

brand new account
It’s now a “banned new account”.
For serious comments, my true audience is the unknown reader. For jokes, my audience is myself alone.
Lemmy dev suggestions: Remove all downvotes. User blocks should keep the blockee from seeing the blocker.


brand new account
It’s now a “banned new account”.


Just because they’re man-made distinctions doesn’t mean that they cannot be discussed or don’t have beginnings.


What’s not funny is that Elon Musk is CEO of a space travel company and what you’re describing he’s doing is almost the same thing that caused HAL 9000 to go insane in 2001: A Space Odyssey.


In countries where the military is aggressively attacking non-combatants in other countries, their war criminal leaders are the most legitimate targets imaginable.
Life isn’t exactly like chess, in that in life, it’s not always enough to eliminate the king. But, if you keep eliminating king after king until somebody reasonable assumes control, it seems like the least bloody way to end conflict.


“This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by the Supreme Court hours before the start of the new year.
“It was only when I started giving Trump all of the power that is supposed to lie in the Supreme Court that the arrangement started to fail,” Roberts continued. “I thought I could get an even greater position of power by kowtowing to the demands of Trump, but now he says that my ass isn’t as supple as it used to be, and that I keep losing concentration when I’m servicing him. But what can I do? He keeps falling asleep in the middle. Justice Thomas said the same thing. I knew people had said that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street, but it’s shocking to experience it myself. I used to have all the power in the world, but now I just really feel used by this whole ordeal.”


China has extremely tough restrictions about what information can legally leave the country, so I wouldn’t be surprised if China has a similar restrictions as this for the US.


Cancer will be cured
This one sticks out to me because the question is too vague. If it said, “All forms of cancer will be cured,” which is logically equivalent to the one given, then the only answer for anybody who knew anything about the subject is “no.”
So, it seems that either people misunderstood the question, or don’t know enough about cancer to realize that it’s really a collection of terrible diseases that, at our current level of understanding, seem to need different treatments.


I’ve often thought about buying a sailboat and traveling around the world. Now seems like a bad time, though, since the US military will murder people just on suspicion of crimes.
That’s the real reason they kept losing their extremities.
You put bananas down in the areas where you tend to drive.


Yeah, imagine a world where Donald Trump actually had a friend.


I’ll level with you. A car wash mode is a great idea. It makes sure the windows, mirrors, wipers, and various sensors on the outside of the car like the opener for the charging door are in a good state for a car wash. I think every modern car should have a car wash mode.
What’s not smart is that the Cybertruck is vulnerable to completely dying from garden-hose-based attacks, in general, and that they “fixed” it by using car wash mode, as if water never gets sprayed at a car at any other time. They’re abusing the car wash mode.
To summarize, car wash mode: good idea. Abusing car wash mode to hide glaring design/implementation defects: shitty idea.


Also, it goes without saying that tons of competent people work at Microsoft, despite OP saying exactly the opposite.


If she thinks that depression is just an excuse for laziness, then what’s her excuse for her laziness?
It is simple, if not trivial, to go look up what depression means, for example, on Wikipedia. She hasn’t done this, and we know that because her understanding of depression doesn’t match the actual definition, so her opinion on depression stems from her laziness.
She implies that other people’s laziness is a bad thing, so why does she think it’s okay for her to express such laziness and lazy opinions?


I disagree. A simple thief would be doing a short stint in a local jail, not prison, and they’d be allowed around other inmates.
Trump should be in prison. He should be serving a sentence that will span the rest of his life. And he should be in solitary confinement for his own protection, due to the very serious possibility of his being killed in prison. As well as permanent suicide watch, to make sure he carries out as much of his sentence as possible.
Yeah, I don’t want to see Andrew Tate getting beat up. I want a future where I never see or hear about him again because he’s serving a life sentence.
A lot of the lyrics of the songs in this list can be interpreted in multiple ways, but I don’t think I Will Always Love You can be interpreted as being about fucking. “I wish you joy and happiness, but above all, I wish you fuck a lot”?


They apparently failed to pay Anthony Joshua enough for him to take a dive.


I think “mediocre” in this context would be mediocre to most people.
I think you cannot ask about something subjective without getting people’s personal opinions. If you ask about an aspect of a mediocre thing, then you can expect at least some debate about what counts as mediocre, and probably none of the people’s answers will be correct.
For me, a “mediocre” movie would be something that I would only watch again if a friend wanted to watch it, but if it was just an option and I got to choose, I’d never choose it. But if it was just “on”, I might not change the channel. Let’s see, like The Rock directed by Michael Bay.
And then there are “bad” movies that I wouldn’t watch even if I had a friend who wanted to see it, like any other Michael Bay movie that I’ve seen. Armageddon had pretty good music, but it wasn’t mediocre. It was bad.
If a home invader breaks into your house, and kidnaps your sister, then says, “I’m taking her out to my van. I’ll be right back to kidnap you next,” you’d be freaking out, yes, but it would be weird to say that you’re freaking out because of the precedent.