Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 day ago:
Working in an office for 8 hours a day costs me an additional hour getting ready and commuting to to work, an hour away from home for lunch, an hour commuting back home and unwinding after work, turning 8 hours of paid labor into 11 hours of doing shit for other people.
Working at home claws back 15 hours a week.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 6 days ago:
Guillotine museum.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
“I’m not stalking you. You’re to ugly for anyone to stalk. Quit stalking me!”
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah? Well, so’s your face!
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 2 weeks ago:
Nothing good comes from antagonizing ICE directly. You will not stop a single person from being kidnapped by confronting ICE directly. They’ll just go back and get more funding, more manpower, more resources, more militarization, and more and more people will be kidnapped. So it’s not really like treating the cough with Robitussin. It’s more like treating it with cocaine. Or asbestos.
If “Slashing Tires” is your level of commitment, you’re better off slashing the tires of a random millionaire. Instead of ICE demanding more resources for their operations, that millionaire will demand resources be diverted to protecting their cars instead of abducting people. Meanwhile, we all cheer every time we read about a 1% being targeted.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 2 weeks ago:
I will absolutely judge people for their wasted, wasteful, and futile efforts. Trying to target ICE agents just ensures you’ll be locked up or dead. You won’t stop any immigration action. You won’t spare a single victim from being persecuted. You’ll just serve as a warning to everyone else not to resist.
If you’re choosing violence, choose an effective target.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 2 weeks ago:
You are wrong.
Eating enough rich people stops everyone’s friends from being kidnapped.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 2 weeks ago:
Don’t fight the puppet. Guillotine the puppeteer.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 2 weeks ago:
You don’t knife tires to fight back against ICE.
Ice is the symptom, not the disease. If ICE was a persistent cough, knifing tires is treating it with Robitussin. Except that this particular cough is caused by tuberculosis, and the Robitussin will just make you feel better. While you die.
You need to treat the disease, not the symptom. To fight back against ICE, barbecue a billionaire.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
- Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime 3 weeks ago:
File a new W4 with your employer. From the instructions:
Complete Form W-4 so that your employer can withhold the correct federal income tax from your pay. If too little is withheld, you will generally owe tax when you file your tax return and may owe a penalty. If too much is withheld, you will generally be due a refund.
If you feel the correct withholding is “$0.00”, W4 is how you tell your employer to not withhold anything for taxes.
- Comment on kya 3 weeks ago:
Self defense is predicated on the “reasonable person” standard. Anyone finding themselves (or another) imperiled by what they reasonably believe to be a machine gun is justified in doing anything they reasonably believe necessary to end the threat.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 3 weeks ago:
So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles.
Going from Europe to the Americas by way of Scotland and Iceland is going to be a bit of a problem for that bird, as it can expect pretty consistent 10-20kt headwinds for the entire journey. America to Europe by that route is a comparatively easy trip.
I doubt that owls are capable of effective dynamic soaring, but that would drastically reduce the energy requirements.
- Comment on Finally I understand it 4 weeks ago:
Go back like generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 4 weeks ago:
30, you say? Ok doc. See you Wednesday.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 4 weeks ago:
That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 4 weeks ago:
Some context might provide the distinction.
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Adam: "Jane told me that he licked her asshole."
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.
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- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 4 weeks ago:
Saluting in the US, your hand should be rotated so that the palm of your hand is toward your own face. The person in front of you should be able to see the back of your hand, not your palm. Also, the tips of your fingers should be touching the outside corner of your eyebrow, or the outside corner of your glasses, or the corner of the brim of your cap. The middle of the forehead is right out.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 4 weeks ago:
I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone else said it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- I was accused of having said it; I’ve never said it. I never said he licked me asshole. <-- He licked my asshole, but I didn’t talk about it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone licked my asshole, but it wasn’t him. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He did something with my asshole, but it wasn’t licking. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked an asshole, just not mine. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked some part of me, just not my asshole.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
Paracetamol" takes the “para” part, and then a few other random letters that don’t really make sence.
Because it actually comes from a different chemical name for the same compound: para-acetylaminophenol
- Comment on proof of wormholes 5 weeks ago:
Americans know “paracetamol” about as well as you apparently know “acetaminophen”.
They are the same compound.
“Paracetamol” is the generic term used in Europe and Australia. “Acetaminophen” is the generic term commonly used in the Americas.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 5 weeks ago:
A contradiction in terms.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 1 month ago:
I’m going to start putting those signs on public microwaves…
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 1 month ago:
Communism/socialism requires some mechanism to compel cooperation with the collective’s objectives. The greater the degree of central planning, the greater the authoritarianism required to implement it. When you reach a level of centralization sufficient to justify the “communism” label, you’re well into the “authoritarian” quadrants.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 1 month ago:
Nor can communism.
- Comment on Don't miss this Lunar event! 1 month ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Clock logic 1 month ago:
Geometry.
The first clocks were sundials, which worked by putting a line on the ground. As soon as you comparing two different lines on the ground, you are doing geometry to represent time.
When you start messing around with geometry, you need an easy way to describe the angle of an equilateral triangle. 1/6th of a circle, or 1/3rd of a line. Trying to represent 1/3 or 1/6th in base 10 is fugly. Trying to divide a circle into 10 equal sections is just as fugly.
Dividing a circle into 6 equal sections is trivial: after you draw the circle with your compass, walk the compass around the perimeter. You have just inscribed a hexagon.
You’re still missing the angle of 1/4 of a circle: the angles of a square. Those are pretty important in geometry as well. It’s fairly trivial to draw another 6 points between the first 6 on your circle.
We use a 12-hour clock because of basic geometry. The 360-degree circle is the bastard child of basic geometry and a base-10 number system.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
Broken Clock.
