orbituary
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- Comment on Fuck chuck schumer. We can win without abandoning trans people. 9 hours ago:
I dig Emma Vigeland. She’s got a good stance and mind. She used to be on TYT and got beef with them at some point, which was a loss for TYT, I think.
Her points here are salient. To paraphrase one point, she’s saying a voter my have the notion that a biologically born male transitioned to female might have a physical advantage in sports against biologically born females, and a voter may disapprove of that pairing in a match, but that stance doesn’t mean “I hate Trans people” not will it cause them to vote against trans rights. However, Schumer or Jeffries don’t have the nuance to understand that and drive the Democrats to push otherwise.
- Comment on what is the purpose of deleting posts on lemmy when its impossible to remove them from my profile posts window,or from all instances? 9 hours ago:
News to me that you can’t truly delete shit. I’m on board: what’s the answer to this? Why do it be this way?
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 1 day ago:
If you polarize your view on information to be “good” or “bad,” in other words, if you assign labels to the information you receive, then you avoid certain pieces of information that will help you make real world decisions.
what makes something good or bad is subjective. In the inimitable words of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, “one man’s waste is another man’s soap… ya’ know what I mean, guys?”
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 1 day ago:
Serious question in rebuttal. How does “good news” help you understand why gas prices are up? How does it help you know what food has been recalled due to contamination or whether people are in need of assistance because a winter storm stranded them in their homes?
“Good news only” is a luxury for people who do not want to know what is happening and can’t cope with reality.
- Comment on We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI 2 days ago:
I can’t get Idiocracy out of my mind when I read this…
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 days ago:
My brother had a 6 digit starting with 9, he barely made the cut.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 days ago:
It breaks alexandrite.app a bit. It’s outside the frame of the post.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 days ago:
There’s no reason to use it anymore. I was using the OTR encryption protocol with it, which was the best there was to offer.
That being said, I did say “could have gotten,” not “could have.”
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 days ago:
My ICQ number was 737916. A hacker stole it 20 years ago because I thought, “why would anyone want this?” and used the password “buddha” for some reason.
I loved that platform. Those were innocent by comparison days.
- Comment on I still remember this and how the cable guy said, "give me $20 and I will activate every premium channel" 2 weeks ago:
Scramblevision is what we called it.
- Comment on Too young to understand what this is? 2 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember that being a thing. If I’m not mistaken, it had a smaller playhead inside the loader? Cassette tape was too small for the 8 track play head and would have been chewed up.
- Comment on One of the most interesting things that happens when you are old 3 weeks ago:
There was the Justin Bailey cheat code, though.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
So, yeah. Believe it or not, it related even in primates.
- Comment on How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board? 3 weeks ago:
Angle the blade slightly so it’s not perpendicular to the cucumber.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 3 weeks ago:
What’s mild here?
- Comment on meal 3 weeks ago:
Is that a bag of Kale and yogurt?
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 3 weeks ago:
Oh, good lord. N~2~O
- Comment on I greased the trees 3 weeks ago:
Our Thanksgiving tradition is to plink them with a pellet gun from the tree above my parents’ house in Key Largo. These and the Curly Tailed lizards have totally fucked up the ecosystem in the Keys.
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 3 weeks ago:
great story!
- Comment on Weren’t you also mercilessly beaten outside of a club in Torrance for that? 4 weeks ago:
Wwha wha what… Me? Sing songs about love? From my million dollar MAGA stage? COME ON!
- Comment on Casual weeknight unwind 4 weeks ago:
When I was a shift lead at a Starbucks 20+ years ago in Tampa, after particularly rough mornings, I would load a couple of these up and offer them to my crew. “go into the cooler, sit down, have fun.”
We were the highest volume store in the area. On busy days, we’d do 20 gallons of whole and 15 low fat. Our tip differential was around 6-8 bucks over base pay, which was a big deal back then.
I’m still friends with that crew, even though we’ve all moved on in life. United by NO2.
- Comment on 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Did you have one? 4 weeks ago:
I had that one and a blue translucent one.
- Comment on Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon? 4 weeks ago:
The word is “coincidence.”
- Comment on Form over function 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, everyone. Listen up - we need to mark every joke so that everyone can laugh. Remember: the best jokes are the ones we have to explain.
- Comment on This guy parked his car on the sidewalk, right outside a school 4 weeks ago:
Police do not care. There a huge chance they don’t arrive in time. I called on a couple of tweakers that were fucking around for 4 hours below my apartment and the cops took 5 hours to arrive. Fuck the police. Useless.
- Comment on This guy parked his car on the sidewalk, right outside a school 4 weeks ago:
Pop his fucking tires.
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 5 weeks ago:
Sacrifice.
If you can’t see past your nose, protesting seems crazy. But to do so means sacrifice. Risking your job, your home, your well-being, whatever, because you know that the risk of losing these things could yield something better if the collective actions of you and your comrades create change.
Lose now to gain later.
- Comment on I'll do it 5 weeks ago:
And knowing Covid’s, it’ll find a way!
Corvids.
- Comment on Schlip schlop 5 weeks ago:
You know how like some stuff is goodbad but people like it because it’s not awful? Like, when it’s not made with minimal effort and it seems like someone actually tried write believable dialog.
What are goodbad movies like that movies like that but good.
