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.
I've never seen A Muppet Christmas Carol, but just looking at these pictures has caused me to start weeping uncontrollably.
On the other hand, the GOP, along with some Democrats, just approved a huge military budget, $900 billion IIRC, and what have they been doing with that? Blowing up fishing boats, hijacking oil tankers, and basically gearing up for some sort of larger military action in South America, perhaps. More suffering and death.
The GOP knows that causing suffering and death is in their best interests. They need "others". They need victims. And they need hate. If people were able to calm down and rationally vote in their own best interests, instead of billionaires' best interests, the GOP would be gone within a few years. And after that, the Democratic party would have to change quite a bit if they wanted to stick around, as well.
This being a poll, the most important information is the exact question they were asked. If you ask the same question in a different way, you can get wildly different results. I clicked through to the Reuter's link from this article, but I'm not sure it says the exact question.
From the graphic on that page, it says:
"The federal government is hiding information about Epstein’s alleged clients"
From Republicans, the "Yes" is 61% (I'm assuming this is a rounding issue with their software), and "No" is 17%.
So, strangely, the headline of this post and of the article that OP linked seem to be accurate, but if you read the content of that article, it's quite a bit less accurate. It's the opposite of what you normally expect from clickbait news articles.
Not a cellphone in sight!
The reason cellphones are relevant here is that they are used to record the event, either through still images or videos. So, to compare, we need to look at the people in these photographs and try to figure out how likely it is that there is a camera nearby to record the event.
Authoritarians simply have a need to say these things, even if nobody believes it, or if it's provably untrue. We should try to get Trump and Kim Jong-Un supporters into deciding which one of them is the better golfer.
Next experiment will be the Banach–Tarski paradox.
Next year, they're using a scientifically accurate star.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Here's another thing that doesn't make sense about that post:
If you play Dungeons & Dragons, this object probably stops you in your tracks.
If you just play Dungeons & Dragons, then it looks like the hundreds or thousands of other d20s you've seen. Barely worth a look.
On the other hand, if you just like dice, like a lot of TTRPG people do, then it might catch your attention.
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I think I don't get it.
Like, the only thing that looks like a joke is that Batman filled out he form with NA and signed it "Batman" because he's not Bruce Wayne. But then, why would he fill out the form that was given to "Mr. Wayne" at all?
So, I think I don't get the joke. Can somebody explain it to me?
EDIT: I got it right after finishing the comment.
Nanananananana Batman.
Have you ever gone up to a stranger and asked them to give you something for free? It's about 1000x more socially awkward than anything the other person could do. So, the other person doesn't need to stress, at all.
Whether they give you something once, or they give you more than one thing, or they don't give you anything, it is a trivial thing compared to asking. My advice is just do what you want to do, and if you think about it and change your mind later, then, just do the other thing.
One time, somebody came up to me on the street and asked me for money, and I said, "sorry," and he got super pissed off at me. He said something like, "You can shove your 'sorry'." I assume he wasn't used to begging, and was ready for people to either give him money or ignore him, but he wasn't ready for the awkwardness of somebody speaking to him to refuse. Begging is super awkward.
I was not familiar with this book, so I just watched a video of a Canadian lady reading it.
My biggest takeaway from the book was that "FUCK THAT'S A MOOSE! IT IS GOING TO KILL YOU. THAT'S WHAT MOOSE DO."
If you could explain yourself, then you'd have done so instead of asking me to figure it out. Believe me, these short comments are the maximum amount of time I am going to waste on you.
I bet she could do double threading if she just loosened up a little.
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another. -- Malcolm Reynolds
I used to think that it was a shame that we started having more information about how horrible people are. I used to like Roseanne before I found out what an asshole she was. I used to like Bill Cosby. I used to like Lance Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and it even turns out that Michael Jordan is a huge asshole.
Where have all the heroes gone? If only we didn't know how horrible these people are, we could still have heroes.
But then, I thought, what's so great about having flawed heroes? That type of thinking is probably why people build cults of personality around politicians. Just get rid of the whole idea.
Celebrities who suck should just be written off, and if that means that we have to live with cover versions of Michael Jackson songs, I think that's something I can live with.
Maybe this will be the best use case for AI. We can just take all of these movies and TV shows, and use AI to replace the assholes with some fake person. Fuck 'em.
Maybe if we did this, celebrities, who are disproportionately concerned about being famous, would start to be worried about being forgotten and replaced, and they'd start to know their place.
I didn't mean to be confusing, as you may not recognize the term. Here's the introduction sentence from its wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarian_personality
The authoritarian personality is a personality type characterized by a disposition to treat the voice of authority figures with unquestioning obedience and respect.
I wonder whether some egghead has actually tested if sitting too close to the TV hurts your eyes.
For example, perhaps the reason some children sit too close is that they are nearsighted. So, they sit too close because they have poor vision, and later when the parent brings them to the optometrist, they have poor eyesight, and the parent makes the wrong conclusion.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the reason parents started saying this has nothing to do with the kid's eyes. It used to be that TVs were big heavy things, and they often sat on the floor. When kids sit too close to the TV, they can block the TV. Or maybe kids are very distracting for the parent who is watching the TV. So, the parent gives them a little lie saying that it will hurt them to sit that close, and then the problem goes away.
The God she tells you not to worry about.