Mirshe
@Mirshe@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is a real post from the official DHS account on X 1 day ago:
“Whitewashed tombs” comes to mind.
- Comment on Mr. Pope 4 days ago:
Catholicism IS Christianity.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 6 days ago:
They might’ve had one (or several) bad experiences and this is a trauma response, but even in that case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “yeah sure they’ll pay their own way, I just feel safer if we have a second pair of eyes I trust in the restaurant/cafe/etc with us”. Like, you don’t gotta be at the table, but I kinda get it for the first date or two being “hey I trust this person, mind if they tag along and grab a drink at the bar to be my watchman or whatever”.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 1 week ago:
Just play City of Heroes. It’s still running in private servers, and Homecoming is even doing active development on new powers and questlines.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Massaging your stats to make them say what you want is basic statistics 101.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
Also, more kids are just getting diagnosed. Back when I was in school in the 90s, I was very lucky to be in a rich school district that actually taught teachers how to spot signs so they could recommend a screening, which the district would foot the bill for because they had a psychologist on staff. Now, more and more districts have people like that, and more and more teachers are taught how to spot early signs of autism (and more parents are aware of it) that kids who previously might have just been “weird kids” are actually getting diagnosed with autism.
I won’t deny a potential environmental link, but if there is one, it’s likely more linked to fossil fuels than anything. BUT that’s hard to get traction against, and it doesn’t have a magic bullet that’ll immediately “solve” the issue.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 2 weeks ago:
No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yup. The few I met at Yellowstone were approaching small eagle size.
- Comment on Has this happened to you? 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound very shareholder-minded of you. /s
- Comment on “REGARDING THE SEARCH EFFORTS FOR MY DICK: SINCE I DIRECTED FBI PERSONNEL TO TURN THE LIGHTS ON, OUR AGENTS HAVE MADE A SECOND PASS AT THE TARGET AREA WHICH YIELDED MINIMAL AND INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS... 3 weeks ago:
This would be Hel, which is sort of like “you weren’t terrible but you weren’t awesome”, although you also have Náströnd, which is a place within Hel reserved for murderers, adulterers, and those who break oaths.
- Comment on Feelin the Bern? 3 weeks ago:
Of course, we all know that he also has invented time travel solely to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand to ignite WWI.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 3 weeks ago:
I mean, Russia’s certainly looking like they want to try at Finland again with those troop buildups, and they’re propping up a lot of armed agitators in Moldova, as well as a lot of sabotage across Central Europe (and now a drone incursion accidentally-maybe-not into Poland). Sure looks to me like if Russia isn’t an aggressor nation towards Europe, they’re doing a damn fine job imitating one.
Do they have the troops, morale, equipment, money, or veterancy to effectively prosecute a war against a nation that hasn’t undergone serious regime change recently? My money is personally on no success, but I’m definitely willing to say that Putin will give it a try. He has leashed his entire wagon to the horse named “expansionism”, and he NEEDS some sort of victory to keep any semblance of public support, no matter how jaded his populace might be - otherwise his dictator friends might get ideas on seizing Russian lands.
- Comment on Good luck! 4 weeks ago:
I’d immediately miss one of those incredibly tall, narrow steps and break my fucking neck. No thanks.
- 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months ago:
I had to make these when I sold cellphones. So much sock money.
- Comment on They're completely serious 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Sending war journos would definitely send a message.