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- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 days ago:
That wasn’t claim I was intending to make, apologies if it came across that way. No, I think it’s something you have to experience personally. The only point I was trying to make is that there are more people with that experience in cities than there are with city experience in rural areas.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 days ago:
I don’t doubt your experience but the numbers don’t lie on this one. There have been a small number of the urban population (I’ve not the numbers on how urban they are. If they’re in the suburbs or actual cities) that moved to more rural areas since the start of COVID. The number is quickly slowing down and it was small enough to not make a big impact in any one area. If you grew up in a rural area, think about anyone you knew from a city. And then think about the kids who go off to college (colleges aren’t real big in rural areas) and who never came back.
- Comment on Do americans living in Red States really despise american living in Blue States? 3 days ago:
That’s the thing. Cities are full of people who left rural areas. The inverse is extremely rare. Plenty of people in cities know exactly what life is like in those rural “communities”.
- Comment on If only I had enough for the superior siege engine 6 days ago:
Sure. Just waste your resources on an inferior siege weapon.
- Comment on SBA #187 feel good follies 1 week ago:
“People will love you anyways”
This has not been my experience at all (I am extremely low on feeling the value of humanity right now. Turns out it’s not a good point in my life to reorganize 25 years of photos) but I think I will stand by this take always.
- Comment on Anon's jobs 2 weeks ago:
made a good meat egg
Sir, they’re called Scotch eggs
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a combination of factors but the largest (in my mind at least) is the capitalist fed toxically-independent mindset that has thrived in the US. It keeps people afraid of other people. It keeps them isolated which prevents community and safety and trust. It sows xenophobia. It prevents any preference toward a government collective.
Take a look at the difference between US towns and towns anywhere else in the world. Suburbs are extremely rural in comparison. They’re re devoid of life. Life only exists in the little boxes. In Europe a town of 300 is built around an active town center and rural properties are all focused on that center. US suburbs are less connected than rural Europe or Asia. And then much of the US is way more rural than the suburbs. You’ve got a media and political system telling everyone they’re alone and on their own. So when people have a psychotic break (not super uncommon) or just some form of extreme emotion, they do so with the fear of others in mind. And they lash out with one thing that makes them feel powerful in their solitude.
- Comment on Looking for a career change? Then look no further! 1 month ago:
🎶 What will you do with a drunken sailor, what will you do with a drunken sailor? 🎶
- Comment on Anyone know yet how to get some of the Trumps 1.7 billion slush fund? I mean I hate fucking Trump. But I could come up with a good yarn how Biden came after me? Plus Lemmy needs new servers. 2 months ago:
ICE is barely beholden to the law but that’s still way too much for what Trump has in mind. A private army of J6rs paid well enough to do absolutely anything along with any mercenary just wanting the money. 1.7b / 10,000 = $170,000. He could pay 10,000 people $170,000. I think that’s exactly what he wants to do. That’s exactly what he wanted on Jan6 but those idiot fucks were doing it for free.
So, 13,000 ICE and DHS officials plus 10,000 even angrier and even dumber private army militia. I want to mention that we’ve got likely over 10% unemployment right now. The real numbers are difficult but my most measures I trust, they’re saying 10+%. This is the exact situation the Nazis were in. They were out of work, currency was almost worthless and the Nazi party were paying (they got the wealthy early on).
Now, the big difference is I do not think there’s enough people willing to join up. I think they’re maxed at ICE numbers. There really weren’t that many J6rs who weren’t feeble Boomers. But, I do think they’re trying to follow the Nazi playbook. This is what they want. They’re just terribly fucking incompetent so… I guess we’ll see.
- Comment on Anyone know yet how to get some of the Trumps 1.7 billion slush fund? I mean I hate fucking Trump. But I could come up with a good yarn how Biden came after me? Plus Lemmy needs new servers. 2 months ago:
It’s meant to fund a private militia.
- Comment on Finally someone we can get behind! 3 months ago:
Civ players are still waiting for their turn to start.
- Comment on is it normal for parents to act nice one minute and rude the next? 3 months ago:
They built a bridge over a sewage pond apparently.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 3 months ago:
I guess this is yet another farming game…
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 3 months ago:
Also, tossing a guess of Kenshi into the mix. Squad based RPG.
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 3 months ago:
"I’m trying to remember this game, the name of it started with an S and it was about farming I think "
“Edit: figured it out, it was Fable”
- Comment on Please help me remember the name of a game. 3 months ago:
Never trust your memory of a letter association. We as a species make too many associative memories for that to work very well. But I’m guessing if you give the rundown, someone will figure it out
- Comment on Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album? 4 months ago:
Considering it was London, I’m surprised death by teeth wasn’t more prevalent.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 5 months ago:
Say what you will about becoming Pistachio Green, but it’s one of the few jobs that didn’t require you to use AI.
- Comment on remember to press "return" 5 months ago:
So many free hours as I connected to a long distance ISP.
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 months ago:
What I’m talking about but maybe didn’t do a very good job of explaining is metabolic adaptation. It can take months before your body adjusts, before you figure out what calorie deficit is needed and it varies wildly from person to person. Our brains can burn calories to be more creative or slow down to preserve ideal body weight. Which can negate a wide amount of calorie usage. …edu.au/…/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calori…
- Comment on What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets? 5 months ago:
The big difference is the effect of a calorie for each person differs. How the body chooses to burn a calorie differs. If person A reduces their diet by 3000 calories in a week they might lose a pound. Person B might not. CICO is literally thermodynamics, you’re very right. How our bodies react to thermodynamics varies quite a bit.
- Comment on Yale Posting It's Ls 6 months ago:
That’s federal immunity. Doesn’t apply to state crimes.
- Comment on The ghost farms choking Greece’s coastline 6 months ago:
We shouldn’t harvest ghosts anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 7 months ago:
New friend-making skill acquired!
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 7 months ago:
Seriously, who wouldn’t do this if we could?
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 8 months ago:
Get under your desk with your hands on your head. Get inside a fridge from the 40’s or earlier. Do a journal entry. Make a pose that will leave future scientists confused as hell.
- Comment on Heh, got eeeeeeeem 8 months ago:
He’s like the mesothelioma of sexual partners.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 8 months ago:
I’ve heard that before too but being an old bastard, I’m pretty certain Clinton didn’t do it until after he was debating Bob Dole. Bob Dole used this gesture because he held a pen during debates. And he held a pen in his dominant hand because he had an injury in WWII and the way his hand curled made him look weak.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 9 months ago:
Had to stop though since I found myself going through the fridge on a Sunday once looking for some alcohol.
I had a similar experience except I’d open the fridge before work and instinctively grab a beer or start to grab one before I realized I was just there for creamer.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 9 months ago:
The back tattoo was Roger Stone. Although we’ve not heard much about him for a while, I promise he’s got his sticky little mitts in the administration currently. In some fashion.
