UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 hours ago:
illegal use of copyrighted materials
It’s quite literally the least bad thing they’ve done across two terms in office.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 hours ago:
They are Marxists, they are anarchists, they are agitators, they are looters, and they are people who, in many instances, have absolutely no clue what they are doing.
- Comment on rich 22 hours ago:
I’d buy a private island
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 day ago:
Why not? It gives me something to get mad at.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 1 day ago:
More a rhetorical coincidence.
Ben sounds like 笨 which means “fool” in Mandarin.
- Comment on rich 1 day ago:
When I get rich, I’m going to start washing my ass. Shit is going to be pristine. I’ll be able to get within inches of you and you’ll never even smell it.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
But “okay boomer” has just become a bland, flavorless retort that gets said by anyone to anyone for any reason.
It isn’t an expression of frustration at an audience that rejects facts and reason, it is a pithy retort that gets thrown out to say “STFU” to someone in slightly more polite terms.
Like, the root of this isn’t unfair. But as with so much internet lingo, the initial intent has been polluted by online gooners who latch on to a phrase and use it as a barb rather than to convey any particular kind of coherent message.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 day ago:
Labor of love, I suspect
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 1 day ago:
- Comment on When the nice guy 3 days ago:
Shockingly accurate depiction of what bloggers think they’re doing
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
I can’t believe you would call the vigilante oligarch arms dealer a political extremist.
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
Antifa calls dissenters (anyone to the right of them like social democrats) fascists
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
True Centrism is when you’re in favor of a Centrally Planned Economy.
Everyone else is some variant of political extremist.
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
Adams was sort of all over the place on his opinion of people.
- Comment on Know the difference 3 days ago:
They’re both violent! Or, at least, I’ve been told they’re both violent and the news wouldn’t just lie to me, right?
Who owns these big publications again? Bari Weiss and the Free Press, you say? Well, it’s got Free Press right there in the name, so I’m assuming they’re on the up-and-up.
- Comment on When the nice guy 3 days ago:
The B-plot in Ender’s Game tells a compelling story of a couple of young adults nefariously posting their way straight into the Presidency. And people want to believe this is how real life works so badly that they’ll watch a plutocrat elevated by other plutocrats into an office historically held by plutocrats and conclude “Shitposters on the internet did this”.
- Comment on Politician: we have to fight against drugs! Drugs: 4 days ago:
When you underfund your health care system, people who experience chronic pain or anxiety will turn to the gray/black market for short term pain relief.
Many of the substances on the gray/black market are habit forming, have ugly side-effects, and are prohibitively expensive. Without a doctor’s oversight, people routinely overdose or otherwise misuse these medical alternatives.
The chronic pain, combined with the side-effects and OD risks, render people unfit for daily working and living habits. These people become their own kind of chronic social burden - high rates of vagrancy, poor impulse control, malnutrition, vectors for contagious disease (particularly STDs and other need-born illnesses), higher rates of violent crimes, high rates of pregnancy and miscarriage, danger to others while operating motor vehicles, etc, etc, etc.
The “drug use” is seen as the proximate cause of all these social ills, in large part because pursuing pain/anxiety relief becomes a central motivation for chronic users. And because they’re habit forming, it is far more difficult and expensive to discourage future drug use after full adoption than via early intervention.
On top of all this, the increase in the size and the higher economic position of people operating in a national security state sets off a self-replicating cycle. Cops are seen as fundamentally more useful than nurses or social workers. Cops operate as large unionized labor blocks and criminal cartels. Cops receive oodles of positive press coverage and are routinely valorized for performing a hazardous and undesirable job.
So, on the one hand, you have a civilian population that craves health care and falls back on toxic substitutes, which transform them into public nuisances and real criminal hazards. On the other, you have a large, well-organized, media-savvy cartel of goons who make up a steadily larger share of the economic “middle class”.
The lesson appears to be clear.
Less health care. More cops. Politicians win.
- Comment on Force of habit 4 days ago:
720
1080
1080 with a half gainer
- Comment on Soup 4 days ago:
If you… uh… like your chunky soups, you can… uh… keep them.
- Comment on Deep 4 days ago:
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- Comment on necessary read 6 days ago:
He certainly wrote a version of it.
- Comment on necessary read 6 days ago:
Never ask a man his salary
Never ask a woman her age
Never ask what George Orwell was doing in Myanmar in the 1920s
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 6 days ago:
It’s Truthy.
Very believable, even if OP is just passing along the story
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 6 days ago:
I know a few, myself. But none of them are up till 4am on a Thursday night hanging out with other hot drunk horny 30 year olds.
- Comment on Anon is forever alone 6 days ago:
Idk what OP is doing wrong, but in my experience bartenders and service workers are always hooking up - with each other, with patrons, at after work social engagements…
The job sort of requires you to be social, to be friendly, to engage with strangers, and to empathize with other people.
That’s not to say the relationships last. Plenty of drama in the service industry, too. Lots of substance abuse. Lots of cheating. Lots of traveling, boom and bust with the economic tides, and risk taking for better or worse.
But the idea that you’re just a bartender for ten years and nothing is happening in your life is crazy.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
Amtrak isn’t good
Going from DC to NYC without stepping onto a plane or fighting traffic is such a blessing.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
Is this Houston?
This sounds exactly like Houston.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
We have a street whenever a telephone pool is squarely in the center of the sidewalk, such that you have to squeeze between a building and the pole to pass it or step into a three lane one way street with a 35mph speed limit
