Doug Holland @ DougHolland @lemmy.world

Obese gray male, introverted, cranky, woke but needs a nap. Enjoys solitude

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Is it funny though?

When it works?

The Beeb is a big operation, with genuine humans reporting and editing 24/7/365. Things will always slip by. I appreciated the policy, is all.

BBC being the only outlet to avoid using the loaded term 'terrorist' was solid journalism, so of course that had to go.

That said, Hamas certainly is a terrorist group by any sane definition, and so's the Israel Defense Forces.

Oh, you and your rational thinking and all.

Bookmarked!

I am sending you Lemmy Gold, which sadly ain't nothing but this electronic high-five. Thank you!

Where, though? Where does one communicate a bug report or something?

Same place on desktop. It's kinda easy to miss, though, so thanks for the nudge.

It's a longrunning frustration that needs to be addressed. At the very least it needs to be announced. But it's a Lemmy problem, isn't it -- not a lemmy.world problem.

With all due respect (which is none), that's dingbattery.

Thanks for posting this. I've been badmouthing Biden ever since he blocked the railroad strike, but that quote from a union leader — “Biden deserves a lot of the credit for achieving this goal for us. He and his team continued to work behind the scenes to get all of rail labor a fair agreement for paid sick leave" — finally cools my steam.

When he shows up and carries a UAW picket, I am ready to be honestly impressed.

Well, it's kinda like that... :)

There are areas of the USA where what Boebert and her man are doing could land them both on the sex offenders' list for life. She has her hand on der wienerschnitzel, he has his on her boobies, in a crowded theater during a show.

I've done the same, but in the balcony at a movie theater, with no-one else within a dozen rows. Also, I was in my late teens, and not a member of Congress.

"Here's another chance to make people miserable," said some Republican, because making people miserable is their favorite thing to do. Your birth cert is needed for all manner of things — a driver's license, a job, a mortgage, etc — all of which will now be much more difficult, and involve telling your life story at every bureaucrat's counter.

Republicans are fucking monsters.

Hey, have you written up your 'Jesus Strings' theory? You've mentioned it a few times and it makes marvelous intuitive sense to me — I'd like to read the article if you're written it.

I'm still unable to upload images, and images uploaded before the issue yield only error messages.

I was intentionally out of contact with the family for about 25 years, and have no regrets. Had a great time without them.

A few of them I've missed, and I've mellowed, so I'm back in contact again but only under my terms, and it's working out nicely. Thanks for asking.

    OK, so there's this wingnut Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Football) who's angry that the military reimburses officers for travel expenses when they need to go out-of-state for an abortion. Until that rule's changed, Tuberville has vowed to block all military promotions (who knew Senators had that power?) and now the Army, Navy and Marine Corps have no Senate-approved commanders in place.

    Other than how it screws over low-ranking officers, I really give no shits at all about Tuberville's blockade. It makes him look like an idiot, and he is an idiot, and I'm pretty sure the Army, Navy and Marine Corps can do all their armying, navying, and marine corpsing without Senate-approved leadership.

    But man, I got a laugh out of that "aiding and abetting the Communists" crack.

The whole comment was me retyping something I'd texted to my oblivious Republican nephew a few days ago, and he's a baseball fan. :)

Yeah, that's what most people fail to grok. This summer, 2023, will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life. In frightfully few years, weather catastrophes will be as commonplace as gas station stickups, and all of the 'modern conveniences' will be doubtful at best.

The internet will be frequently and increasingly unplugged, highways will buckle, flying will be only for oligarchs, hospitals will be amateur efforts, Hollywood will be in flames, pro baseball will be untenable, and wild hoards will roam what used to be the cities, searching for food.

In this mix, it's laughable to imagine there'll be full, stable, well-trained staffing at nuclear power plants.