JasonDJ

@ JasonDJ @lemmy.zip

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16h ago

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 16h ago

“The NSA does not monitor individuals without a reason.”
Ya know, I'm glad the NSA intercepted this particular call, as I want to see Trump go down by any means plausible.
But I got this nagging feeling that they should need more than vibes to intercept phone calls. Something that starts with a W? A weevil? A watch? A wagon? A walrus?
Eh, I'm sure it's not important. I'm sure it'll be another example of how the system allows this type of shit to happen while simultaneously making it difficult to fix within the system....because the system isn't broken, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to. At this point it cannot self-heal. It cannot be fixed from within. It needs to be put down like the rabid dog that it is.
We need to accept that, and prepare for difficult times ahead.

19h ago

DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE

Yep. Good to know that soulless cretins who just want to make a buck off the backs of people with scruples are still out there.

1d ago

Alarm bells sound over Trump’s ‘take over the voting’ call

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Some of those that burn crosses

Arsonists who work forces.

1d ago

Alarm bells sound over Trump’s ‘take over the voting’ call

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Although election experts say it’s clear the president doesn’t have authority over elections, they warn the president’s corrosive rhetoric leaves little doubt about his intent.

Don't need an election expert. Literally anybody who paid attention in middle school civics could tell you this.

Which is why we are doomed.

1d ago

Taste the flavor

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

This is generally true for most people, but no. When you eat really spicy food, especially something that actually has hot pepper seeds in it...it may be spicy on the way out, too.

1d ago

Taste the flavor

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

We already have an entire subset of people who are proud to eat shit.

1d ago

DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 1d ago

Nah shop Amazon when it costs them money. As in, you know you are buying at or below cost.

I just bought a few things from Amazon, cheaper than any competition to begin with, but also used the last of my Amazon rewards balance.

Then put everything on a 0% interest offer and religiously pay the minimum until the last bill, and pay it all off then. Just don't forget.

Use them when it benefits you significantly more than it benefits them.

I have been buying a hell of a lot more stuff on eBay, Newegg, B&H, etc lately. And most of the cheap consumer junk that I would buy on Amazon is even cheaper on AliExpress if I'm willing to wait a little longer.

I was kinda pissed when I bought a reasonably priced commodity on eBay and it was delivered in Amazon packaging by an Amazon truck, though.

2d ago

idk which would be worse tbh

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Thank you. That's so interesting.

I love unexpectedly learning random things. It's what I miss about young reddit, people like Unidan just popping into threads and dropping knowledge unapologetically.

Couple of weeks ago I had some swelling in my leg accompanied by pain and standard procedure there is "rule out deep vein thromboses (clot in big leg veins) with a vascular study (sonogram), first and foremost.

First off...a male nurse escorted me to the sonographer in a transport chair (no chance of me walking all that way with the leg pain I was having). We shared an elevator with the UPS guy, who asked the nurse how he liked his sneakers (well known high-end walking sneaker brand)

I realized then and there that I'm sitting adjacent to the greatest source of candid reviews on mens walking shoes: elevator small talk between a male nurse and a male UPS driver.

I may have to buy myself a pair for myself after that conversation. The nurse was raving about them.

But I digress. The sonographer was the real hero of this story. She was awesome. Despite the pain and my social anxiety, I was exceptionally chatty that day, and asked a few questions, and learned all about the leg-pump effect, and that she could see on her display when I was holding my breath because it would slow down the velocity of the blood in my veins.

Like, I had never thought about either but they make total sense. Veins don't have their own propulsion...most of the velocity they get is from "skeletal muscle pumps"...i.e. with the legs, as you walk or shift around while standing, it helps to pump the blood back up through the veins.

All of a sudden I understood so many things. Why DVT happens. Why "sitting is the new smoking" (we also didn't have nearly as many office jobs when everyone smoked). How compression socks work. Why sometimes, especially when sick, I get a head rush when I stand up after sitting for a while.

Almost worth the thousands of dollars it cost to find out no clot, pre-existing varicose veins made it difficult for the initial doctor to differentiate between that and swelling, and that the pain was sudden onset sciatica, which I suspected all along (but never had it before so I was uncertain).

2d ago

idk which would be worse tbh

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

You can't just say it would be rude in one region without elaborating.

Now my curiosity is piqued and I don't even know how to get a brief answer without engaging an LLM or spending hours learning about regional discrepancies in Indian culture...a subject I had very little interest in, just a few minutes ago.

My ADHD brain has got blue balls, man.

2d ago

idk which would be worse tbh

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

She's a British terrorist. Go with that one. That's perfect.

2d ago

The dad that stepped down

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Ancient greeks were a bunch of murderous, pedophile cucks.

Ancient Greeks also invented modern politics.

In fact, they even invented the word "pedophile".

Coincidence? I think not.

2d ago

Uber ordered to pay $8.5m over claim driver raped passenger

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

I feel like I'm missing something.

Not saying that this didn't happen, not saying that at all...but was there ever a criminal trial? Or, someone claimed rape and then Uber has to cut them a check for 8.5 mil? I feel like something has to happen in the middle but I'm not sure what.

2d ago

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Nah the CSAM then was just on Napster named "LionKing2.mpg".

2d ago

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

A Grand Old Party, one might say.

2d ago

Members of Congress will be able to view unredacted Epstein files next week

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Yeah that's why they redacted all the politicians names.

2d ago

idk which would be worse tbh

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 2d ago

My neighbors daughter's name is Arya and her age places her around the time of the last season of GoT.

Her mom swears she wasn't named after Arya Stark. She's half-Indian (the daughter) and mom is a white widow, so I don't want to press to much about her husband...but man, iirc Arya was practically the biggest and most righteous badass of the whole series. She probably had the single highest body count. Girl should embrace that.

She's got an older brother whose name sounds like a very famous musician, who was named in a very popular (Western) song around the time he was born, too. But spelled different.

Like, I'm sure these are culturally common names from their Indian side (or not, idk, I honestly don't know a lot of Indians). But the coincidences are too real.

3d ago

‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms

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JasonDJ @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Yeah but making a third option viable is something that will take way too long, unless one of the parties completely implodes.

Our electoral process itself only allows for two viable and diametrically opposed parties.

Any third party who even gets on the board in a general election will, most likely, ensure that they and the major party they are most closely aligned with, will lose, due to the spoiler effect.

If anything, a "successful" third party (that is, one that gets more than single digits in a general election" may help to shift the closest-aligned major parties direction...but that will only result in the opposing party moving further in the opposite direction to maintain equilibrium.

Without a good spoiler though...the loser moves closer towards the winner, and the winner still moves further away.

And here's the kicker...the way to change it is through the elected officials, who are incentivized to keep the system (which works in their favor) as-is.