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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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I don’t blame the community, I blame the media. The media needs to generate views to sell eyeballs. They need to keep you clicking and watching by saying that the resolution is just around the corner. If they waited to report on things that actually happened nobody would care.

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In my version of the 90s it was a flannel shirt tied around my waist

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If you really want to scandalize them, say this: The Kinks are better than The Beatles

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My favorite song of theirs is While My Guitar Gently Weeps

But I still think The Kinks are better

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The Kinks were punker than The Beatles ever were. This is some bullshit.

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Neither of those work at the gas station nearest my house. In my frustration I began running my fingers up and down the buttons and found that if you press the second from the top on both sides you get into an administrative screen. Pump still works fine and the ad is muted, and it resets when I leave.

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Your money is the squeak of a mouse against the thunderclap of advertising money.

If they lose a couple weirdos like us but get to sell eyeballs, they’ll do it.

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Voting with your money sounds about as effective at influencing things as actual voting.

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They’ll start putting ads in the bike lanes

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They will get the market share of us few weirdos who haven’t just accepted this shit. They will lose out on advertising revenue, have to charge more for gas, and will go out of business.

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And then once enough people buy the premium membership they’ll start putting ads on those, too.

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Just you wait. You’ll see “This bike lane brought to you by Chevrolet” in under a decade.

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MAGA tantrum is a shot of cheap bourbon dropped into a glass of Budweiser

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They’d know better than me what gays taste like

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Double check your state laws. In some cases writing someone in will invalidate your whole ballot.

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Also Matt Walsh is a walking talking trash can lid!

That’s not true. Trash can lids are useful

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Norwegians did something similar in WWII

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If you don’t agree that America is the greatest country on earth that has never done anything wrong then you’re a woke fascist antifa communist

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wearing a hawaiian shirt

Goddammit, really? Those motherfuckers ruin everything.

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I’m sorry for feeling bad that children are dying. I’ll do my best to be a good American and support the people killing them.

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Freedom.

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My suburb is within walking distance of a big grocery store. I have a wagon I take with me for big orders. Sometimes I see a bunny.

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My suburb doesn’t allow chickens as they’re livestock, but it does allow egg-laying ducks because those are apparently pets.

Ukraine packed a Cessna-style plane with explosives, added remote controls and kamikaze’d it into a Russian drone factory 600 miles away (www.forbes.com)

In a sharp escalation of its drone campaign targeting strategic industries deep inside Russia, Ukraine seems to have fitted Cessna-style light planes with remote controls, packed them with explosives and flown at least one of them more than 600 miles to strike a Russian factory in Yelabuga, 550 miles east of Moscow....

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There were so many moments like that in this war. The grandma giving Russian soldiers sunflower seeds to put in their pockets so they grow when they die. The guy berating Russian soldiers saying “Every other woman here is a witch! All your dicks are going to fall off!” Zelensky saying “I don’t need a ride I need ammunition.”

Though I don’t know what else I’d expect from people who told the Ottoman Empire to go fuck itself.

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Same as it ever was.

Anybody who knows American history knows this is par for the course.

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If people didn’t understand the computing thing they could have just said it was designed to keep the human population under control and not rebelling against their machine overlords.

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Just compare it to adult children putting their elderly parents in a nursing home. Also, based on the Animatrix it seems like it has a lot more to do with keeping humans from fighting back and destroying the earth even more than it does with using them for computing power, since the machines didn’t need human brains prior to building The Matrix.

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If you are anti social and don’t mind a 6hr drive to anywhere live there.

Looks like I’m bound for West Australia, boys

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I’m gonna vote for Biden as little as I possibly can, so in this primary Dean Philips is my man. (State laws say I’m not allowed to write someone in.)

Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

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If I reply with STOP will these “please vote” memes go away? Because I’m gonna vote the way everybody wants me to and they’re almost as annoying as the texts I get from the DNC.

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I live in a swing district in a swing state so I must vote blue no matter who.

Yay democracy.

The more I hear about it the more I hate this stupid system.

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It’s only felons who can’t vote. Grabbing some food for your kids would likely be a misdemeanor, which means you could still vote.

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I just checked and in my home state of PA, convicted felons only lose their right to vote when they’re in prison. If they’re on parole or probation they’re allowed to vote. People convicted of a misdemeanor can vote from jail.

So I guess it varies a lot more than I thought.

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You know those Twilight Zone kind of shows where you think you’re in the same dimension, but you’re actually not? And the longer you stay the weirder and more menacing it gets? That’s the US when you’re from Europe.

It’s like that from the inside, too.

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Water is in water, so if water makes things wet it would also make itself wet. Ergo, water is wet

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What are the odds Trump goes full sovcit and starts signing things in red ink and complaining there’s gold fringe on the flag?

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Clarification on the blue pill: Will I be able to tell that someone is attracted to me? Or will that still be a mystery?

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That wouldn’t work for me, though. If I know the only reason they’re attracted to me is because I’m attracted to them it won’t be genuine, and then I wouldn’t be attracted to them anymore.

It’s why I don’t like strip clubs and wouldn’t hire a sex worker.

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Ollie’s is full of books like that for exactly this reason.

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To me, the earliest Millennials were the class of 2000. It always felt like there was extra pressure on us because we were going to be the first of a new millennium.

The divide was especially stark in my high school. The class of 99 - the last of Gen X - were kicked out of every pep rally and assembly for being disruptive, while the other classes were all well behaved and didn’t really understand why they were acting this way.

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For a while I kept getting calls from this old lady who didn’t realize she had to dial an area code before calling her son. After the first couple I answered it and explained to her that she’s dialing the wrong area code, but she didn’t remember and kept calling me and I’d let it go to voicemail. They were pretty sad and I think she was just lonely and wondering why her son wasn’t answering.

Eventually she stopped so I hope she figured it out.

The Political Divide Between Men and Women Is Getting Wild. One Party Is Primed to Take Advantage. (slate.com)

It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...

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What does the left tell you? For women, they have the “successful single girlboss” trope to aspire to, or even the “hardworking single mom” thing. As a man who is supposed to catch on to the liberal side of the culture war, what is my role in society?

I was watching a video about the phenomenon of men getting more conservative - which is happening globally - and one of the men who is doing a lot of work on improving it said that men can take on roles of caretakers and househusbands because those are possible now.

To me, that rings a bit hollow because for decades women have been struggling to get out of those roles because they’re not respected by society regardless of who does them. Saying that men now have the option to take them on doesn’t feel like a solid argument.

They made a lot of interesting points and covered a lot of reasons why men and boys are falling behind, especially in education, but that part felt like he hadn’t thought it the whole way through.

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Take it easy, brah

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Boo and vote.

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People need to lower their expectations about what voting is. It’s like paying your taxes. It’s not fun, you probably won’t get what you want, and you have to do it every year. Also, individual votes don’t really matter, especially if your candidate loses. And there’s a ton of things in the way of getting things done so it’s going to take a long time.

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So is mooch a colloquialism and “scaramucci” is the actual name? Because I’ve been calling them mooches since they were created.

The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)

Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....

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For example, prior to increasing the standard deduction you could deduct a portion of your rent and bills if you worked from home. I used to take advantage of this and ended up owing taxes for the first time thanks to them taking away exemptions. Luckily my alimony is from 2018 or I wouldn’t be able to deduct that anymore either.

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I wish that anti-mosquito laser was on the market

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