Bassman1805 @ Bassman1805 @lemmy.world

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I got a call from this woman in Boston, out was just a product activation call so I had to read her a 20-character activation string. We use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for those, to reduce confusion over the phone.

The last character was Y-Yankee. I followed that up with "but I guess that's a politically incorrect word around Boston, huh?" And she goes on an absolute tirade about how people are way to sensitive, throwing out a few racist dogwhistles along the way.

I just said "Ma'am, I was making a joke about the rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees."

She went silent for a few seconds and hung up on me.

Blue MAGA

It's not even 8am and I've already read the dumbest shit I'll see all day

Ooh, and they're deficit deadlifts too. Nice.

Radiating milk equally in all directions, of course.

At this point, I think the best thing would be for Biden to run, get re-elected, and then die early in his term to make Kamala Harris the President. I'm not super thrilled about her but I think she's better than just about any other option we've got at the moment.

I just don't trust this fucking electorate to vote for a Black, Indian, Woman for president.

I mean, that just kinda proves the point further?

Anybody that's gonna vote for Trump is gonna vote for him regardless of who his VP is. The VP is only TeChNiCaLlY an elected office, because 99.99% of people are voting for the president and not the VP.

This headline uses "millionaires" to mean "people with over a million dollars in annual income" rather than "people with over a million dollars in net worth"

That's not your run of the mill "successful career with a healthy 401k" millionaire, that's at least ten-millionaires, mostly hundred-millionaires, and possibly some billionaires by net worth.

I mean, it's a pretty key difference that she was only elected in that she was attached to the ticket that people were actually voting for.

My advanced E&M professor said "Imagine a sphere of radius zero. Trust me, it works."

I just need more struts.

The Atlas rocket was single stage to orbit.

But yeah, every Gemini and Apollo rocket was staged, as was the space shuttle.

Makes me want to buy some campaign signs...

"Oust RINO Ted Cruz, vote All-Red for senate this November!"

You don't even need "power hungry mods" for that to go wrong, you just need mods who don't care. That's EXACTLY where Facebook and Twitter are right now. Getting content removed there is basically impossible, I've reported people for death threats and was told they never violated community standards.

If the platform isn't going to moderate itself, the users should be able to.

While it's true that the downvote often gets abused as a way to stifle otherwise-good discussion, without it it's hard to deal with discussion that truly should NOT be happening.

There's a reason election denial is more common and looks more legitimate on Facebook and Twitter. It's because they don't have a mechanism for people to nuke that discussion out of the top of the thread.

The US dollar is never worth less nor more than than 1 US Dollar. If you owe a debt in USD, the size of that debt does not change based on the purchasing power of the dollar.

That's beside the point, because you don't pay taxes in denominations of "loaves of bread", you pay them in US dollars. If you pay with an asset that is wont to change its value in US dollars on a whim, that's a gamble for the government. There's a reason people don't regularly pay taxes with stock options.

The GameCube was pretty mediocre as a console, but SO MANY of its games have aged like wine.

They also drop a cool shield in Elden Ring.

Some useful simulations for understanding many proposed voting styles, and the potential drawbacks of each.

https://ncase.me/ballot/

Not sure if it's my specific app or lemmy as a whole, but that spoiler tag isn't working. Sometimes they'll break if you put a space between the tag and your text.

... >! Testing with spaces on both ends !<

... >! Testing with a space at the front!<

... >!Testing with a space at the end !<

... >!Testing with no spaces!<

Looks like reddit spoiler tags just don't work in general