SayJess

@SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  lol lame. I like how you display your bigotry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if I was elected President, and took all the tariff bullshit off of these countries? Balanced the budget, opened up the Reagan Reserves?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We are heavily dependent on oil in the US. In most places, if you do not have a car, you are severely limited on job prospects and other necessary things to live. Nothing gets cheaper, we pay for it in one way or another. For prices to come down, it would require good faith actors, who do not have fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximize profit and have unlimited growth. And in this economic system, bad faith is the stock and trade. This is why you never hear of growth-flation. Prices go up, quantities and sizes go down, and if we don’t like it, we are shit out of luck.

  The president doesn’t have the power to do this own their own. It would take a ton of people working towards a common goal of a better society. And for most people, if it doesn’t make them money, they don’t care to try.

  Wars have been started, heads of state have been kidnapped, millions have died, just for oil. Add to that that you are also attempting to reign in the military? You would be turning off the spigot for the most depraved people in the world. They’d make an example of you, for those that would try such a thing again. They would not even cover it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shhhh! it's sleeping.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty standard stuff. Make the building, then stand it up. It’s how buildings are made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The restrooms at my workplace can get down right nasty. We get a ton of temp workers (I started out as a temp), and they are given very short breaks from the assembly line. At least 20% do not wash their hands. People carry on phone conversations and scroll TikTok in the stalls. The floors around the toilets get very gross.

  I loathe that spironolactone makes me thirsty, and in turn makes me need to urinate somewhat often. My hovering game is on point though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone at one point is going to get triggered about something that they feel passionate about, and waste time writing paragraphs in replies. Once you recognize you are in that mode, move on. Find some silly cat videos, or fascists getting beat up.

  This is the internet, where the positions are made up, and vote counts literally do not matter, at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at the text on the beer can. It’s gibberish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time flies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is this meme from the future because 20 years ago my friends pool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. There is literally not one single thing that can portray Israel in a positive light, next to the backdrop of the wholesale slaughter—bought and paid for by the west.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bringus Studios

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny thing is, the regional grocer in my area has cameras up all over the entrances and parking lot. In my situation, there is less surveillance at Walmart than the “other guy”.

  Surge pricing, here we come!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is garbage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex. Jellyfin is fine too, I am just used to Plex and prefer it’s interface. I don’t mind paying a few dollars per month for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the Home Alone house then and now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look’s fine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we really doing this again?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a racially diverse church does not necessarily make that group of people liberal.

  There are plenty of liberals, especially the religious, that will not share their discomfort, or even disdain, of LGBTQ+ folks in public discourse. They will give performative answers, so that they can show the world that are enlightened. I’ve heard coworkers, as recently as 2 nights ago, saying homophobic or transphobic things whilst unaware that I was nearby. When I confronted one of them about it, he said “my sister is a lesbian, so what is the problem?” Guy calls himself an ally, who happened to vote for trump. I explained why calling oneself an ally is more than just a self-proscribed label, but I know it is lost on him. He is an idiot who blames those people for his problems.

  Conservatives are hypocrites at heart. Those with money, and their working class useful idiots, will do and say the exact opposite of what they impose on others, as it suits them. Out of state abortions? Grindr hookups at CPAC?

  Christians don’t see that those of us looking in from the outside see no such thing as liberalism in these house’s of worship. This is why it makes news when the extreme minority of church’s allow us to participate.

  LGBTQ+ people are certainly capable of and demonstrate hypocrisy as well. (LGB Drop the T, WLW TERFS, bisexual erasure, racism, etc)

  Being anti-Trump is not a monolith. Plenty of people dislike the man, but still stand for all of the bigoted conservative views he and his ilk have co-opted. I cannot understand why the “log cabin republicans” exist other than that they want to fit in so bad, they are happy to be one of the good ones. They think they have a seat at the table, when in reality they are pets begging for scraps. They are used by the right to point to and say “we don’t hate the gays, just the freaks that shove it in our faces.”

  No different than with people of color—not a monolith. Look at how many Asian and Latino immigrants who are fervent republicans. People of color can absolutely be racists, as it is a human condition. Latino’s voted for the brutalization of their brothers and sisters, for reasons I will never understand, because those are not my lived experiences. For the many years where I hung out with VN folks, I’ve witnessed SE Asian racism against minority SE Asians, but it certainly is a very different beast than white supremacy. It ultimately is a we are better than them worldview.

  All people are capable of bigotry and hypocrisy. They’ll claim to be independent while voting straight ticket only one way or the other for their entire adult life. People have voted against their interests for as long as elections have been held. If they did not, the republicans would have lost their grip on the wheel once minority groups started to grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump on LeBron James: ‘Maybe He’s a Racist’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoooooo boy! I cannot wait to ask one of the brain dead Trump supporters at work (who is constantly rambling about James being the GOAT over Jordan), how he feels about his daddy calling his biggest sports hero a racist, who is inferior to Jordan!

  He’ll look away, while kind of trailing off, and then change the subject by blurting out some other brain dead talking point.

  It’ll be nice to see a couple of chips in his head burn.

  In other news:

  That’s nice, let’s talk about Epstein’s Ranch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain like I am a child terrorism without the whole good vs evil schtik? My sister in laws kid asked me about it. He is 9.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We are talking about a 9 year old here. Should we show them videos of the Israeli’s sniping children, point, and say “that is terrorism”.

  Read the fucking room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain like I am a child terrorism without the whole good vs evil schtik? My sister in laws kid asked me about it. He is 9.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jimmy doesn’t like it when his class talks about wizards. He’s asked them to stop, nicely and then very angrily, but the class said they will not stop.

  The next time someone started talking about wizards, jimmy put gum in that kid’s hair, and stomped on their foot. Everyone is now scared that if they talk about wizards, Jimmy will hurt them.

  Jimmy used hurting someone to scare everyone else to do what he wanted them to do.

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  When a child is 9, it can be difficult to discuss the nuances of whether violence is justified or not. Perhaps the wizard’s were racists, or bigots that discriminated against people with immutable traits that Jimmy has. Perhaps Jimmy disagrees that the wizard’s support allowing warlocks to also be called wizards, stating that he believes this is a moral wrong. Giving a black and white answer to politically motivated violence is impossible, and providing context and nuance at that age is difficult at best.

  The ultimate message should be that harming others should never be the answer. As they grow up and learn more about historical context, they can connect that back to the definition of hurting someone to get what you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Nord VPN worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PIA has never steered me wrong, just saying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically if I found a suitcase of money by the side of the road, is there a legal way to claim it on my taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I buy my groceries each week, and pay with cash, how would the IRS know about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically if I found a suitcase of money by the side of the road, is there a legal way to claim it on my taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you let the government know you found a suitcase full of money? So that they can take a cut?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does dried pasta have an expiration date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does dried pasta have an expiration date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brilliant!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does dried pasta have an expiration date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Marinara Massacre

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Under terrorism charges, no less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does dried pasta have an expiration date⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  New metal band name: Death by Pasta

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Forth of July, Stay Dazed and Confused⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got ‘em!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White nationalist group marches as US celebrates July 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprised that ICE was willing to give so many people the day off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemme live⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sun’s out? Ball out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point does being carded go from “come on man” to “bless your heart”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is incompatible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-A to USB-C adapter. They’re inexpensive, and you don’t have to get one for each of the 30 flash drives you have.