BassTurd
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- Comment on 23 hours ago:
I think you answered your question in the body of the post. You just say, “we’re/it’s already here”.
- Comment on Why do celebs make statements on controversial stuff and surprised when it comes with consequences? 2 days ago:
Sounds like this is about the Macklemore situation. I haven’t really seen him be necessarily surprised by what’s transpired, but he’s well within his rights to be critical of the actions taken.
People with platforms can have strong opinions on matters just like everyone else. They have a platform that many of them earned (obviously not all) so it’s theirs to do with it what they want. There’s zero chance that Macklemore didn’t know this was a possibility. He believes in standing up for Palestine and calling out a genocide, so he put his neck on the line to support those beliefs. In this case, he gained a new fan from me today. People that are willing to do that earn some respect from me. On the other hand, someone like Ronnie Radke who also is very outspoken, I’ve removed from my music rotation because I think he’s a shit person. Similar to Kid Rock, but other than a couple of his classic songs I enjoyed as a youth, I didn’t listen to him anyway. In both examples, I’ll smear the shit out of their name to anyone that will listen.
Actions have consequences, and rarely are any of these people truly surprised when they reach the ‘find out’ phase, but they may act like it to try and save face.
- Comment on How come we don't have more sketch comedy shows, like MadTv or In Living Color? Are we just going to be stuck with SNL for our lives? 4 days ago:
I was super happy to see him back after getting the gig at SNL. I was also thrilled to see to really well there in his first season.
- Comment on If I only have space/money for one exercise machine, what should I get? 4 days ago:
If you’re getting free weights, I’d get an adjustable bench as well. If you already have a bike, you can get a bike trainer to ride inside when weather isn’t cooperating. I’d avoid a treadmill since as you mentioned, the outside is accessible, and if you’re not in a climate with snow and ice, a little rain sometimes feels good during a run.
But like others mentioned, dumbbells and a kettlebell will be all you need to do a lot of strength exercises. An adjustable bench allows you to expand on that. You can get dumbbells that use plates, so you dont need a full set, just the bars and plates. In the future you could get other bars for different strength training if you feel the need and you can just use existing plates.
Otherwise as someone else mentioned, you can do a lot with just bodyweight traing too. A good mat will go a long ways for that. You can supplement that with resistance bands that take up minimal space.
- Comment on How come we don't have more sketch comedy shows, like MadTv or In Living Color? Are we just going to be stuck with SNL for our lives? 4 days ago:
There are a ton of skit channels on platforms like YouTube that have filled the void. Most are shorts, but there are channels like Viva La Dirt League that does some longer form sketches. Chris and Jack is another channel that I think does some really funny sketch comedy too. Dropout.tv is imo the best subscription out there. While not really sketch, it’s almost entirely improv, but it can kind of scratch that itch.
- Comment on How come we don't have more sketch comedy shows, like MadTv or In Living Color? Are we just going to be stuck with SNL for our lives? 4 days ago:
Jeremy Culhane was on Dropout before SNL too. They’re a great company that treats employees and customers great.
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 5 days ago:
I’d vote for a dead pigeon before I’d vote for a Republican. At least a dead pigeon can’t write bad legislation.
- Comment on Do most Americans vote just based on name recognizing without any thinking of the platform? Or pigeon hole a candidate to one issue and vote for them? Even if that issue is way against beliefs? 5 days ago:
In the primaries, people will vote for their favorite candidate in the party they’re registered with. In the general, you have two choices and one is usually a Democrat and the other Republican. There are a couple “independents” that have made it through. That’s how it works in a first past the post voting system. At that point you’re likely voting for the lesser of two evils but good candidates can make it through.
It’s a shit system, but some people will abstain because they think that a protest non vote in the general is some way of protesting. The math doesn’t add up and it’s why Trump is president. Too many idiots decided that Kamala wasn’t good enough, even though she was clearly, on all levels, better than Trump. I didn’t love her, but I knew that if she won, the states and the world would be in a better place. You’ll heard those idiots parroting shit about her being pro Isreal, but anyone with half a brain could understand that Trump was going to be far worse for everything, including the Isreal conflict, than Harris.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 5 days ago:
I have a coworker that did IT in (I think) the air force. He had some superior that was blasting him because his password wasn’t working trying to login. My coworker reset the password, remoted in, logged in and the the guy know it’s working and have him the PW.
He gets a call and the dude is again freaking out on him saying it’s not working. My CW drives across base to assist. He gets there and asks the guy to login. First thing he did is hits caps lock and starts typing. CW tells him what’s wrong, does it himself and it works. And to have him do it again, and the guy hits caps lock… CW says something and the superior snaps on him. He snapped back.
When he got back to his station, he gets the call that he fucked up, and that he just volunteered for a deployment to Alaska, where he sent the next few months.
Not really related, but I thought it was a funny story.
- Comment on What is the most common stupid question you hear/see? 5 days ago:
I don’t do this regularly, but I have been that guy that’s asked where something is 2 get from a big sign. Usually right after the person points me in the direction and I see the sign, I make a half hearted self deprecating comment about how if I just looked 2 inches to the left…
- Comment on Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes? 1 week ago:
I say what I’m gonna say, and sometimes I get downvotes and other times I don’t. I downvote bad takes, trolls, or other things that I feel I strongly disagree with.
Use it as a barometer. If you’re constantly getting downvited for your posts, perhaps some introspection will tell you why. Otherwise, don’t worry about it. They’re fake Internet points and some people just won’t agree with you. You can’t please everyone.
- Comment on If I could a buffalo chicken chili kale salad would the show off my cooking skills? 1 week ago:
Make everything from scratch, and make sure you can do it successfully before trying it live if you want to show off.
It’s not very flashy, but I make green bean casserole from scratch every thanksgiving. Instead of buying canned beans and cream of mushroom, get green beans from produce and prep them, make a roux, chop some fresh mushrooms and make your own sauce. I do buy fries onion rather than make my own, but that’s an option. All of that is extremely easy to do, looks impressive to people who don’t know how to cook, and tastes better.
For lasagna, make the sauce instead of buying it.
A buffalo chicken salad can be good an option, but you probably need to make the chicken yourself rather than just throwing precooked buff chicken on some kale.
If you can make a dessert in advance that will add to your cause. If you have a spring form pan, NY style cheesecake is very easy to make and provides the option for people to choose their own toppings.
Soups are a good choice. Most require some level of prep like making a mirepoix and can be made as a side dish. Most are prep and then wait, so the soup can cook while you’re doing other cooking.
Salmon in a cast iron or stainless is easy and looks impressive. Start skin side down, butter baste, and finish by sticking the whole pan in the over. Just don’t over do it.
Just make sure everything is cooked all of the way through and nothing is burnt. Whatever you decide, I say find a recipe, or something similar to what you have planned online, and get a good feel for time and temp, because those will ruin anything you’ve done prior if you get it wrong.
- Comment on My Test Post Title 1 week ago:
Looks like a bot. Makes is easy to block.
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 1 week ago:
Everything is compressible with enough force. I would say that threshold is when that compressibility is relevant to the discussion. So in this case, a water ballon under water. There is no depth in the ocean where the pressure will be high enough to make a notable difference.
I would imagine in many applications when dealing with water and fluid dynamics, unless measurements have to be extremely tight and calculated, water would be treated as incompressible. I’m guessing a lot of the time, the force applied to water is not high enough for it to matter.
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 1 week ago:
Ok, so for all intents and purposes, water is incompressible.
- Comment on Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore 1 week ago:
This isn’t in any way a defence of low wages, but phone, internet, and food can all be had for cheaper depending on location, and if public transportation or close walking proximity to resources and employment are available, that can be significantly less too.
That still leaves too little extra to do any activities that cost money, survive an emergency situation, or save for retirement.
- Comment on Is the m-word a slur for people with dwarfism? If so, what are more appropriate terms to use other than dwarf? 1 week ago:
My first thought was of Tyrion from ASOIAF. I don’t know that he needed a label, but his short stature was relevant to his characters experiences and storyline. I do like the new word OP may have settled on further down the chain, poytle.
- Comment on Why does the Grim Reaper hold a scythe? Was he or she farming or something when they became the grim reaper? 1 week ago:
That’s a different guy, he goes by POTUS.
- Comment on Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything” 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad college athletes can get paid. What’s unfortunate is that it’s now another recruiting tool for colleges, favoring larger markets.
- Comment on Know the difference 2 weeks ago:
Other than all of the medical equipment hooked up to his body. At the very least it’s a young person who appears to be dead or dying. It can be a triggering picture, hence the request for a heads up to potential viewers.
OP didn’t have to do it, out of respect they did tag it. Just because you don’t find the image disturbing doesn’t mean other won’t .
- Comment on Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say' 2 weeks ago:
I will have to temper things to a degree so I don’t get fired for my strong and vocal opinion, but there will be celebration. Nothing in writing, but I’ll tell anyone I don’t work with exactly how I feel about the situation. In my head, I’ve already had the argument/conversation with my conservative neighbors that will be upset about it. I will have no shame, and I will bury them in insults and facts. Burn every bridge that doesn’t pay my bills. They may not even be good arguments, but I can always fall back on them supporting a pedophile rapist. That’s indefensible.
I’ll have to get cameras and lights to keep on my flag to prevent someone from stealing it or lowering it. I recently played with a buddies slingshot on a camping trip. That would be fun.
- Comment on Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before, but I’m going to go buy a flag pole and American flag, and put that shit square in my front yard and put it full staff. Might even surround it by smaller flags to really sell it.
- Comment on Critics Trash Ivanka Trump’s Dolly Parton Tribute: 'Rich F**king Thing For You To Say' 3 weeks ago:
The first thing I do every morning when I wake up is open Lemmy hoping to see the headline that Trump is dead. One of these days will be the best day of my life.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 3 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting just rolling over and accepting everything bad because fighting against Trump is an uphill battle?
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 3 weeks ago:
It really comes down to whether or not I think someone is arguing in bad faith, but there’s a fine line between bad faith and complete idiocy. Like, if someone is a hardcore trump supporter, they could argue in good faith, but we are so far apart that there really is no discussion to be had. I can’t fathom any situation where anyone could support him without being a pedophile and/or a billionaire business owner. Then there are trolls that will just use strawman arguments to move the goalposts on any topic just to not be wrong, and that shit just isn’t worth ingesting, ever.
- Comment on Was it really a big deal what Kyle Grass said on his birthday, that he wished the shooter did not miss (referring to Trump) in Australia? Kind of seems like he's been blacklisted along side Jack Black 3 weeks ago:
My favorite part of the whole thing is that after KG posted an “apology”, he deleted the post and didn’t waste effort lying to try and save face with people offended by his statement. Fuck Trump, KG was right.
- Comment on If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn? 3 weeks ago:
Even just being really conservative on the ROI and going with 4.5% gains, if a person has $1,000,000 invested, that’s $45k a year to do nothing. The US median income is around $65k for reference. In lower cost of living places, a person can definitely live off of $45 a year assuming no debt. It won’t be the most comfortable life and it’s probably not worth retiring, but any other income could supplement for QoL upgrades, or further be invested, meaning more ROI, and compound interest, which means even more money.
- Comment on If we flipped the script, and the people working the shittiest jobs in America got Elon Musk money for working what would happen? Then gave the rich the same wage the lowly worker would earn? 3 weeks ago:
Are you saying that Elon’s money is divided amongst the workers, or that each worker becomes a billionaire?
I’m all for taxing billionaires out of existence and paying the working class more money, but there are a lot of really shitty people in the working class too. Think of someone you’ve worked with that was a complete tool shed, then imagine what it would be like if they had “fuck you” money.
If we’re saying that all workers get fat pay raises to allow them to purchases larger ticket items like a car, house, vacations, and still have money to invest for retirement, then the economy would do better. If people have extra money, most will spend it, with puts cash into circulation that’s used to pay people. If people can buy more then companies can make more to supply. That creates more jobs, which means more income, which means more spend. Now, that doesn’t work if the dollar loses value because we just made everyone rich and a couple hundred billionaires poor.
Basically, if we could get 100 billion dollars amortized out to people that need it most in the US, they could get out of debt, and start spending, boosting the economy. It’s one of the reason I think student loan forgiveness could have been one of the best things for the US economy under Biden, but Republicans couldn’t stomach helping people out, so here we are.
- Comment on Is it creepy when lemmings go digging through post votes to see who voted how on different posts and comments? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll look at some users who post a ridiculous take on something. I mostly look to see if they are just a shitty troll or if it was a one off and decide if I want to block them. I don’t look through there posts for context, just the raw vote numbers. If someone is majority negative on their posts, then they don’t need to show up in my feed.
There are a handful of other users on here who I see frequently that I don’t agree with on a lot of things, and the community agrees with me based on votes, but those users also make good comments that are beneficial to some conversations and sometimes I learn something new. I’ll put up with the bad for the good.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If it’s bad enough, I may drag them through the shower with me and then hang dry after, but I’d say probably not most of the time. I haven’t biked in a minute since I’m training for a half marathon, but I did a triathlon last year and was biking most days.