FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

That said, does anyone need a larger horse?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/efa5e783-9dd7-41f5-99ab-fbc67e6418d0.png

Guess Rudy wishes he won that presidential primary now.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Teacher pay is supposed to be near the best in the nation in California too. But we still don’t pay teachers enough and this is the result we get.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

It’s not enough regardless.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

This guy definitely found the right grift:

In 2016, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation received reports of more than US $220 million being lost by victims of relationship scams.[15] This was approximately seven times what was stolen through phishing scams and almost 100 times the reported losses from ransomware attacks.[15] According to FBI IC3 statistics, the crime has been at an alarming rise. Monetary loss in the United States rose from $211 million to $475 million from 2017 to 2019. The number of cases of reported romance scams rose from 15,372 to 19,473 in those two years.[16][17]

“The FTC estimated on average $2,500 was sent to romance scammers in 2020, more than ten times the median loss across all fraud types. Given the rampant use of social media and rise of online dating services, the opportunity for scammers to prey on individuals is only growing, explained Emma Fletcher, an analyst at the FTC. “To be able to make that connection and do it remotely is something that may not have been possible a decade ago, but it’s very much possible and socially quite common now for people to make love connections online and they’re taking advantage of that,” Fletcher said.”[18]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_scam#Scale

It really sucks that we’ve become a society full of extremely lonely people who are so desperate that they get conned just looking for some compassion.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

To the point that “Jackson” became jazz/jive-era slang that was the equivalent of “hey, what’s up?” when black people who used that slang were talking to each other.

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

I see what you’re saying, but I have this very generous interpretation of a vague passage in the bible that says otherwise.

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

How do you know whether or not physicists are neurotypical?

FlyingSquid OP , 17 days ago

The reverse of what? I asked how you know whether or not they are.

How do you know?

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

It means he has been getting gifts from Harlan Crow for at least 20 years.

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

Whereas I’m sure the money and the powerful friends and the luxury trips and the free RVs and houses are a big reason he hasn’t retired a long time ago.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

That book of ancient law is really going to help them out.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I admit I hadn’t considered the Hammurabic Method of Revenue Generation.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

This will be at least the third time CNN is going to try and fail to make people pay to watch them online.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

For a while, I’d say starting really with the 1991 Gulf war but peaking at 9/11, the 24-hour TV news watching fanatic was a prime audience that you knew you could rely on.

But now between internet news and social media, it’s basically become a relic.

My father and father-in-law were that prime demographic. They both watched 24-hour TV news constantly. They were both born in 1931. They’re both dead now. CNN’s audience for this is gone.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I don’t remember what they called it (maybe CNN Premium?) but for a while, they put their live video behind a paywall. Then that ended and then they did the CNN+ thing.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

But they sure do with their insider trading.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I don’t know, “I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING SNAKES IN MY MOTHERFUCKING PANTS!” is pretty catchy as movie lines go.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I hope there’s a good guy with a crossbow: the only person possibly able to stop him.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I love this thread, my insane Russian friend!

My prompt: The God of Lemmy

(I need to know who to sacrifice to.)

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Nothing at 200x200 px can be comically large.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I am merely her prophet.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Taylor Swift is joining the NFL?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I went to a private school and I was abused by the same teacher for all six years I was there. He also ran the school so he basically controlled me and made sure I never told my parents, who didn’t figure it out until I was an adult and someone else told them because all I had done was drop hints and then I eventually gave up.

Fuck private schools. They are accountable to no one.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

you’ll still have to pay a lot of money to get real education.

And that’s a good thing to you?

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

And yet you want only private schools where the more you pay, the better education you get.

Make up your mind.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Yes, I already quoted you once:

you’ll still have to pay a lot of money to get real education.

That was you defending your own idea after someone criticized the conclusion you came up with.

Here it is in context:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4e94a557-808c-4a06-ab1d-ded09c5555cc.png

It’s pretty silly to pretend that isn’t what you were arguing for when someone can just look at the comments you made in the order in which they were made.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Cool. We don’t have enough food deserts yet.

Good think that 7-11 is full of junk food!

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Bay area: abc7news.com/…/11254529/

Los Angeles: povertyusa.org/…/homelessness-food-deserts-los-an…

Sacramento: …arcgis.com/…/0227b337c8364bedbd56547cbf9ef5a5

San Diego: www.sandiegocounty.gov/…/sdc-food-deserts.pdf

San Bernardino and Riverside counties: dailybulletin.com/…/access-to-food-a-problem-thro…

But hey, they tried and failed to do something about it in Sonoma County about 10 years ago- pressdemocrat.com/…/santa-rosas-food-desert-law-r…

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

You can think the concept of ancient Egyptian sonar isn’t insane if you like, but the Egyptians didn’t have sonar because it was developed in 1915 and you don’t use sonar to look at a baby in the womb, you use ultrasound. Sonar uses sound within the range of human hearing.

Also, it isn’t true.

So is there any science behind the ancient test? According to the National Institutes of Health, in 1963 researchers decided to try out the method. In a study published in the journal Medical History they found that wheat and barley watered with urine from men and non-pregnant women kept the grains from sprouting. But in about 70 percent of the cases, the urine from pregnant women did cause the grain to sprout. The test, however, did not accurately predict the sex of the children. It’s possible that increased estrogen levels in the urine could have helped stimulate the seeds.

smithsonianmag.com/…/egyptian-papyrus-reveals-old…

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

It definitely did not tell anyone the gender. It’s been tested and it can, as you said, detect pregnancy more than random chance but not perfectly. It cannot predict the gender.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

As grueling as the downhill trail part sounds, then you have to go all the way back up!

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I guess that’s an argument for also having a wealth tax.

Because most of them still won’t move. Paris will not become a less desirable city to live in.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Entirely possible. I’ve certainly discussed this topic multiple times. And yes, agreed, we need to do a lot more to curb excessive wealth.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

The city of light? The city of love? Famed for its art and culture and cuisine? Full of beautiful architecture?

No, no one ever wants to go there.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

I get that you don’t like Paris, but there’s a reason why a lot of rich people live there and it isn’t because it’s a terrible place.

FlyingSquid , 17 days ago

Because you’d have to be a fool to think it was Biden or Kennedy and there’s really only one other possibility.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Which, unfortunately, includes armies being ordered to march into blast zones while the mushroom cloud was still in the sky, so it’s not a very useful metric.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I believe you, but I’m guessing it’s not especially common for a girl as young as 12. They barely understand the concept of flirtation at that age, and these days they probably think they know about sex by seeing internet porn when their parents didn’t know about it.

Anyway, like you said, it’s pretty easy to just not touch the girl.

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

I’m not talking about looking at my phone. I’m talking about the light turns green and I start moving immediately, but because I don’t peal out of there with the pedal to the floor, I’m going way too slow, so HONK HONK!