TheDoozer
@TheDoozer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Follow this advice for a happier 2026 11 hours ago:
Zeus: Wow. Just… rude.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 1 week ago:
Damn, you weren’t kidding. I was expecting a cop car, not six.
To anyone looking, you have to get the corner/mid-intersection shot to get the mess of police. If you’re just going up Pine, it looks pretty benign.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
Got that Alaskan Airframe and Powerplant license, I see.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 1 week ago:
“My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”
-Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 2 weeks ago:
Short, memorable stories that show people getting punished for misdeeds and others rewarded for positive deeds is much easier to impart onto peasants than the nuances of collectivism.
I would agree if the stories consistently portrayed that. In the Bible and Torah, Job is the most righteous and good and gets fucked because of that. David has a faithful soldier that goes so far as to refuse to go home to his wife while his comrades were still fighting, and David has him killed in a fucked up way (told his general to send him where the fighting was worst and then have everybody pull back from him), all to try to cover up fucking the soldier’s wife. David’s “punishment” was he married the hot widow and the child conceived in the affair was miscarried. And as soon as she miscarried, David shrugged it off and moved on with his life.
Also, the entire Christian religion is based on absolution for whatever evil you do, you just have to be part of the club. If Hitler had “come to Jesus” right before he died, he would be in heaven while an atheist who spent their whole life doing good would be in hell. Deeds are irrelevant for punishment.
And let’s not even get into Greek Mythology, where how good or bad of a human you were was completely irrelevant to what happened to you at the whims of the gods. Same for Norse.
I don’t know how it is for any other religions, as I haven’t studied them, but I don’t think religion was required to establish a moral code and accountability. The Code of Hammurabi didn’t require religion to have a legal code (while recognizing the relief at the top showing the god of justice handing it to Hammurabi, it seems pretty clear that was artistic expression), and it pre-dated the Ten Commandments.
Someone could point to the horrible acts done in the name of religion, but just imagine if those people didn’t have the fear of god in them.
I just… what kind of argument is this? Do you think the people running the Spanish Inquisition would have tortured harder if they didn’t have the “fear of god” in them? That the Crusades would have been bloodier? What reason do you have to think that the horrible acts done in the name of religion would have been worse if it wasn’t for religion?
- Comment on Neither do I, Mr. Raccoon 4 weeks ago:
I think that it is unfortunate that he got shanked, as he was convicted and appropriately sentenced for the murder he committed. That is as it should be.
Shank the ones that get away with it, not the ones in jail for it.
- Comment on "autism didn't exist back in my day" 5 weeks ago:
That’s hilarious, I worked with the guy in the video who bro-ed out with a wrench in his pocket.
- Comment on "autism didn't exist back in my day" 5 weeks ago:
I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, “yeah, and?”
It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.
The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.
Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.
- Comment on there's actual 🌽 in cornucopia 5 weeks ago:
It’s the horn of a goat that Zeus broke off when he was a… child? God-child? Whatever. It was magical and provided an endless supply of food.
- Comment on Over the past 5 years, police in the U.S. have killed over 9,000 people 1 month ago:
Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.
- Comment on Got a little drunk last week gave money to a cult. Again. 1 month ago:
American Civil Liberties Union, and I’m not sure what they’re on about.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 1 month ago:
Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:
YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed
So much easier to keep track.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 2 months ago:
the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins
Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Are we still talking about cars or back to bodies?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Like the mechanic handing you a $15 code reader and saying “just erase it whenever it pops up.”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I actually used this to explain a concern of mine to my wife. We had a Subaru Forester that had some minor but expensive issue that kept the check engine light on, so we ignored it. And because of that missed something else that made the engine 'splode (not literally, just turned the SUV to SCRAP). About 8 hours from our house and two hours from the nearest rental car agency (and no trains). With our daughter in the back and me needing to be at work the next morning.
Anyway, I was talking about how everything hurts a bit, and because of that my general pain tolerance is way higher to the point I don’t notice most of the time I’m hurt. Like the check engine light on the Subaru.
I imagine cancer is going to come along and when I find out at stage four, people will wonder how I possibly could have put up with it up to that point without going to the doctor. And I’ll say I didn’t even notice it.
- Comment on Bum trumpet 2 months ago:
I’ve heard about deaf people learning with horror that farts make sound.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 2 months ago:
An old buddy of mine commented once on the amount if minor havoc you could wreak with a handful of chain bike locks. Cheap, wrap around some door handles and lock, walk away. Yeah, somebody can bust out a bolt cutter, but for the amount of challenge to remove it, the low cost per use, and the speed of application, it’s pretty impressive for minor mischief.
Relatively harmless, too, as long as you aren’t doing any additional nefarious shit. Might work for some gated community gates.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Thank you, Boston 2 months ago:
Oh, man, kind and fast. Hands down. Every time.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 months ago:
I don’t? I don’t think?
I’m honestly pretty light on any emotion except anger. But I don’t care enough to be anxious, and I’m pretty confident I’m not depressed. I’m reasonably unhappy about the state of the world (and my country), but I wouldn’t equate that to depression.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 months ago:
So ultimately, the punishment for not believing is being destroyed? Like, oblivion?
Shit, this sounds like a win. I have no interest in eternal existence, even supposedly “blissful” existence. I feel like anyone who thinks of eternity on more than a surface level would feel nothing but existential dread.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 2 months ago:
- Don’t carry credit card debt. Save money if you can. Get a handle on basic finances
Credit cards are this weird thing. If you need them, you shouldn’t use them (if you can help it). If you make plenty of money and don’t need them, they are a very useful financial tool. I have paid interest on one of my credit cards once in the past 3 years, and it was only to have extra available funds for buying a house. But I have accrued well over 100k airline miles and several hundred (far more than the interest I paid) in cash back. I use credit cards exclusively for everything but my mortgage, and have them set to automatically pay the statement balance prior to the due date. If you aren’t extremely confident you can do that, you should avoid credit cards.
I definitely ran afoul of credit cards in my youth, so the banks have gotten their pound of flesh from me.
- Comment on hurdle 2 months ago:
Also middle schoolers are awful. My wife and I kept telling my daughter through Elementary that Middle School age kids are the worst, because they have gotten smart enough to really hurt you (emotionally and physically), but haven’t developed the restraint or understanding consequences yet.
She just got into 6th grade and came home crying from some fucked up shit some kids were spreading about her, and she was just baffled by it. We were like “yeah, see, this is what we were talking about. It will get better. Let’s have ice cream.”
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
That’s true. It should really be referenced by the number before 10 (e.g. Base 9).
- Comment on Tea time, innit? 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve told my kids that I don’t condone intiating violence, but if someone else starts getting physically violent first, feel free to fuck them up (provoking them will still get my kid in trouble, though).
However, if the institution itself fails to protect the kids, and my kid told me they and their friends were doing this on purpose, I’d take the day off for their suspension and take them to the arcade and a movie or something. And then I’d have a very serious talk with their principal.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 2 months ago:
Thank goodness I have an opporunity to post this.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 2 months ago:
So, to your first question (about Antifa), MAGA don’t consider what the current administration (or anything they support) to be fascist. Because they tend to put the conclusion before the question: “I am against fascism. I support these policies. Therefore these policies must not be fascist.”
And because they’ve decided these fascist policies are not fascist, the term “Antifa” to them is similar to “pro-life” for pro-choice people. It’s a term that isn’t exactly accurate but makes the group naming themselves look like the good guys. And in the same way that pro-choice people don’t consider themselves “anti-life” just because pro-life people call themselves that, MAGA people don’t consider themselves “pro-fascist” just because Antifa call themsleves that.
- Comment on Pretty sure he's fine 3 months ago:
My friend has a zoology degree, spent time as an officer in the military, and runs a successful business building training systems.
She’s super stoked to be fullfilling one of her biggest dreams, going on an Antarctic expedition.
As a janitor.