Lemminary

@Lemminary@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The meme’s too clever, are we sure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked up Michigan’s term limits which is 12 years, which is honestly very long, so it led me to searching about corruption and here’s what I found:

  • Cross-state variation in U.S. term-limit regimes is used to estimate the opposing incidence and magnitude effects of term limits on corruption.
  • The penultimate effect of term limits increases corruption frequency by about 28 %.
  • The magnitude effect, stemming from shorter tenures, reduces the average cost of corruption.
  • Stricter term limits are associated with lower overall corruption.
  • Term limits thus serve as an institutional safeguard against political corruption.

  It is well established that lame-duck incumbents tend to be less accountable (Besley and Case, 1995, 2003), hence more prone to corruption, and Tsur (2022) showed that penultimate terms reinforce this effect. […] Corrupt activities typically require close and trusted relationships between the public officials involved in the malfeasance and the private actors offering bribes. This intimacy and trust do not develop overnight, but require time to cultivate. […] Consequently, such corrupt networks are often built gradually through repeated interactions, shared secrets, and a history of successful illicit transactions.

  Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Add more term limits. You serve two terms and you’re out, no exceptions. I’ll even lend you a Mexican saying: “Sufragio efectivo no reelección”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pay them less, they are actually going to be more easily bribed.

  If you keep the same people in office, then yeah. I wonder who else would be up for the job if the pay was lower. Hopefully more Mamdanis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit 🤷🏻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My walls are made of bricks. Being a man is tough. ☹️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you like fish sticks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  generally don’t say that kind of thing to cops in the flesh

  Trust me, guy, we’re thinking it because we can also see your gun in the holster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk strikes (is stricken) once again.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just the price of doing business, oh well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boobs in unexpected places⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It can even make you gay

  What’s with that? Even trans guys go horny AND gay while on T.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did humans stop creating wonders?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish that in 2026 we could stop hating on people who do things that make them happy without affect us have fun on the internet

  FIFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Male cousins* Dude probably gay af.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Football.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, I’m Bubbles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads Don Quixote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Donkey hot tea 🤭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads Don Quixote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the Spaniard pronunciation. Virtually everyone else would pronounce it as “see”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads Don Quixote⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re right, afaik. An as in land, te as in test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bunnies are metal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t say that they didn’t drive spaceships!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close but no cigar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plot twist: the baseballs were all full of drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard work is no longer a guarantee of making a living in America.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SOME people do it. That’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate this about growing up. Once you can do the thing, you no longer wanna. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨take their money and arrest those responsible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even secondarily, imo, but like thirdly and fourthly. A lot of people don’t have the option to not drive. I’d say it’s a sad privilege to have a reliable public transportation system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just said your grandparents treated each other horribly. Are you gonna gaslight me about something you wrote? I guess the fruit didn’t fall far from the tree, huh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your stupid ass comparison, what else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you need to use your grandparents as an example. In what world is a single comment on the internet the same as an abusive domestic relationship?

  Some of you are replying for the sake of piling on without really contributing anything of value. This is the kind of toxicity of this site that I’m taking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re literally replying with mockery, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yes, but they’re also describing straight up horrible treatment. Is it really, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize it’s personal experience vs personal experience, right? And that the level of mistreatment they’re describing is exaggerated, right?

  I just think it’s hilarious that the toxic traits of this site are coming out just to prove their point. Maybe they’re right, thanks for confirming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is “countering” a statement horrible treatment now? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the general cynicism on this site when I see the opposite outside every day, that’s all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  most people doesn’t even pass the basic “human decency test”.

  Again, not in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  human iteration is, most of the time, horrible for many people

  Not in my experience. I think you need better friends.