Absurdly Stupid

capitalism and colonialism are both human.

It’s all human. Even if capitalism and colonialism were off the table, every person alive consumes so much food a day, and every square foot devoted to their life is unavailable for wildlife.

This guy is nasty, many streamers are (because they’re just people, after all)

I don’t think he should have been banned, though.

I know a lot will disagree, go right ahead. But I think observation is best, because they always hang themselves. Instead of deplatforming, let them publicly entrap themselves, the humiliation and criminal penalties are so much worse.

Whether it’s Stormfront or 4chan or streamers, when you take away their platform, you erase the very best way to observe them and nail them to the wall.

Now, he can just talk to whatever minors he wants. He’s probably playing Roblox.

You’re just silly.

Your car itself will sniff you for drugs and explosives every time you start it and every 30 seconds thereafter, not the Walmart robot.

Take the subway in New York City.

You will also see penis

There’s already a civil war right next door in Syria, with Turkey, USA, Russia, Israel, Kurds, too many to list fighting. Hundreds of thousands of people dead, years upon years of war.

SUPER WAR

Florida Statute 836.10 makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a written or electronic record threatening to kill or injure someone

This means a significant portion of Lemmy (and the rest of the internet) are criminals evading justice

great law top shelf

I wouldn’t trust the Russian government to watch my dog.

If you think the USA, Russia, or UK would keep any agreement, treaty, or deal in the year of Our Lord 2026, I don’t know what to tell you. Yeah, no shit.

(not sure about Canada, but I doubt it)

I think he got his fiction mixed up with reality, wolves don’t live very long; this would be half of their lifespan.

They could very well be leaving an area alone because there’s less of their favorite prey there. How would you determine their motivation?

and Democrats! that would be great

It’s a safe bet.

The bubble will burst, that’s our boom-bust cycle. I think we’re at the point where it is always a few bad decisions away.

I’m actually impressed that it’s still going

Coincidentally, The FED was made to stop boom-bust cycles before WWI. It’s never, ever worked, and it will never start working.

It’s okay for you to not care about them.

But, don’t be surprised when they don’t care about you.

First, you must learn that centrists and independents are two different things. Independent is an even bigger tent than the D party, it includes centrists within, but includes everybody else, too, like socialists. They’re not centrists, don’t be ridiculous.

Next, you must learn that If you don’t serve the interests of that 40% of voters, you will lose. Their priority one interest is one that we all share, all 100% of us have this exact same interest. Money. We all need money in the USA. It’s our common denominator.

You’re outnumbered and doing the rookie thing, and gotta up those numbers. Hostility is not your friend. Be honest… if you want to sell something, you don’t insult the buyer, do you? You don’t have to sugarcoat or lick their boots or anything.

Do the math. If the 40% of independents were centrists or red voters, you’d never win any election, ever. But you do win elections, because they’re not centrists or red voters. Come on now

I see a lot of people like this being treated with total contempt, which is your right, but a few things to keep in mind.

1. Please remember 70% of voters are not Democrat. Democrats are 30% of voters, Republicans 30% of voters, and Independents are 40% of voters. Insulting and celebrating the hardships and deaths of those who don’t agree with you is a very bad look, and won’t convince anyone that your minority party (Democrats) is the cure.

2. Very few people are actually informed. Their entire waking life can be their job and children. Spare time is spent in non-political activities, like watching a goofy show. Many people are juggling multiple jobs and don’t have a lot of spare time to research politics or history. Maybe zero time. So they go with their gut. (this is often wrong, but remains true). Make it easy for their gut.

3. Keep in mind that you require independent voters to win every federal election. Would you like to win an election? Then you better get some Independent votes. Insulting and humiliating others does absolutely nothing for you. You could be totally right, your anger might be well founded, but it doesn’t help you.

4. Do you agree that there are a significant amount of stupid people? These stupid people don’t like being called stupid, and take this all very seriously. You want the votes of stupid people. Would you like stupid people to vote for your party? Spending your days mocking and insulting anonymously can be a lot of fun, but it’s no way to WIN.

This is a big election upcoming, go out and vote! … and if you’re up for it, maybe try to be kind to a voter or three. It can only help your cause. Contempt hurts you.

My windows “start” menu takes at least a full minute to open. Then, when I select, say, Control Panel, it takes another full minute, totally blank with no options

I’m not a programmer or even smart, but isn’t that absolute shite? I’ve used Commodores, Apple II, Macs, 386, 486, have used windows since first job (I don’t remember my first Windows version, but it played Tetris in color. Three? haha 3)

Menus have always worked before.

My next laptop will be linux Mint because I like mint ice cream. Does it have menus that open? I am super excited.

I apologize but it made me really mad and now i feel better.

That’s not even the half of it.

More than a dozen different countries and orgs are fighting in Syria right now, hundreds of thousands dead, it could be much more, we have no way of knowing

Including Russia, Iran, Turkey, Islamic State, et al

Why is the US press reporting heavily on Israel/Palestine, so much more than Syria? (This is my opinion, tell me if I’m wrong I can’t read all of the news)

I think it’s to deflect away from Syria, a much larger conflict that seems like a World War to me. It includes USA, Middle East including Israel, Russia, Turkey, how many nations to qualify for WW?

This sounds like “leverage” to me.

I disagree, please look at Trump’s son in law Kushner’s business dealings in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere in middle east). The many billions of dollars are “officially” in his private equity firm (and accompanying shell companies).

Russian oligarchs are small change and have nothing near as much influence (due to less money)

Saudi Arabia can’t beat Israel for influence, but you know, we formed Israel and they’re like our colony/military base in the middle east; so I don’t think any nation can match that influence, we’re connected as allies, Israel could not exist without the USA.

I am not saying that Trump doesn’t accept money from Russia or anybody else, though, and exert influence for them. He’ll take money from everywhere and make “deals” with anyone who has billions of dollars.

It can’t be done through the courts. Court always sides with precedent. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

So congress needs to write a law, and stop screwing around with their parliamentary goofball rules and vote a simple majority to clean house.

This will then be reversed by our two stupid parties, back and forth as one or the other wins and changes the law.

Only a constitutional convention can put a stop to this by our existing government. Our current “What does Amazon Want” republic sucks

In my opinion the patriotic response to 9-11 proved that we (USA) can devolve into absolute chaos and horror at any time. It was that close.

Most disagree with me now, I guess, but at the time, I knew many people in politics and volunteerism, and they all supported the war in Iraq. These were anti-war people just weeks before, and now they were bloodthirsty. I know it’s my subjective experience, but it was like Pod People.

“His pals”

The biggest companies on Earth. Trump is superfluous, like a tumor.

Remember Trump’s victory celebration? Bezos, Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg, they were all ecstatic.

Watch, I think they’ll be on the stage whomever wins the presidency, because corporations are people and dollars are free speech.

These court decisions are precedent, they are now the law of the land. To rescind Supreme Court decisions we must have a constitutional convention. But we can’t even agree on bathrooms.

So, doom it is

Recommend Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (Studies in War, Society, and the Military) by Pollack

There are many reasons; one of them is that Arab forces often lie to their commanders so that they have very poor situational awareness, leading to a cascade of further poor decisions in war.

This is because you can and will be executed for failure.

Unfortunately, you can also be executed for being too competent, which can be seen as threatening to your superiors.

Also, maintenance. And sand. I hate sand.

There are many other factors and exceptions, depending on when and where.