ZombiFrancis

@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtuber in constant pursuit of Voice of America money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “Even Johnny Harris” is not adding anything. Do people think Johnny Harris is an authority on truth or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully as we’re all breaking into our 40s, we have finally reached a point our society expected of us by 25. All it took was the slow deaths of our families.

  But our kids are gonna be fucked! Thanks boomer for telling us that should make us feel better like it apparently did your generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for answers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-violence is often and most effectively a direct threat of imminent violence.

  Or as a promise for the cessation of ongoing violence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Drone kill footage is like the reciepts of investment, if not the product itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skoolie from Temu.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are some load bearing bumpers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Writing tip: just start brain dumping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an english professor that actually demanded an intro like this. He said write ANYTHING as long as you can hook the reader and link it to a thesis statement, and there is no bar to that link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the one example with the grocery co-op: I can assure you, few if any, of the people involved with the co-op were Marxist-Leninists, let alone comfortable with Marxism or the ‘S’ word. So that was kind of a critical flaw in any Marxist-Leninist theory in practice.

  A lot of people practice forms of community action without having any sort of class consciousness. A wealthy philanthropist can offer a bunch of money with strings attached and people will jump at the promises without second thought and rarely keep up with the follow-through.

  Point I was making nonetheless was these operations tend to exist under seige from competing and profiteering interests. If I remember correctly the grocery co-op was having issues making the skyrocketing rent payments for the commercial lot. That was the problem the money solved: the one created by the landlord.

  So in a sense I was saying ‘the pressures of capital tend to be too great’ than money being tempting or greed from the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They are run out of business, most simply.

  The operation that does not focus their profits on building further capital and establishing monopoly will fail in the arms race of those that do.

  For example: there are countless community and public efforts establishing childcare and pre-k through pooled resources. They are in direct competition with things like Bezos’ childcare academies. (Personal anecdote: they bought out my kids’ building for public pre-k and evicted them.)

  And a successful co-op will get pressure to be bought out like a start-up. (Often starts as a great way to expand! Then the expansion changes the culture, the new location feels corporate and the original location is later shut down and left vacant. -Also personal anecdotes for a grocery co-op and an employee owned operation I once worked at.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The greater good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude seems pretty sanguine about being put in this position in panel 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shoe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI wishes it could do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meme.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the virtue that the username’s instance doesn’t matter? Sure.

  I doubt that is the aim of the meme’s take though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has the spirit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then in the Seattle area the radio statios KISW and especially KNDD put grunge on heavy rotation.

  They still exist but they’ve all been bought out multiple times and have been a part of the same conglomerate for at least a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make sure your priorities are straight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I can trust some assholes more than my friends’ mouths. Part of the zeal is when there is knowledge and/or trust that preparations have been made, but I will not deny some folk are too trusting, too quickly. Which, bringing it full circle, is why I don’t trust my friends’ mouths.

  Truly the paradox of our time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, they can’t possibly not understand there may be more at work than talking about historical figures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A functional, coherent working class policy would’ve ticked some of those numbers in the campaign’s favor across the board without even having to divide by race or gender.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We were there monkeys all along⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, my God, I was wrong, It was Earth all along!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teef stonks 📈⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of places don’t throughout the USA and a lot of people use private/community wells.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays pretend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d always narrate what I was building with legos.

  Title

  Some kind of battle scene, inevitably. Sometimes a wall would be involved. Other times a bridge. Often both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never skip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damned turtles refuting conventional knowledge of space and time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never skip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only northern hemispheres exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a whole era of gaming from the late 90s to like 2010 where like a couple developers made something special, left, and then the company coasted on the code for a decade.

  For me it was the Company of Heroes series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unemployment is typically measured by people seeking unemployment benefits, not by volume of people out of work.

  Similarly job creation is usually measured by job offerings and not positions filled.

  As a result you can get what has been happening: low unemployment and high job creation where people aren’t getting jobs and jobs aren’t being filled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatcha gonna watch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah the first 40 minutes of The Princess Bride countless times through K-12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know Nut November⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be able to name every nut that there was. And it used to drive my mother crazy, because she used to say, “Harlan Pepper, if you don’t stop naming nuts,” and the joke was that we lived in Pine Nut, and I think that’s what put it in my mind at that point. So she would hear me in the other room, and she’d just start yelling. I’d say, “Peanut. Hazelnut. Cashew nut. Macadamia nut.” That was the one that would send her into going crazy. She’d say, “Would you stop naming nuts!” And Hubert used to be able to make the sound, he couldn’t talk, but he’d go “rrrawr rrawr” and that sounded like Macadamia nut. Pine nut, which is a nut, but it’s also the name of a town. Pistachio nut. Red pistachio nut. Natural, all natural white pistachio nut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What an experience!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this as a teen with my learner’s permit and my dad. It was him playing the Eaglea and Bob Dylan while I learned to figure out driving on the highway in NJ through the indiana turnpike until the glorious open road out west where i was stuck behind semis and 1 lane road work across the midwest until montana.

  I have remained driving on the west coast only since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure you remember but the media reaction to Bernie doing well initially was major outlets like CNN reacting with fear, loathing, and uncertainty. And it impacted rhe course of an election. You had anchors yelling about how Sanders will result in public executions in central park during the primary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tradition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PAK CHOOIE UNF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monkey business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably involved Tarzan, thus involving a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see ‘Audrey’.