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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streamline it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is still more rational than the original Senate, and the modern Senate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨City of eternal winter? (Stable winter weather year-round)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yakutsk is the coldest inhabited city in the world with months of sustained sub -40C weather. Unfortunately, It’ll climb into the 30s during the summer. If you wonder why anyone lives there it’s because of diamond and other valuable resource extraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh, where did I get my drip?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The house band slaps tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Witcher Expansion? In 2026?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I see it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put your seat back or no?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are products that attach to the seat in front of you to prevent the person from reclining.

  It is ethical, noble, and honest to use this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Based

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big health doesnt want you to know⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got some lox on sale and the flesh is greasy and it has a strong smell of fish. Tastes fine, but I’ve never seen that before in smoked salmon. Is this normal? I’m not a big fish guy.

  To be clear, I and two others have eaten this and haven’t suffered any ill effects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨drones ruin all the fun for US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, Rubio just walks around with resting defeat face. IDK why OP felt it needed to be sloped-up to make the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work smart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re doing a factorial the long way, is there any reason to multiply anything times one? It seems like you could just skip it, but I’m not a math guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly prefer games with fixed character(s). The biggest problem with open character creation is that it necessitates a native full of generic dialogue and events to accommodate every possibility the player might choose. Fixed characters live in a world where they belong, and that world regards them as developed and known individuals, rather than rudimentary flavor dialogue that may account for species, gender, faction, or class.

  Roleplaying Geralt, Aloy, Arthur Morgan, and Cal Kestis means pathos, story, and character development. Vault dweller and the Tarnished One are coat-racks that you hang armor sets on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day it was ok to receive a paddlin (simpson ref there) at school as a kid. But on the flip side it was against the law to beat a paddle a prisoner by a guard, why the rule difference?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my ass paddled 3 times before my State cut that crap out. Mr Summerville got me twice, but that was nothing compared to the drilled-out paddle that Mrs Routin kept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw his ass in the volcano.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good romance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s always confused me when people make a huge distinction between friendship and romance. By my thinking, a romantic relationship is a type of friendship. Like squares and rectangles.

  The idea that you could be in a committed relationship with someone who’s not your friend seems bizarre and hostile somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see your "Nah this won't be in the exam" questions in the exam paper:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI =/= shitpost, rather AI == shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robotaxis can break traffic laws without fines under new California rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is DEI for robots. If you have to lower the standards to qualify; you don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an English equivalent: burgher. (pronounced like hamburger)

  It just means a “person of town”. And you don’t have to memorize ludicrous French spelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York lawmakers endorse Governor's plan to reduce car insurance premiums by making it harder for crash victims to seek compensation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If insurance companies were getting hosed by injured people, why don’t they look into ways that cars might cause fewer injuries instead of abandoning the injured?

  Capitalism is the enemy of reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I pretend to care about the lives in Gaza and Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet is a great place for children to express wild views and try out extreme politics in order to test boundaries and discover themselves. I support this acting-out; it’s healthy. You may grow up to be an moderately adjusted person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games rule⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s worked in restaurants what I recognize about this bathroom is all the beautiful tile. What that means is that somewhere in the house, there is a hose that spits boiling hot water. With this hose you can clean and sanitize a bathroom stall without ever having to step inside of it.

  The first restaurant I ever worked in was a fast food joint and they cleaned the whole dining room this way. They had that water heater turned up to fuck-you and it was a little scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wild Ones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In both instances, you’re the moral agent who gets to decide. And it’s not our advantage in intelligence or wisdom, it’s our advantage in mass.

  Morals have power dynamics, CMM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But they have great personalities⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: strip clubs don’t employ the girls.

  They’re “independent contractors” who actually pay the house to use the stage or the VIP rooms. This creates a natural filter so that girls that are less popular make less money until they move on. In a mid-sized city like mine, you’ll have a hierarchy of clubs from the one with the richest clients and the hottest dancers, to the poorest clients and lest attractive dancers. Also there will be a club where black dudes are more welcome. (often the “worst” club)

  So, stripping was gig work before the term. And it’s no surprise that extra-exploitative labor practices were tested out on women first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mother Sarkeesian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wanna be clear, I’m not downvoting Sarkeesian, I’m downvoting AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If A zombie is dead. Completely dead why does a shot to the Brain kill them? Is the brain keeping them semi alive? Also how do they keep sharp teeth to bite you and not rotting away?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shooting them in the head doesn’t kill them. Nothing can. Even chopping them into little pieces, the peaces start attacking you. You can burn them up, but that will just spread the curse to other corpses in the acid rain.

  My source is the zombie documentary: Return of the Living Dead (1985)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work with Hospice. I once witnessed a nurse explain to a patient that their son wasn’t going to visit. The patient did not take it well. I asked her about it later and she said that conversation was common.

  I don’t know wright or wrong, but I do know that death regularly fails to overcome estrangement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Symbole of Peace⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is Hitler popular in India? Is it just an anti-British thing?

  I know that some Irish and Indians sought alliance with Hitler to aid in their own liberation. Finland did the same thing, not because Britain was an Allied nation, but because the USSR was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of those kind of estimation methods is not so you’ll agree with a clock, it’s so you’ll agree with yourself if you do it twice. Using a “foot” as a literal measuring unit isn’t so dumb if only one person is measuring.

  In cooking, what a “cup” is in volume can vary by like 30% from cook to cook and depending on environmental factors. But if you’re the same cook, working in the same environment, your method will work every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Story of my life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a classic example of the decline of the American standard of living!

  Boomer misogynists were able to hate their wives. GenX hated on their girlfriends. GenY is forced to hate their fantasies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to learn Linux audio setup from a Christian missionary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The responses to this post are why I like lemmy.

  I read this meme and dropped in here to pile on the Christian, only to find out that ya’ll are more knowledgeable and kinder than I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax that peckerwood until he starts singing spirituals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American workers are tired of waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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