Mirshe

@Mirshe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but we’re doing a fantastic job exporting a lot of the doctrine and repackaging it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this sounds a lot like “here’s my video of the family I’m going to hate-crime.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Secures Peace Deal Where Putin Gets Ukraine During The Week While Zelenskyy Gets Weekends And Two Weeks In The Summer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They were a lot better before Trump 1. Then they purged literally every member of their staff that was even slightly liberal, and their humor went with them. Every so often the bat finds the pinata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeasty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, some companies still put inedible chemicals like bleach or ammonia on their food trash to make it completely useless “as a legal measure” because otherwise homeless people who eat expired food might sue (according to the bean counters).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns a new spell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aesthetic is more important than practicality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to make these when I sold cellphones. So much sock money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. It’s not that soft tissue DOESN’T fossilize, it’s just that the conditions to do so are much rather, and soft tissue is obviously much more susceptible to degradation before fossilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Illiterate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s different levels of literacy as well. If we take things like math literacy and functional literacy into account (things like doing your taxes or filling out government forms), something like 60% of the adult population is functionally illiterate (below a third grade level) in at least one area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, media companies have been doing this for years now, and now the gaming industry has figured out the “cancel something and claim the potential profits as a tax writeoff”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pocket knife⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why bother disposing of the corpse when they can just tell the media you were resisting arrest. Interesting fact: corpses can’t press charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, it’s cooler than that. We tried out aviation on Mars to make sure we figured out how to do aviation on Titan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religion choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Benny Hinn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, unless you’ve got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A slightly different experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but most places have gone to accrued time because that way most people will use a good chunk of it before summer on various other things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pitches a new game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they’re there to make. All of the C-levels still think it’s the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British photojournalist hit during Los Angeles protests to undergo emergency surgery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending war journos would definitely send a message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take a shot of vitamin M and keep fighting, Soldier!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you get a way to craft them and can make the most broken bullshit imaginable (Skyrim).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You would be incorrect. Many wealthier high schools put a ton of money into their sports facilities and equipment. Several HS in my state operate 10-thousand-plus-seating stadiums that look a lot like collegiate or semiprofessional facilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  3. The schools that aren’t underfunded have millions of dollars in funds earmarked for sports usually.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remastered or something idk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna say “or like 10 minutes to Falkreath,” but Falkreath has nothing either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I managed to get the Earth and Fire Crystals and couldn’t figure out how to get to where the Water Crystal was. All of THAT was from literal wandering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox charges you $25 if your credit card is declined⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the next couple weeks, I’m sure. The financials are watching all the axes being taken to regulation in the industrial sector and I’m sure they’re gonna want in on that scene at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is Turkish⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget the Armenian Genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just watched the movie Hacksaw Ridge. Got me thinking can people in the military turn down an order because they disagree with it on sensible grounds? Like Trump ordering them to invade CN?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, but you’re missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump’s first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he’s done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.

  Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don’t think they have enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly because all of that is a highly-confusing tangle. Food stamps are hilariously limited in most states, same with Medicaid. Section 8/HUD will almost always make sure you wind up living in the most run-down tenement your town has, run by the shittiest landlord, who will almost always be looking for a reason to evict you - and that even assumes you don’t have to wait literal years. The current wait time for Section 8 housing in my city is something like a year and a half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vin Diesel Claims Marvel Wants to Make a Groot Movie⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Groot’s race, being plant-based, communicates through pheromones and infrasound IIRC. Rocket understands him after a fashion because he’s a raccoon, and thus can both smell the pheromones and hear the infrasound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Park Rangers Try to ‘Open Some Hearts’ on Social Media | Some rangers decided it was worth the risk to speak out online about their firings and share their love of the National Park Service.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More like “sell national parks to resource extraction companies who’ve been chomping at the bit for decades”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that you’d have to get at least 38 state legislatures to ratify it as well. Getting any amendments passed in the modern day is a whole circus in and of itself, and I highly doubt there’s enough political capital to get such an obviously targeted amendment (since the candidate in question would’ve had to have two nonconsecutive terms - meaning this applies to Grocer Cleveland and Donald Trump) passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't think they understand. We're interviewing them too.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bingo. I wasted time with a huge, multi-day, multi part interview process with a huge local manufacturing conglomerate. Multiple interview panels over a week, and finally just got rejected because the first three panels I had sat in had no allowance to reject anyone. According to a friend that works there, “it tests how persevering you are”.