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For serious comments, my true audience is the unknown reader. For jokes, my audience is myself alone.

Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.

  • We pay microtransactions on life

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  • a jelly-filled doughnut,

    Oh, like a berliner?

  • Hallmark

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  • We pay microtransactions on life

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  • I am so used to people complaining about their own country that I mistakenly thought that the first guy was Danish. And then, the second guy's comment made no sense at all. I was like, "health insurance? co-pays? How does any of that apply to Denmark?"

    I had to reread the first post several times before I could overturn my impression that he was Danish.

  • AOC leads JD Vance for first time in 2028 election matchup: poll

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  • No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

    The 14th Amendment doesn't say that he can't run. It says that he can't hold any office. Trump has a "disability" from when he engaged in insurrection by intentionally inciting it, and that disability has not been removed by Congress.

    This disability does not require he be convicted of any crime. Instead, the 14th Amendment simply requires that Congress enforce the Amendment:

    The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

    Donald Trump cannot legally hold any office under the United States. He cannot legally be president. The only reason he's able to act like the president now is that Congress is not enforcing the Constitution.

    I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point in the future, perhaps even after Trump passes away, Congress finally grows some backbone and enforces the amendment, just to try to make up for the embarrassment that Trump causes us, similar to how the Germans would rather not remember that Hitler had been the Chancellor of Germany. Trump might be retroactively declared to have never been the president after January 6, 2021, and I think that would be in line with what is written in the Constitution.

  • AOC leads JD Vance for first time in 2028 election matchup: poll

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  • I don't even think Trump can legally be president today.

    And on top of what you said, there's also the possibility that Trump will be alive but too senile to run.

  • If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?

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  • America was founded on the concept of no taxation without representation.

  • The Inheritance

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  • My open tabs build up until eventually I switch browsers.

  • What personal actions you take to stay optimistic?

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  • I have been reading a lot of fiction lately.

    Listen, the important thing isn't to court optimism. It's to avoid pessimism. Pessimistic thoughts tend to be sticky and refuse to go away. Mindfulness meditation can help you give those thoughts the boot.

    But it also helps to stay busy. Like my hobby of reading fiction.

    Exercise can also help.

    Staying optimistic can backfire if you're over optimistic at all.

  • Nick Reiner to be charged with murder in death of parents, officials say

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  • I would expect not too much, since they can't speak during sentencing.

    And even if they had written a letter or something, I suspect that the very idea that they could plan for him murdering them would fall pretty flat, and might even backfire.

  • Rebranding

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  • The outside is soft? Are you sure that's Cap'n Crunch and not Ensign Wetley Cruncher?

  • 1-year-old child dies after being run over in San Francisco

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  • Good god, the last line of the article:

    A woman was seen on the ground screaming and wailing as two other women tried to comfort her.

  • Ethical treatment of animals - people excluded

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  • Seems to be a false dilemma. They ignore the idea that you can eat your friends.

  • U.S. military willing to attack “designated terrorist organizations” within America, general says

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  • If you look at a single incident and try to assign blame, you'll likely never be satisfied with any answer. However, if you look at this as a category of incidents, then it's actually quite easy to find ways to reduce the number of occurrences.

    For example, for drug related offenses, you could be looking at solutions like decriminalizing drugs and offering more social programs. Lab tests with rats have shown that when the rats have a strong community, they will naturally stop abusing drugs. It wouldn't be surprising if the same thing works with humans. We should be spending government money to encourage the development of caring communities.

    For mental health related offenses, the same sorts of things can help. Having support can be the difference between life and death. Although psych meds can be lifesavers, the government needs to invest not only in pharmaceuticals and making pharmaceutical companies rich, but in treating the person.

    And it goes without saying, but the violent sort of fascist rhetoric that we constantly see from the GOP and MAGA in particular, shouldn't be tolerated from our politicians. Ideally, I'd like to say the same for news, but that's a more difficult problem to solve.

  • the American Dream

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  • Are you my brother in law? And or my ex-husband?

    Who?

  • New research shows British cities 🇬🇧 aren’t built for older people. Many can’t walk fast enough to beat a pedestrian crossing

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  • Worse, IMO, is that sometimes drivers get especially upset when they have to wait for pedestrians while it is raining.

    Yes, it is worse to drive in the rain, but the pedestrians are literally in the rain. Try to manufacture the tiniest bit of sympathy, you psychopaths.

  • U.S. military willing to attack “designated terrorist organizations” within America, general says

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  • "Designated" in what way?

    IIRC, Trump just designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization despite the fact that it has never committed terrorism and it is not an organization.

    This is just carte blanche to murder any political opposition.

    Did anybody else interpret Trump's messages about Rob Reiner's murder as the same as when a terrorist organization takes credit for an attack? If anything actually deserves to be designated as a terrorist organization, it's MAGA.

  • A therapy shortcut

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  • All of his wishes could be interpreted as only applying in the past.

  • Obama encourages Democrats to focus on winning back House, not "tactical differences"

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  • In the United States, for reasons that are difficult to explain, it is legal to gerrymander.

    I think that Democrats should be trying to gerrymander to insane degrees to give Democrats the advantage, and at the same time, they should introduce a constitutional amendment to make gerrymandering illegal. The amendment needs to be written by experts in political science and gerrymandering so that we can do our best to get rid of this disease.

    As long as they say, "We are against gerrymandering, and all of these states have ratified the amendment. But if we don't do this, the red states will never ratify the amendment," then I think they can make it work.

    In the short run, the Democrats would win, and in the long run, as long as the amendment is written well, the American public would win, which hopefully would also be wins for progressives.

  • A Christmas Carol

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  • To my great shame, I haven't read the book, but based on the different movie adaptations I've seen, another interpretation could be simply that he ate some dinner that disagreed with him, and then just had some bad dreams for the second panel.