Countess425

Countess425 , 7 months ago to news in Man plotted 'mass casualty' attack at Cybertruck event attended by Elon Musk in Texas, officials say

Similar to Ted Kaczynski.

Countess425 , 7 months ago to news in Man plotted 'mass casualty' attack at Cybertruck event attended by Elon Musk in Texas, officials say

Prisoners do not get billed for medical treatment.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Radiatori

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Countess425 , 8 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Radiatori

Yeah, those are all pasta. Spaghetti is all the long noodles.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Does the USPS, FedEx and UPS give a crap about weed shipments since Hemp sprayed with the same terpenes and looks the same as weed has been shipped legally for 9 years now?

There’s also an exception if they can’t read the delivery address; they have the authority to open the package to try to determine delivery address. So make sure your label can get a little wet and still be readable.

Countess425 , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to news in House Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to New Round of Scrutiny About Black Son

I can’t speak to what happened during his upbringing, but if the man I saw as my father, who took me in as a teenager, decided to enter into politics, conservative politics no less, I’d tell him to visit for Christmas but leave me out of the politics. I’d want to go to the grocery and raise my family without being harassed by reporters and crazy random idiots, especially if he was a minor local politician in the community where I lived, but even moreso if national office were ever a possibility. The best way to achieve that would be to not let the general public even know about him, but he can still be in the family text chat and bring the grandkids by to see the rest of the family in person and in private.

The guy just wants Internet detectives like you to leave him and his family alone. Doing a good job of that doesn’t mean anything should smell off.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Do the people in Reniassance festivals occurring in Britain also speak with faked British accents, or do they use faked French/Italian accents instead?

The Renaissance is not “some homogeneous past”, it’s a pretty specific time period: the 15th and 16th centuries.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Do the people in Reniassance festivals occurring in Britain also speak with faked British accents, or do they use faked French/Italian accents instead?

Word on the street is that American English is actually closer to the English spoken by the British when they first landed and colonized the Americas. After the war they went back to their lil island and forgot how to pronounce their Rs.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to news in House Speaker Mike Johnson Responds to New Round of Scrutiny About Black Son

The only reason here, is BS. The kid is real, he’s a grown-ass adult with children of his own that he wants to keep away from the general public. This is conservative propaganda to make you think Johnson’s statements on racial injustice (which lean toward "my white kids get opportunities and have an easier life that my black kid doesn’t) are bunk. Which they’re not, just because the guy doesn’t want to do photo ops and give press releases doesn’t mean he’s fake. Johnson was first elected to Congress less than 10 years ago. His son made a decision not to be a pawn for his adopted father’s political career to avoid the public, not his father; and the public are generally terrible, which makes it an appropriate and rational decision.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults)

Maybe you just don’t know the definition of “irony”. People use it improperly all the time. I don’t think anything in that song by Alanis Morissette is actually ironic.

Personally, I don’t think there’s ever an excuse for cheating; academically it really only harms the cheater. People in college offered me a lot of money to do their work for them. I never accepted, but I also never tattled on them. Grades honestly, really, don’t matter in the long run.

Countess425 , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in How should I handle an ex friend who feels like he needs to bully me to raise his own self esteem? (We're adults)

That’s not irony, it’s karma? Consequences? Definitely not irony, though.

Countess425 , 9 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

No, it’s TNG because of all the purple sparkly stuff, big hair, and jazz music. It’s very representative of late 80s early 90s adult contemporary aesthetic, which makes sense because that’s when it’s from. TOS is some other kind of retro fruturism.

Countess425 , 9 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

This drives my husband insane. He can’t figure out why anyone bothers to walk anywhere. Why do they still use bathrooms when you can just transport the pee from your bladder into the replicator recombinator or whatever?! I assume the transporters must use an amount of energy that makes it inefficient to use for every little thing.

Countess425 , 9 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

I call TNG “Adult Contemporary Futurism”

Countess425 , 9 months ago to risa in Why aren't they using drones and more automation?

There was an episode of TNG where a “passenger” got onto ship’s comms and was contacting Picard on the bridge. When Picard told the guy that the comms were reserved for ship’s business, the guy asked why they weren’t restricted, if that was the case. Picard said that was unnecessary as people in Star Fleet generally just…behave themselves.