FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

The best part of waking up is Riker in your cup.

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FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

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And perfectly reasonable in this case.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I read the headline I assumed that highest honor was to suck off Putin, but apparently that honor might be more figurative than literal. Maybe the literal comes later.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I can’t say I love living in Indiana, but it’s things like this that don’t make me regret moving back from L.A.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Can they block whatever phone company is giving me the stupidest phishing by text scams?

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(That is not my name and there is no street like that anywhere in this region, let alone this town.)

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

What we need to do is to get two guys to make out in front of his grave while a bunch of Muslims throw snowballs at it.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You’re going to be in for a shock when climate change increases the number of asylum seekers exponentially. If you decide they can’t all come, they’re going to decide you’re wrong and they’re likely a lot more determined than you are because their life is on the line.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

But even local manufacturing needs supplies to manufacture. You can’t mine cadmium locally if there’s no cadmium to mine. Global shipping would still be necessary to maintain modern lifestyles. Local manufacturing might reduce global shipping in some cases, but there would still be a huge amount of it.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

For cadmium? Sure. But not for everything you need in every step of the manufacturing process. Cars don’t go from steel to car in one factory. Bits are made in different places and those bits are assembled into other bits which get assembled into other bits and eventually the biggest bits gets assembled into a car.

Cars aren’t like what they were when the Ford Model T was being cranked out. They’re incredibly complex machines which can’t be made in one local or regional factory anymore without a global supply chain. There’s just too many things to manufacture.

I absolutely think there should be more local manufacturing, if for no other reason than to make the world less reliant on China, but if you’re talking about generalizing that process, it will only ever be the final assembly stage. You’re just not going to see a European computer company manufacture the dye that goes into the circuit boards that get printed with circuits which go into their computers. And that’s just one small chain in a huge supply web.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You might be fine with it, but the world is not. And you still seem to not be seeing the forest for the trees. This applies to virtually every modern convenience you are used to. None of them can be produced locally when you get down to the components.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Okay, remove the word ‘incredibly.’ The point is they aren’t just basic mechanical devices anymore. There are all kinds of things cars have now that likely would not be able to be manufactured locally or maybe even regionally, be they various sensors or power steering fluid or airbags- or the components needed to make those things.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Yes, it could be produced more locally but, as I said, there would still be massive global shipping issues and prices would still be a problem.

Also, five years is a hell of a long time for things to be massively more expensive. And you’re not going to be able to build the hundreds of various factories you would need in five years.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You’re really missing my point here.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Cars and computers are not the only things that need to be manufactured. I’m not sure why you seem to think this is just about one or two products and not every piece of technology that surrounds you right now.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You don’t understand. God says she’s his property so he’s allowed to do that. He’s spreading that god’s word.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I guess the sun has set.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

I doubt either one of them has the physical strength to beat the shit out of anyone with a golf club.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Biden. Trump. Lucky Putt. Be there.

wearecreativeworks.com/products/lucky-putt-golf/

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

That’s the joke, but the truth is even stupider. He hasn’t experienced a low-flow toilet in decades.

We have one. The multiple flush thing doesn’t happen. Having a different amount of flush for what you’re in there to do helps.

Same with low-flow shower heads. Yes they did suck 20 years ago. They work just fine now. They’re also helpful if you live somewhere which has low water pressure anyway.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Pods seem to do a fine job in our dishwasher.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

“No one knows if it works.”

Yes they do. CPCs deliberately lie to people, especially teens, about abortion and have for years in order to scare them out of getting one. It works as intended, unfortunately.

The Planned Parenthood in this town shut down not long before Dobbs started being deliberated. They didn’t have enough funding to keep the place open. Meanwhile, the local CPC has a big downtown office with a huge custom RV/Bus thing that does who knows what and they’re allowed to do “sex education” in the public schools.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Phil Ochs had a good song about it too.

And here’s to the government of Mississippi

In the swamp of their bureaucracy they’re always bogging down

And criminals are posing as the mayors of the towns

And they hope that no one sees the sights

And no one hears the sounds

And the speeches of the governor are the ravings of a clown

Oh, here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of

Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of

And here’s to the laws of Mississippi

Congressmen will gather in a circus of delay

While the Constitution’s drowning in an ocean of decay

Unwed mothers should be sterilized, I’ve even heard them say

Yes, corruption can be classic in the Mississippi way

Oh, here’s to the land you’ve torn out the heart of

Mississippi, find yourself another country to be part of

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrrOY0vwuPE

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Forget his grandfather, his mother was a migrant from Scotland.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Without Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, born in the town of Tong in the Isle of Lewis in the country of Scotland in the nation of the United Kingdom, we wouldn’t have her son, Donald Sr.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Do you think their name might possibly rhyme with “rump?” As in “spanked in the rump with a Forbes magazine by a porn star you’re cheating on your wife with?”

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I’m fairly sensitive to antisemitism because I’ve been on the receiving end so many times in my life, but the only thing I can think that might be antisemitic, and it’s really hard to tell from the context, is:

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My guess is that it is not associating Jews and money, but if it is, that is the only place there and it seems like you could only argue that one or maybe two of the deans were involved.

Considering it’s Columbia, I think it’s likely just talking about the rich people who go to and are associated with the university, which could be of any ethnicity.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

The Justice Department secured court approval to seize two domain names and search nearly 1,000 social media accounts allegedly associated with the effort.

The tiniest tip of a massive iceberg.

I guess every little bit helps?

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Yeah, but he made Humbert say it to show what a despicable person he was.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

You know, I’m only five years younger than him, and yet never in my life since I was about 12 years old myself has a 12-year-old so much as flirted with me. This 52-year-old is somehow irresistible to the middle schoolers?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Whoops. Sorry. And yeah, no 12-year-old ever flirted with me when I was 22 either. And if they did, I would be smart enough not to reciprocate even if I was interested, which I wouldn’t have been.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Between when I was 12 and now? Enough to be married for almost 24 years.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

In a critical statement, union leaders accused Disney of “unlawful discipline and intimidation and surveillance” of union members.

I’m not surprised. Disney has so many cameras, they probably have them pointed into every house in Orlando at this point.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

participation in an extremist society

Considering what Russia considers to be extremist at this point, I think most of us live in that society. Maybe they should arrest everyone.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

What makes it a questionable source?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Maybe they don’t have a journalists on the ground, but they do have people like this writing articles about the Middle East.

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You do not have to have boots on the ground everywhere to report on it. Having experts weigh in can be enough.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I mean, Putin deliberately blew up a Russian school 20 years ago so unfortunately, this shouldn’t be a surprise.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Sure. Putin was totally innocent. Just like he was totally innocent when he ordered a theater full of hostages gassed, right? The hostage-takers gassed themselves I’m sure.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Why, exactly, would the hostage takers blow themselves up?

FlyingSquid OP , 18 days ago

Yep. I’ve dealt with that one too. Along with “it’s been green for three microseconds and you’ve only barely rolled forward, you bastard!”

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

I have no idea, but this isn’t the first time they’ve gotten irrationally upset about them:

Yeah I’m not too happy with all the kids, mostly because they largely ruined animal humanoids with their weird furry BS, and they think Critical Role is some kind of good demonstration on what a real session is like and not a well funded production.

lemmy.world/comment/11069488

That was a in a thread about D&D and the creator’s sexism.

Also, I haven’t met too many furries, but the ones I’ve met seemed like decent people.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Huh. I hear drag queens and trans people have a high number of groomers in their community. I used to hear it about gay men too (and sometimes still do). I wonder if that’s actually just a lie designed to demonize a marginalized community?

Oh, but I’m sure it’s true this time.

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

You’re denying humans are causing climate change, aren’t you?

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Changing topics? The comment you replied to was literally about humans causing climate change.

So no, I wasn’t changing topics.

But you’re right, the planet is a big ball of iron and doesn’t give a shit. I was using what we call on this iron ball “figurative language” in order to explain why this is bad for our species.

Here is a resource to help you with this concept we Earth humans came up with thousands of years ago: masterclass.com/…/writing-101-what-is-figurative-…

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Mathematicians are weird enough that at least one of them has done calculations in base-pi.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

Those self-tying sneakers don’t appear to have any laces to self-tie…

FlyingSquid , 18 days ago

Again, writable Blu-ray is a slightly different format from what you would buy with a movie on it. They are not putting Criterion movies on the same discs you could burn them to in a drive.

FlyingSquid , 19 days ago

That has literally nothing to do with anything you claimed:

Trumps always answered questions from the media. Biden rarely does and when he does it’s usually just a yes or no answer he gives unless it’s a pre-selected question of course. Then he just reads the answer off of his Q cards.

You also didn’t explain how you know he was reading from cue (not Q) cards and why that’s different from reading off of a teleprompter.