UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Israel, Stunned by Trump’s Iran Deal, Sees It as a ‘Catastrophic Capitulation’ 1 day ago:
Further evidence that the peace deal was a good decision.
- Comment on I hear you girl 1 day ago:
I mean, this is a pretty straightforward photoshop. I would fucking hope they didn’t need an AI to manage it.
- Comment on The truth is our there 1 day ago:
Getting a slew of “Aliens are Real” movies all lined up, just in time for all the old 60s hard core alien-heads to pay $20 to see the film and die of old age in the theater.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
Maybe I’m a bot who has been monitoring your entertainment traffic specifically to incept this shit onto your monitor.
Or maybe I just got through a Fast and Furious montage and had Vin Diesel’s “This is Brazil!” lodged in my brain, but opted for this picture because it isn’t just him in a wife-beater yelling at Dwayne Johnson.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
I blame Afonso Henriques, pictured below
- Comment on Rough date 2 days ago:
When the server came to take the drink order my date lean in close and whisper to my ear “only get a mixer” as she pressed two small bottles into my hand and then winked at me.
Marriage Material
- Comment on Rough date 2 days ago:
Women in movies: “Going to do a full blown date prep montage, complete with song and dance number, where I transform from mousy librarian to runway model over the course of 15 minutes”
Women in real life: “Going to throw on a top and some jeans, half watch a Netflix special about serial killers while I curl my hair, then down a mug of hard liquor to build up the courage to look a guy I’ve got a crush on straight in the eyes.”
- Comment on Cheese is available 3 days ago:
Mozart and Carlos Mencia trigger the same parts of the ear canal.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 4 days ago:
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it’s been a frantic race to the bottom.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 4 days ago:
Finally!
If there’s one thing EA’s gaming lacked, it was an opportunity to accidentally click on something that tried to charge my credit card.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 4 days ago:
My man has an incredible figure
- Comment on My Arrakis 5 days ago:
The degree to which the O&G industry has co-opted the Republican Party cannot be understated. This only really took root under Ford, when guys like Bush and Cheney were promoted into the upper echelons of the political leadership while in the midst of converting historically Dixiecrat Gulf Coast states to the Republican Party.
Democrats were late to the party, having more heavily aligned with the NY-based Finance Sector and CA-based global shipping magnets. It’s been the outsized demand for energy in Silicon Valley that has really collapsed the Green-ish Democrats into O&G by way of Obama/Trump/Biden Era rapidly escalating demands for electricity. And even then, Dems are consistently in favor of generic economic growth while Republicans are hyper-fixated on O&G growth exclusively.
- Comment on My Arrakis 5 days ago:
The Emperor pitted two historic rival houses against one another, with the expectation that they’d annihilate themselves and leave room for upstarts to take their place. The Bene Jesuits had seen this cycle play out before and knew it would preserve the Emperor’s power at the expense of the advancement of the society as a whole. So, they backchanneled a breeding program between Atreides and Harkonen - on the Atreides side via Lady Jessica and Duke Leto, on the Harkonen side between Feyd-Rautha and Margot Fenring - to yield the prophesied optimal off-spring, the Kwisatz Hadarach.
But all of this ran afoul of a third agency, the Planetologists of Dune, who believed the planet’s perpetual condition of spice harvest was undermining what could be a new kind of Eden for domestic development and liberation. Their efforts to irrigate Arakus at the expense of the global galactic trade (catalyzed by Lady Jessica’s unlicensed male hier) was what ultimately undermined both the Emperor’s political schemes and the Bene Jesuits’ breeding program.
In the end, the primary antagonists of the Dune series are the environmentalists, fighting a guerrilla war against a Galactic Oil & Gas Industry.
- Comment on When foreign countries try to reproduce US brans 5 days ago:
Rubbing this on my back while drinking a tall glass of Dew Crimes
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 5 days ago:
You’ll never make it in government with that attitude
- Comment on Instead we got a trillion dollar man 5 days ago:
people feel that there is dangerous lawlessness out there, and the only way to solve it is strong force
They believe this regardless of the actual crime rate. They believe it regardless of the number of cops on the streets. They believe it because they are trained to believe the mere presence of any number of minorities, young people, or migrants constitutes a threat to their safety.
Feels before Facts & Logic, combined with an increasingly hysterical right wing press produce a Phantom Menace that can be used to advance fascist policies.
ICE is powered by fear of “the criminals”, and if we solve the “criminal problem” with real solutions, suddenly it gets a lot harder to motive a brute squad when everyone is fine actually
I wish that were true.
But you can just cook up an endless series of AI scare videos to convince Memaw and Pep Pep that there’s a murderous riot of illegal transgender Muslim communists just down the road.
- Comment on Instead we got a trillion dollar man 6 days ago:
Very hard to talk about “lessening crime” when you breeze by wage theft, land theft, and war crimes.
Like, I want to believe OP’s message, but I don’t think the problem ICE Agents are having right now is poverty wages. I don’t think the local PD out roughing up the homeless are lacking for health care or homes or strong unions. The suffocating waves of pipelines and highways and data centers that force people out of their homes aren’t being built because their investors lacked the amenities of a first class upbringing.
We have to clarify what kind of crimes we’re preventing. Nothing in OP’s list puts Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg off their bullshit.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Phone constantly getting blown up by my good friend Scam Likely
- Comment on We Put A Man On The Moon. We Did It. 1 week ago:
glances at the DC police news blotter
shuffles feet nervously
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Well, the rent is rather high. Perhaps I could look into getting a roommat-”
“ROOMMATES WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!”
“Okay, I guess it’s back to the basement to goon on Discord, then.”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Sir, we’ve increased the rent again, as you’ve ordered.”
“Excellent. Now saturate the media broadcast telling them to start having lots of children.”
- Comment on they're havin a laugh 1 week ago:
And they’re a hugely popular genre.
- Comment on they're havin a laugh 1 week ago:
The IT Crowd is a show about two to five people in a room talking to one another. They did this for six episodes a season and the show ran for four seasons. This produced one of the most watched television shows on the BBC Network.
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- Comment on I hope they'll make it more contagious 1 week ago:
One dollar for estrogen results in twenty new Undertale purchases. They’re practically printing money.
- Comment on They are putting something in water that makes you pee...And its addicting. You have to keep drinking or the withdrawals are too severe. 1 week ago:
It’s Mad Max: Fury Road.
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 week ago:
Mentioning that Robinson waves an Israeli flag is antisemitic.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 1 week ago:
The picture is there to convey emotion, the text is there to explain context.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 1 week ago:
Look at the picture, sweetheart.
- Comment on I don't know about that one 1 week ago:
context of this meme
A magical children’s toy with no genitals?
