Anarchist NexusHemingways_Shotgun, adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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Comments by Hemingways_Shotgun, adderbox76@lemmy.ca
Ask LemmyIn Belle and Sebastian’s “Me and the Major’ my brain will simply not hear anything except
“Me and the midget don’t see eye to eye”
Which I find funny on a couple of different levels.
Voting requires citizenship. But citizenship itself should require more than just existing.
If we look back to Greek and Roman democracy, it was true that every citizen got a vote. But the people who were citizens was much more stringent.
The basic idea of the ars liberalis or Liberal Arts translates literally as “The work of freedom”. Exercising your right to partake in a democracy required that a person be knowledgable about history, civics, rhetoric, politics, philosophy. Without that knowledge, you were not allowed a vote in how things are run.
Essentially, you had to know what you were voting on.
Unfortunately, that meant that in essence only the rich landowners could be citizens because they were the only ones with the time and money to get educated while the underclasses were too busy working to suvive.
But in the modern age, where public schooling is a thing, we should be able to figure out a way to make such a thing work. Nowadays, the only thing keeping people ignorant is choice. And if you make the choice to be ignorant, you should forfeit your right to have a say in the governing of your nation.
I mean…I wouldn’t go that far.
I’d limit it at least to people who don’t hug the curb when making a right hand turn thus keeping anyone who’s going straight through from being able to fit in beside them at the stop light.
Eugenics isn’t survival of the fittest though. It’s one group arbitrarily deciding whether another group deserves a chance to live.
I get what you’re trying to say about “suvival of the fittest” but you’re butchering the most basic understanding of that phrase. Survival of the fittest isn’t a choice made by someone or a group of people.
The Habsburgs have entered the chat…
- Some people absolutely need to be killed for the greater good of society.
TechnologyMy last few phones have been Motorolas and I’ve been very very happy with them.
My only issue was that back then, I wasn’t really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola’s (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it’s running a Mediatek chipset. So I’m using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.
Moving forward I’ll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.
196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
The “I don’t agree with” people are also the believers that homosexuality is a choice. (It’s not….every sane person knows that it’s not.)
So when they’re saying “I dont agree with” what they mean is “I don’t agree with the choice a person makes to be gay”
Canada@lemmy.ca
Fuck off, Carney.
If…and that’s a big IF…the orange shit-stain had taken the appropriate steps through congress, then maybe you could be standing giving your support. But as it is, this is illegal by ANY standard of the law.
Not The OnionNot a corporation. They’re not “incorporated” and are not publically traded (afaik).
They’re a private company who are still able to do these kinds of things because they’re not beholden to stockholders.
To me, companies like them aren’t the problem. Corporations with stockholders are the problem.
Or any of the other isms for that matter
I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”
Chevron 7My first thought as well. Wasn’t the actor also the stunt coordinator for the series?
Humans are not inherently good. Quite the opposite. Civilization is just a convenient lie we tell ourselves and its far more fragile than people like to admit.
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world
at one time he was trustworthy, and then just went to shit.
Enshittification has been around for a very very long time.
World NewsBy that same logic, the Italians have a right to the entire middle east because the Roman Empire engulfed it. Then the Ottoman’s came and took it from them, so hey…I guess Turkey has a right to the entire middle east as well now.
Fuck Zionism.
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
This quote from LBJ centres me. Its been the conservative tactic for literally decades, from African Americans, to lgbtq+, to immigrants; it’s always been the same grift:
- Choose your marginalised group-du-jour.
- Convince a whole lot of stupid people that that group is the cause of all their problems.
- Profit.
Its honestly astonishing how blatant it really is.
Science is never “sure”. And I’m not a quantum physicist. But that’s the gist of it, yes. I’m not smart enough to know all the details though.
scienceor the human mind dilates my final moments into an eternity because it cannot comprehend non-existence.
Gawdamm I never thought of that possibility. You’ve broken my brain sir/ma’am. I’m going to be useless for the rest of the day contemplating this.
Basically it’s related to the uncertainty principle; the cat is both alive and dead until you look inside the box.
Let’s say i’m about to roll a dice. The result of that dice throw is in a state of superposition until it’s thrown. Meaning that until it is thrown, all results exist. And it’s only when the dice is thrown and the result is observed that the wave function collapses to a number from 1 thru 6.
From there, there are two camps of scientists:
One camp believes that all other superpositions dissipate once the roll is made. So if you roll a one, then the universes in which you rolled a 2 thru 6 just kind of evaporate, for example.
The Second camp that believes that all superpositions exist, and branch off into 6 different universes (one where each number was rolled) and they all continue unaware of the other universes existence (Multiverse theory)
NewsDon’t you find that just a tiny bit wrong?
Nope.
I save my empathy for people who actually have empathy of their own.
Surely….*SURELY*….someone in that administration was smart enough to snip the wire in big red button knowing that Trump is a lunatic.
nano is usually built in. Adding another one is just redundant if all you’re using it for is editing an occasional config file.
Honestly never understood the hate for it. Who cares? Petty, stupid, nerd-wars over little crap like a text editor is the reason average people don’t even consider linux.
Should have never gotten rid of them.
“Silent Majority”
It’s always their go-to when pressed on when they’re called out.
They can’t grasp the idea that their beliefs are really that unpopular so they cling to an idea of a “silent majority” that agrees with them but is either too censored or too bullied to speak up for what they think is the truth.
Sorry buddy, there is no such thing as a “silent majority” quietly agreeing with you but afraid to speak up, you and your illiterate buddies are just assholes and your opinions are shit.
That all actually started after World War 1, to be honest.
It was during the first world war that all of the European powers spent literally all their money fighting each other, with both sides then reaching out to the United States for loans to continue fighting each other, which America was of course happy to oblige.
The repayment of those loans constituted the largest transfer of wealth in human history from Europe to the Americas, setting the stage for the American war machine to be completed prior to world war two.
I’m not actually convinced that she actually lost the last one, with Musk’s shenanigans and other jerry-rigging all over the electoral college.
But I generally don’t bother dwelling on conspiracy theories. It is what it is, so we’ll see what happens.
Kamala had a LOT of issues. But her public speaking talent was not one of them.
I’m not saying she should.
But the “I fucking told you so” campaign strategy might actually be somewhat effective for a certain percentage of swing voters.
Willful Ignorance. Choosing to remain stupid despite access to information.
If its coming out of the Trump Admins mouths, its a lie…
A pocket protector for the modern age.
I forgot about Continuum. I’d definitely recommend it. Though I wouldn’t put it high on my list or anything.
Main actress was good, but not great. And the rest of the cast was a who’s who of Vancouver working actors who jumped in via the Stargate.
It was enjoyable shlock, but I wouldn’t put it up there with the other mid-2000’s/2010’s stuff coming from Vancouver like the Stargate series of shows, or the CW shows that were all filming there at the time (Flash, Arrow, etc…). Vancouver was a hub of mid-budget sci-fi back then. Might still be, I don’t know. I don’t know anyone in the industry there anymore since breaking up with my ex.
BSG remake is a must watch for anyone, even those who don’t like “sci fi”
Band of Brothers is a must watch, even for those who don’t like “war”
Black Sails started amazing, dragged a bit in the middle, but well worth it for the final speech by Flint at the end.
The Americans is a show that has tragically never gotten the love that it deserves and is well worth your time.
Angel is better than Buffy in every conceivable way basically beginning in the second season and I’ll always point it out to people who won’t give it a chance because they don’t like Buffy. (I don’t like Buffy…but Angel was darker, more mature, less teeny bopper. And frankly funnier)
Edited to add:
*Boardwalk Empire*, the forgotten red-headed stepchild of HBO’s prestige lineup. I loved it but for some reason it’s completely dismissed and barely remembered.
*12 Monkeys*. Someone else mentioned it below and reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. I loved it. But in the later seasons was to distracted by other stuff to finish it.
I’m more interested in seeing what happens with the second part of his threat, that he’ll “use those bases whether spain likes it or not”.
I believe that’s called an incursion on foreign soil.
And I’d be willing to bet it’s the same damn people.
That header photo brings back memories.
Exactly. Dell did it for years with some of their laptop models offering Linux.
It’s not like a company can’t do both on some devices so long as the sales support it.
You realize that it’s possible to disagree with someone without being a dick about it, right?
I mean, I’ve certainly had my share of verbal dust-ups on Lemmy, but they always start off cordial instead of coming out swinging with the needless insults.
Executive Orders in the U.S. political system
I’m Canada we have the “Notwithstanding clause” which can serve a similar function; allowing a premier to unilaterally decide something without the approval of parliament.
Neither should be allowed to exist.
Also remove the entire idea of some countries having “veto” power in NATO and UN matters.