emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 25m ago

Yeah, that's basically the purpose of the EU.

33m ago

The Strait of Hormuz - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-20th of March 2026

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 33m ago

So! It turns out you can't just drink 12 cups of water a couple hours before you donate plasma and expect that to actually work. I'm suppose to drink that much over the course of the day before so that my body actually absorbs the water. Whoops! Almost passed out in the donation chair again.

This shit is hard.

4h ago

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 4h ago

They don't! $450 is an insignificant portion of a lifetime of tax revenue, and they don't even need tax revenue because the government is not a business and doesn't make money from taxes. There's no actual rational explanation, these are brain worms.

5h ago

5 second AI video for 3.4 Mega Joules of energy

Oh! Well, Sam Altman basically used this to try to defend AI energy usage. Training a human takes a lot of energy and water, after all. I don't think he realized this made him sound like a fucking supervillain.

5h ago

France and Italy open talks with Iran in hope of securing safe Hormuz passage

Spain actually might break, likely a side effect of the US's ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against Spanish-speakers.

5h ago

5 second AI video for 3.4 Mega Joules of energy

Okay Sam Altman.

5h ago

State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450

It's funny when their desires conflict with their economic brain worms. They want liberals to leave the country and renounce their citizenship, but even though more of them would do it if the process was free they can't help but try to make money off of it.

11h ago

Imagine policing your wife's likes on twitter because a bunch of people that hate you complained about them. Cw: Ziohran

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 11h ago

Ultimately, the DSA is still part of the Democratic Party because they want to be accepted by liberals. That means following liberal norms and respecting liberal institutions and using the correct liberal tone in public statements etc etc.

Their "socialism" is as an attempt to fulfill the promises of liberalism (equality, fairness, rights, justice, etc etc) and they only see liberals as temporary obstacles that need to be convinced, rather than enemies that need to be defeated.

12h ago

What we get upset about

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 12h ago

You're asking me to care about people who have it too hard to care about the little girls we blew up.

You're going through this effort to explain how it isn't really their fault that they're myopic little treatlerites, they're just smol beans who don't have time or energy to care about anything or anyone but themselves. It's bullshit. They could find the time to care if they wanted to, but they don't because it's hard and yucky. They just want to focus on their own little lives to the exclusion of everything else, and I hate them for it. I'm glad they're suffering at the pump. It's the only way to make them care.

12h ago

The Strait of Hormuz - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-20th of March 2026

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 12h ago

He's half right.

No one is going to drive in the future, but it's because bridges and roads aren't going to be maintained anymore.

24h ago

What we get upset about

queermunist she/her @lemmy.ml 24h ago

I probably don't spend all day thinking about my coworker's grandpa because I didn't kill him. However, since the US is using our public money, how could I not care? Those are bombs built in my country, by my government, being dropped in my name. I literally spend every day focused on what my Zionist government is doing. It keeps me up at night.

Maybe this is a limitation of my ability to care. I care more about dead Irianians than I care about people in the US being forced to pay higher gas prices. They're finally feeling a fraction of a fraction of the pain that we have inflicted on the world. Fuck em.

1d ago

What we get upset about

That's exactly what you're implying! You're saying those poor poor people who only care about gas and don't give a shit about slaughter being committed in our name with our public money just don't have time to care about anything. They're innocent smol beans who are trying their best.

Me? I must have such an easy life with tons of free time and no responsibilities, that's why I can waste my time caring about genocide and imperialism. If I had real responsibilities, then maybe I'd care less about bombing schools and hospitals.

1d ago

What we get upset about

The implication here, of course, is that anyone who cares about children being murdered in Iran is coming from a position of privilege. I must just have such an easy fucking life that I have time to care about other people! I guess I don't have any problems, I'm not working hard manual labor every day or drowning in debt or living in constant terror that the wave of trans hate is going to get me killed. I guess my problems aren't real and I'm not forced to sell plasma to hang on by my fucking fingernails, my life must be great, and that's why I have time to care.

The reality, of course, is that the most privileged people care about Iran the least. They care about gas prices because they drive oversized vehicles, because they can afford to own huge trucks and SUVs.

1d ago

More "HYPE" fake currency. Just what we needed.

AI companies are paying in tokens to 1) generate more users for their shitty product and 2) save money.

Those are not signs of a healthy, growing industry. Those look like the last desperate attempts to right the sinking ship.

1d ago

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Autonomous kill bots that hallucinate children carrying guns.

1d ago

What we get upset about

Most people don’t have the mental capacity to think about every problem that doesn’t affect them.

They do. The problem is that they don't even try.

1d ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 11th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Fourth Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread