior and there are fewer of them. It’s a position of significant political influence and massive corruption. Your friend’s father is definitely in the position to have protestors killed if a big business asks him to.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
about as much as I’ve read about scientology and Jonestown.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Feminism is anti-male. That’s all it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And the entire topic of feminism was brought up to hijack a conversation about men. Moron.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s a problem when it’s done to hijack a conversation about women.
You’re talking about feminism in a thread started about men’s mental health.
Dearest Kettle,
I write to you on this auspicious occasion to bring into your awareness a matter which has consumed my attention as of late. It seems you bear a certain patina of the very darkest of colors, one might even go so far as to call you “black.”
Eternally yours,
Pot
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
True lies was a better executed tongue-in-cheek send up of the action movie genre, but Last Action Hero is a good and interesting movie.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
See, THIS is a shitpost.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The cologne I used to wear had leading notes of lavendar and cracked pepper. A good rule of thumb is masculine scents tend to incorporate wood or spice notes, where feminine scents are straight floral or fruit notes.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 week ago:
Caring isn’t a thing people do.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 week ago:
I doubt that.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 week ago:
Nobody cares about me, why should I care about anyone else? I’m disposable, so are the rest of you.