Aren’t we lucky to be living in the age of human history in which governments are good and honest? Not like those old, backwards governments in history books who would dress up their soldiers as the enemy’s and order them to do something heinous.
Aren’t we lucky to be living in the age of human history in which governments are good and honest? Not like those old, backwards governments in history books who would dress up their soldiers as the enemy’s and order them to do something heinous.
Nice try, glowboy
So, what would you say are the two non immigration issues on the Republican side?
I can’t speak definitively for them, but I could just flip the words around from your 3 Democrats issues:
Abortion rights, gun control
*magic swisharoo noises
It is helpful to at least be able to represent your ideological opponents accurately. (Although I understand it is tempting to deliberately misrepresent them)
You’re three points for republicans informs me that you spend nearly all of your time within an informational bubble.
Sports should be segmented out by testosterone levels.
I’ll be the guy that says it: Lemmy already leans pretty hard in normie demographics. It is a trait inherited from Reddit, as many lemmy users are former redditors.
I’d always been amused at the fact that boomer school librarians were primarily the ones responsible for “teaching” students how to “use computers”. It really hammered home the point early on for me that you learn primarily by doing, not by being instructed.
How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?
I was too young to have it explained. I was just given access to computers since as far back as I can remember. And internet-connected computers almost just as far.
Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge
I disagree with the notion that all human knowledge is reachable through the internet. I didn’t used to have this perspective until only a few years ago.
Were your parents super strict about internet usage?
I had absolutely no supervision, aside from concern over time spent playing games (which I think they perceived differently from non-game activity, which can be equally as unproductive).
How quickly did you find workarounds?
Usurped de facto control over the family router as a by product of being the only one both willing and able to “help” “administrate” it. It remained that way until the day I moved out.
I think that millennials got to enjoy a once-in-human history opportunity of digital literacy asymmetry between immediately adjacent generations. We had unprecedented freedom.
I might be you in reverse.
Why did people positions change
Modern weapons are all in on social engineering.
Sway the population to perceive reality one way or another.
Some narrative networks are maintained by states, others by industries.
Also dehumanizing people who they aren’t politically aligned with.
My time touring Lemmy has taught me that conservative leaning people are hateful racist tankie nazi fascists who are all brainwashed by Russian propaganda campaigns to want nothing more than to [checks notes] genocide marginalized groups and destroy the ecosystem. Simple as that!
There are portals scattered throughout the land which will only respond to the presence of the sacred fedstones. Once you’ve gathered all of the fedstones, lay them out before a portal and step through. Only those brave enough leave our realm know what secrets the great Fediverse holds.
For example, one is pro-choice the other is pro-life. There is no middle on that issue.
Individuals should have full autonomy over their bodies, including to abort. However, the practice itself is a very sad decision for individuals to make and should be discouraged where possible.
Maybe that’s just slightly left of center
Was at a red light with a cop behind me. Some guy rolls up behind them, braking just late enough that the front bumper of his car love taps the rear bumper of the squad car.
Both officers immediately jump out and open fire on the poor guy. He was hosed after a couple of rounds. The cops just casually get back in and drive off like it was nothing.
This was in Los Santos btw.
It is weird to observe younger generations using search engines with how they treat them as some sort of fully natural language processing butlers.
Where you or I might formulate a query as: “films famous within Italy” or simply “famous Italian films”
Gen alpha will generally conduct that same search as: “What are the movies that are most famous in Italy?”
I’ve downloaded nearly everything I listen to from youtube. I forget what I even used to use before discovering youtube-dl.
There is a Chinese expression: “The ugly wife is a treasure at home”
It is possible ugly can be substituted for dull (mentally).
And a notable mention for Abigail Adams, whose constant writing back and forth with John appears to have played a major role in developing his own views. Were women allowed into politics during that time, she would have made a fine member of the early US government.
How can anyone live in NYC?
Having read through accounts of Washington and Adams, it would seem that there was a very prevalent dislike of New York city in the colonies. They described NYC residents as lacking in decorum, which I still find fairly fitting today.
None. The secret to dealing with other people is to live somewhere where there really aren’t other people around.
infrastructure fail stuff
Living remotely induces one to already have solutions in place. I pump my own water from a ground spring. No water bill to speak of. Electricity is always at risk of outage, so I run a generator regularly, and with lots of battery fail-over devices.
If something happened out in clown town that caused a national grid failure, I would just assume it’s just another outage from trees getting pruned by mother nature.
A Prius with a Ukraine sticker slapped on the hatchback.