Bytemeister
@Bytemeister@lemmy.world
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 2 weeks ago:
What do you call a person that is pro-universal healthcare, pro separation of church and state, pro individual liberty, pro LGBTQ, pro education, pro women’s rights, and pro-government accountability?
You’d call them a fascist I guess, but you’re diluting the term.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, a “Thanks Obama” meme.
Maybe it was over when Citizens United was ruled on? Maybe it was over when Reganomics set in. Maybe it was over when we failed to hold Nixon accountable for his crimes. Maybe it was over last November when people decided that allowing a twice impeached fascist felon dictator to hold the highest office was an acceptable result as long as a thousand+ year turf scrabble between to theologically opposed peoples on the other side of the fucking planet was unresolved.
- Comment on This is getting bad. Like, really really bad. 2 weeks ago:
Democracy was at immediate risk last November. You’re looking at a tangled mess of metal and meat after an 80mph head on collision and saying “we need to swerve or there might be a wreck”
Congress is under solar Republican control. There will be no impeachments. The presidency is under sole Trump control. There will be no restraint. The Supreme Court is under sole theological control. There will only be partisan rulings to further a Christian nationalist state.
Our only hope is to hunker down and make them work for every inch, and then flip Congress in 2 years. Which probably won’t happen because…I dunno, something going on with Syria will cause people to protest vote or abstain from voting out the fucking fascists that are here.
- Comment on What infuriates me most is that this actually works on some people. 2 weeks ago:
What infuriates me was a year of 10-20 messages a day from Democrat candidates asking me for money. Not a single fucking one asked me to vote. My phone number is not your fundraising device.
No wonder we lost this country.
- Comment on What are your favorite games for killing nazis? 3 weeks ago:
Metro 2033 and Last Light.
But those are the only games I have with nazis in them.
Well… There is that one nazi in Killing Floor 2…
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed that there is no non-violent way to stop this admin from making concentration camps in Guantanamo, but there are plenty of things you can do to keep people from ending up in those camps without using violence.
Most undocumented people get snatched up outside of their homes. Keeping an eye out for ICE, and breaking their cover is a huge help (Just walk up to them and say ‘Hi’, ask what they are doing and in general occupy their time with innocuous conversation), you can also provide food and financial assistance to your affected neighbors, as they may be unable to work without getting snatched. Make an emergency plan with them for who to contact, and if they have an immigration lawyer in the case that they get grabbed. If anyone with a badge actually asks about them, you don’t know shit, you’ve never seen shit.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
Nice try FBI guy.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Love that round fucking mouse, and that computer with a space heating, ESD producing CRT crammed into the same chassis. Those things were fucking garbage.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
Gigapet : Am I a joke to you?
- Comment on "I know the perfect place for the ESP button! Right in front of the drivers knee!" 3 weeks ago:
There’s always a higher trim level.
Also, no blank switches in my car, just a big ass touch screen, and a few buttons where the actual function was not included in my model year, but they didn’t bother to remove the button.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 5 weeks ago:
I had a similar issue with the seedy drug underground in an apartment I was in. My car was an old white Crown Vic, which apparently the dealers thought it was an undercover car and they would fuck with it. I didn’t know it was them, until I stopped getting screws in my tires the same day they got arrested.
If they have no other place to be, then maybe they shouldn’t be actively fucking up the only place they can be.
Yes, there is a systemic issue with housing, but there is also some individual responsibility for drug addiction and vandalism.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 5 weeks ago:
You aren’t wrong that other people have it much worse. I don’t think the hate we’ve developed post 9/11 is proportional or justified compared to the scale of the attack. I wasn’t trying to do that with my post, I was trying to explain when and why I saw a shift in how Americans treat each other internally.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 5 weeks ago:
I’m gonna bring up a slightly different take on the situation.
2001, during the walk between my 1st period and 2nd period class, my country changed forever. My math teacher had a shocked look on his face, he put the radio on, and told us that it was very important to listen, as we will never forget this moment. An airplane had hit the world trade center. I remember the bell going off, going to my history class, and shortly afterwards, being told that the busses were coming back to take my classmates home. They were terrified, that their school busses would be attacked and that they wouldn’t make it home. I found my brother and we walked home early that day. I got home in time to see my mom staring at the TV, which was surreal on its own because she hates TV. By the time I go home, the towers were falling.
That moment was a catalyst for irrational hate and fear taking over the US. Anti-musilm hate (if you can even call it that sophisticated and targeted, really just anyone the right shade of brown) really took off. I remember hearing about men being assaulted and having their beards shaved. Women has their head covering confiscated, and mosques became a primary target for yahoos and bigots to deface and burn. A few years later I remember and popular jingle about bombing Afghanistan, not specifically the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, but just Afghanistan in general. Hate became more mainstream and visible to me than ever. Sure, the US wasn’t perfect before, but for my generation, 9/11 was the moment that “Othering” people who didn’t look like you, talk like you, and pray like you, became not just a coping mechanism, but a core identity for a significant portion of the USA. If you spoke out about the irrational hate, you were Un-American, or a traitor. My father took me to see Fahrenheit 911, and I remember hearing about protestors attacking theaters that were playing the movie, and people that were buying tickets for it.
Anyway, that’s my two cents on where millennials (at least) got their hate enemas from.
- Comment on Checking in 1 month ago:
I’m gonna save you all from the pic of my pet snake taking a shit in my hand.
My partner thought it was too funny, and used my phone to take the picture.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
I too, like to buy a brand new 8K OLED TV just to watch it through a microwave door.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
WiFi bounces, and can take multiple paths. Won’t work.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
Setup your own WiFi with the same SSID and block all ports. Bonus points, it will drive your neighbors crazy and maybe get them to up their security stance.
- Comment on Anon buys a TV without researching 1 month ago:
Take a crayon, jam it in the pinhole for the mic, then scrape the excess off the surface. Problem solved.
- Comment on Making America great! 1 month ago:
Trump has backed off from all of his “good” campaign promises, and lately has been floating the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America”.
We’re in for a long 4 years at the circus.
- Comment on It shows you love them 1 month ago:
Pihole plus Pi VPN. Best thing I’ve ever done for my sanity. At least until google domains sold to squarespace, which suspiciously doesn’t support dynamic DNS.
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 2 months ago:
The meme is a little exaggerated.
Since demographics matter for insurance cost. White, male, 30-40yr old married non-smoker.
My insurance monthly is ~350 a month, but I only pay about 80 dollars, and my employer covers the rest.
What do I get for that?
1 eye exam and 1 pair of lenses and 1 frame a year (spending limit on the frame is ~200 IIRC)
1 dental cleaning, 50% coverage on dental procedures, with a maximum benefit of 1500 dollars.
Medical… It’s kinda a crapshoot. 0 dollars for an annual checkup. 25 dollar copay for additional Dr visits. I wanna say 800 dollar copay on ER visits. Maximum out of pocket is 5500 a year.
Also, fuck you if you get injured in some states, most other countries, or if you go to any hospital (or even a particular Dr in a hospital) which isn’t “in network” (PS, there is no way for you to find out who is in-network, and keep your sanity).
Don’t even ask me about pharmacy. It’s practically a roulette. One medication may be 100% covered at one location, and 0% at another. Generic may not be covered, even if it is cheaper and more available than the brand name.
American healthcare isn’t particularly fast either. I injured my ankle about 4 years ago. I tried to establish with a Dr to get it checked out (and avoid exorbitant ER/urgent care fees) and the closest appointment was 4 months out.
My partner and I had to get a covid test in 2020. I called my provider and they said it would be 100% covered. My partner caller thier provider, and their response was “we don’t know, get one done and we’ll see what happens”. They received a 300 dollar bill for the test.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 2 months ago:
I’m sure it was very illegal, and nobody did a thing about it.
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 2 months ago:
I was part of a union. I got paid minum wage. My manager was the union rep. I had to work a role that I was literally allergic to.
Despite this, I’m still pro-union. Just not that particular union.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
Yes, hell yes.
Get this man in a court room. Let the prosecutors spend weeks trying to find a jury where no one (or any of their relatives and friends) has been fucked over for life because of shitty insurance.
Let them talk about how unstoppable, determined, and committed the defendant was.
And then have the jury nullify the case.
It would be a good day to be alive.
- Comment on alpha 2 months ago:
Omega soft
The next step on the Charmin scale those asswiping scientist bears are striving for.
- Comment on i hate hate hate stuart little 2 months ago:
Huh, I always saw it the otherway-round. Linguini had had motor reactions to hair follicle stimuli. Movie has a darker perspective if Remy can hijack any person with hair.
- Comment on i hate hate hate stuart little 2 months ago:
Happens all the time. I chose a snake over a child just a few months ago.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Nope I’m not.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
And the Americans are still here because he ran a clown show last time too. Palestine might not make it through the next 4 years though, but that’s what the abstainers and 3rd party voters were pushing for.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
No. There were two ways the trump admin was going to go. He was either going to run an effective fascist regime, or become the ringmaster of the largest dipshit fucknugget circus. Seeing how things are going so far (and he isn’t even the president yet) it’s going to be the latter.
Sure, there will be long term damage that is going to take years, if not lifetimes of hard work and good policy to undo, but it can be undone. Assuming 2024 was a wake up call and people vote more effectively instead of throwing their voice away at propped up Russian disinfo candidates.