58008

@58008@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨never forget⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s both hilarious and disturbing that, 25 years later, we still have a significant number of people believing controlled demolition took down the WTC towers and building 7. But then again, it’s been nearly 70 years since the JFK assassination and most people still think Oswald was a patsy 🤷‍

  Conspiracism is like gossip, but on a national level. It’s pure poison. It can lead to anything ranging from destroyed personal relationship and reputations, to the Holocaust (think of the shit said about Jews for centuries leading up to it). We shouldn’t be so blasé about that shit.

  And the Epstein case had something 9/11 truth doesn’t: evidence, court-worthy and verifiable evidence. Prosecutable evidence. Undeniable evidence. Show me a bomb-planter who did 9/11 and the paycheque he received for his work from Dubya, and then we can talk. Otherwise, all you have is gossip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soldier who plotted to rape baby jailed for 12 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Christ…

  I love when people like this claim that they were going through a difficult time and that’s why they did it, and that they’re not normally like this. As though being traumatised or going through a hard divorce suddenly bestows you with grade 10 paedophilia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve misread the joke. He’s making fun of transphobes and transphobic lawmaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s depressing that this behaviour is actually a positive to the kind of people who vote Reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Commies are in bed with Islamists to destroy whiteness, or something, so they are valid targets for lunatics with severely warped personalities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delish⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I get your home address real quick? Just wanna talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one spells "lose" anymore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a grammar nazi, but I like to be helpful to people who want help:

  • Lose: Pronounced “loose”, as in “if you’re gonna challenge me to explain the difference between ‘lose’ and ‘loose’ well, ha, let’s just say you’re gonna lose/loose”

  • Loose: Pronounced “lose”, as in “just how lose/loose do you think AOC’s anal sphincter really is?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love my fellow humans who leave presents like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus, just got a 500-volt startle when I saw that image. Thought I was transported back to 2007’s Dnepropetrovsk 😬

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never Gonna Give You Up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was there when Siamese Dream was released. I was there, man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any serial killers still active in the US today? With all the tech like dna, fingerprints, flock camera's etc. Would it be almost impossible to be one?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Motiveless murder/disappearance - that is, where the victim has no enemies or any reason to have become a victim of murder (e.g. robbery) - are extremely hard to solve even today. Police are much better able to capture criminals today, but they’re still batting a pretty measly average overall, and especially so in cases of motiveless disappearances. The US has ~350 million people in it, and there are enormous swathes of land that are uninhabited or are only lightly inhabited. Massive marshes, endless forests, etc. Dumping bodies in there is so effective that sometimes even serial killers who have confessed and are helping the cops locate victims’ bodies can’t find them all.

  The behaviour of killers outside of the crime itself is usually what fucks them. Bragging to people, taunting the cops, leaving calling cards/clues, or just becoming so confident and hubristic that they lower their standards and get caught for future murders through sheer sloppiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not Enough Hate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transphobic ass meme. The guy’s a cunt, don’t need to denigrate trans people to point that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low rating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My take on feets: I don’t think about them in my fantasies or anything, but if they’re there IRL, they represent a further opportunity to add to the other person’s pleasure, so I’ll have a go on them. But I don’t get turned on by the act of licking soles in and of itself. I’ve never seen a pair of feet and thought “daaaaaaaaaaamn, those are some HOT feets!” no more than I’ve seen a garden fence and thought “burn down all other fences, 'cause THIS is the one!” Although, I’m sure I’ve seen plenty of feet that caused my neutrality to dip into disgust (like my own, for example). But beyond that, I don’t think about them at all. They’re just an extra button on my controller in the indecipherable non-localised Slavic RPG that is the female orgasm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with singleplayer campaigns that let me fight/kill nazis?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Saboteur is fairly old at this point, but still holds up gameplay-wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have at least one good picture of yourself for display at your funeral memorial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeseus Christ, the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so autistic that the idea of mixing any kind of food with bodily greaseholes is beyond horrendous to me, even if it’s something other than stinking cheese. Like, I’ll happily chomp on whatever bodypart you want me to, but if you first drizzle delicious syrup on it, forget it. Food and sexjuices are non-overlapping magesteria.

• Is it every aspiring chef's dream to work in a hectic high-stress kitchen? If so, why?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deja Vu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not on the list, but I happened to scroll randomly onto this fella when checking:

  Line 1208: fartographer

  😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matt Wales: Forbidden Solitaire is a wonderful reminder games are powerful cultural artefacts that demand to be preserved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great wee game, def worth checking out if you’re into that sorta thing.

• If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you need a portable reader, is there any reason to choose an e-reader over your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  | and they’re also easier on the eyes

  This is my main reason for preferring to read on e-readers. A book is a long-ass journey, and to be staring at a regular screen for that long can be painful business.

  I also like that there’s at least the suggestion of old-school physical connection to the book. It’s a device that does just one thing (and is very good at it as a result), and you find yourself treating it the way you used to treat a paper book. I guess it’s the same sort of “positive friction” you get when you listen to vinyl or something like that. Makes the experience a bit nicer. Like, yeah, you could open notepad on a smartphone and read the complete works of Shakespeare for free in Courier New font, having to scroll every 2 paragraphs, but who the fuck wants to do that?

  The basic form factor of the book has been perfected over centuries, and e-readers emulate it to a fair degree.

  I think most e-readers are waterproof, too 🤔 One would hope so, at least! Reading in the tub or on a beach is one of the benefits of its portability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestion: Lindsey Graham should be interred in a mausoleum behind a closet door.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to his funeral where 200 dudes in assless chaps and sleeveless tuxedo shirts pay their respects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This guy managed the movie theater I worked at in high school.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lookin’ like Vic Mackey’s stunt dummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Holy hell, Ernie.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Morgan Freeman is his painting of Dorian Gray. That poor fucker was born looking like an 80-year-old man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what he did was heroic. I don’t know for sure that his motives were pure, like I can’t see into his soul, or know what his relationship with Russia was before doing it, but all in all I think what he revealed had to be revealed. The NSA were untethered by any sort of oversight or accountability to the public, and they proved beyond any doubt just how completely and totally an agency loses it’s fucking mind when no one’s watching. I doubt anything changed in that regard - they’ve probably just strafed into a different shadowy part of the landscape and are continuing with new/improved tools - but it at least taught us all that, yes, the government really is both capable and motivated to spy on every bowel movement and armpit sniff you perform, whether or not you’re a suspect in a crime. The mere affirmation that this sort of thing really goes on is worth having.

• How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google: ok i just go into settings and change 1 to 0 next to ‘kiddie porn allowed???’ hope that help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservative values⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Etc. Pride march when??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  c/NoStupidQuestions style question:

  Why is making enough RAM to go around so hard now? I know the cause of it - AI cunts - but what is the actual bottleneck in the production of RAM that means it can’t be pumped out fast enough to meet demand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The intent and impact of the word was a lot different back then, certainly so outside of the US, but still, using a subset of humanity as a stand-in for an adjective is pretty grim stuff. Shows how little was thought of them. Like if the characters had instead become white from a flour mill explosion, it’s unlikely they’d have been described as being “as white as scampering little crackers”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must have apps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ventoy > Rufus