[-] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago

We’re delightful and, as the commenter said, we make for great tanks.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because, similar to blackface in its time, people love to point and laugh at exaggerated caricatures of something different from themselves.

And CBS airs lowest common denominator garbage that the masses devour.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

he will destroy the Republican Party’s electoral prospects for decades

Nonsense. Go spend some time on The Federalist, or the New York Post,or r/Conservative, or their pitiful “satire” site The Babylon Bee. They don’t live in reality. The real world is completely irrelevant to them. They could lose everything because of Trump and still think that their woes are the fault of woke Marxist liberals (an oxymoron, I know, but they don’t).

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

I can’t say anything about else that won’t get me a ban…

This is Lemmy, you have to worry less about banning for some stuff. But you do have to worry about things being really difficult to delete (potentially impossible, if any instances are maliciously recording things). And even upvotes and downvotes are public information in a Federated system.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

More accurately at conception everyone is sexless. No one has reproductive organs at conception.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago

He’s not insulting them for being redditors.

He’s insulting them for being sex question redditors.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

in a CNN appearance on Sunday, Connolly said workers should comply for now.

“I guess if you can, cover yourself and do the five things you did last week just to be able to say, ‘well I did it,’” he advised.

Obviously Congressional Democrats need to fight, but this sure sounds to me like he’s just telling Federal employees to cover their bases in case the courts rule DOGE does have authority. This is their livelihood, after all.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding.

[-] [email protected] 96 points 4 months ago

A friendly reminder that articles like this serve to create infighting among the worker class.

Someone earning $250,000 is definitely rich, but they’re nowhere even close to the level of rich that makes wealth distribution problematic. And they’re probably working for that income.

Check out Wealth Shown to Scale (Archive link here because apparently the page is down).

Everyone who isn’t a billionaire ought to be on the same side: against billionaires. But the WSJ publishes stuff like this to make you direct your ire at doctors and lawyers instead of at the people leeching from society.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

The right person for me deserves better.

I’m sure you’re joking, at least at some level. But if you’re like me, you probably also believe it at some level.

It turns out this is, in some ways, a good mindset. Always keep in mind that your partner deserves better, and you’re driven to be better for them. Not because you aren’t enough, but because you can be your best when you learn to navigate the give-and-take that long-term relationships require. You’ll fuck up, but if you’re willing to be kind, empathetic, and most importantly apologetic, and willing to get up and try again when you fall, you’re already far ahead of plenty of people.

But if you start thinking you deserve better than your partner, you’re gonna have a bad time.

We’re all insecure at our core, but that means so is everyone else. The right person for you also thinks you deserve better. Build them up, and they’ll build you up in return.

(Sorry, I know it’s a shitpost.)

[-] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

General aviation crashes are not uncommon.

We’ve had one commercial aviation crash in the US since Trump took office. That one crash had nothing to do directly with decisions he made (though decisions he has made certainly make them more likely as time goes on).

But the other four have been general aviation. Those types of accidents, unfortunately, occur more frequently. For example, in September 2024 a couple of men died in a crash near Provo, Utah. I know about this because my wife’s cousin knew them, and had recently spoken to the pilot about his new plane. But that crash wasn’t widely reported.

But since there was a commercial crash, followed by a crash of an air ambulance Learjet into a residential area, everyone is now reporting broadly on every incident. Just like how after Boeing had issues with the MAX8 and MAX9, everything that went wrong with a 737, even ones that were decades old, was suddenly “newsworthy” because people would click on headlines about Boeing. The kinds of maintenance issues that are normally just headaches for travelers and flight crews became national news, as long as the plane was a Boeing. Similarly, now it’s “anything with wings crashes, print it.”

I say all this not to defend Trump, or the year 2025, or anything like that, but just to provide context. You’re hearing about types of incidents you normally don’t hear about, and it’s making it seem like suddenly there are a lot of plane crashes.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago

Storms I hope that’s true.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago

I don’t think it’s racist to not enjoy something you’re unfamiliar with. And I worry that labeling stuff that isn’t racism as racism waters down what racism actually is.

I didn’t really like the halftime show, but that’s because it’s not the kind of thing I usually listen to. I didn’t dislike it, it was just kind of…neutral to me. I’m guessing if I knew the tracks I would’ve enjoyed it more.

I did like the set design. It was pretty cool.

Had it been country music I would’ve actively disliked it.

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