oatscoop
@oatscoop@midwest.social
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
The states have limited power to defy the feds.
Case in point: legalized marijuana. That said, my fear in regards to states defying laws is:
- Targeted attacks by MAGA terrorists, particularly regarding anything LGBTQ+ or reproductive healthcare related.
- The fed withholding federal funds to punish states that don’t fall in line.
The former is particularly concerning as police and the national guard are predominately right-wing. My state passed the SAFE-T Act to address abuses in the police/justice system. Naturally, various police departments weren’t happy about this, and through obtuse interpretation of the act they’ll claim they can’t legally do vital parts of their job – something I’ve seen multiple times first hand. Refusing to do their job competently in response to MAGA terrorism isn’t hard to imagine.
The later gets tricky. Most of the states that would push back against unjust federal laws are also states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive in aid. The “obvious” solution withhold federal tax dollars to make up the difference … which would be next to impossible in practice. Even if states mange to do it they’d be playing into Republican hands by defunding essential federal services.
- Comment on Anon's gf is native american 5 weeks ago:
“Huh, interesting. Why aren’t you supposed to look at the moon?”
Most people aren’t psychopaths and actually enjoy sharing their beliefs if you ask in a respectful manner.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 5 weeks ago:
Option 3. Get a job as part of the 5% of the population still employed in serving the various security apparatuses protecting the rich fucks – you could be a soldier, cop, or government official.
Better to be the boot than be the poor fucked getting stepped on, right? You can sleep easily knowing you have it slightly better than the other 95% of the underclass.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that starship launch last year. The dumbass blew up a rocket and launched giant chunks of concrete onto people’s property because he’s a impatient child.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 5 weeks ago:
Which is hilarious, as the setting of that series is the epitome of “luxury gay space anarchism.”
People can (and do) change their biological sex just by thinking about it. The concept of “gender” is seen as hilariously primitive, and anything other than pan-sexuality is seen as quaint at best.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing happened June 1989 1 month ago:
If only there were extensive images and videos of what happened.
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 1 month ago:
Fully automated luxury gay space communism.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No, they’re in c/vegan
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 3 months ago:
Getting older, with an established career makes spontaneity harder as it is. Add kids to the mix and it’s pretty much impossible.
I … don’t want that. I like making last minutes plans, 1-2 week long trips, etc. The most limiting factor for me is dropping off my cat at one of my many friends/family members that can watch it (and I reciprocate with their pets).
If I’m going to date it’s going to be with someone with a compatible lifestyle. I’m not a homebody, and I wouldn’t date someone that by choice or necessity is.
- Comment on Oldest computer 3 months ago:
“Computer” is literally anything that performs computations – it even used to be a job title: “one that computes”.
“Mechanical Computers” were almost exclusively limited in what they could compute.
- Comment on Anon makes up a word 4 months ago:
So higher wages, better working conditions, and in exchange maybe be held to a higher standard of professionalism?
That would never work!!!111111
- Comment on The moon landings were single-staged! 4 months ago:
Cold fucking War . Czar of Russia
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 4 months ago:
Various other things like leaves, rags, sponges, or leftover paper. Failing that a bare hand works: manners dictating you wash it after.
Some cultural hangups on the left hand being “unclean” stem from those cultures using that hand for hygienic reasons.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 6 months ago:
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 6 months ago:
Not really, unless the house was built incredibly cheaply with thin studs and crappy drywall.
Wood is pretty decent at blocking sound – it the voids between the studs that’s an issue. Filling them with sound deadening insulation solves that problem.
It’s not as good at blocking sound as a masonry wall obviously, but it’s “good enough” at a fraction of the price.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 6 months ago:
My toolbar calipers are cheap hardware store ones. They’re accurate enough and I’m not out much when they inevitably get damaged or lost.
- Comment on Anon has nerdy hobbies 6 months ago:
Bubba here.
I’m a nice guy: I give some small, cute dude a compliment and he acts like a total bitch about it? I’m the “creep” because I politely told him he has a pretty mouth? Or ask him if he wants to come back to my cell?
Maybe if he doesn’t want guys checking him out in the shower he should stop showing off his body. Fuckin’ sluts, man.
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 6 months ago:
I’m with you on that. What makes the Steam Deck so appealing is it’s a handheld PC.
- Comment on Anon watches The Last Samurai 6 months ago:
English likes to take “loan words” and ignore the original language’s conventions.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
If you had actually read the Wikipedia article:
In 1973, a federal district court in Arizona decided that the act was unconstitutional, and Arizona could not keep the party off the ballot in the 1972 general election (Blawis v. Bolin). In 1961, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the act did not bar the party from participating in New York’s unemployment insurance system (Communist Party v. Catherwood).
So yes, the law passed during the the McCarthy era … and was afterwards declared unconstitutional.
- Comment on car insurance 7 months ago:
Unfortunately in huge swaths of America a driver’s license is practically a necessity – there are no realistic alternatives. A 30 minute to an hour drive to go to work or get groceries isn’t uncommon.
- Comment on car insurance 7 months ago:
Some people have zero spatial awareness and/or an inability to judge speed and distance – their brains just aren’t wired for it. They’re perfectly normal in every other way, but menaces behind the wheel.
- Comment on I feel old 7 months ago:
Fax, no printer.
- Comment on I feel old 7 months ago:
Every generation uses old slang they mistakenly believe they invented.
- Comment on Derps of Tiktok 7 months ago:
I’m fairly certain these people are trolling.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Not really.
“We don’t have anything definitive and we can only speculate, which we’re not going to do.”
- Comment on I tried so hard. 8 months ago:
Or buy a Pothos (Epipremnum aureum), AKA “Devil’s Ivy”. You have to actively try hard to kill it.
- Comment on Meta-Shit 10 months ago:
At least chocolate is water soluble.
- Comment on Nic Cage through the years 10 months ago:
I’d argue his best performance was in Vampire’s Kiss, and a toss up between this scene or this one.
- Comment on The White Buffalo 10 months ago:
The real story was showing that part of American history: the culture, events, people, etc. Forrest and Jenny were just plot devices to tie it all together.
