originalfrozenbanana
@originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
This is a good question from the wrong angle. This event is cathartic for many people because the ultra rich who ruin countless lives never get punished. When they see “consequences” it’s a golden parachute. This event is frustrating because the media, legal, and security apparatuses expect us to treat this assassination as a grave act, but actively normalize the acts of harm Thompson and other leaders like him commit every day.
This event is revealing in stark terms the divide between the elite and the average person. Should murderers be prosecuted? Sure - in a world where justice and the rule of law matter for everyone equally. Doesn’t feel like we live in that world.
- Comment on Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives mad on Twitter isn’t controversy worth discussing. Shoo troll.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
Let’s say I’m an American male. I like football. I like the NY Jets, because I also like to suffer.
I don’t have to read the news, or go to news websites, or listen to news radio, to hear about my Jets. I don’t have to risk accidentally learning about what’s going on in the world watching the 6 o’clock news every evening when all I really want to know is the latest saddening Jets news.
I can listen to podcasts that tell me about jets players health, fantasy picks, gossip, the latest games, and betting strategy. In the offseason my podcasts don’t go off air. I can go to websites where algorithms that have already identified me as a Jets fan bury any news about politics or social issues under a mountain of roster updates and advertisements for beer (because Jets fans need it).
Then it comes time to vote. These democrats all seem to talk about stuff I don’t care about or understand. This Trump guy says he will do stuff. I hate the way things are, but I don’t know why they are that way. Corporate monopolies? Antitrust? Voter suppression? All that shit got buried under Aaron Roger’s passing stats. And Trump wasn’t all that bad when he was president. Certainly better than I feel now, and while I’ll pore over individual player stats to take matchups into account when I set my fantasy football roster I’m not gonna go pore over statistics on the economy or anything. That shit is complicated and boring, and football stats are definitely not. So I never have to risk remembering that Trump was pretty fucking bad.
On Election Day I vote for the guy who says he’ll do stuff, and it’s easy to do it, and it’ll be fast, and I’ll like the outcome. I won’t vote for the party that gave up 30 years ago and whose message is basically “come on guys we’re trying really hard but this governing thing is impossible!”
That’s how, basically. That and bigots.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 month ago:
Which instance?
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 month ago:
Drat. Thanks 😂
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 month ago:
Does this imply that if I am standing on an object moving at a constant speed in a straight line, and I am lifting and dropping a sufficiently massive object such that I’m causing the object in standing on to accelerate towards the object I’m dropping, that eventually I’ll slow or stop the object I’m standing on?
- Comment on How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ? 1 month ago:
In general that would be pretty easy to identify. If the number of votes were large enough to impact an election you’d see voting numbers that are far greater than you expect based on the population and demographics of the area served by a particular voting office. In addition you’d see counts greater than you expect when certain people are working but not for others.
In addition usually you have to check in at a desk or table to get your ballot. An official dishonestly stuffing the ballot box would also have to somehow fabricate real voters checking in at the desk, or else there’d be more ballots than people who checked in and they’d identify the fraud. Where I live you check in with your ID card so unless the official had a bunch of IDs of valid registered voters they’d be caught.
Lastly voting fraud is a crime pretty much everywhere, so getting caught is bad.
A more realistic version of voting fraud is what is being planned in the US: getting supporters of a candidate (in this case Trump) to volunteer at voting locations and having those people fabricate evidence of fraud. This can just be their testimony, but it can be used later in lawsuits to give face value validity to accusations that the election was stolen, and used as justification for violence or a coup. This is what Trump tried, poorly, in 2020. They will try better in 2024.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Sea of Thieves overall best. Hunt: Showdown a close second
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
The science of space flight is largely figured out? That will be news to the scientists on spacex’s staff. I don’t think you know what you’re talking about
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
Moving things into orbit requires a substantial amount of science.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
Good thing in what way
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 2 months ago:
Because they are impressive in the way NASA was. Which is the problem - we should be doing this as a nation and not subsidizing whatever a billionaire fancies at the moment.
- Comment on Does alcohol expire? Specifically whiskey? 2 months ago:
With the caveat that many food borne illnesses are not killed when frozen. If something was contaminated when frozen it can remain contaminated when thawed (to your point though I don’t think many things that are fine when frozen can become unsafe while frozen)
- Comment on Anon finally touches grass 2 months ago:
Assuming only a place of pure misery could produce those memes
- Comment on Anon gets a lesson in genetics 2 months ago:
Rest easy knowing that this didn’t happen
- Comment on Anon gets a lesson in genetics 2 months ago:
“His”
- Comment on Anon explains the 2nd amendment 2 months ago:
No, no, see it was the right of private gun ownership in Afghanistan. Just the guns nothing else necessary. And, by the way, “we could be like Afghanistan “ is actually a very good argument and not at all an admission.
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- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 4 months ago:
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 months ago:
Hell yeah hang in there, I hope good times come your way soon. You deserve it!
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 months ago:
I love that he is appearing in front of A white house. Not THE White House but his base won’t care. The vibes are right, ya know?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 4 months ago:
Same
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 4 months ago:
When people say Lemmy is better, they mean the software and the platform are better. You’re talking about the users of the two platforms. Lemmy users are still idiots, just like Reddit users, we just use Linux and don’t use chrome
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yeah the argument here should not be “why are they allowed to sue each other at all,” it should be “why did my elected representatives waste our money over this stupid shit?”
Find the resolution at the ballot box if that is viable in your country
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
No you don’t lol. I love when you right fucks try to pretend you care about women or women’s sports all of a sudden. Literally no one buys it. “Aw golly gee I just care about fairness in women’s sports” nah bro you hate trans and nonbinary people. Own it! Be the bigot you really are, loud and proud!
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
So wait do you care about biology or the insular rules of various international sporting bodies? It’s hard to keep up with whatever you’re pretending to care about
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
She’s not a man. Either you think everyone with XY chromosomes is a man, even if they have female genitals, or you acknowledge that neither genitals nor chromosomes alone are sufficient to define gender and you acknowledge that trans people exist as their identified gender. You don’t get it both ways.
Sorry I forgot for a second where I was and just wasted all that energy typing out something you won’t read because your side doesn’t care about the truth.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
This is what you call silly? You guys are such fucking weirdos. Fascism and theocracy isn’t silly. It’s creepy and weird. Not good weird like Austin in 2004. Bad weird like Epstein or the pope.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
No actually there are medical facts about when a fetus becomes a life form that can live on its own or with assistance. You just don’t care about them.
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
Yeah just me and all major scientific and medical establishments over here “disagreeing” with you about medical fact but ok you do you bby
- Comment on Paris Olympics: Italy's Angela Carini abandons fight with Algeria's Imane Khelif, who failed gender test, after 46 seconds 4 months ago:
No I’m just not going to play your game. This is why people think you guys are so weird. You make up these silly little games, then declare yourselves the victors when no one wants to play them.