skulblaka @ skulblaka @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 610Joined 1 yr. ago
Honestly that really is odd. Not like they stop themselves from talking about any other of their heinous shit. Political violence, forced birth of rape babies, purposely driving children to suicide, gay murder, etc. You'd think "forcing the Jews back to Israel" would just be another everyday discussion to them. Forcing the Mexicans back to Mexico is, why not the Jews? That sounds antisemitic (/s).
Ask an AI for pictures of Texans and see how many cowboy hats it gives back to you.
Haven't seen a new car that can play tapes in nearly 20 years. Got bad news, boss.
Fair point, I didn't even make that connection. Seems obvious now in hindsight.
Sure. But you'd think at least a few of these folks would be self-consistent with their made up bullshit.
It would be really bad for a small group of people and would save the lives of hundreds of thousands of others. Say Putin does strike Britain. A bunch of people die in the initial strike. Then Britain, America, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, France, Canada, and probably a handful of others all collectively turn the Kremlin into glass and dust in a retaliatory strike. China and North Korea both rattle their sabers about it but neither of them wants to throw down with the Allies 2.0 because it doesn't matter who you are, going to outright war with a world cooperative force is a capital-letters Bad Idea.
Otherwise Putin continues to slowly grind his way across Eurasia for the next decade while every other country's politicians hem and haw about who they want to help and how much. Meanwhile thousands of people die daily as the Russian meat wave slides its way down toward the central EU.
There's a very good reason that Putin has been performing military ops in Ukraine and only vaguely threatening everyone else that got involved. He knows that if he manages to actually draw the ire of the full Allied military might the remaining lifespan of his army and capitol will be measured in minutes.
If this were just a straight up shooting war it would have been done and dusted two years ago. Instead it's a political war, and that's stopping a bunch of politicians from actually making a move on it. Nobody wants to be the guy that started World War 3, and Putin is leveraging that to enormous effect.
This is probably the best take in this thread IMO. Yes haha Boeing, but those are two totally different departments and NASA isn't about to let something lift off with loose bolts on it. I expect this will perform without issues and the only reason it's even newsworthy right now is because Boeing has been newsworthy recently due to unrelated issues.
If bomb defusal isn't already being done remotely by drone then someone needs to be fired immediately
This particular meme is probably older than you are
I don't like it very much, but I also know the OP's typical posting history (Picard Maneuver is pretty prolific on meme Lemmy) and I can say with some certainty that that ain't it, chief. At worst it's a bad take that the OP definitely didn't make themselves because I've seen this meme decades ago.
Bad take and all though, it seems to have sparked some discussion here in the comments.
Hospitals generally won't refuse treatment to anyone as far as I know, even if you tell them straight up at check in that you won't be able to pay them. You'll still get treated, provided they have the space and staff available to treat you.
However, afterward, that debt will haunt you like a vengeful ghost for the rest of your life.
If you think those are real hundos he keeps in there, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Yeah if you're already not going to put him in jail because of political reasons I don't see how you're going to realistically compel him to do this. He says no, then what, you tack on more community service that he never performs?
I'm sad that he feels he needs to do it. In a just world he would have run a single presidential term in 2016-2020 and then disappeared into the sunset to enjoy his final years.
But here we are. We need people like him more than ever and there's no one he can pass his torch to. So he grits his teeth and offers us even more of his dwindling life force such that we have even a single light in our darkness. I don't have a single doubt in my mind that Bernie would stay in office until the very moment of his death if he felt it was necessary for the greater good. I'm just saddened that he feels it necessary, and that I agree with him.
I remember trying to play Earthbound when I was younger. The story is fascinating, I really want to love the game, but the actual gameplay didn't really grab me. I remember getting to the first major town area and getting my ass beat by the gangsters or whoever that you need to fight there. Never made it past that point.
Any tips, if I wanted to pick it up again? Is this a game that expects you to grind? I found the early game to be really difficult, and I'm not usually one to be turned off by that but I really felt like I was hitting a brick wall and I think I must have missed something fundamental.
I was being fed that line in 2008 when everyone in the class did, in fact, have a calculator in their pockets
Frankly, these days? Yeah you totally can. "Hey Siri, what's 3% of 235,889?" or "Hey Siri, what's 8/37ths converted to 300ths?" will most likely just feed you a correct answer.
Unfortunately that's a minority of cases. Most bullies in my experience, and especially those bullies that are themselves using physical violence, only respond to violence.
Don't meet violence with violence as your first option. But keep it on the table. It's a viable solution if nothing else works. Some people just don't respond to anything short of getting punched in the mouth, especially kids/teens with their brain chemistry fucked six ways to Sunday by puberty.
Our leaders care more about personal enrichment than they care about leading a nation. The problems are multifaceted, but I feel like most of them tie back to that and if that were to somehow change most others of our problems would follow.
Unfortunately I don't know how to change it. I can only sit here and watch it happen.
At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won't be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it's time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.
I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren't high and they're unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that's never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I'm moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.