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FuglyDuck

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4h ago

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.
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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 4h ago
So, like, the sheriff's office did pay for the damages they caused, and a bit extra. But the reality is cops do this all the fucking time, pretty much everywhere in this country. I'm far from the most egregious example; and the county did end up making me whole. (IIRC, the individual officers eventually got yeeted from the agency. Probably violating people's rights someplace outs.)
The lady got fined into irrelevance, and the apartments evicted her as part of the settlement for their people letting them in.

8h ago

Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 8h ago

3.6 million and counting.

"ooops"

8h ago

Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 8h ago

Bet: that judge is getting "deported" to someplace dangerous.

8h ago

OMG!

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 8h ago

That kid needs to learn that supporting fucking nazis-ass jackwipes is not 'peaceful'.

They're killing people. They're abucting people and denying them their basic rights as a person in the US. They're beating the shit out of them. killing them in the concentration camps and deporting witnesses when judges start demanding to have them show up in court.

anyone who supports Trump or ICE or CBP or any other fascist dickfuckery going on right now is a violent piece of shit and deserves to get jacked in the face.

9h ago

OMG!

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 9h ago

this guy

the long and short is that a highschool had an anti-ice protest, and some dipshit was holding a 'I love ICE' sign. There's a brief conversation where "you're going to punch me", "yeah". "You'll get in trouble". "Okay".

<bam>

it's amazing how all these conservative snowflakes got up in arms over it; but can't be arsed to do something about school shootings.

9h ago

Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 9h ago

or something like a massive release of all the naked kiddo-photos parents seem too stupid to not-take getting dumped for pedos to enjoy.

or all the secret documents for your biggest corporations causing all sorts of financial damages. yeah. fucking corpos over is probably the one that gets it yeeted into non-existence.

9h ago

Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 9h ago

That would be extremely difficult.

Most of us don’t access podcasts through a publicly broadcast means, and similar regulations just don’t exist.

Won’t stop them, sure, but there’s no regulatory framework to even start on podcasts.

11h ago

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 11h ago

Well that escalated quickly.

I’d suggest composting though. Prion disease isn’t something anyone wants.

11h ago

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 11h ago

Then the city council member speculating it could be for growing pot. Yeah, “it’s not a race thing.” Go live in a fucking HOA, ya duds

sounds like my experience (mentioned above). I had living walls for things like cabbage, romaine, strawberries, some melons. tomatoes and potatoes, green beans, etc.

though... also, I'm white, so it was almost certainly worse for them.

11h ago

They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 11h ago

People get weird about gardens.

when I was in apartments, I set up a few living walls as well as towers instead of giant pots to grow fruits and veggies, (and when it wasn't winter out, full on aeroponic racks out on the porch.)

one of my neighbors was a slightly-older karen who kept freaking out and calling the cops (starting with 911, then the local non-emergency, then the sheriffs, DEA, then fucking highway patrol. anybody who would still take her call.)

Fucking sheriffs tore every plant out of their racks because they couldn't tell the difference between fucking cabbage and weed. At some point she overheard the sheriffs talking about my 3d printers and started reporting me for "printing guns" which was another whole ball of fun.

It was bad enough the property management assholes tried to evict me because the cops kept showing up, rather than evicting the nuisance caller who was lying her little ass off to try and fuck me over. All because she was incapable of having the thought that you could grow more than just weed in aero racks. (not that she knew they were aero. she kept reporting them as hydro.)

2d ago

Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

It might be on the subreddit mods.

You can set up the auto mod to automatically nuke and hide posts with certain phrases or links; and most will use Reddit’s spam list just because it’s easy.

2d ago

Democrats’ struggles could be partly because they’re just too old, says Obama

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

I didn’t say there was no difference.

I said on the one topic of Epstein- neither party has done anything meaningful.

There’s still differences. Like one party has better hygiene.

2d ago

Democrats’ struggles could be partly because they’re just too old, says Obama

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

…and you need old experienced voices who have seen all this shit before and know how to deal with it.

The problem with this is that the majority of Biden’s experience, just as an example, is of a world that no longer exists. Most of his life literally predates the internet.

His experience doesn’t include crippling college debt. It doesn’t include wage slaving at poverty levels.

It doesn’t include a time when you couldn’t afford a house if you had a job- any job.

Doesn’t include a time where you needed a 4 year degree to be an intern in the copy room.

Doesn’t include a time when loyalty to a company wasn’t repaid with more exploitation.

Doesn’t include a time where the us government could be the fascist bastards we are today.

And that’s part of how we got here.

Not only is the lived experience of most people in their 80’s fundamentally irrelevant to the modern world- it’s actively hurting us. Never forget that people like Biden allowed the oligarchs to exist, allowed the closet fascist party to fester into the openly fascist party.

2d ago

Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

True. But there’s a difference.

While hallmark certainly didn’t create the holiday, a large part of how we celebrate it today was shaped by hallmark and other companies using it to drum up business.

2d ago

Perched on the Pinecones

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Oh, I fully expect it to turn ugly and then we get dumped on.

All this warm moist air hitting cold air making little snowflake babies.

2d ago

How do you cut a cucumber so that the round slices don't roll all over and off of your cutting board?

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Not really, no.

Water stones are designed to abraid off. Their reason they were the gold standard is that the slurry it formed from that abrasion is what removed material (and it did so quickly.). But it abraided only where you used it so it would eventually need to be lapped back into flat.

Diamond stones are diamonds that are sintered or otherwise imbedded into steel plate. Once they’re worn in (basically weakly bound diamonds rubbing off,) they’re generally going to last.

Sometimes there’s issues with them, and the thin ones (like what I linked,) sometimes get bent or whatever (which is why it’s common for woodworkers to glue them to a board,) but with a modicum of care, they’ll last a long time.

(keep some water on the stone, wash it off and dry it, don’t store it someplace it’ll get rusty,)

For the record, diamond stones are now the lapping plate for most people who still fork over for the water stones. Another option that was good enough was to go outside and find some concrete that looked flat.

2d ago

New Barbie

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

forgot the giant cross.

2d ago

Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

lol, even mother nature is like "fuck this corporate holiday!"

2d ago

Perched on the Pinecones

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

this guy clearly unimpressed with this early spring we're having. (well. It's like fifties in minneapolis. I assume Canada is experiencing warmer-than-normal weather too.)

2d ago

DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice

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FuglyDuck @lemmy.world 2d ago

Because you want people helping people. It’s the right thing to do. It’s community. It’s the very most basic aspect of being social animals.

They’re not using this tactic because it’s effective. They’re using it to attack the community that makes us strong and able to oppose them.

Now, people are going to be less likely to help. Because it might be. It isolates us from each other that little bit more.

And fuck them for that. They will not break us. Minnesota will not stop. We will not give into the fear, the hate. Love is stronger. Kindness is stronger, community is stronger.