Zeppo
@Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Abandoned Chamber Ruins 1 day ago:
Looks like a scene from Destiny 2
- Comment on Elevated 3 weeks ago:
How much is normally in there? And how?
- Comment on Is there a Russian stock market people invest in? 1 month ago:
Yes, of course. The largest is the Moscow Exchange.
- Comment on im not a conservative im a proservative 2 months ago:
It’s pretty meaningless.
- Comment on Kash Patel Is Already Making Huge Changes At The FBI 2 months ago:
Do you have any sources besides this foreign influenced fascist bullshit site?
- Comment on Stephen Miller Embarrasses CNN Over Absurd Trump-Musk DOGE Question | Headline USA 2 months ago:
Trump explicitly said that Musk and Ramaswamy would be running “DOGE”. What changed? Oh, they figured out they had to weasel out of it and lie. That’s really embarrassing and amusing, Herr Miller. His “explanation” doesn’t even make sense - what a weasel. As if departments don’t have heads because the President theoretically tells them what to do? Jesus right wing media is fucking trash.
- Comment on Watch: Trump Calls Out Massive Social Security Fraud After DOGE Exposes Ancient 'Vampires' 2 months ago:
Yep, apparently you’re one of the people who believe whatever tripe Musk spews. The guy has been lying and exaggerating about his businesses for years. He lies and distorts about political events on Twitter every single day.
He hasn’t proven in any way whatsoever that he found real Social Security fraud, and in fact, it’s been disputed by people who worked for the agency and actually know what they’re talking about. And then, Musk has not demonstrated any way whatsoever that they have done anything to fix this alleged fraud. You’re getting snowed by bullshit. Cool sounding “teehee clever” hashtag though, you’re doing great.
- Comment on Watch: Trump Calls Out Massive Social Security Fraud After DOGE Exposes Ancient 'Vampires' 2 months ago:
Jesus, this community is an endless parade of horrors.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 months ago:
It took off from the US and apparently the landing gear failed. Trump and his pasty pal, are they going to increase the number of inspectors and tighten regulations for airplane maintenance? Seems doubtful. Probably fire as many inspectors as possible.
- Comment on DOGE needs to 'cut deeper' and must ‘keep slashing’ to succeed, says Kevin O’Leary 2 months ago:
Succeed at loosening regulations on Elon Musk and arranging wonderful things like drilling for oil at national parks. Here’s a hint to people who don’t understand: “DOGE” succeeding means harming the public in a variety of ways. “DOGE” is not about efficiency, and the only way it’s about corruption is to try to enable it.
- Comment on Leader behind migrant flight to Martha's Vineyard tapped to head red state's new immigration board 2 months ago:
Oh, those flights that were basically kidnapping and arranged by lying to people? Stand up guy. Maybe commit a few felonies and he can get a cabinet position.
- Comment on Member when all it took to lose the confidence of the American People was too much enthusiasm? 2 months ago:
After watching what happened with Bernie and so on more recently, my belief is it was not an organic thing, but rather the DNC intentionally iced Dean with the complicity and assistance of the media.
- Comment on Hurricane, Dog Who Protected Obama White House From Intruder, Dies at 15 2 months ago:
Good thing we pays tens of millions for secret service when this dog does it instead.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 months ago:
You don’t even live in the US but for some reason have opinions on this? Oh.
Anyway, after they fired 300 people from the National Nuclear Security Agency, they were “oh oops DOE didn’t realize those people oversaw the safety of our nuclear arsenal” and tried to hire them back, but for some idiotic reason said they didn’t know how to contact them. Employees often aren’t keen to go back to employers that suddenly severed them for no reason. And how insanely stupid is that? Maybe these “DOGE” morons should be a little more careful, not “cut first, rehire later”. It’s not that easy. There is NOT a lot of transparency about this, in fact. If you really think it’s about efficiency or savings you are misinformed or perhaps deluded.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 months ago:
I don’t feel like flight controllers, nuclear security staff and park rangers is wasting money.
- Comment on Projected DOGE savings now near $110 billion, or over $700 per American taxpayer. 2 months ago:
If it’s even accurate, which it probably isn’t.
- Comment on Anon describes the micro-celeb pipeline 2 months ago:
Lemmy went well for a couple months and then started posting low effort shit. Now Lemmy tops twinks.
- Comment on Finding an "unavailable" video in a YouTube playlist is a pain 2 months ago:
Unfortunately I didn’t have a desktop/notebook for about 5 years, so I couldn’t do that by my normal means. I guess I could have done screen recording while watching it.
- Comment on Finding an "unavailable" video in a YouTube playlist is a pain 2 months ago:
I wish it would at least leave the name of the song so I could remember it and find it elsewhere. Reminds me of why I started doing bookmarks on sites like Etsy vs “favoriting”.
- Comment on Anon has a business idea 2 months ago:
I mean, this is posted on 4chan, so I’m skeptical. It could work, I guess.
- Comment on Anon visits America 3 months ago:
Yeah
- Comment on Anon airs out 3 months ago:
This is my first time hearing about that. Many people are extremely stupid, so it makes sense some notion like that would be idiotic racist bullshit that various losers would believe.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 7 months ago:
i would love more parties and more choices. If we could get something besides FPTP voting that would be great.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 7 months ago:
You are still missing who votes. You seem to think you vote, but it is really the state that votes.
Uh… no, that’s my point. If electors are selected by a popular vote, that’s the vote. Very rare for electors to switch candidates.
This states thing is a questionable proxy system. We are sort of, theoretically, a republic of states. Sure. However, it’s a flawed system that isn’t quite relevant to how the country has developed. It’s silly to act like a system invented 250 years ago will always be the best or most effective. The founders of the country didn’t expect for the systems to never change. They also didn’t expect a party duopoly and hoped to avoid the current situation.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 7 months ago:
I’m obviously aware of electors. They’re selected by what you called a ‘popularity contest’.
A ‘fair vote for president’ is not really what I’d call the electoral college. Why would my vote count for more in Wyoming than Florida? It’s not consistent either. Large states still have way more power, so I’m not sure what that’s solving.
Okay, glad we can agree on swing states. How could that change under the current system, though? I guess small population states are never going to be as popular for campaigning as places where you can go visit 20x the population in just one city.
The left complains about this system because gives conservatives power disproportionate to their actual numbers, while we are still nominally a democracy. If there was anything like reasonable bipartisan legislative work, it might be better, but things have become so contentious. And yes, I don’t expect to see it change because conservative states would have to choose to give up power.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 7 months ago:
A popular vote is something people who do understand the Constitution or the power of the states.
I can’t parse that sentence.
Being president isn’t about being popular. It is about the states picking the person to represent them.
We are a representative government. We are not a boy band where popularity matters.What? Within each state it’s a popularity contest.
So you’re saying popular vote or ‘boy band popularity contest’ is fine within each state, but not for the whole nation at once, because we have to disproportionately select electors where people in North Dakota count 3x as much as people in Texas or California. Why’s that? The Senate is already bad enough where 30 million people in Texas get the same weight as 4 million people in Oregon or 700,000 in North Dakota.
The idea that the US is a coalition of independent states made sense over 150 years ago or 250 years ago, but not so much now. As much as say, some idiots in Texas fantasize about it, states are not free to leave the US and it’s no different than any country made up of provinces.
I would be more fine with the electoral college if the number of electors was updated to match growing populations. The system also is super lame in how it makes the entire election come down to tens of thousands of votes in ‘swing states’.
- Comment on The Reason for the Electoral College 7 months ago:
I like how you act like you really believe these things and that they make sense.
- Comment on Trump Supporters Mysteriously INJURED At Trump Rally, Chemical Attack Being Investigated 7 months ago:
prob just secondhand meth smoke given the demographic
- Comment on Anon can't sleep 7 months ago:
It does seem pretty wild how widely it’s prescribed given anecdotes like that. I also a knew a guy who had been taking it for over 10 years and clearly was wildly addicted.
- Comment on Anon can't sleep 7 months ago:
I had a friend whose mom was prescribed Ambien. I think it was the first time I’d ever heard of it. She said she kept having experiences like waking up in bed with empty bags of flour and jars of mayonnaise, so she stopped taking it.