FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Cool. Now I know my life is in danger if I go to Greece because I look very stereotypically Jewish. They didn’t exactly stop to ask the guy what his opinion was on the Gaza genocide.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I was explaining this to my daughter not long ago when she told me she kept getting recommended videos about something that offended her (I can’t remember what, but something Republicans would be in favor of) on YouTube that the algorithm doesn’t care whether or not you agree with the videos. It only cares about whether or not you’ll watch them. And if you’re willing to hate-watch, which many people are, you’ll get served the same videos as the people who enjoy it.

And, of course, the more controversial the better because you’ll get a whole lot of both groups. So if you post something sexist and hateful, you’ll get a huge number of redpill viewers and the like and then all the other people who go to that post to argue with them. Which means the algorithm learns that those are the best things to push on new accounts too.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

That can change.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I use Facebook because my relatives are spread out across the world and that’s the way I know to stay in touch and also my brother, who is neurodivergent, mostly likes to communicate to the family as a whole that way and I want to be able to stay in touch with him too. On top of that, I’m stuck in a town I hate with no friends here and some old friends from my hometown are there so I can talk to them.

Anyway, ever since my brother started talking about how he was taking various hallucinogenic substances and calling himself a psychonaut (he’s almost 60, he got into it very late), most of the ads I see are for shroom gummies, ketamine and boner pills. I’ve done my “psychonaut” stuff back when I was in my teens and twenties. I’m not interested in the former two and the latter is, thankfully, not necessary yet.

The funny thing was that maybe 4 or 5 years ago, I kept getting shown an ad for a wooden hurdy-gurdy kit. Like the medieval instrument. I have no idea why. I have never expressed an interest in playing the hurdy-gurdy, listening to the hurdy-gurdy or building anything out of a wooden kit. It became a joke with me and my friends for a while.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

As someone who used to sit around at a TV station for hours waiting for news to happen so I could go shoot it, I can tell you for a fact that you don’t have to like a show to watch it. You just have to be bored and it’s in front of you.

That said, I did find out that American Ninja Warrior was amusing.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

A lot of food banks (at least here in the U.S.) already do that.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

They should be taken over by the state completely and turned into a public utility with the purpose of reliably instead of profit.

This is in Texas. You’ve heard of Texas before, right?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Seems pretty common for the whole of Eurasia. Europeans even do it to each other. English-speakers call the country in the middle of Europe Germany, the French call it Allemagne, the Finnish call it Saksa, the Poles call it Niemcy, and the people who live there call Deutschland.

(To top it off, Wikipedia tells me that the Lakota Sioux tribe of indigenous Americans call it Iyášiča Makȟóčhe, which means “Bad Speaker Land.”)

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

No, John F. Kennedy took a bullet for democracy. You don’t even want democracy.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Trump got his ear grazed by a bullet for dictatorship.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

This is the thing that will make their costs much higher than they could be:

The market freezes their meats so they last longer, buys bananas at their greenest and takes the tops off beets and celery to extend their freshness. Scraps are used to feed the chickens and sheep of a volunteer, so nothing goes to waste.

I think that this is an admirable goal, but if they instead got things like the meat that hadn’t expired yet but wasn’t fresh enough for the supermarkets to want to sell, they’d save a lot more money. Those can be frozen just as well as fresher meat and the meat itself will go to waste.

That probably isn’t a good bet with a lot of produce (although some of that would work too), but for meat it definitely would be a good idea and it doesn’t sound like they’re doing that or it would have gotten a mention.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I guess you weren’t able to find a reason to spin this story into a way for you to tell people to not vote for Biden so you don’t think it belongs here.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Oh look, you found a way.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

The important thing is that you’ve found another way to help bring about a dictatorship and a genocide of queer people.

(Yes, I know, it’s Biden’s fault that you’re doing everything you can to ensure that.)

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I’m a sample size of one, but I had my gallbladder removed late last year and I did not feel that way. And I have a lot of good reasons to.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Exactly. Especially if the administration was bully-friendly, which they often are. My daughter was so bullied at her middle school that we ended up having to take her out and put her in online school because the administration didn’t give a shit. The one time we went so apoplectic that they were forced to act, they made the bullies apologize to her and her apologize to the bullies. Which, of course, made things worse.

One of my daughter’s best friends is still in that school and he is trans. Some girl was harassing him and being incredibly bigoted to him and he finally turned around and slapped her for it. Guess which one of them got suspended and which one wasn’t even finger-wagged at? Hint: it wasn’t the girl that got suspended.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

A high school rifle team? What the what?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

You forgot about group 4: The people who really want it to happen.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Wait until the second Trump administration announces that if you’re Latino, you go to prison if you’re detained without your papers and if you’re queer, well, that’s just prison.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

“When you’re wealthy, they let you do it.”

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

No one notified me. :(

I hope everything works out okay. Heal up soon!

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

…or you could be nice to someone who just had something really awful happen to them. Even if you don’t like the fact that they posted something about it.

That would be the courteous thing to do. And the civil thing.

I wish people didn’t think the internet gave them an excuse to break the social contract.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

J.D. Vance needed a

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

If you’re a Republican politician and you admit you’re queer, that huge, reliable network of evangelicals you built up will drop you.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-su…

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I’ve speculated (and I don’t believe I’m alone) that the reason Peter Theil was so supportive of Elon Musk is that he either really wanted to fuck him or did.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

So you’re saying program a bot network to keep posting this article on r/conservative?

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Cunts are warm and deep. Musk is neither.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

People don’t keep the same car their entire lives most of the time. Especially one with a shitty build like a Tesla.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Or did they literally use shitty parts in their cars, tell no one, and then you got lucky?

cnbc.com/…/tesla-blamed-drivers-for-failures-of-p…

I’m thinking the latter.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I never suggested it was.

And if suspension or steering failures because of faulty parts haven’t killed anyone in a Tesla yet, it’s only a matter of time.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Not for too much longer.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/597538ed-22ef-422a-8405-74e115ba1ace.png

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Stop ruining everyone’s good time.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

I was thinking the same thing. She doesn’t get a do-over. There is no way to give her those 43 years back. She had a daughter she didn’t get to raise. She had an independent and free life she didn’t get to live.

And to make things worse, the evil as fuck Missouri AG was trying to keep her imprisoned!

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

“Whatever. As long as we get to kill a man who committed a crime more than 25 years later. Because that’s what we call Utah justice.”

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Or maybe the state shouldn’t have the power of life and death over it’s citizens since you can’t unkill an innocent person.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Who gets the fun job of cleaning up all the blood?

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

They mean Kamala Harris. They spend their days on Lemmy making sure Trump will win the election by doing everything they can to get people to not vote for Biden, or Harris if she takes over for him.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Why would they be more of a threat alive in a supermax prison than dead?

We seem to think a supermax is fine for the terrorists we don’t execute.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

That dozen don’t seem to add up to much together considering the massive global nature of this outage.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

That’s great that your company wasn’t affected.

I hope no one was trying to fly a plane to get to your company yesterday.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

I’m really getting tired of people casting these murderers in a good light just because they’re fighting Israel.

Not every fight has a good side and a bad side. Sometimes they’re both bad sides. If North Korea and Mynamar went to war, I would hope no one here would be cheering either side on.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

So you’re saying there are good mass child murderers and bad mass child murderers?

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

Israel is not responsible for the child murders of the Houthis. Only the ones they commit themselves.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

Netanyahu only regrets that Hugo Boss isn’t still around to make his uniforms.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

I should have been familiar with it, but the one time I put up a fence, I didn’t know that such a thing existed, so I used a big mallet and a lot of hard work.

FlyingSquid , 7 days ago

And why is it that I banned them exactly? Let’s see some evidence to back up your claim that it was not for the reason I stated.

FlyingSquid , 6 days ago

I see, so you have no evidence for your claim whatsoever and have just decided I’m taking some sort of revenge against them.

Weird, then, that I posted a warning in another thread about the Houthis that anyone else would be treated accordingly.

Again, I don’t like dealing with you, because you’re being extremely rude, but I’m not banning you because you aren’t doing anything that would necessitate a ban. You’re just being needlessly combative about someone else’s issue.

However: If you truly believe that I have abused my power as a moderator, there are instructions on the front page of lemmy.world on how to contact the administrators. You know what to do.