betwixthewires
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- Comment on why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza? 1 year ago:
This is so wrong it’s absurd, it gives you absolutely no information on the history of this conflict. The current conflict dares back to the early 20th century, well before world war 2.
- Comment on mastodon instance which does not send any emails 1 year ago:
It’s called Pleroma.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No matter what you think of it, someone’s going to try to guilt and browbeat you. Support the Palestinians? You’re antisemitic and support terrorism. Support Israel? You’re supporting an oppressive apartheid state. So who cares whether you’re allowed, this is the world we live in, no matter what you think about anything there’s someone out there who’s going to call you a bad person for it. Just learn about things before you form an opinion, use your judgment and critical thinking and then figure out the truth of whatever it is.
Personally, I don’t support either side. I can see how they both kind of brought each other’s retaliation on themselves. I just lament innocent people dying and dislike how it affects me.
- Comment on How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it? 1 year ago:
Can you see the tip of your nose?
- Comment on I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious? 1 year ago:
Yes, and that’s OK.
- Comment on Will RFK Jr Independent Run Hurt TRUMP Or BIDEN? 1 year ago:
It won’t hurt anybody because neither side can afford a spoiler and they know it. The only people voting for him are going to be millionaire and billionaire tech bros.
- Comment on How to propose a girl who doesn't talk much to boys? 1 year ago:
He’s Indian. He means just talk to her. They talk like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m talking about bicycles in this particular case, and more generally, dutch people drop wrappers and cups on the ground like it’s their civic duty.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Man the dutch have a cool bicycle culture but they litter like it doesn’t matter! This is what it looks like when both of those aspects of their culture come together.
- Comment on For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories? 1 year ago:
I don’t. Popsocket all the way. Even big men with big hands can’t one hand these phones anymore.
I want a small phone with an OLED 1080 display that is supported by lineage OS and has a headphone jack. That’s all I want, I don’t care about processor or ram being mid, mediocre camera is fine, I need decent storage though, or an SD slot.
- Comment on 'She had limited value': Seattle officer investigated over bodycam comments 1 year ago:
No, it would be like if a neurosurgeon and a pediatrician were talking about how badly an ER doctor fucked up, and how he should buy their family a six pack of beer because the dead person wasn’t important at all and had little value.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Serving ads to Europeans is doing business in the EU, and the US and EU have reciprocal civil enforcement mechanisms.
- Comment on 'She had limited value': Seattle officer investigated over bodycam comments 1 year ago:
No, not clearly. It’s not clear that’s what he is doing at all.
- Comment on 'She had limited value': Seattle officer investigated over bodycam comments 1 year ago:
Doesn’t matter man. I don’t expect them to go home and cry themselves to sleep at night every night for what they see out there. But a cop negligently killed a woman and they’re acting like it’s NBD. The hit and this show a culture within this particular department of callius disregard for human life.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Well I’m only being facetious insomuch as the OP is annoyed at a perfectly predictable outcome of laws that Europeans wanted. I’m very critical of the GDPR, I do want laws that prevent data harvesting but I just don’t think the GDPR was the right approach.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
The OP is irritated for some reason, I guess they really wanted that insight.
- Comment on Well, fuck you too. 1 year ago:
Well, this is what you wanted isn’t it? Your government is protecting you, anyone who can’t comply can’t serve you.
- Comment on Am I the asshole? 1 year ago:
There’s nothing wrong with it period, knowing or not.
Appeasing such an unreasonable person by making excuses is not the way to approach a childish hissyfit.
- Comment on Am I the asshole? 1 year ago:
The irony in this comment is uncanny.
- Comment on Am I the asshole? 1 year ago:
Absolutely not, that person is mentally ill and therefore unstable and unpredictable. You’re just a reasonable person who acknowledges that adults don’t throw hissyfits and slam food all over the place at work unless they want to not have a job. Don’t listen to these clowns, you’re not an asshole, not even close.
- Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life? 1 year ago:
It’s not lonely. You might think it is but it isn’t. I did a decade in the cities, bar hopping, out with friends, online dating, all that stuff. It was all surface level and dating was like crawling through a desert wasteland eating bugs for survival.
I met my wife and we started a family after I moved to the country. I met her organically, at a pool. I courted her the old fashioned, organic way, no conspicuous spending to impress, none of that bullshit, just good old fashioned being myself, being respectful but persistent, that kindnof stuff. She’s an impressive woman in basically any way you can imagine.
To have a rich social life in the country, you need to 1) not move to a tweaker town, 2) move somewhere rich with the kind of people you like to be around (I don’t mean ideology, I mean age, sex, etc) and 3) go to places where people are and talk to them. Don’t judge. Outside of cities you don’t have to pay someone to go outside to do something, you just go outside and do it. Everything doesn’t cost money.
So if you are just sick of the materialism, the traffic, the constant expenses, the needless complexity, I’d say a small town is for you, ofc provided you pick one that isn’t full of 100 year old people or tweakers, and just go outside all the time and don’t be afraid to talk to people. If you like looking st the stars you’ll do just fine.
- Comment on IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered 1 year ago:
Good god has the world not figured this out already? Or was it a conspiracy theory until now?
- Comment on How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed? 1 year ago:
Don’t follow any news at all, hear it from the people around you, let them have their retarded rants and just let it go. Save your opinionated argumentativeness for the internet, where you can engage in it on your own terms.
- Comment on How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed? 1 year ago:
That’s a way to get in to a protracted or heated argument.
- Comment on Bunch of other empty parking spots and this jerk chooses to park there. 1 year ago:
In some States those are motorcycle parking. That thing is a motorcycle, or so the owner desperately wants to believe.
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Anything with added complexity will have a larger attack surface and more failure modes.
- Comment on I Was Banned From LemmyWorld For No Clear Reason 1 year ago:
Who fucking cares. This is the internet.
- Comment on Monopoly, But COMMUNIST | House Rules 1 year ago:
Go to gulag go directly to gulag do not pass go do not collect weekly onion ration
- Comment on Is the liquid inside a coconut ever white naturally? 1 year ago:
I’ve never seen that. The water usually has a whiteish hue.
Young coconut water can be sweet and slightly bubbly, and the fruit is absolutely fantastic, like butter. You can’t experience that without a coconut tree.