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Evkob (they/them)

@ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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  • bathing

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  • The BSD in OpenBSD stands for Bain, Savon, Douche, which is probably some form of European language.

    My best guess is Estonian, and it likely means something like "be clean upon yourself".

  • Sadly, l'OQLF does not have a suggestion for yeet as of yet.

  • The headline is misleading to what is actually being proposed; the Idaho stop means treating stop signs as yields, and red lights as stops.

  • From Dante, to Jamiroquai, to Nazis, to tunnel, to Caillou. These are all from the same day. I fucking love Wikipedia.

  • Sousrealism is the real surrealism.

  • As someone who loves both pickles and cucumbers, I couldn't disagree more.

    If I'm craving one and someone hands me the other, I'll be upset.

  • Désolé, je ne suis pas des États-Unis, j'espère que tu puisses trouver quelqu'un avec plus de familiarité des politiques locales américaines que moi! :)

  • He's not entirely wrong.

    How is a Jewish person voting for Mamdani stupid?

  • rule???

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  • I checked out the Twitter account. I think it's clearly a joke, but the guy is a big Trump supporter so I'd say he does ultimately believe the rhetoric behind the joke. Therefore, not satire.

  • Clearly you've either never had hope or have already given up.

    I get it, we've all been burned by politicians promising things and never delivering. I think it's easier to deliver on campaign promises at a local level than in national politics, though. Even at the scale of NYC.

    For an example of a mayor of a large city delivering on their promises, look at Anne Hidalgo in Paris (coincidentally, also a member of a socialist party).

  • It's not Nazi unless it's from the Rhine basin area, otherwise it's just sparkling genocide.

    This is what you're arguing about. The intent in calling them Nazis isn't to insinuate they're members of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and no one would assume that's the intent.

    "Nazi" is common parlance as a shorthand for genocidal fascists because the Nazis are by far the most well-known genocidal fascists.

    The meaningless semantic argument you're putting forth is either a useless distraction, or you're simply purposefully arguing in bad faith to derail the conversation.

  • That's what package managers are for, though. Or add the GitHub repo to your RSS reader if you want the details.

    Lemmy is a social media, like others have mentioned in this thread I don't mind this type of post nearly as much if the person posting adds their opinion/analysis/summary.

  • I can't really not go to work just because it's raining. Not only would it fuck over my coworkers; I need the money.

    It's not like I'm made of salt, anyways :P With a raincoat and rain pants it's really not that bad.

  • Thanks, I'll make sure to pass the compliment onto her!

    My city is kinda shit for cycling, bike theft is pretty bad and there's a severe lack of cycling infrastructure. I always carry both the folding lock visible in the picture and a u-lock. It's also a rather large bike, anyone under 6 feet tall would struggle to ride away with it.

    The cruiser bars allow for a really upright riding position, which I prefer for visibility purposes with how dangerously people drive here.

    Despite being a bike dedicated to urban riding, she's been known to venture down the odd rural route or ATV trail.

  • The whole cast of Team Fortress 2.

    I haven't played that game in over a decade, yet if I read any of the lines from the game, I'll still hear their voices loud as day. Even just seeing the word "medic" and I hear Demoman screaming it.

  • I always use a simple diagonal gradient with the three colours of the bisexual flag. I am bisexual, but it's mostly because I like the colours. Whenever I get a new device, I generate an appropriately-sized gradient for its screen using GIMP.

    The one exception is the background of my Steam Deck in desktop mode, which is the following because I thought it was funny:

  • Most of the various guilds and unions in the entertainment industry have rules regarding proper crediting.

  • Also people who commit the crime of being black near police officers.

  • I searched for his comments on the NYPD, all I could find was an "apology" that reads more as "potential new mayor, after years of criticism of the NYPD, realises that an openly antagonistic NYPD wouldn't help his agenda for New York and says the bare minimum to placate them". Keep in mind too, this is under a presidency that would gladly assist the NYPD in disturbing whatever Mamdani does when elected. He also mentions victims of police brutality in the quote. Hardly "very PRO-NYPD", IMO.

    In regards to the genocide in Gaza, he seems to be extremely pro-Palestine. He did recently visit some Zionist leaders in NYC. Jews are around 12% of the population of NYC, and whilst they certainly aren't all Zionists, at lot of them undoubtedly are. Personally, I believe a good representative should represent every part of their constituency. You can't realistically completely ignore these groups while running for a position like the mayor of NYC. Meanwhile, he has constantly throughout his life criticised Israel and expressed staunch support for the Palestinian cause.

    Feel free to disagree with me on any of these points, but even then, don't you think you might be letting perfect be the enemy of good in this case? Do you have another candidate you'd prefer?