Mediocre_Bard
@Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Simpler times? 1 week ago:
Sign me up.
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 1 week ago:
China.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 2 weeks ago:
Well, okay then. I doubt that I have any EA games on my roster, but I’ll go through and give it a diligent scrubbing, just to be on the safe side.
- Comment on Who got raptured today? 3 weeks ago:
How can I make my skussy more appealing to the imps?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 weeks ago:
G. Burritos are the best.
- Comment on Oh Jesus he is cooked 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t know I could watch the same piece of shit get murdered twice, but here we are.
- Comment on Brianna Ladapo, the wife of Florida's surgeon general, claims her husband won’t work with anyone she hasn’t vetted. She also believes “dark forces” are targeting her family with chemtrails 4 weeks ago:
Jenna haze with a strap-on
I looked it up.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 5 weeks ago:
Well, he’s retarded, so take it with a grain of salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No. Kids won’t be able to pronounce it, teachers won’t be able to pronounce it, job interviewers won’t be able to pronounce it, medical personal won’t be able to pronounce it, etc.
Every single one of these moments is avoidable, and no amount of these moments is worth ‘having the kid with the interesting name’.
- Comment on Good news. :) 1 month ago:
Cascadia babeee!
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 month ago:
Perhaps there is a comfort in expressing these beliefs now when before there was not?
- Comment on That's an impressive drop. Any ideas why? 1 month ago:
From a top raid trainer at the time, “Knock down drag-out fight, killed 'em and looted ‘em. Finally log off at the end of the raid, and?’ WoW Players in WotLK say, ‘Tough fight. Boss is down, I’m alive. Finally get to bed at the end of the run, and?’ They all say, 'The best sex I’ve had in months.”
- Comment on Fishnet stockings 1 month ago:
Gross.
Good start to the day.
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 1 month ago:
Yo, this sounds like my parents. A sense of ‘never being good enough’ and ‘always having to do more’ can come from this and rob you of joy later in life.
Some parents suck, and I hope that you do okay.
- Comment on World Of Warcraft Turtle WoW Servers Hit With Blizzard Lawsuit 1 month ago:
This was always going to happen.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 month ago:
True. I called a junk hauling agency and they showed up and did the work. There was a tipping option at the end.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
They’re just fixing more shit, right?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
Also, there was no successful remediation of this behavior. I worked with him for 5 years and, while he did learn the academics, he never really adjusted well to our society.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
Yep. He was we would be getting the precious metal. This was made very clear by him.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 1 month ago:
I had a learner on spectrum who physically attacked me for 2 hours because, after our classroom won the ‘Golden Trashcan’ Award for cleanest room, the Golden Trashcan was not real gold.
The only quote I remember from this was him screaming at me while gesturing at the trashcan, “That’s not a thing! That’s not even an animal!”
10/10, would teach again.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 month ago:
I … look at them. There is no actual thinking that occurs. If it is 9:22 then it is 9:22. If it is 9:23 then it is 9:23. I understand your question, but if the trailing side of the minute hand is not yet even with or past the plane of the upcoming minute, then it remains the previous minute.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 month ago:
Okay.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I will not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Don’t fuck him.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 1 month ago:
Explain.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 1 month ago:
My undergraduate degree was in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Since it was an interdisciplinary degree, the actual content was dependent on my interests and what was available at the university at the time. I studied a lot of American Imperialism Post-9/11, Middle Eastern Politics, and the general foundations of terrorism as a political tool. Add in some Liberation Theology, Economics of the Military Industrial Complex, and a deep dive into the ethics of Just and Unjust Wars, and the end result is that I know a bit about this area. It’s all academic and I would be useless for anything other than soft-target terrorism on a very small scale.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 months ago:
Okay, that was a bad example on my part.
- Comment on How does one join a terror group? Like example ISIS , do people go to a secret website sign up and get provided flags, bomb parts, or whatever? Or is it just a person saying what they did was for ISIS 2 months ago:
You can’t really volunteer to be a terrorist. You have to know somebody. At some point, that person will bring you in after talking with others in the group. While you may know that someone in your circles is a terrorist, they will not speak with you about it unless they have zero operational security. If they do speak about it, they are an asset, not a terrorist.
Once you are brought in, you are not brought in as a terrorist. You are brought in as a person sympathetic to their cause who is willing to help by completing small tasks. Over time, these tasks become larger, more illegal, and the information that you would know about the network becomes more in depth.
The hard truth is, that unless you are running a cell or the movement, you are never really a terrorist. You are a disposable asset that can be used by terrorists to further their own ends. Sort of in the way that cheering for the Chiefs doesn’t make you a football player. Sure, you have the gear and you know the talking points, you may even inspire others to similar action, but when push comes to shove, you will be cut off without a second thought. This is similar to how many intelligence agencies treat their assets.
If you were to go the lone wolf route and carry out an action in the name of a specific terrorist group, you would still not be a terrorist. You would be someone who was radicalized by the terrorist group.
Finally, no self-respecting terrorist group will refer to themselves as a terrorist group. Their cause is always righteous and those in power have eliminated all acceptable courses to express their grievances.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 months ago:
I knew exactly which movie was based on these reviews.
- Comment on A simple sign on a fence asking the question we all ponder 2 months ago:
Not sure if there will be for me, but I know for a fact that there has been some for others.