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- Comment on Dashcam footage clears man of felony charge after showing constable injuring himself 1 month ago:
It sucks that they turned this into a story about how great mass surveillance is
- Comment on hell ya brother 3 months ago:
The only two extant monotremes in the whole world have similar anatomies? Shocking! You could make this same meme substituting any other monotreme characteristic, really.
- Comment on The History Channel, now in the fantasy section. 7 months ago:
When I was a kid, I definitely remember a more history-centric focus on the History Channel, although I remember even then (early 2000s) that they seemed to lean pretty heavily on WWII documentaries. It seemed every time I switched to the channel, one would be playing. It’s more or less been the way it is for the last decade or so, though.
- Comment on The History Channel, now in the fantasy section. 7 months ago:
Nah, it’s not much better during the day, either. HC runs either crackpot history/paranormal docs, reality shows, discussion about niche topics such as toys/modern architecture/etc., or war docs almost 24/7. In case anyone is wondering, here’s the next three days of programming scheduled for History Channel.
Saturday (Veterans Day):
12:03-1:06am - The UnXplained
1:06-3:04am - The Proof is Out There
3:04-4:01am - The UnXplained
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-1:00pm - WWII in HD
1:00-7:00pm - Vietnam in HD
7:00-8:00pm - Special, Variety Salute to Service 2023
8:00-10:03pm - Beyond the Battlefield
10:03-12:03am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
Sunday
12:03-2:04am - Beyond the Battlefield
2:04-4:01am - Special, 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-3:00pm - Modern Marvels
3:00-12:03am - The Toys that Built America
Monday
12:03-4:01am - The Toys that Built America
4:01-7:00am - Paid Programming
7:00-12:00pm - History’s Greatest Mysteries
12:00-4:00pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation
4:00-9:00pm - Ancient Aliens
9:00-11:05pm - Ancient Aliens Special Presentation
11:05-12:03am - Ancient Aliens
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 7 months ago:
Humans evolved to walk on Earth
Human feet curved
Earth round confirmed
Checkmate, flat-earthers!
- Comment on Safety First 8 months ago:
Yeah, those kids aren’t even at the camp anymore, they all went out for a morning-after pill.
- Comment on Something we can all agree on! 8 months ago:
You’d think the internet would have come up with a new punchline than “Australia upside down lolz” since literally 2011, but here we are well over a decade later making the exact same jokes and pretending it’s still funny.
This shitposting community consistently disappoints me. Way too often, the actual shitposts only get a couple dozen upvotes. Meanwhile, we get tired, generic memes like this voted to the top. A shitpost isn’t just some random iFunny meme, but that’s all I ever seen to see coming out of here. The other top post right now is a years-old webcomic, not even edited to be a shitpost or anything.
- Comment on That time they decided to blow up a dead whale on the beach. 8 months ago:
A real classic! What wasn’t featured in the original news story was a passerby who had demolitions experience in the army in Vietnam. He approached the guy in charge of the job and explained that this would never work because when you detonate explosives in sand like they were going to, instead of blowing the whale entirely out to sea laterally, the blast created a cone of explosive force straight upward which sheared off massive chucks of whale hundreds of feet into the air and left half the carcass basically untouched. That crushed car at the end? It belonged to the dude who warned it would go tits up! Here’s a 25 year anniversary retrospective with a little more info.
I don’t understand why they didn’t come at high tide and tow it miles out to sea using a couple tugboats. No dismemberment necessary, just a big strap around the tail-fin. Once miles from shore, the whale could be lanced to release the decomposition gasses and allow it to sink naturally where it could benefit the sea floor for decades. If they’d gone maybe 50ish miles offshore, that would have been proper deep sea abyssal zone and perfect for a whalefall.
- Comment on [OC] My feeling as European reading news on Lemmy/Reddit 10 months ago:
Sounds like Europeans need to step up on being a dumpster fire if they want as much coverage as us. Be the change you want to see in the world!
- Comment on britbong brexit life 10 months ago:
Very nice. Now let’s see how rich it’s made you, OP.
Oh, it hasn’t? Just desperately grasping at anything that will help convince yourself Brexit was the most laughably stupid idea ever? You got straight-up conned, dude.
The best part of this meme is that Brexit had literally nothing to do with it whatsoever, the guy just decided to expand his markets to other places, which he could have done either way, and well might have.
- Comment on tru do 10 months ago:
Yes, this is all correct. It was my intention to differentiate the extreme hell-blazes we often see today that completely destroy forests (soil and all) from the much healthier fires that merely thin them. Fires are important, but because of gross forest mismanagement, now for forests to undergo their natural burn cycle is to completely burn to a crisp.
- Comment on tru do 10 months ago:
Perhaps in the short term regarding albedo. Once the smoke dissipates soon though, it’ll be back to “normal”, except with a large boost in CO2 levels. Anyone who’s dealt with heavy wildfire smoke knows the smoke traps heat under it like a big blanket, too. For millions of years, wildfires were the largest contributors of CO2 released into the atmosphere.
- Comment on Gazing from mondays past 10 months ago:
C’est la vie
- Comment on If the afterlife has bureaucracy, I'm going to ask to speak to the manager. 10 months ago:
There’s an ongoing medical study I’ve been participating in for the last several years. Each year, the questionnaire asks all kinds of crazy questions like if I’ve ever died or ever been shot in the head, among others. If one is actually unsure, perhaps the answer is actually “yes” lol
- Comment on "I'm What You Call A Repeat Offender! I Repeat, I Will Offend Again!" 10 months ago:
Robocop is fantastic sci-fi, but this comparison to reality kind of falls apart right at the beginning with the part of corporations helping rioters. Has that ever actually happened? Is there any real evidence of that at all? Corporations have a long history of crushing riots, strikes, and protests with private security forces, such as the Pinkertons. Large corporations are also frequent donors to police departments and police projects. They’d much rather just buy buildings in the part of town that already has low property values and jack-up the prices to a tenant without any recourse but to move out or pay up, even if that means many apartments will sit empty for long stretches at a time.
