Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)J

jpreston2005

@ jpreston2005 @lemmy.world

Posts
2
Comments
654
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built

    Jump

  • I had my conservative professor uncle tell me we can't use windmills because "they use up all the wind."

    imagine having to explain to your elders that wind isn't some finite resource.

  • Indigenous journalist facing charges after arrest covering story

    Jump

  • “I always knew that there was risk of arrest because of the type of stories that I cover, but until it happens to you, you don’t understand the emotional and psychological impact that it has,” Ms. Morin said afterward, speaking to a group of reporters outside the police station. “And I think that it is a tactic that they use to send that message. To impede, to insult, discredit and to intimidate the media.”

    This statement hits, because it's describing a traumatic event. Have you ever had a faceless gov't agency decide you're the enemy? Have you ever been treated like a criminal, despite no wrong doing? Have you ever known what was happening is wrong, but you're helpless to stop it?

    It's traumatic, and we all know that. Yet for decades it's a long standing practice within law enforcement to arrest someone for merely "resisting arrest." How can one resist an arrest, if the arrest should never have occurred? without an inciting event, it's paradoxical in nature, and flatly absurd on its face. And yet, it continues.

    The phrase oft repeated is that these cops are just "bad apples," or the exception, not the rule. But what's left out is that the entirety of the phrase is "one bad apple spoils the bunch." And boy, is our bunch spoiled.

  • 3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.

    Jump

  • SnapChat, Microsoft, and twitter.

    Those are the three.

  • Why has no bodh thoight of thid yet??!

    Jump

  • Because nobody really cares what actors think, when it comes down to it.

  • What really caused the sriracha shortage? 2 friends, and the epic breakup that left millions without their favorite hot sauce

    Jump

  • yeah same. I make a sriracha aoli for sandwhiches n such, and I've always only used the OG sauce. I've been holding off making more because I couldn't find any. Guess now I know why. Greed. I wonder how many wonderful things we've lost (or never gained) because of greed.

  • Ambushed!

    Jump

  • Theresa May to confront Home Office over ‘appalling’ secret policy on trafficking victims

    Jump

  • It's appalling to let rescued human trafficking victims remain in the U.K. while they're asylum case is pending?

  • Has anyone ever successfully utilized ADA protections in a work environment?

    Jump

  • Netherlands doesn't have workplace discrimination laws?

  • Has anyone ever successfully utilized ADA protections in a work environment?

    Jump

  • Yes, fill out the form from HR, had my therapist send an additional note providing justification, and was able to go full-time remote! Though then they stripped me of it, and I had to do it all over again, but now I'm back remote and at least for the time being, helps immensely.

  • A Dover Massachusetts man hid financial ruin from his family. Then he got a gun. [TW: family annhilator]

    Jump

  • There's only one thing that rich people truly fear. Becoming poor.

    Once you've successfully convinced yourself that you're rich because you're exceptional, then losing money equates to being found out a fraud.

    What's weird is that it was his wifes family that initially loaned him almost a million dollars, so even if he had to declare bankruptcy, it's not like they'd be on the street. This guys entire identity was wrapped up in his wealth. A symptom from the disease of artificial scarcity.

  • The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending

    Jump

  • Man, I love the self checkout. Also didn't they already show that rising costs everywhere WEREN'T from theft, but instead corporations artificially inflating their prices during the pandemic and then leaving it there?

    Take away my self checkout, and I'll steal out of spite

  • AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store

    Jump

  • that's already happening on just about every dating app though

  • At The Hague, Israel Mounted a Defense Based in an Alternate Reality

    Jump

  • ok now find the Canadian research he was talking about

  • Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy

    Jump

  • we drilled too greedily, and too deep. You know what we awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum. Shadow and Flame.

  • Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy

    Jump

  • I kind of thought that this is what Geothermal energy was... Or will this be Geothermal energy on steroids?

  • Canadians aren’t smoking enough to keep up with the supply

    Jump

  • more like underestimating republicans stupidity

  • Air Canada passenger opens cabin door, falls out of plane before takeoff at YYZ

    Jump

  • Nobody in the comments mentioning the fact that this plane was headed for dubai.

    My guess is the person was either being forced to go, and this was their way of escaping the predicament, or they were headed there to sell their soul for gold, and thought better of it.

    Nothing good happens in dubai.

  • Norwegian mass killer attempts to sue the state once more for an alleged breach of human rights

    Jump

  • yeah if this was Americas version of solitary confinement, I'd have some sympathy. Norways version? nah dude, you have so much more than so many. fuck off.

  • Removed

    Teenager charged with knife murder of gunman in Dublin restaurant

    Jump

  • Christmas eve at a pub, random bloke comes in and starts shooting at people. Pub goers react to stop the assault, gunman is killed of injuries sustained in the beating from the crowd.

    Man, if someones shooting into a crowd of people, using deadly force to stop them does not sound like whatever vigilante justice narrative these prosecutors are trying for. Sounds more like what the world needs, a healthy dose of FAFO.