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Enkers ,

It’s fine. I haven’t died yet, so I fail to see sufficient evidence that I eventually will.

Enkers ,

I found the x2 were pretty tasty, but it’d be unpleasant for a few hours before the ring of fire, and that’d usually disrupt my sleep a bit, so it wasn’t worth it. I just went with the regular spice level instead. I haven’t tried the x3, but it seems like it’s getting a bit silly by that point.

Enkers ,

What if Ralph exists independently of anyone acknowledging his concept? What if Ralph has always existed, and has just been waiting for a certain memer to discover him?

Enkers ,

How many times is Trump referred to as “convicted felon Donald Trump”?

Enkers ,

I thought it was “that feel when…” like in the memes.

Both kinda work, though.

Enkers , (edited )

Pretty sure that was the original meaning; see also SMDH. The head shaking is the kid friendly version.

Edit: I was mistaken. :o

Enkers ,

This kills the human.

Japanese hospitality wears thin as overtourism takes toll (www.thetimes.com)

From one point of view, it is a remarkable success story. In 2000 Japan had 4.7 million foreign tourists a year. The government of the former prime minister Shinzo Abe set an ambitious goal of 20 million foreign visitors a year by 2020, and achieved it five years ahead of schedule....

Enkers ,

Yes! Or if you keep going down south, you can go through Hiroshima to Fukuoka, then you can take the ferry over to Busan. There are sooooo many cool historic sites all over the place.

Enkers ,

We should be eating cricket flour. […] And if we got over the “ick” factor, our carb-filled food would be a lot healthier.

The length people will go to, to not eat a goddamned legume.

Enkers ,

I’d punch a human trying to come up to me and draw my blood with a dirty needle as well.

And this may alarm you, but rocks are not, in fact, alive, or sentient in any manner (despite what pet rock enthusiasts want you to believe).

Enkers ,

Clearly they’ve found a new way to bundle your internet, cellular, satellite tv, auto insurance, pet walker, and lawn care, all in a new ultra-value^† bundle.

^(† ultra-value only available for first month, cancellation fees may apply; we reserve the right to package and sell your totally for realsies anonymous usage data)

Enkers ,

Improvements in human medicine have over doubled human life expectancy from 32 to 71 since 1900. Do you think anyone above 40 is also “cheating” death?

From my experience, CKD quality of life changes come on quickly, so you’d be giving your cat a lot more high quality years of life. And even an elderly cat can still enjoy a lot of the good things in life, even if they can’t run and jump quite like they used to.

Enkers ,

That’s a much more nuanced take that I can fully get behind.

One of the hard parts about living with aging animals is that we can’t just ask them what they want. We have to guess about their quality of life, and do so while trying to put the animals wellbeing above our own emotional distress about losing them, and that can understandably be very challenging sometimes.

Enkers ,

I see an elephant. What does that mean, Dr. Rorschach?

Enkers ,

And I cannot lie

You other brothers can’t deny

Enkers , (edited )

Direct democracy sounds like a horrible system for national governance, though. The average person has nowhere near the capacity to be informed enough on a wide range of issues to make good decisions. You need specialists with deep domain knowledge to guide policy decisions, not lots of laypersons.

Enkers ,

No they don’t, but at least they’ll typically be working with and advised by people who do have that domain knowledge. And yeah, I could see a system working where there’s basically a veto vote for the people.

Enkers ,

Good thing there weren’t any red lines in it’s way, or else they might have been crossed.

Enkers ,

Yeah. I used to think people who were against GMOs were just anti-science contrarian types, but the more I saw of how Monsanto operates, the more I became cognizant of how it’s mostly just capitalism trying to stick its grubby hands in to literally everything to extract maximum profits.

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails (apnews.com)

A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing their tribal affiliations in a state with a long and violent history of conflict with tribes....

Enkers ,

Thou shouldst do as thou pleases.

Enkers ,

I’m a (kinda) old cis white male, and I know that they’re not talking about me, because I’m not a bigot or racist.

Enkers ,

We’re on social media. Sometimes people are a little carless with how they write, and are maybe a little more terse than they ought to be. Taking every post completely literally and not giving people the benefit of the doubt seems a bit silly. I take no umbrage with the statement, because I know who they’re talking about, and it’s not me. I have nothing to be scared of.

Enkers ,

I think it’s a good heuristic, but it’s not always true. It butts heads with the law of unintended consequences, and the law of big numbers, especially when you’re in a more global community.

I think you’re absolutely right to trust your gut, but it’s also important to verify those feelings with introspection and logic.

Enkers ,

Here, here. Won’t somebody think of the moderates, and their refined sensibilities? After all, they certainly didn’t personally blow up aid trucks and hospitals in Gaza.

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    Enkers , (edited )

    I was curious about the flag, so did a little reading. Apparently the “Appeal to heaven” is referring to John Locke’s writings regarding the right to revolution:

    And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment. And therefore, though the people cannot be judge, so as to have, by the constitution of that society, any superior power, to determine and give effective sentence in the case; yet they have, by a law antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth, viz. to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven.

    (Second Treatise of Civil Government. John Locke)

    Locke’s contention was that no man had inherent power to regulate or restrict divine arbitration in civil affairs. Even in dire circumstances, he alleged, natural rights transcended the political process.

    Enkers ,

    We all know he’d bring back slavery if he could. Witch burnings? I could see it. Lead pipes? Why not. Heliocentricism? No thanks. I wonder if he’d call for a full revert to monke.

    Enkers ,

    Trump and his allies are laying the groundwork to contest a potential loss

    While that’s probably true, Rubio kinda gave a reasonable answer to an unreasonable question. Of course there are possible circumstances that any reasonable person would not honour the results of an election.

    Of all the ridiculous shit these guys say, maybe don’t pick the one time they’re actually in the right. Like they tell on themselves all the time, you generally don’t have to twist their words.

    Enkers , (edited )

    I agree, it’s best to not pull at the fraying threads of democracy, but it’s not like there’s never been a controversial election before. Take the 2000 Gore v. Bush election, for example.

    If Reuters wants to expose the laying of groundwork, then they have to do more than baiting a fairly mundane statement out of a single R. They have to collect evidence of republicans doing it themselves. This is just lazy reporting that plays to peoples fears.

    Enkers ,

    Where does it provide evidence to support that statement?

    Enkers ,

    Did they jump out of his cake to serve him?

    In any case, happy god damned birthday.

    Enkers ,

    Welcome to the Knights Tipplar.

    Enkers ,

    What strange phrasing. Were people really looking for reasons to rule out suicide? What we’re actually looking for is evidence to rule out causes other than suicide.

    Also, what’s up with the bizzare incomplete quotations? Is the “as suicide” bit an accurate representation of the quoted source material?

    If anything this makes me question gizmodo’s integrity more than dispel any myths.

    Enkers ,

    the difference between 9.8N of force and 1000 g=0.00259.811000=24.525N isn’t all that great

    You need to *escape those* asterisks or else they’ll just make italics.

    Enkers ,

    Orca gang, rise up.

    Enkers ,

    No, really, REALLY, don’t go into Rafah. btw, here’s $1b in arms, but seriously don’t do that.

    Enkers ,

    I was thinking about this in terms of limbs, and wondering, since pregnant women have more than 4 limbs, wouldn’t the average number of limbs be greater than 4?

    There are probably considerably more pregnant women than people missing limbs, but then again, the women only have additional limbs for 9 months.

    Enkers ,

    Seeds and amendments. You gotta add more nutrients to the soil or else your yields will start to suffer. Although, there’s a lot of permaculture ways to add nutrients for free.

    Enkers ,

    Oh for sure. You don’t need much. I just recently watched a cool video about tossing all your weeds in a couple of small water barrels to make liquid fertilizer. It doesn’t take a lot.

    Enkers ,

    Blessed be our wormy overlords!

    Enkers ,

    And then trillian fixed everything, and then Facebook and google broke it again, and then signal kinda fixed stuff, and then they broke it themselves.

    She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

    Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

    Enkers ,

    That’s not how things seemed to me at all. She wasn’t trying to get the other girl kicked off the team. The other girl was potentially putting her daughter at risk, and she was just trying to keep her daughter safe.

    Whether or not some teenage partying is actually a significant risk, I don’t really have a strong view on, but I can certainly understand the thought process.

    Enkers ,

    Maybe she was worried that raising those concern’s could potentially have her daughter sidelined?

    I missed that part about the revealing clothing. Maybe you’re right, and it’s just unchecked puritanism. Perhaps I’m giving this lady too much benefit of the doubt.

    Enkers ,

    Freud is seriously the biggest hack in any field I can think of that went on to get such undeserved renowned.

    Enkers , (edited )

    Thunder does look quite nice, but sadly my long defunct keyboard app doesn’t work with it, and they weren’t able to get the apk to test a fix for it. (But they did try.) You’d think, of all things, a keyboard and input field wouldn’t have compatibility issues, but I guess that’s Android for ya.

    Enkers ,

    https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/86d2b4d0-949c-418f-bf10-4c4f1a977c0d.jpeg

    This is me typing “hello”, so it seems like it duplicates all the characters typed so far every time I add a character.

    Enkers ,

    Yeah, rif was my absolute favourite, and I miss a lot of the features it had. I’ve been toying with the idea of cloning it for Lemmy, but maybe I’ll give boost a try first.

    Enkers ,

    It’s called Kii. You can still get a version from a 3rd party site since it hasn’t been on the play store for years.

    I’m not sure how much I trust those apk sites, (so downloader beware!) but you can at least see the screenshots: www.apk4fun.com/apps/com.zl.inputmethod.latin/

    I don’t think it’s anything earth shattering, but it’s kinda nice, and fairly minimal, and it’s what I’m used to, so I’m happy with it.

    Enkers ,

    Me old man, me yell at cloud. Change bad.

    Thanks, though, I’ll take a look at them. (:

    I did submit a bug report, but the dev didn’t seem interested in getting the apk for testing. I can’t say I blame them. Apk sites are a little sketchy, and it’s also probably not a bug that’ll affect many other people.

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