blackbelt352
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- Comment on I also fell for it 16 hours ago:
Gura Gwar, a shark themed VTuber.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 day ago:
Yeah, I suppose when I try to address all of OP’s bot bait lines like I did, it sounds like a disjointed AI generation. I suppose we’re in a day and age where AI generation really is that nearly indistinguishable from real people to the average person. I’m sure there’s plenty of times I’ve been duped by AI generated text.
Still if it was a bot, it probably would have been an immediate response instead of something that showed up an hour after OP posted. And this comment wouldn’t have been posted almost 30 min after your response to me.
- Comment on Hold on! 1 day ago:
Every social media is a vehicle for propaganda.
As much as I want to agree, not really, straight up racism and sexism drove racist and sexisf rural white voters to the polls and a failure to adequately address the genocide in Gaza dissuaded more progressive voters from turning out.
Authoritarian governments are never good
Again authoritarian governments are never good.
Once again, authoritarian governments are never good.
- Comment on 'Why don't we call it Mexican America?': Claudia Sheinbaum hits back at Trump 1 week ago:
The difference is negligible. The widespread opiate crisis in the US isn’t because of street drugs and militant cartels and gangs. It’s because of over prescribing of opiates by doctors overworked in understaffed hospitals, or because it’s the only med insurance will cover. The end result is the same, both are corrupt private organizations that have taken power from their respective governments through flexing violence and money. And if you don’t think major corporations can’t be violent, just ask any number of whistleblowers who are 6 feet under.
- Comment on 'Why don't we call it Mexican America?': Claudia Sheinbaum hits back at Trump 1 week ago:
and those numbers will skyrocket with Republicans in power as weapons flood into Israel.
Let’s not pretend Republicans aren’t going to actively make the situation 1000x worse compared to the dems.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 2 weeks ago:
In general it’s asking another person to change their appearance to suit your preferences rather than just respecting whatever mood they’re in or how their naturally resting face just looks. Forcing a smile sucks. It takes some amount of conscious effort to maintain a forced smile and smiling does engage quite a few muscles in the face, about 43 different muscles to make a smile.
Combine all of that with the history of women very much not having any kind of power in our society, and it takes on a more sinister tone when directed at women, hinting at the idea of someone’s only valuable because they have a pretty face and it should be pretty all the time.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 weeks ago:
Boss make a grand, I make a buck, that’s why I’m stealing the catalytic converter off the company truck.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 weeks ago:
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I shit on company time
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 4 weeks ago:
Kind of. He is the leader of the church but the congregation of Cardinals also holds a lot of political sway over the office as well and advise the pope on all kinds of matters.
- Comment on Good morning I choose it's nipply out. 4 weeks ago:
Oh that soooo disapoiiiinnntiiinnnggg
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yup, you 100% need to work on reading comprehension. I never said nothing sketchy happened, actually I explicitly said other sketchy shit did and does happen, I’m saying the specific example you originally pulled did not support your argument.
The article you pulled, in the literal first sentences said that Hunter Biden was paid as a consultant by MBNA in 2005, 3 years prior to the article and that the consultancy, despite being legally above board, doesn’t look good and happened at the same time a bill favoring credit card companies was passed.
That’s not a direct bribe to Joe Biden in exchange for a favorable bill as you described it.
But instead I’m the shill for Biden because you have done a shit job defending your own point with an article that explicitly contradicts your point in the very first sentence. All I did was read the fucking article and point out it doesn’t say what you think it said.
Again be accurate in your criticism, back it up with anything that doesn’t immediately contradict your points because at this point, I highly doubt you even read a single article you posted in your last reply.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Good lord you need work on your reading comprehension, or did you just look at the headline and ignore the very first line of the article?
Hunter Biden was working and being paid as a consultant for MBNA and had no direct ties to any kind of lobbying. That’s just what consulting work is. How much was paid never gets disclosed, especially to the public.
Is there other shetchy shit? Sure, but direct bribery from MBNA isn’t one of them and now we’d have to veer off into a discussion of campaign finance and corporate contributions to politicians in a post-citizens United world.
Be accurate in your criticism or nobody will take you seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
MBNA didn’t even exist anymore in 2008. It was bought out and subsumed by Bank of America in 2006.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBNA#Mergers_and_acquisit…
If you have information on that bill/law post it. I’m curious what it actually said.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
The 4th of July falls on July 4th. I can assure you as someone who has lived in the US for my entire life, we say it out loud, month, day, year and we write it to match that.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
It’s american/Canadian English. We say December 11th, 2024, we write it like we say it.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
It is and makes an ok, but reproducible cup of tea. As per the relevant Tom Scott video mentioned in the article.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
Glad to provide some honest perspective.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
If you really need a specialized toolset to handle managing dates and times in a program beyond whats already there, then find a library that has the tools you’re looking for or make it yourself if it doesn’t exist. Extending the date class is always an option.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/…/Date.html
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/system.datetime?view=…
Looks like someone already did. Been around since at least JDK 1.1
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
I used to be a programmer myself and it’s why there’s a specific default data structure built in to most programming languages to handle dates and internationalization of those dates.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
It’s great for lists but I don’t know a single person who’s gonna say “hey let’s meet up on 2024 December 11th.”
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 5 weeks ago:
The dates are written to match how it’s said. In the US we say our dates as month day year, and before you say “But the 4th of July” my counterpoint is that the 4th of July takes place on July 4th. And Cinco de Mayo takes place on May 5th. And May the Fourth Be With You takes place on May 4th.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 month ago:
I fail to see how getting fired because you said your work environment was stressful is a benefit. Losing your income is a significant stressor.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 month ago:
Oh yeah the comments from all sides of the political spectrum are absolutely dragging him.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 month ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRnWYn-GTQ
Honestly, I’d private window that link just to avoid it polluting your recommended page with right wing garbage.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 month ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeRnWYn-GTQ
Honestly, I’d private window that link just to avoid it polluting your recommended page with right wing garbage.
- Comment on I would celebrate more too, but I wouldn't defend the crime 1 month ago:
I need to see where Shabibo is getting torn up by his audience.
- Comment on Intruder 1 month ago:
I never said the kid should have actually gone over and given any kind of first aid, but he should still be taught basic first aid if his parents are teaching him how to use a gun.
It’s still psychopathic to mock someone who you just shot.
- Comment on Intruder 1 month ago:
I don’t expect a kid to do much of anything after shooting a person, intruder or not, not mock them for being in pain of a literal bullet wound.
Granted if the parents taught him how to use a firearm they should also have taught him how to use a medical pack because accidents can and do happen with firearms and he should be able to patch up himself or someone else if an accident does happen.
- Comment on Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension? 1 month ago:
That’s just how language works. It changes and morphs as time goes on and culture leaders change. And in my last, idk 20 or so years on the internet I’ve never really seen the word suspension used. It’s always been temp ban, ban or permaban.