ChonkyOwlbear
@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon hates smartphones 17 hours ago:
The smartphone didn’t ruin those things. Capitalism did.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 1 day ago:
Yeah, because their parents are dying and leaving their kids an inheritance.
- Comment on What Do Democrats Need to Do? Act Like an Opposition Party. 4 days ago:
I think the unspoken problem with fixing healthcare is that they are scared of taking away the leverage job-provided healthcare gives businesses. People would be able to leave jobs more easily and they would start demanding higher pay. It could be a pretty significant economic shock.
- Comment on I bought an HP Laptop with 8gb of Ram...and was suppose to be 256gb SSD. I downloaded one game and its all the way down to 80. Is there any free software to download to help? 1 week ago:
You can get a terabyte SSD for like $50 these days. It might be worth it to just upgrade.
- Comment on Oh... is that what your corporate security detail is for? Passive resistance? 2 weeks ago:
It was definitely uninhabited. It was the Vikings who founded it. It’s pretty interesting. The icelandic language has changed so little, they can read the original Beowulf text as easily as they read a bus schedule. It’s a really hard land to survive in. The early settlers had to resort to cannibalism several times.
- Comment on Oh... is that what your corporate security detail is for? Passive resistance? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a lot easier when you find a land that is actually uninhabited. Anyone who has played Civ knows that it is hard to come by late-game.
- Comment on Take Two Puberty Blockers and Call Me in the Morning? Justice Sotomayor Under Fire For Aspirin Analogy in Oral Argument 2 weeks ago:
Taking aspirin has killed people. Nobody ever died from taking puberty blockers.
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 2 weeks ago:
Just snapped right in half.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely right, but there is still a limit on speech. Every right must be balanced against other rights
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 3 weeks ago:
I like to remind *free speech absolutists" that child porn is technically a type of speech.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I never would have been able to sell my dad’s house if it wasn’t for a flipper. It needed tons of work and there was no way I could afford to do what needed to be done to make it sellable.
What should be illegal is owning more than two houses. I work for a bunch of millionaires and all of them own at least 3. One even owns 8 homes!
- Comment on Broadcaster Alan Jones arrested amid indecent assault and sexual touching investigation 4 weeks ago:
Goddammit. I read that as Alex Jones and I got excited.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
We got the lion ass.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
University of Chicago I think.
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 5 weeks ago:
When I was in college the biology department got donated half of a lion for dissection by veterinary students. We got the back half. I feel like that said something significant about the quality of my education.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 5 weeks ago:
There is no material difference between Israel striking Iran with the backing of the US and the US doing it directly.
It is a huge material difference to the American soldiers who would be sent to fight and their families.
Don’t make me laugh.
Perhaps you need to examine yourself for weaknesses to propaganda, because it is 100% true Harris wants peace between Palestine and Israel.
Harris says she won’t give up pushing for end to Israel-Gaza war
Harris says two-state solution, end of Israel-Hamas war is crucial
Kamala Harris vows to end war in Gaza during final Michigan rally
I don’t think that the US should be allowed to hold any more nuclear weapons, the US government is the crazy, out-of-control political power that should not have nukes.
And everyone should have a unicorn and an endless chocolate fountain. No nation should have nukes, but that’s the reality. As long as they exist, mutually assured destruction is the only realistic policy to prevent their use.
The idea that supporting and helping Genocide does not count as fascist is also baffling to me
Fascism is a specific political philosophy.
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Especially because a see a clear difference in effort between us, I have to provide sources for everything, you can just make up stuff on the spot, no citations, no quotes, no nothing
I’ve done this long enough to know citation is a waste of time in this conversation because either A) you won’t look at it or B) you’ll make up some excuse it’s not valid.
But I guess that’s very common for blue MAGAs.
Imagine saying something so absurd and then calling the other person unserious…
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
Walz supports Israel making a preemptive strike on Iran, not the US. At no point did he or Harris say they would use US troops in an offense against Iran.
The Democratic party was always the fascist party but with "the mask on
Not anywhere close to reality. The democratic party in no way meets the definition of fascism.
"Diplomacy is my preferred path to that end, but ALL OPTIONS are on the table,” she added.
So the same as literally every president ever.
he was not tough enough toward the Iranian threat.
He cozies up to all the dictators because he wants to be one, so yeah he wasn’t tough enough. He let them out of their treaty which was preventing their atomic weapons research. Keeping nukes out of the hands of an authoritarian theocracy is a good thing.
This is why she was never going to end the Genocide in Palestine.
Except she and Biden have been pushing for peace nonstop.
Meanwhile Trump said he would encourage Israel to “finish the job” which means kill them all.
an army should only be defensive
The best defense is to be the most lethal army so nobody wants to fight you. That has been US policy for BOTH parties since WW2. It’s a good policy because it keeps us out of wars.
That policy is getting us closer to nuclear war and you think it’s good that Kamala Harris wanted to follow it !?
The policy for Democrats in past decades has been mutual disarmament of nukes. Trump wants us building more.
Again, she is just being the fascist with the mask on, instead of being mask off like Trump.
Again, you need to look up the definition of fascism because Harris in no way meets it.
And just to remember you, I do not support Donald Trump, I never did and never will.
If you didn’t vote for Harris, you did support Trump.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
Let’s remember K.H. literally said she wanted to start a new war with Iran
Citation fucking needed.
she wanted the “most lethal army in the world”.
That has been the explicit US policy of the US regardless of leadership for 80 years.
If you think Harris and Trump are equally crazy, YOU are the one who needs psychological treatment. Trump literally wanted to nuke a hurricane, pulled us out of our nuclear deal with Iran, encouraged the US to develop and test “low yield” nuclear arms, and encouraged South Korea to build their own nukes. Harris along with Biden has simply continued the standard nuclear deterrent policy the US has followed for decades in spite of the first direct nuclear threat by another country since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
None of those excuses justifies voting for a clearly insane man. You don’t look at a normal person and a guy screaming about eating cats and say “that cat eating guy is who should have the nuclear codes”. It’s fucking moronic.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
We made it through the Recession and COVID-19, but now people are in agony? No fucking way. They chose fascism because they are awful.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
I can’t really blame the Democrats. The public is who failed. The Democrats ran a sane adult. That alone should have been enough to beat Trump.
- Comment on Sea Creature Party 1 month ago:
Planaria?
- Comment on The grand prize 1 month ago:
Just to be a troublemaker, everyone is assuming this a solid cube, but what if it was something like 1/4 inch tungsten plates and hollow in the middle?
What would it weigh? Would it float in water?
- Comment on Life imitates art? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Cheeky 2 months ago:
They are known as terror birds. Think of a ten foot tall ostrich with a flesh tearing beak like an eagle.
- Comment on Cheeky 2 months ago:
Large predatory flightless birds didn’t help either.
- Comment on All the Good Economic News Vindicates Bidenomics 2 months ago:
You are right that jobs figures and the stock market don’t necessarily translate to the working class. What does are things like union activity and membership which have increased. Labor is striking for better wages and winning. Office workers are pushing for work-from-home options and winning.
Energy cost have dropped significantly. Gas prices are down to $3.26 from $3.93 this time last year. Food inflation is down to 2.1% this year, which is comparable to what it was before the pandemic. Yeah, meat prices are still high, but fruits, vegetables, and grains are down. All significant improvements for the average person.
- Comment on All the Good Economic News Vindicates Bidenomics 2 months ago:
No, I’m saying things are getting better but it’s happening slowly and we have to be patient.
- Comment on All the Good Economic News Vindicates Bidenomics 2 months ago:
You know how a freight train can take miles to stop after the brakes are applied? The economy is like a big ass train, so any changes are going to take a long time to take effect. The train is slowing down, but expecting it to stop on a dime is just unrealistic.
- Comment on Comparative anatomy 2 months ago:
Skull weight alone would make hopping difficult. Their heads are huge.
