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Semi_Hemi_Demigod

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I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.

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Plus a huge portion of the right in this country is vehemently pro-Israel because they think it will bring Jesus back.

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Lemmy upvotes are more rare and therefore more valuable

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Sarah “I can see Russia from my house” Palin would like a word

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What is it with religious nutjobs and making mundane things sound even cooler?

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The fact that KSP2 is still on Steam for $50 is criminal

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Bring some iron and don’t eat or drink anything you’re offered

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I don’t think nuclear is bad. It’s really great for deep space and deep sea operations. It’s just expensive in terms of both time and money.

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I’m pretty sure that bureaucracy was also about controlling nuclear materials because they’re dangerous and potential weapons.

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Don’t just highlight the terrible shit that happened. Biden’s done some things and helped a lot of people. I think they should do ads showing ordinary folks who Biden helped out, in the format of Apple’s old “Switch” ad campaign.

Normal folks standing in front of a white background talking about who they are and how Biden helped them. “My student loans were just… gone.” “I’m a railroad worker and now I have vacation days.”

At the end, it’s Biden standing with them saying “I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message.”

If Democrats need to fall in love, maybe woo them a bit.

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“I like how the lead makes the meat taste. Tangy and metallic.”

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There’s lots of non-legitimate ways people use guns. For example, I’ve only ever shot them for fun. I imagine being able to have a simulated machine gun experience without all the red tape is pretty fun.

However, we outlawed three-wheeled ATVs despite them being fun so it’s not an argument.

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My grocery store just sent me an email saying that avocado and mangos are their top picks this week.

Coincidence?

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having the CIA snatch Netanyahu three months ago and deliver him to the Hague in a rubber sack with a note that says “We still love Israel but this guy can get fucked.”

Oh, I wouldn’t do that. Just drop him in the middle of Rafah and let him walk home.

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My inclination is that Hitler was the least bad way out of that situation. Give Germany another decade and some other nationalist party would come to power, only this time they’ve got a decade of research behind them and maybe they get the bomb first. Or maybe the leader isn’t a drug-addled former artist who gets his entire staff hooked on uppers and they’re actually effective at defeating their enemies.

So the reason we always seem to have Hitler is because the time cops keep people from killing him because the other timelines are even worse.

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Not to increase your suspicion but over a decade ago James Comey joked about that and then Jeff Sessions grilled him in front of Congress:

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that he was trying to be “funny” when he remarked at a conference this week that some of the people he’s looking to hire to fight cybercrime “want to smoke weed on the way to the interview.”

As someone who has infosec skills that could be useful, the weed prohibition isn’t the main reason I don’t work for the government. It’s that they’d make me come into an office.

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Every four years the new voters learn how fucked up their country is, and how ignorant their countrymen are, and the smart ones learn they’re never going to get to vote for someone who isn’t going to continue America’s decades-long horrific foreign policy.

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Even if you vote you acquiesce to what’s in charge. It’s not like me voting for Biden will stop me being subject to Trump’s whims if he wins. It’s not like Scott Perry isn’t my fucking “representative.” That’s how government works: Whoever wins makes the rules regardless of how anyone voted, even if they didn’t.

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Yes, I am aware that elections are a thing.

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Like I haven’t been doing that for the last quarter century…

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It doesn’t seem to be doing anything but I guess you’re welcome

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Gay marriage was implemented by the courts and I’m no fan of the ACA

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Continue pushing after the election has ended instead of the usual “Oop, election done. All good.” and then panic four years later.

Pushing what exactly? Is there some kind of button everyone else is aware of? Perhaps it’s a lever?

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They also helped Bill Clinton get elected, so that’s nice.

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Oh, totally. But that goofy big-eared Texan with the charts and “can ah finish” helped Clinton.

Maybe Democrats need to do something like that.

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Dana Carvey’s impressions of him were hilarious

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Politics means being annoyed, angry, and depressed about things you can’t change in any meaningful way every year until you die. Or every four years if you’re lucky enough to be able to ignore it.

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What if we dust flyover states with MDMA?

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Alright maybe just the suburbs

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Take one of those air mover things, pack the inlet full of weed, light it, and hook it up to the Capitol’s HVAC system

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Nothing, unless they win the election

Even then a Sinema or Manchin or some other asshole - my odds are on Fetterman right now - will sabotage it and we’ll have to wait another decade before we have another supermajority who will probably do the same thing.

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Much like most cultural events, I’ll just wait for the funniest clips to be posted to YouTube

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Zoom debates! I can use my bingo card from work!

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Kerbal Space Program has a similar vibe, and other space sims take themselves way too seriously to be fun.

RIP KSP2

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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is one of the worst bills ever signed into law.

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Until 1997 there were fairly strict limits over who could own what broadcast stations in given markets. Then the neoliberal bug bit everyone’s ass in Congress and they passed a bipartisan bill that would let people own as many radio stations as they wanted, and way more TV stations than they should.

Suddenly every radio station became the same, and now most local news is owned by one batshit corporation.

Maybe trusting companies is a bad fucking idea.

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I have an induction hot plate and it’s very good at three things: Boiling water, getting a cast iron pan rocket hot, and burning anything I want cooked on low heat.

This is because it’s a cheap hot plate with a terrible control mechanism, but there must be some out there that can simmer rice without doing 100% power for one second followed by nine seconds of doing nothing. It’s not a good look for induction, and I don’t want to end up buying a stove that consistently burns my delicious marinara. Especially because I also need to do significant electrical work in my house just to have one.*

Resistance electric stoves are not just terrible but also inefficient. But I still don’t trust induction cooktops and when I ask the guy at Home Depot to try to cook a meal on one he looks at me weird.

  • Unless I get one of those neat battery-backed induction cooktops that use a 110V hookup.

ETA: Instead of downvoting maybe you could convince me that not all induction stoves will burn my marianara due to shitty control systems

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Speed isn’t the only thing that cooking entails. Sometimes I want to simmer something for a couple hours, and the control mechanism for resistive stoves is pretty shit at doing that because it pulses 100% power instead of running at a lower output level.

I’ve never done this on a proper induction cooktop, but the induction hot plate I have will 100% burn anything I put on it to simmer because it’s cheap and bad.

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The other problem is that duty cycles are such a nerdy thing to be concerned about nobody has any answers about them. The specifications don’t have them, the sales guys know nothing, and short of disassembling the stove and looking up the model number of the regulator I can’t make an informed decisions. Which sucks when you’re dropping a thousand bucks on a stove and a few hundred to get electric run to my kitchen.

Which is why I would love to be able to test drive a stove. Even if it’s just with a pot of water I could get an idea of how frequent the duty cycles are on various settings. But there’s no appliance store that will let me do that.

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Or leave a voicemail so I can call you back when I’ve got ten minutes to take the poll

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The most used word in my text message app these days is STOP

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Like a big, flowy skirt that has a bunch of legs all over it

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No I can’t unsee Henry Rollins with Juggalo makeup in Johnny Mnemonic

Harvard Scholars Suggest Pollsters Ask Questions to AI Simulations of Voters Because Real People Won't Answer The Phone (futurism.com)

Instead of asking humans who they would vote for, try to understand the nuances of their thoughts and concerns, let those messages bubble up to candidates so they can adjust their campaign to meet voters' demand, instead of that, why not just segment humans into a bunch of shallow stereotypes (the socialist Millennial, the...

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If they could leave a voicemail so I could call them back I’d probably do it.

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The Parable of the Petunias is one of my favorite religious stories

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Anyone who’s called an AR-15 an assault rifle in a thread about a school shooting knows about the pedantry of the gun lobby.

I’m amazed they didn’t overthrow the law because it says “pull the trigger” instead of “squeeze the trigger.”

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The first meeting was with his Republican lickspittles so of course they’re going to call him engaged an animated and clap for his stupid ideas.

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I try very hard every day to avoid making a savory salmon and dill cheesecake. When my resolve fails, I like to top it with some capers or pickled red onions.

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Which is why I treat voting as an obligation and not have any hope for the future. Because when it works it still looks like shit, doesn’t seem to do anything, and a bunch of assholes can throw a wrench in the works and then we get even more shit.

I’m still gonna vote because I live here and I have to. But I really don’t think it’s the way you get anything done.

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