Tbh, even if you have a gun, your odds are not 100%. You’re firing at essentially a biological tank, small caliber fire might cause pain and eventually kill a polar bear with non-vital shots, but it’s not going to stop one barreling down on you.
Realistically, you need to be a decent enough marksmen to aim for a vital point, all while making your will saves because a giant monster is charging you. I’m pretty sure most humans are still fucked.
Hah, stupid dummies made the simplest mistake in the book. With a baby like Trump, you can’t make demands. If you try to make demands, he’ll feel like he’s not a big powerful man, and he’ll try and reassert his control over the situation immediately. All the smart world leaders know that the way you manipulate Trump is by gassing him up and convincing him that he came up with your idea, so it must be the most bigly and incredible idea of all time.
Yeah I know about the centipedes, I’ve had roommates that used some in the past.
The big issue is that I have really bad arachnophobia, so the bug I care the most about getting rid of is spiders. just seeing one causes me to freeze and start panicking. The spiders here are harmless, but try telling that to my dumb brain. It’s not even like I see them that frequently, but seeing just one ruins my week because I get paranoid that there are more I’m not seeing.
hah, imagine owning a home
Serious question: as someone who really, really hates bugs, are there any lizards I can just let roam my apartment? I feel like it’d be really chill to have a big scaly friend who could snack on the occasional spider or fly in my apt between meals.
it just means “looking” idk what’s so hard about it.
comfy actually summs up a lot of my critcisms of the instance perfectly. In a word, it really is like everything I hated about reddit.
Block early and block often. Probably the best decision I ever made was blocking lemmy.world from my feed.
correct.
It seems like you’re really close to figuring out why a massive portion of the United States is willing to vote for anything as long as it’s not the status quo.
It’s actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.
Not entirely sure what the term would be, but feminine men exist who are still men and are not trans. There are also trans women.
as one, I’m cool with the term femboy. I think there’s still a few people who’d have an issue with the term, but we kinda have our own subculture established and everything at this point, so feels like a strong contender for the label.
I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”
I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.
My company has zero wait times and is a non-profit that gives money to children.
It’s the callers. There are a lot of people who are genuinely terrible and seem to feel like it’s okay to treat anyone they think is beneath them as terrible, to say nothing of the insane sexism/racism that people like to spew.
So there’s this state in the United States called Ohio, and it’s generally one of the worst places to be. If you’re “in Ohio” or “feeling Ohio,” you’re feelin bad.
It always blows my mind that Pritzker seems to be consistently on the right side of history. Have we done it? Have we found the mythical ‘good’ billionaire? 'cuz he’s done a pretty great job as governor of my state and I’ll happily vote for him again if I get the chance.
I’d argue the exact opposite, because I see a whole lot of people who seem to think all we need to do is remove Trump and the American government will be A-okay. Until we recognize and start to deal with the rot at the core of the U.S. we’re just going to keep doing this same ol song and dance again and again. Until people recognize that fascism is not a bug but a feature, we have no hope of moving beyond it to a better system of governance.
Tbh, I actually think this ends up being a win for Skyblivion. I think a lot of first-time Oblivion tryers were hoping for more dramatic changes, as opposed to basically unchanged Oblivion with a weird facelift running on top.
I think about this a lot. We have essentially, purely through accident tbh, created a society that we are evolutionary unprepared to live in. So much of our typical day to day is actually horrible for our bodies and often antithetical to their good function.
In a strange way, it’s almost incredible. We have invented a rock that we cannot lift.
Damn that’s some real frontier-pushing science. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable teaching my cats how to use a torch though.
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