[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Given that the alternative was "authoritarian rule under certain, unspecified circumstances", what does "democracy" even mean here? Was it presented as a binary choice? That is misleading.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

Neither gender nor sexuality is defined by appearance in general, but the straight white men do present themselves in a specific way.

You are right to say that this might not be the straight white men's club, but you would be wrong to say that the straight white men's club does not look like this.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago

They spend loads of time labelling people with "taking cover" without ever considering that people take cover when they are being fired on.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

They may think that they're being smart but, if society collapses, their money will be worth nothing. If anything, they have more to lose than anyone.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago

it’s standard for providers to bill for two colonoscopies if they remove two or more polyps in different ways.

Billing for 2 procedures instead of 1 could conceivably explain why the bill was twice as high as the estimate. It could not possibly explain why the bill was three times as high as the estimate.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

In the medieval period, there was the common idea that if something is too perfect, it must have been made by the Devil. To forestall accusations of having done a deal with the Devil, craftsmen would often deliberately introduce flaws in their design.

That's why there are always gaps in my dovetails.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 7 months ago

Well, his tough talk worked with Brazil, didn't it?

[-] [email protected] 74 points 9 months ago

Losing 2,000 litres of helium is possibly the worst part of this.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago

He's just a confused old man.

You're thinking about Mr Biden again, sir. Don't you worry about it. Let's check your diaper and get you back to the TV Room, OK? Don't forget your special red hat.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell, Microsoft tried to hold off these anti-trust lawsuits by intentionally making the interoperability and feature-parity between its products shockingly bad.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Destroyed? Let's talk about that.

As you know, Stonehenge has been standing in the rain for 3,000 years.

Following the industrial revolution, fossil fuel emissions made that acid rain. It attacked every cultural artifact standing outdoors for decades.

I think that the people who did that belong behind bars.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

They'll probably publish the abridged version, sadly. The full version reads, as we well know:

Thou shall not commit adultery but, if thou doest, thou shalt pay off the other woman so that it harmeth not thy chances in the presidential election. Nor shall it turn thy supporters against thee when they heareth of it.

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