ChonkyOwlbear
@ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 days ago:
It’s worth watching the German dub. The voice actors really killed it.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 days ago:
And Brooklyn 99
- Comment on What's the best way to still something expensive that can't be shipped? 1 week ago:
This one is really nice. It makes you do periodic location checks, so it really cuts back on scammers and pro vendors. It also has an actually useful AI feature that estimates sale prices for items.
- Comment on What's the best way to still something expensive that can't be shipped? 1 week ago:
I don’t know if it exists near you, but I use an app called Karrot which is a local used item marketplace. There is always Ebay as well, just make sure you list that it must be picked up locally.
- Comment on How come we still haven't engineered a solution to this?? 2 weeks ago:
They sell wooden tongs specifically for this purpose.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s is how we push them to the left.
- Comment on What is a good and easy to cook deep south southern food in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Making it with leftover Christmas ham is how I usually do it.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
No. All the protest against Israel is working. More Dems are pulling back on their support.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t support genocide. I recognize the unfortunate reality that either Democrats or Republicans are going to be running the country right now. Maybe one day we can get better options, it is not an option here and now.
The way I see it, Democrats are convincible, Republicans aren’t. Republicans hate nonwhites and Muslims, Democrats don’t. That makes Democrats the better option.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
And there’s a party whip and the power to take representatives off committees or remove their access to party infrastructure.
The whip can not take tepreststives off committees. The decision must go through the party’s internal Steering Committee or be voted on and approved by a resolution of the full House chamber.
The Speaker of the House has the authority to appoint and remove members from temporary select or conference committees at any time.
The whip can only make threats and offer new committee positions.
It hasn’t been useful for him because he appointed a parliamentarian who does what he wants.
Elizabeth McDonough has been parliamentarian since 2012
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_MacDonough
The literal only use any government institution is to enact the will of the entity that controls it.
Unless that will breaks already established laws. If the majority wants to reinstate slavery, they shouldn’t be able to just ignore the 13th amendment and the essential civil rights of millions of people.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
No, not really.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
It’s more complicated than you are presenting it. There are hundreds of representatives each with their own motivation on every different vote.
Yeah, sometimes they vote against the will of the voters (Israel). Other times, they can’t do the will of the voters because of the rules. For example budget reconciliation can be used to pass financial-only laws with a simple majority that would otherwise need a higher vote threshold to pass. The parliamentarian will say no if they try and squeeze something non-financial through that way.
Even Trump hasn’t been willing to fire the parliamentarian and blow up that system. It has a purpose.
You want to throw out the whole Constitution and start over? Fine. How many dead are worth it to you? There Conservatives are sure as hell not going to give up power without a fight and they are willing to kill to keep it.
- Comment on What is a good and easy to cook deep south southern food in the US? 2 weeks ago:
Hoppin John
southernliving.com/…/classic-hoppin-john-recipe
Don’t let the number of ingredients scare you. It’s basically just bacon or ham, black eyed peas, and veggies over rice.
- Comment on When the Democrats regain power, their centrist leadership will claim, "We can't do anything because...". Don't be fooled. We need to get the corporate centrists out and real progressives in! 2 weeks ago:
If you think any of those explanations aren’t valid excuses, then you don’t actually know how the government functions. Sure everything is easier when a dictator like Trump does it because he doesn’t follow the law.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
Lots of us, maybe even most, are under surveillance every minute we are at our job. A politician’s job is 24/7 while they are in office. It wouldn’t be necessary if politicians never lied or took bribes, but we live in reality.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 3 weeks ago:
Most importantly, 24/7 surveillance. No secrets. No back room deals.
- Comment on is there a name for when you stop preventing a problem thinking it's solved and it comes back? 4 weeks ago:
Like God said to Bender in Futurama “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all”. I propose calling this Bender’s Paradox.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 4 weeks ago:
My dad was on an aircraft carrier when he served. One of his favorite stories to tell was when his ship was riding out a hurricane and fishing trawlers couldn’t get into port to unload their catch. The trawlers sold the ship for next to nothing tons of the biggest shrimp they had ever seen. It took 3-4 bites to eat each shrimp. The sailors stuffed themselves on shrimp for the next week.
- Comment on Considering planting it in my garden at this point 1 month ago:
You can make pesto with mint instead of basil (though using both its best).
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 months ago:
I think that’s called being an influencer.
- Comment on I'm looking for an old Daily Show clip and I was wondering if anyone can help me find it? 2 months ago:
Gerrymandering maybe?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This country desperately needs a functional mental healthcare system.
- Comment on Growth 3 months ago:
I think pansexual should be for people who would fuck an alien who has no corollary on the human gender spectrum.
- Comment on What would happen if the US got rid of the majority of their bases and brought all the stationed soldiers home? What would be the impact on society, the economy, and other things? 3 months ago:
Many places also use the US military as a deterrent in lieu of having their own defense. Poland just requested a large US base to deter Russian invasion. South Korea would certainly be in trouble if we left.
- Comment on If only we knew the power at our disposal 3 months ago:
The Sonic & Knuckles “adapter” was made to have Sonic 2 and 3 cartridges plug into it. It allowed adding knuckles to 2 and created an expanded version of 3 which completed the story. The 32X is an adapter that upgraded the 16 bit console to play 32 bit games. The side of the Sega console had a slot where a Sega CD (cd-rom drive) could plug in. Apparently the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge fits into it, or at least appears to.
- Comment on Title 3 months ago:
So rent a boss and scuba gear and putter around the coast of Florida for a few days.
Buying groceries with cash is nice and all, but you will never put a dent in that much money doing it that way.
- Comment on Title 3 months ago:
It’s a lot harder to explain bundles of cash. Remove any identifying marking on the gold and claim it as marine salvage.
- Comment on Is there a way I can get someone or some company to get me books that are illegal in the US? And if so how would I go about it without losing half or all my money? 4 months ago:
It’s a shadow library. It lets you download a wide variety of ebooks.
- Comment on Is there a way I can get someone or some company to get me books that are illegal in the US? And if so how would I go about it without losing half or all my money? 4 months ago:
Check here.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 4 months ago:
Just some back of the envelope math. With $290 billion, he could give each of those 600,000 people $10k a year for the next 48 years and still have $2 billion left over. And that is without considering interest or investment in the meantime.