FlyingSquid

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Idiots should have just opened a Taco Bell considering what they charge for a burrito these days.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

What do you want to bet that the reason that their customer service and “business principles” are shit is that they realized this was a SovCit from a mile away and are treating them accordingly?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Liens are a real thing in U.S. law. I won’t get into the details, but basically it means your property can be seized due to your debts.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

I don’t know if that’s always true, but this is not an exception to that.

“right to hold property of another until debt is paid,” 1530s, from French lien “a band or tie” (12c.), from Latin ligamen “bond,” from ligare “to bind, tie” (from PIE root *leig- “to tie, bind”). The word was in Middle English in the literal sense “a bond, fetter,” also figuratively, “moral restraint.” also from 1530s

www.etymonline.com/word/lien

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

“You are giving up already?”

I guarantee you that person has spent more time and effort avoiding paying small bills that could have been easily paid off putting the same time and effort into a minimum wage job.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

“Corporations are presidents, my friend!”

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

[x] Doubt.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Oh good, we all know how much Putin cares about European polling.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Sorry… you don’t know how much Putin cares about polls of people in countries he doesn’t like in regards to what he should be doing?

Was that a serious question?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Sorry. Poe’s law and all, it’s hard to tell sometimes.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

$11,000 a year for fake college is still a pretty good deal for college. I hope their fake degree will help them get a well-paying fake job.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Welcome to the U.S. government. First time?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Yes, if they aren’t very bright.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

I may not be able to see myself in the mirror, but damn I look good!

(This sucks for people with diabetes.)

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Fuck cancer.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Rishi outlived a lettuce, so there’s that.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

I don’t know if I would fuck with Temu…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d6176ce2-9591-46c4-aca2-70c76ebe036b.png

(That was an actual ad in my feed.)

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

I don’t know about reality, but if AGI ever gets developed, it will realize pretty damn quickly that humans are this planet’s biggest problem and will probably try to do something about it.

FlyingSquid OP , 26 days ago

Really, it’s the few bad reptilians that secretly rule the world that give the rest of the reptilians who just want to hide in the skin suits of the humans they eat a bad name.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

See the name of the group.

FlyingSquid OP , 26 days ago

Then what am I standing on?!

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

The pyramids are supposed to be a pretty big letdown because of the huge crowds and the fact that Cairo is basically all around them so it’s not the placid image you see in pictures (the Taj Mahal is supposed to be similar), but there is a ton of other archeology in Egypt that I would definitely go for.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Sort of like how Mitch Hedberg used to do drugs. He still did, but he used to too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHA5CIL0fg

I miss Mitch.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

I’d love to discourage him from using these legal but dangerous gummies and use the illegal, but essentially safe, shrooms, but like I said, he never listens to me.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Sorry.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

I can’t argue against the cruelty part, but I would think that it would be very likely that aliens with the power to travel across interstellar distances and subjugate entire planets would have developed self-repairing technology.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

Without looking, I would not be at all surprised if there are multiple such novels. Good I don’t know.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

It’s not completely inconceivable that I put an Invisible Pink Unicorn in your garage, but it’s a similarly silly thing to give credence to considering there are far richer sources of gold in our own solar system which have apparently never been mined.

That and the fact that we basically have an unbroken line of skeletons between us and our chimp-like ancestors which suggest we evolved over time like everything else on this planet, no alien slavers required.

It doesn’t matter if there is something about gold we don’t understand yet, because based on what we do know about everything else, humans evolved naturally and leprechaun aliens don’t exist.

FlyingSquid OP , 25 days ago

We have zero evidence of domesticated plants or animals before 10-12 thousand yeas BP. If there were great civilizations before that, there would be evidence in the DNA of plants and animals. There is not. The idea of a great civilization without any domestic agriculture or livestock is nonsense.

There is no room for aliens either. Not one shred of evidence.

I know people like Erich von Daniken and Graham Hancock sound appealing, but they aren’t. They’re also racists. Von Daniken and Hancock believe in a master white race that created everything.

Hancock:

Professor Patrick Nunn, who specializes in researching Pacific geography and archaeology at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that Hancock’s theories about who built Nan Madol strip Indigenous peoples of their rich histories and can be traced to “racist philosophies” and “white supremacist” ideologies of the 19th century.

In a May 2000 essay published on his website, Hancock writes: “I have consistently argued that the Americas were inhabited in prehistoric times by a variety of ethnic groups – Negroid, Caucasoid and Mongoloid … Such ideas have caused deep offense to some American Indians, who have long claimed to be the only ‘native’ Americans.”

He goes on to describe various prehistoric artifacts that he says prove the presence of Caucasians and Africans before Columbus landed on the continent in 1492. This includes his research into the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, who he says was described by the Aztecs as “tall, white-skinned and red bearded – sometimes blue eyed as well”.

theguardian.com/…/netflix-ancient-apocalypse-canc…

If we look to von Däniken’s work, there can be little doubt that his racial beliefs influenced his extraterrestrial theories. After a short stint in jail for fraud and either writing or appropriating the material for a number of other books that developed his ancient astronauts theory, von Däniken published Signs of the Gods? in 1979. It is here that many of his racial views are most boldly stated. British archaeology officer Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews points out on his Bad Archaeology blog just a few of the many racist questions and statements posed by the author: “Was the black race a failure and did the extraterrestrials change the genetic code by gene surgery and then programme a white or a yellow race?” He also printed beliefs about the innate talents of certain races: “Nearly all negroes are musical; they have rhythm in their blood.” Von Däniken also consistently uses the term “negroid race” in comparison with “Caucasians.”

list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind1811&L=SCIENCE-FOR-…

This all comes from 19th century racist ideas, especially those of Madame Blavatsky:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky

You are falling for racist propaganda. Please don’t.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

My apologies for insulting anyone.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

That is in no way the same. Have you even read Capital or the Communist Manifesto?

Getting pissed off at me that private ownership and profit are not things that belong in communism is silly. Based on that argument, the U.S. isn’t a socialist country, it’s a communist one.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Then I guess it isn’t right to call Cuba communist, as much as that pisses some people off.

If communism requires private enterprise, it isn’t communism. The word ‘communism’ comes from ‘communal’ That is not communal. Find another word.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

You do realize he’s complaining about nonbinary people’s names, right?

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

This is the sort of thing that a non-queer person coming from a position of privilege would say.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Maybe they do, but they haven’t done it, have they? I know I can’t do it. Can you? It’s not ‘negative’ to know that it hasn’t been done and no one is doing it. It’s just a fact.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Conservatives not only aren’t fans of the IRS, they want to slash its budget. So that may not be what they want either.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

He usually cares about what the people who bribe him want and they want Project 2025.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

I don’t have a crazy or funny outline for you, but when it comes to humor and Wikipedia, almost every single act of pettiness on this very long page is pretty damn funny.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

The best one actually has its own separate article dedicated to its pettiness:

Star Trek (I/i)nto Darkness

Main article: Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate

Is it “Into” or “into”? A simple capitalized letter led to, as xkcd neatly summed up, “Forty thousand words of debate”, before suggesting the “compromise” solution of “* StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNeSs *”. Here’s what the horrifying talk page looked like when the xkcd comic was published. A summary of the results was necessary to keep things sane. And that’s over three months before the film’s opening. Starfleet representatives have neglected to comment.

FlyingSquid , 25 days ago

Those weren’t M&Ms you were eating, silly. They don’t even make blue M&Ms.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Collect them all!

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Factory farming is a huge problem when it comes to influenza and other diseases spreading and mutating. It certainly doesn’t help that farmers are often not given protective equipment like gloves and masks, but even without that, factory farming animals is a huge problem when it comes to the spread of disease.

In this case, it’s farming chickens and turkeys (along with other less common birds) that is the problem with influenza in general since it usually begins in bird populations, but it’s already spread to cattle farms.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

That doesn’t shock me, but I doubt de Mol has any sort of secret conspiracy with the world powers going on.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

When it comes to rail? Yes. How do you propose putting in rail lines without eminent domain?

And we desperately need more rail in this country.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Nowhere does that even suggest that Mexicans have to return to Mexico within 24 hours if they drive here from Mexico. That’s just not a law. I have no idea why you think Mexicans can’t legally drive from Tijuana to New York City, but they can, despite that taking over 40 hours.

They can even drive to Toronto. That would take even longer. And then they can go back through Canada and through the U.S. and back to Mexico and they can stay in the U.S. as long as their travel visa allows.

I have no idea why you think they can only get 12 hours from Mexico by car before they have to turn back.

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

What does that have to do with how long a Mexican can keep their car in the U.S.?

Are you under the bizarre impression that a car has to be registered within 24 hours of crossing the border?

FlyingSquid , 26 days ago

Yes. And you do not have to register a car right away.

Which is why Mexicans can legally drive to New York.

Are you seriously arguing that there are no Mexican cars in New York? Not a single Mexican has legally driven to New York?