AFaithfulNihilist

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Spaceships aren't cheap.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago

that shit isn't as easy as they make it sound.

Yeah it is. You must be remembering it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago

As soon as I heard that line in the video, I thought to myself, "oh no Karl, that might have been a bridge too far."

It's unfortunate but Karl really thought to himself, "I'm going to say the most inflammatory shit about the most litigious person on the internet, and because Billy is such a huge loser I can't fail!"

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago

Doesn't look like anything to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He has dismantled the government, clearly you can see why that would be a bad thing.

They're destroying America.

He's a non-American who has fired hundreds of thousands of Americans from essential important jobs that are necessary to keep our country functional. I hope he falls foot first into a wood chipper, and has to spend the rest of his fortune keeping himself alive.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it went viral and people started retweeting it, putting on posters, and getting it in the news, you might get deported.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes. In many ways, China is exactly what Republicans wet dream about. A single party runs unopposed controlling all elements of government. Criticizing them is illegal. All businesses are protected by the government from uppity customers. Employees are expected to work 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. 6 days a week for few benefits with almost no workers rights..

It's the Republican dream.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

In America, our system works like this:

The police will shoot you, maybe burn your house or neighborhood down, steal everything you own, Lock you up without charges, and then if you can ever afford a lawyer to sue them you might get out of jail only to find the burned-out hole in the ground you used to live in was sold to a property developer and none of the money found its way to you.

You also owe tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes on the burned down house for the time you were in jail, but all of the money for selling the house was given to some scam artist who knew you wouldn't be able to stop them.

You can't afford to go to the doctor, but a third of your income is spent on health insurance. It takes 2 hours of work to afford a dozen eggs. You no longer have a car because they towed it from your driveway while you were locked up and you can't even afford to get it out of impound despite the fact that every day the cost of storing the vehicle goes up by more than you earn.

This country is a fucking nightmare for so many people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

They were both extremely bad candidates who should not have been in a position to run. If the party had been allowed to speak they would not have been allowed to run.

They weren't really candidates that failed on their own merits, they were set up to fail by being put into a position they should never have been in.

Neither Hillary nor Kamala could have won a primary that wasn't rigged in their favor. Since they didn't get to their position as candidate based on their own merits, it's reasonable to describe their failure in similar terms.

That said, there is such a thing as more than 100% blame, and this is a situation where A lot of people have a lot of blame. Those two women are 100% responsible for the stupid decisions they made. No one can take that failure away from them, but because of the nature of the mistake, there were a lot more people who should also be blamed and similarly excommunicated from politics.

There are elements of sexism here, but that's just endemic to politics. They didn't fail because of sexism, they got to where they were because of it and were set up to fail by it, but there are a lot of problems here beyond and before sexism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Three times I have left a job only for the business to close up shortly after.

In high school I worked at a video game store, I worked 40 hours a week. We went through a lot of managers during the year or so I worked there, but at the end we had this manager that was just stealing from everybody's register. He would give you like $5 to tell you to go buy a couple of burgers in the food court and then would just steal money out of the register using your employee number. We caught wise to it and would count down our registers and then at the end of the day we would call into corporate and tell them how much money we think he stole from our register. All of the cashiers were fired or quit when they saw others getting fired, The manager was promoted, and 2 months later the store was closed for almost 6 months before it got completely rebranded.

When I was in college I worked at a restaurant 7 days a week. I prepped food and washed dishes. When I told my boss I needed to go down to 6 days a week so that I could spend a day helping my mother he decided to close the restaurant down one day a week. When I tell my boss I needed to go down to 5 days from 6 days, he closed the restaurant another day each week. When I finally quit, the restaurant remained open for 4 more months before it was shut down completely.

After college I went to go work at a laboratory. I started as a janitor, talk to myself into maintenance responsibilities and eventually started and managed a CAD/CAM department. When I finally got fed up for getting paid in pocket lint and praise I gave them 30 days notice and was fired 14 days into it. The business closed its doors 90 days later.

Now I've just started a new job, I was at my old job for 5 years and was responsible for about 65% of the work on a day-to-day basis. My friend that I got a job there is looking for the exit and when he leaves I don't think they have any choice but to just turn off the lights and go home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't call it the civil war in the South, they call it the war of Northern aggression.

... And that tells you all you really need to know about them and the quality of education these kids are receiving.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Union busting, lavish funding for genocide, corporate tax cuts, no healthcare plan, increased funding for police, pro-fracking, pro-drilling, 'tough on immigration ', etc etc

 

In anticipation of the coming wave of censorship, I'd like to develop a list of subversive content that might disappear off of streaming services.

As these services and broadcast networks are removing content from their catalogs, what kinds of things do you think might disappear?

I wonder how granular the censorship will be too, for example, will they start censoring individual episodes of Star Trek?

At what point do you think they're going to come for Mr Rogers neighborhood or Sesame Street?

 
 

 

this kitty is just comfortably bouncing

 

She lives forever there in the text, but she can visit you for a time.

 
 
 

They seem to spin some kind of silk everywhere they go. They seem to be no longer than about 4 mm. I noticed them crawling up things and then dropping down on a line of silk. I've started catching them by putting little sticks up in the air attached everywhere that I find them. They tend to gather at the top of the stick for easy rapture by vacuum.

 

I feel like they probably have something to do with light level detection or infrared signal receiving but I genuinely have no idea. They could just as likely be part of the sound system for all I know.

 
 

I will try not to over explain the life out of it

 
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