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@ CMLVI @lemmy.world

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  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • No, I agree, and I'm not saying I dislike it for a good reason or even a vastly informed reason; I've watched a few, and they felt varied in content and style and tone (at least to me). I'm just saying sometimes it's as simple as "just don't like it". I don't like eggplant either; had it prepared a few different ways. I don't think it's that I just haven't found that magical preparation or mix of seasonings or whatever; just not a fan.

  • What is something you dont care to understand or "get"?

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  • Reality TV or Anime? Cause either way, the medium just isn't my thing.

  • Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran

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  • This is the part that is difficult to explain to people. I don't think Jewish people run some shadowy conspiracy org that secretly keep pressure on things they disagree with. I do think some powerful (rich) people high up in the Israeli govt and in various powerful positions around the world (private and public) use their massive riches to influence things in the favor of Israel. Your Jewish neighbor isn't meeting up monthly with the local chapter to discuss world domination. This aligns with some non-Jewish players (Thiel a prime example) who has his own motives, but sees the money in play and acts accordingly.

    This isn't markedly different than other groups with rich, powerful people spread around, but the goals are quite a bit different.

  • Xbox as a platform is officially dead

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  • If I can get my Xbox game library and saved progress onto the PC, great. Sucks I've double bought some titles but whatever I guess.

  • How do you describe death to a person who's from a world where nothing ever dies?

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  • It's been enjoyable so far! Nice change of pace from what I've been reading. I just want Ryland to curse one time. He's too wholesome.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • My state fucking did it to him. Sent the super delegates; in what was generally a state with some Dem support, given the right circumstances and candidate, there is basically 0 hope for a Dem to come out now in a federal position.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • This is a not unheard of scenario regardless of who comes out of the DNC. Voter suppression efforts are pretty far wide spread rn. Hard to predict the landscape in 2028, but it doesn't look great right now

  • Wordle 1,720 - Thursday 2026-03-05

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  • Wordle 1,720 4/6*

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    Oh fun I gotta format it.

  • How do you describe death to a person who's from a world where nothing ever dies?

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  • Idk yet! I'm still reading it lol. I just got to the part where he ponders explaining sleep to Rocky, and it reminded me of that. Then I saw your comment talking about getting energy directly from sunlight and I was like "this dude must be reading it too" lol

  • NYC Mayor Mamdani proposes $25 million to build a network of 500 bike lockers

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  • Some of it, I would hope, is also earmarked for future maintenance.

  • How do you describe death to a person who's from a world where nothing ever dies?

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  • You reading Project Hail Mary? And Ryland is talking to the Eridians?

  • [Video] Jon Stewart hits all the Islamophobic tropes to demonize Iran and justify the Zionist invasion

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  • Idk if this account has posted an honest headline once lol.

  • Voting as an American with money

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  • Not to mention, our roads are absolutely destroyed by gravel and mineral dump trucks driving on them at a rate of hundreds per day, but the county/state won't do anything to the companies because they say they'll move to the neighboring county/state. So we get terrible roads, roads closed constantly for repair, and then pay more in taxes over it to make these repairs, because they don't want to lose the business taxes. The employees complain about the roads out of one side of their mouth, demand less taxes from the middle, and then whine and complain when elected officials even propose something to solve it because it might effect their employment a little.

  • Voting as an American with money

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  • Red states have these things too, just not all of them. My state is staunchly red, has yearly vehicle inspection requirements, and we continually pay to subsidize coal companies taking on projects (under the assumption they will pay to clean up the used land once done), only for the LLC to go bankrupt and the state get handed a bill. We have a gas tax, and are in the top half of all states in the amount. We don't have recreational weed, but we have medical, however the rules around it basically guaranteed only out of state companies could open places, funneling money from the state (you needed $1 million in CASH on top of your start up funding to even be considered for a license). Some people just refuse to introspect and look for the easy way out, i.e. blame immigrants and Democrats. Trump has come here often, and made plenty of promises, delivered on none of them. Nothing has gotten cheaper, we're cutting sweetheart deals to data centers, and these idiots will continue to elect coal barons and millionaires because they get permission to hate the right people from them.

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    Iran War Megathread

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  • I think this has added to the divisiveness more than people realize. We aren't arguing over facts anymore, we're arguing over the validity of the information in the 1st place. It kinda ties back to what the person you responded to said; social media and news sources are being merged and combined and continually consolidated, arguably in an attempt to further control the narratives. It's probably amazing for (both) the DNC and GOP that they can easily point to a news network and say "everything here is wrong, we're right", as it tacitly gives their base permission to dismiss the other sides talking points. If the parties can't even agree on facts, compromise can't happen. Political lines grow deeper, and meaningful change and compromise becomes harder, so you end up with the chest beaters who are loud and make people feel good winning elections, while the doers and level headed fade away.

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    Iran War Megathread

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  • From my perspective, it seems like Israel knows what they have with Trump; a willing patsy who will enact their agenda, as long as they stroke his ego. So you have US-Iran talks making some level of headway, then Netanyahu whispering in his ear about how this makes him look week on terror, goading the US into action. And because Trump is Trump, he's going to do what he thinks makes him look good and earns him and his billionaire friends money, which is wartime. So while the war itself seems pretty unpopular domestically across most political spectrum, this allows him to fulfill his own vain purposes by Israel continuing to stroke his ego, he gets to feel like the big heroic man he wishes he was by saving the world in his mind, and his echo chamber cabinet won't go against him, so everyone says this is the right thing to do.

    And then also what everyone else says; this distracts from Epstein Files, this is part of his lead-in to trying to take over the midterms and reduce election viability through restricting mail in and electronic voting (were gonna have 2 million people vote in a single precinct in New York, LA, Chicago, etc) while rural red districts breeze on through? It's all a ploy to keep GOP in power. It's the most thinly veiled coup ever, and half the nation is eating it up simply because it's "their guy".

  • What's going on with Jim Carrey?

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  • Who is "some" thay are saying these things? Is it people who make a living off of engagement? And here you are, engaging wholeheartedly, and seeking others to engage? Weird feedback loop.

  • Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent.

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  • Oh this is cool af. I did. Or know this...hmm.....

  • The craziness of women's clothing sizes

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  • I've had this issue too. Always wore large, now they're too short. I've had friends take little jabs, cause I'm a little bit heavier than I was, but that hasn't elongated my torso or spine. My middle didn't get longer, and I don't think my shoulders are 3-4" more beefy than they were. Now, I get a Large and it fits like I expect for a wear or two, and then it's immediately a medium. It sucks, cause I don't buy clothes often, so I'll go to a sporting event and get a shirt, buy a L, and then it shrinks to unwearable size.

  • Canadian man in ICE custody says he thought agents were only focusing on ‘criminals and murderers’

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  • It seems like he supported it; "they said they were going after the worst of them" seems like justification for supporting it. I don't support it, and I wouldn't say that. I do admit you have to assume some, but I'm not a jury and I'm not sentencing him to anything, so I'm not holding myself to the highest standard here.