PNW_Doug
@PNW_Doug@lemmy.world
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 1 day ago:
Civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan.
When you see what good your taxes can do, it makes you question why the rich don’t pay their fair share. They do not like this.
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 1 day ago:
Civilization is expensive and can only be paid for on the installment plan.
When you see what good your taxes can do, it makes you question why the rich don’t pay their fair share. They do not like this.
- Comment on Trump brushes off reporter question about running for third term in 2028: 'The law is very strong' 1 month ago:
Does anyone really think Mother Nature will wait that long?
- Comment on "It's not work" - Austrian Chancellor Stocker declares that in his view caring for children isn't work 1 month ago:
Well of course it isn’t! Work comes with a paycheck. Raising children produces no monetary remuneration for the parent. Ipso facto, it can’t be work! The logic is flawless.
Because this is the internet: this is sarcasm.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Red cups are like yellow school buses. Both are real.
- Comment on f u c k 11 months ago:
Huh weird. I’ve always liked waking up right before the alarm. It makes me feel like I’ve somehow done something just a little bit badass, plus I don’t have to hear the alarm.
Bonus points in my eyes for just waking up naturally rather than being dragged rudely out of sleep and left all groggy, but YMMV.
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 1 year ago:
The was quite literally the playbook of Andrew Wakefield when he published the 1998 fraudulent paper in the Lancet that purported to link MMR vaccines to autism, kicking off our entire modern round of anti-vax nonsense.
He stood make millions selling test kits to people suddenly fearful of vaccination, IIRC. They’re all scum, seeking to rake in money on the very fears they’ve stoked.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 year ago:
Fringe was the last one I noticed as having a particular run of luck, just squeezing by season after season.
Netflix has burned me so bad I no longer watch their series until they’re done. Not the best way to be sure of getting new seasons, but I’m over watching fun stuff that gets killed after a single season.
- Comment on Humans didn't invent agriculture 2 years ago:
While I wouldn’t say that’s right, I also wouldn’t come right out and call it wrong either. This very much engages with the “Selfish Gene”, an heuristic model of thinking about evolution from the perspective of the gene itself instead of populations.
As an added amusement, the book “The Selfish Gene” came out in 1976, and is the source of the word “meme,” used somewhat differently than it is now, naturally.