FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake? 23 hours ago:
This question is why some overly clever and yet still useless fellow invented the spork.
Though, the answer for me is simple. Is Icencream involved? Spoon. No ice cream? Fork.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 3 days ago:
Is this a question? Or are you just venting?
Pick your battles and go to town. You can’t fight them all, but you can fight for what you feel is most important.
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 4 days ago:
A lot of kids who grow up rich grow up bored, seeking ways to not be bored. When you can afford pretty much anything and you’re surrounded by people who promise to give you something new and exciting, it’s easy to get addicted.
To drugs. To booze. Sex. To adrenaline. And people are willing to provide all of it.
The unrealistic part is the drug dealer killing his user. It’s business. Killing your customers coz they got cut off is bad for business. Especially when the families are wealthy enough to buy their own justice.
Before it ever gets that far, though, the family probably pays off the drug dealer and lets them know there’s no more money there. The dealer might not cut them off, but they’re certainly not trusting that the adding is “good for it.”
Even if the dealer was that stupid, to let that debt large enough… there’s other ways they can pay. Access. Contacts. Information. Dirt.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 4 days ago:
But if there is no intention to deceive (and I would add no obligation to reveal that information,) then there’s no lie.
You just don’t provide information.
If my mom asks “where were you?” And I refuse to answer, I’m not lying, I’m just not answering, right?
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 5 days ago:
So one thing, if you haven’t seen, his son Robert is more or less following in his footsteps. his photography is insanely good.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 6 days ago:
I still haven’t forgiven the stingray.
I know that Steve would say it wasn’t the stingray’s fault, that he was the one intruding and it was just defending itself, as stingrays do.
But I’m not nearly as good a human as Steve.
- Comment on psssst 1 week ago:
This explains the crabs…
- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 1 week ago:
Here is a tracker by Project Salt Box
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
who is telling you there’s specific dna?
if you’re talking about a ancestry dna kit, it’s probably fair to say it’s bunk.
- Comment on In the Movie Sinners, how are the vampires able to attack them without being invited in? 1 week ago:
perhaps you can explain why correcting a myth (that folklore creatures were always allegory an not literal belief,) means I was hurt?
or perhaps you can address what I said.
belief in folklore predates blaming the creatures in folklore for things. things like nocturnal emissions, as an example. they’d have blame something else if they didn’t already believe in demons. (specifically succubi.)
these beliefs weren’t allegory. it was literally a demon haunted world. And for many, it still is.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 1 week ago:
Technically, yes. And SCOTUS found a bit of a spine and upheld that.
They would also stay citizens if their other parent was one.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 1 week ago:
As others have said, if you have citizenship solely through your mom, and she got that citizenship though fraud (let’s say she concealed the fact that she was a criminal or something,) the she’s have her citizenship revoked.
It would be as though she never had it.
Which means it would be as though you never had it.
For a more specific case… Musk lied on his citizenship docs. He was here on a student visa and was not attending school.
If he gets his revoked (which he won’t coz he’s rich.) any of his kids could lose theirs- if their mothers weren’t also is citizens.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
Even if not, there’s more than a few retroreflectors (fancy mirrors)up there, installed so we can get laser distance measurements.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
Mock him for being incurious, stupid and failing google-fu.
Or show him some of these links, your call.
rmg.co.uk/…/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debu…
starwalk.space/en/news/was-the-moon-landing-fake
askanexpert.asu.edu/earthspace/…/moon-landing
For the Artemis vs Apollo stuffs:
spaceinformer.com/artemis-vs-apollo-comparison/
apollo11space.com/apollo-vs-artemis-how-technolog…
And just to see how stupid he is, maybe ask if the earth is flat. If they say yes… just have him go watch this entire channel…
The reason I’m calling him stupid is because he’s either never actually searched or done any kind of research beyond conspiracy theory memes, or has immediately discounted the vast majority of people patiently explaining why he’s wrong.
- Comment on Final words revealed? 1 week ago:
“Release the Epstein Files you Rancid shitsack!”
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 1 week ago:
What do you enjoy doing that’s not work and not “adulting”?
Find a hobby. Then find a group that shares that hobby. Clean up a park day, maybe.
Or find a charity or nonprofit that needs volunteers.
The local library probably has things going on, too.
Find a third space whether it’s the magic the gsthering shop and shop tournies or church or a knitting circle ran by the local yarn shop.
- Comment on psssst 1 week ago:
It’s all fun and games until the scatologist shows up.
Then it’s all poop jokes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’ve never met a swan, have you?
“Mild annoyance” are the seagulls stealing your food.
(Yes, that swan dunked the seagull so it couldn’t fly away.)
Swans don’t steal food. You give it to them hoping they don’t murder you.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’d say ‘nope!’ But they kinda look tasty…
- Comment on ard 2 weeks ago:
Most people do. Not her fault
- Comment on ard 2 weeks ago:
Ye daddy was a 2 pump chump!
- Comment on ard 2 weeks ago:
So…
What is Dast?
(The word that means what we typically use Bastard for is Dastard.)
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
desert rock rust
You mean Desert Varnish?, it’s caused by dew and clay or silicates dusting the rock and the heat of being in the sun.
- Comment on Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait? 2 weeks ago:
Apparently Aldo hotels Americans are know to stay at or something.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
But this is because of the naivety and lack of critical thinking skills. Not because they are young.
Rather, because public education has been gutted to prevent kids from being taught such skills.
And even more egregiously, taught to be incurious. To not ask questions. To obey.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I suspect the slop only works on people who already nominally believe or agree with it.
Like it’s no surprise there’s so many women-haters in the Christian faith. Because if you read the scriptures at face value god hates women, just as one example.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
Right click the dots “don’t recommend this channel.”
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I wasn’t trying to suggest they don’t.
Just that his YT channel is alway good for a timeline cleanse.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
I bet somebody is paying for that shit to pop into your feed.
lots of the religious right think that if you just see it, you’re going to agree and like, you know, become one of them. Which is funny because I find those kinds of content repulsive.
(Clint’s Reptiles, though? oh yeah. dude’s a legend.)
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 weeks ago:
I’d avoid planetary alignments pixies. maybe starwberry milkshakes, but those are hard to pass up.