UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 17 hours ago:
takes meth
recedes into self
contemplated naval while everyone else is bouncing off the walls
checks label
“What kind of meth is it when it’s called Fentanyl?”
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 17 hours ago:
Everyone gets laid at Langley
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 18 hours ago:
pulls out $600 and asks for happy ending
You’re not a virgin because you’re bad with women. You’re a virgin because you’re bad with money.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 19 hours ago:
50% so far
- Comment on bmw 1 day ago:
2013 was plenty dire. We had Ted Cruz’s friends in the House trying to dismember social security and medicare while Obama kept explaining away why we needed more troops in Afghanistan and fewer labor organizers in Ohio.
The '08 Housing Crisis was still echoing through the US economy, the economy was stalling in the face of Congressional austerity, and people ringing the big “Climate Change is coming for us” dinner bell were once again getting told to shut up so we wouldn’t scare away moderate republican voters in the 2014 midterms. Israel and Gaza had broken out into a brief shooting war, the recently-debunked Lancet “Vaccination-Autism” study was gaining traction among reactionary politicians, Jeffry Epstein was hanging out with Bill Gates on Palm Beach, and a fresh-faced NYC landlord with political aspirations was all over FOX News saying how he was on the verge of uncovering Obama’s real birth certificate.
The fuse was lit. We were all just in the fucking around phase, rather than the finding out part.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 1 day ago:
If you support Free Tax Filing then you must support the Unconstitutional Anti-American Income Tax.
The Founding Fathers made a blood pact to NEVER do an income tax and ONLY raise money via Tariffs, which is the perfect and Godly way to generate tax revenues. Every president who has ever levied a national income tax has FAILED. And Trump isn’t going to fail this nation by letting people pay that tax for free.
By abolishing the free filing provision, we are going to come one step closure to guaranteeing nobody (earning more than $500k/year) has to pay it again.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 days ago:
I’ve been reading some variation of this joke since the early 80s.
I am confident it can be found somewhere in Shakespeare’s plays and perhaps on clay tablets hidden deep in the Mesopotamian valley.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 days ago:
However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy
It’s so bizarre to see liberal politician after liberal politician promise economic reforms common to the rest of the industrial world, then fail to deliver over and over again.
And then someone sees a ghoul like Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden running at the top of the ticket, or an American Psycho like Newsom or Adams or Cuomo trying to hijack any semblance of progressive politics for their own vainglory. And they say “Nope, not supporting that garbage”.
Then everything that comes after is on their heads, somehow.
Not on the heads of the trillionaire plutocrats setting economic policy. Or military leadership goading us into the next war. Or evangelical hucksters selling snake oil to desperate people.
Nope. Always the fault of Joe Dirt when Obama can’t win his third term.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 days ago:
Actually, millennials could probably hold our hypothetical babies hostage
Given how many kids are in some combination of foster system, detention center, corrections program, or concentration camp, maybe millennials need to start finding the actual babies and liberating them.
- Comment on leading ai company 3 days ago:
They’re making frivolous updates at a speed and scale Sam Altman can only dream of
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 days ago:
I’m surprised that the Frozen sisters are 21 and 24. I thought they were closer in age, and younger.
I can’t help but notice the earlier entries are tagged as younger when there’s no real notable age gap between, say, Jasmine and Elsa. Jane Porter, from Tarzan, could easily be in her late-20s/early-30s. Aurora and Cinderella could be anywhere from a very mature 16 to a slightly immature 24 (if their birthdays weren’t a pivotal part of their plots, anyway). Mulan is punching way above her weight class at age 16. Esmerelda could pass as early 30s, easily, just on her mannerism and professional talent.
The only one that really works at this age bracket is Alice.
- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 6 days ago:
This person just needs better parents
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 6 days ago:
The moment is fleeting though because soon all the phones are out and people are texting their friends
Okay, so they’re not just quietly ignoring each other. They’re fixated on their friend groups on the phone.
Again, seems like the obvious opener is “study group”. And that group will inevitably get it’s own group chat.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 1 week ago:
Hear me out, it’s called The Orville and… oh, no wait. I’m being handed a message.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
The post implies the 30% of men in the class weren’t giving him the time of day, either.
So, maybe it was an entire room full of NPCs. Maybe they were all psychic and he was just the odd guy out. Maybe it’s a Greentext and you shouldn’t take it at face value. Who can say? But as anecdotes go, the “everyone acted like an emotionally sterile zombie hobbling from class to class in a daze” sounds… out of line with my experience in virtually any social setting. Nevermind one with dozens of teenagers all packed in together.
Like, I’ve got a few friends who teach high school. And the “I’ve got these kids who won’t stfu during class” stories are a regular part of the “how was your day?” conversation. What magic is happening between Senior HS and Freshman College that turns everyone’s most pernicious socializing instincts off in this one guy’s classroom?
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
At the start of a semester, turning to a person next to me (guy or girl) and saying “I’m looking to form a study group, would you be free this afternoon to go over the homework” is the most easy, basic-bitch, virtually-never-fails approach to making friends in college.
Guy or girl, cool or geeky, my age or a year or two off - 50% of the time it worked every time.
Women don’t like being hit on in public. The idea that people of opposite gender don’t ever interact with one another in public is incel-tier paranoia.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 week ago:
assume bad hygiene or “Seems like an appropriate response to a man who takes a womens studies course to try and pick up women”
I gotta say, I never had any of these problems in college. And I won’t even pretend I had great hygiene or particularly good social skills. The trick with college is that 19 year old girls also didn’t have great hygiene or well-developed social skills. We were all a bunch of clueless, fumbling, young adults trying to figure each other out.
Let’s set aside the fact that OP is probably lying. When one guy gets ostracized by an entire classroom of other students, it’s safe to assume one of two things:
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The classroom is full of bigots who hate This One Guy for a very particular cultural reason (maybe you made a mistake going to South Confederacy Technical College as a black guy looking to meet white chicks)
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The guy is so universally obnoxious that he can’t get the time of day from the second biggest loser in the room
Am I the only one that’s surprised that the comments are so negative?
If it was posted on anything but 4chan, maybe. But anyone who knows the reputation of the average 4chan user can come up with a host of reasons why people are avoiding him like the plague.
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- Comment on sentence 1 week ago:
Over here in Germany and probably the entire EU punishments don’t stack.
I mean, maybe that’s true. Idk. It’s definitely not how the American system operates. DAs have discretion in bringing charges and pushing for sentences. DA bias is, incidentally, a big reason for the racial/gender split in the prison population. The difference between involuntary manslaughter and capital murder is often what charge the DA chooses to bring.
But the turn of phrase “to throw the book at them” comes from the strategy of prosecuting for every conceivable crime, rather than the singular obvious one.
There is no way in which you can get less time for murder than for attempted murder here.
There are drug crimes that carry a harsher sentence than some murder sentences. The “Three Strikes” rule, notable in California, is a similar source of life sentences for non-violent crimes.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 week ago:
Depends on who is telling the story. Japan / Korea were early instances of US industrial outsourcing. The consequences of the project was an economic boom during late 70s/early 80s in both countries, such that American politicians feared Japan and Korea would return to the world stage as independent regional powers. Reagan’s tariffs, the subsequent opening of Japanese import markets, and the further industrial outsourcing to China, the Philippines, and the rest of the South Pacific labor markets effectively clipped the wings of the Japanese/Korean wage laborer.
You could argue this was part of the “agreement” between Eastern Zaibatsu executives and Western investment banks. But I’d hardly call it a “measured response”. I certainly wouldn’t call it a policy that served the best interests of either Eastern or Western wage labor.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 week ago:
President Reagan decided Friday to impose punitive 100% tariffs on a wide variety of goods produced by Japanese electronic giants in retaliation for Tokyo’s failure to abide by the semiconductor trade agreement between the two nations.
In approving a recommendation Thursday by the Administration’s top economic officials, the White House decided to put the tariffs into effect about April 17, less than two weeks before Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone is scheduled to begin a visit to the United States aimed at easing trade frictions.
The tariffs will be targeted to bring in as much as $300 million and designed to punish such firms as NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Oki Corp. by either pricing some of their goods out of the American market or by forcing them to accept substantial losses on U.S. sales.
- Comment on Creating dogs 1 week ago:
Cat: laughing silently
Also Cat: Becomes women’s best friend
- Comment on sentence 1 week ago:
Might also be worth noting that you rarely just get charged with the worst thing you did. We have so many laws and so many variations on what constitutes a crime. “Attempted Murder” becomes a litany of crimes depending on where you were standing, how you got there, what you were using to attempt the murder, who you were aiming at, why you wanted them dead, what you said and did before and after the crime, and what degree of collateral damage you inflicted along the way.
You could very easily face more time for attempted murder than actual murder, purely depending on how many charges the DA wanted to file against you.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
Early in the relationship, guys may not even see the potential of a bi-girl hooking up with a girl as ‘cheating’, vs a bonus for his enjoyment.
Oh boy is that a land-mine I’ve stepped on.
A real, “wait I don’t understand what do you mean you’re in love with her?” moment that rang my bell back in my 20s. And then they ran off and got married. Which… hey, at some point how can you even be mad? They were clearly very happy together. Still sort of sucks to find out your spoke was actually a third wheel.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
She also believes that most men are bisexual.
It’s funny, because I see so much bi-erasure among gay friends. The idea that every dude is a 6 on the Kinsey Scale and just suffering through straight sex because they don’t know any better is stubbornly resilient.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 1 week ago:
In my experience, gay men are much more poly-curious than straight women. And there’s definitely a lingering existential “what if my man’s gay and he leaves me for another dude?” dread that I’ve seen more than one straight woman grapple with, particularly if the guy they’re with is pushing 2+ on the Kinsey scale.
Tag in the Reddit-style “Dump him, he’s not good for you!” social media vibe, and you’ll get women who end a relationship because they would rather do the breaking-up than be on the receiving end.
- Comment on Just a trail of dead demons 😌 1 week ago:
Master Chief poking his head in
“If she doesn’t write down a number, it doesn’t count, and you still owe me the coke.”
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 week ago:
What i disageee with is that the Democratic Party cannot be salvaged.
I don’t think you’re wrong here. There’s always some green shoots - your Bernies, your Tailabs, your LA City Councils, your Mamdanis.
But you do have to recognize this as a salvage operation. You’re not just getting behind the wheel and driving away in this thing. You need to gut it and rebuild it if you want to get where you plan to go.
I will not respond to weasel but I will jump into to anyone attempting to engage with them.
Incredibly brave of you.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 week ago:
Short quippy answer? Unionize your work place.
Long, more difficult, and more controversial answer? Building Dual Power: Where They Retreat, We Must Advance
But the idea that you can just show up at a booth and hit the “No Fascists” button to make fascists go away is American consumerist brainrot.
Fascism is a consequence of prolonged, flagging, imperial expansion. It isn’t limited to a single party. It’s what happens to surplus military personal when they get mobilized by the excess capital in the private sector.
You fight it by building a community in your neighborhood that is self-reliant and resilient to violence from abroad. You can’t contract some third party to politely ask fascists to leave you alone.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 week ago:
One side is actively supporting and cheering on all the horrors we’ve seen over the last 7 months, and the other is in the minority
Is Gavin Newsom the minority leader in California? Is Eric Adams the minority mayor of New York? When Rep. Tricia Cotham switched parties in the North Carolina State Senate to guarantee Republicans a veto-proof majority against the governor, was she a member of the minority or the majority?
Liberals seem to want to forget the last twenty-five years of Democratic misrule. Every blue state government gets a pass for failing to implement any of the party’s stated goals. Every majority party spends half their time in office trying to explain why you need 60 votes in the Senate to do anything (and even when Dems have 60 votes it isn’t enough), why the Parliamentarian can prevent a majority Congress from delivering low-cost health care or above poverty wages or even a tiny bit of student debt relief.
Meanwhile, the Dem minority’s powers of obstruction are virtually non-existent. McConnell held up Merrick Garland’s conformation for over a year, while Schumer couldn’t bottle up ACB for two months? Republicans can conduct massive gerrymanders of Texas three different times in the last twenty years. They can win the Wisconsin and North Carolina state senates with a meager 40% of the vote, thanks to the district draws. They have minority-majority governments in dozens of states thanks to disenfranchisement and voter caging. But Californians and New Yorkers and Massholes and Washingtonians just sit on their hands? Hell, back in 2012 Andrew Cuomo Helped the Republicans Keep Control of the State Senate
Dems couldn’t deliver themselves two free US Senators and a fist-full of House Reps by making DC a state. Puerto Rico was also up for grabs, twice, only for them to fumble it. They couldn’t mandate mail-in voting back in 2021 when those enormous mail-in ballot advantages handed Joe Biden a landslide win. They couldn’t reform the judiciary when they were staring down a 6-3 permanent Republican court majority. They couldn’t even prosecute an ex-President with 91 outstanding indictments against him. All they could do was sit back and hand him a second term.
Why do you insist on getting played like this, over and over again? You’re backing a Controlled Opposition. A party more interested in legalizing Bitcoin as legal tender and funneling bunker buster bombs to genocidal ethnostates than keeping the lights on at local health clinics or doing dick-all to house our homeless population.
A party of unchecked white collar criminality and criminalized poverty. A party of the police and the bloated military state and of Silicon Valley corruption. A party of mass murder. But hey, they wear rainbow flag lapel pins during pride month (sometimes).
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 1 week ago:
