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.
Add this to the mountains of evidence that these people don’t even practice what they preach.
Jesus befriended prostitutes. That’s the guy whose teachings they claim to follow.
I guess since Jesus was nice to people who modern Christians feel bigotry towards, they should target and ostracize Jesus next.
The confederate statues weren’t of the low-level soldiers who actually did the fighting. They were of generals and presidents and shit. Shitty people have already made shitty statues of Trump, so we’re already there.
The sad thing is that people don’t even argue points. I wish people who lacked knowledge and wisdom would argue. Instead, they just rebroadcast whatever propaganda they were fed most recently, untroubled by anything like critical thinking or introspection, and mostly unchallenged by their peers.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that as soon as I finished an interview speaking on Venezuela, I was arrested – the only person arrested out of 200 people,” she told the outlet.
Imagine that. 200 protesters, but she was the only one obstructing a roadway. That must have been crazy. 199 protesters safely protesting and this one crazy lady out in the road. /s
I suspect that the louder a person talks, the more likely they are clueless about the topic.
One of the bills, to provide clean water to rural areas in Colorado, if I remember correctly, was passed nearly unanimously in both houses. To override the veto only requires 2/3 of both houses.
It’s just my personal opinion, but I think that if a lawmaker votes for legislation and then doesn’t vote to override the veto, and it’s not some extreme situation, they should be ejected from any government office and pilloried publicly for wasting taxpayer time and making light of their serious duties. Let the people pelt them with rotting fruit.
When I say “extreme situation”, I refer to the idea that some vital information comes out about the bill and that’s the only reason the President vetoes it, to get a better version of the bill passed. Like there might be some technically important legal jargon in the bill that seems otherwise innocuous, and nobody realizes at first. Or the situation the bill is supposed to address significantly changes in the meantime.
When charities go into underdeveloped areas and try to stimulate their economies, they don’t bring in big businesses and try to give everybody a job. They focus on doing things like giving out cheap loans to locals for them to create small businesses. They do this because that’s what actually works.
You can give it a set of instructions in the settings about how to act, so it wouldn’t be a part of the conversation. Even if they added a setting for this, it would do it in the same way.
You can already do this by telling it to act that way.
Isn’t there an old video somewhere of Hegseth saying that the military shouldn’t follow illegal orders?
They don’t give to charity and they don’t pay taxes, either. They just keep it all themselves.
Cats are often categorized by their coloring rather than breed. Jack looks to be a tuxedo cat.
…The claim they made was that they were wearing it to the office. Also, the screen cap appears to not be from the fediverse, anyways.
He came once about 2000 years ago, and he still hasn’t had his second coming.
I’m guessing this shirt must be a reference to something that I don’t know. If I saw somebody wearing this shirt, the only thing I would conclude is that they must be a furry.
If a home invader breaks into your house, and kidnaps your sister, then says, “I’m taking her out to my van. I’ll be right back to kidnap you next,” you’d be freaking out, yes, but it would be weird to say that you’re freaking out because of the precedent.
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It’s now a “banned new account”.
Just because they’re man-made distinctions doesn’t mean that they cannot be discussed or don’t have beginnings.
You can argue Newton fit the bill even though Liebniz was a peer of his. Einstein and Oppenheimer, etc.
Those are ones you can argue, though. Nobody would ever seriously argue that Kaczynski was anywhere near the top of his generation. There is no informed list of the greatest mathematicians that has Kaczynski on it.
Let’s imagine that, instead of being caught, Kaczynski simply stopped bombing things and was never caught, and lived out the remainder of his life in that shack. In that case, he’d be an obscure genius mathematician who wrote a few exceptional papers. There are a lot of people like that.
I suspect that while right now, you think it’s “a common phrase for an exceptional mind,” if you really looked into its usage, you’d find that it’s generally used for somebody who actually is uniquely exceptional for their time.
What they did in Venezuela was so reprehensible that this is really the only possible defense. You can’t murder a bunch of innocent people to capture a drug trafficker and think that you get the moral high ground. If they can arrest Maduro and bring him to the US, then Venezuela should be able to arrest Trump for murder and bring him to Venezuela.
There is no moral high ground. There is no good outcome. This is just what happens when evil people gain control of the world’s most powerful military.