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- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 3 weeks ago:
It never stays pristine but the worst of it took decades to accumulate. We found over a dozen tires, a safe, a beaten up rowboat, tons of old clothes piled up at an old campsite and of course the every present cans and plastic bottles. We also worked on removing invasives. As time went on most of the trash was what got carried by the streams feeding it from drains. There was one time I found a car had been dumped off of the bike path and set on fire.
Thanks for cleaning things up. It is very satisfying if a bit frustrating too. It is one of the few things in life where the result is obvious and clearly positive. I’m always picking trash up on hikes. Maybe the owner of the land would be willing to assist you by providing a place you can deposit the bags of trash and they could truck it out weekly or so. We did something similar with the state (it was public land) and had a storage shed with tools a local business let us use.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 3 weeks ago:
I worked on regular cleanups of a wetlands near my old apt and the bike path that ran by. We’d pull literally tons of crap out of there but over time it got less and less.
I remember the 70s-80s and the trash but that doesn’t excuse littering even less now.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 3 weeks ago:
If. Old bottles, pizza boxes, etc aren’t going to identify you.
- Comment on The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfill 3 weeks ago:
What you do when no one is looking is your true character.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 weeks ago:
It is like a game designed by a bitter English teacher.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 4 weeks ago:
The old text adventures where being able to solve a puzzle required hitting the right words. “Oh, twist, not pull.”
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 1 month ago:
Size 3? You have peg legs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I used to work with a guy from Syria who had US/Canadian citizenship. He said every time he crossed the border he budgeted in 3 extra hours while he was detained.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
People in border towns are always on alert for people walking remote roads, hitchhikers, etc. The border strip itself is cleared and monitored with remote cameras, drones, patrols on horseback and ATVs, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Pssst pssst, I’ve got Shaoxing wine, Three Crabs brand fish sauce…”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“What are you in for?” “Smuggling dark soy sauce.”
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 month ago:
Volcanism
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Some kid tried that from a rooftop already
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Keep sending him burgers and fries
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 month ago:
Shitty people seem to be indestructible, like Hitler and the bunker bomb. Stalin died of a stroke (probably).
- Comment on Petty pedantry 1 month ago:
Technically he is standing on earth unless he is standing on ice.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 months ago:
Mixed case, brilliant rebuttal!
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 2 months ago:
Extremists on both ends demand purity of thought
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Only in the official public sphere, off to the side it is very sexualized. Ads and tv shows are full of sexual references. You hit strange limits though like genitalia cannot be shown in movies (not X rated) but you can use a fake penis on men and a merkin on woman which is ok for some bizarre reason. The US forced its prudishness with genitalia on the Japanese after WW2 which is why they pixelate it. It likely has its roots in the US as a mainly evangelical Protestant settled nation vs the more Catholic and reformation Europe. Eastern cultures also have their own rules about nudity and sex but it isn’t seen as inherently sinful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you go to the roots of it the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism) see the natural world as corrupt and a barrier to god. Nature was something to be “conquered”, human impulses are sinful and sexuality is especially impulsive and therefore sinful. It encourages all kinds of stuff like adultery, kids born out of wedlock (a big problem back then), and STDs (generally considered a divine punishment for sex). Clothing also denoted social rank and was even enforced by law.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The 700 Club. It was on constantly during the day when I was a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Hitler was very narrow minded when it came to international politics. His mindset barely extended beyond Europe. To him the US was “over there”. He thought though that Britain would side with him as racial peers with similar attitudes (i.e. colonialism).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Stalin wiped out the officers in the Red Army because he perceived anyone with any authority to be a potential threat. Anyone who had been around for too long was a threat. This set the stage for the Germans to steamroll them in the opening of Operation Barbarossa because you had a Red Army that was completely dysfunctional due to the slaughter of its leadership. He probably would’ve turned on Beria (NKVD) too if he had the chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So they started the project to dismantle education in America.
I’d say it was more of a pushback by the religious right against what they saw as liberalism in the schools. Starting with the late 70s then the election of Regan you saw a huge rise in the evangelicals and they became affiliated with the republicans.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the 60s the counterculture decided that all authority and anything taught to them was wrong and they thought they were smarter than anyone else and their gut feelings were just as valid as education. Hippies and conspiracy obsessed right wingers converged towards things like quack medicines, conspiracy mongering, etc. Anti intellectualism has become the norm. No one with a normal personality would run for office now because the knee-jerk response is to pile hate on them so you only get dysfunctional people running for office. The internet has only made things worse by allowing these people to find each other and reinforce their beliefs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People have been stupid for centuries.
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The average education level has been low or nonexistant for most people through most of history so everyone was equally dumb. Public education is a relatively new thing. People have been vulnerable to greed, deluded thinking, etc since day 1.
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The internet has allowed stupid people to find each other and reinforce each other’s stupidity and create a race of conspiracy obsessed super morons.
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The internet has also distilled everything into negativity to the point where everyone and everything isn’t just questioned but warped and rejected. Even the most basic advice on public health is now rejected. You’ve got people rejecting basic facts and science. Everyone who runs for office gets subject to so much hate and lies that no sensible person would want to run for office now leaving only questionable personalities willing to do it.
I’ll add that America’s obsession with individualism, which ironically becomes groupthink like with MAGA, has become extremely poisonous. It is making it impossible to do even basic things like improve public transportation, gun control, education, healthcare, public health, etc. It is like we’ve become a nation of children who can’t handle being told to go to bed and brush their teeth.
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- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
Because a lot of Americans think he is the warrior fighting the evil gub’ment
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
Because over half the people voted for him and are convinced of everything he says and does. My f’ing BIL thinks Trump can’t do anything wrong. Just go question him on other social media, especially a state subreddit, and people will say things like “so you are in favor or waste and fraud!?” like it is case closed.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
Studies show that people on the left are more trusting of others in general than those on the right. It is reflected in their obsession with guns and their rejection of social programs.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
He wants a king, not a democracy