hydrospanner @ hydrospanner @lemmy.world

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Right?

So many "conservatives" these days seem to really only have the political position of "I'll be fucked if I'll stand for the possibility of anyone, anywhere having their situation improved unless my own situation is improved even more in the process. I would rather burn this fucker to the ground, with me in it, than see someone else get any kind of aid or relief that I'm not getting, even if I don't need it or want it anyway."

They made that, it was just split into three movies and made by Disney, with different titles.

Underwhelming too.

You ever wonder if human minds just biologically aren't equipped to understand or comprehend this stuff? Same way ants can't possibly fathom the existence of radio waves or apes can't understand trigonometry or how it works?

I'm disinclined to believe that if for no other reason than I'm sure similar things have been said many times throughout human history about any number of subjects that were then much more fully explored and understood. Anatomy, biology, genetics, etc. all seemed to be fields that were "mysteries too far beyond human comprehension"...until they weren't.

Also: if there was nothing, then what went bang?

Just as important, why did it go bang?

Not to open an entirely different can of worms, but aside from the presence or lack of an actual character in the role, religious and scientific theories on the beginning of everything are similarly unfulfilling.

"First, there was nothing. Then a thing happened, and there was something!"

Please expound on that.

Oh my god why did you have to remind me that this awful creature exists?

I get it...but at the same time I also get why you're not going to be the life of the party with material like that.

I think a big part of this is because it's already a super, super niche topic, but then you're adding the extra layer of wanting to stick to a largely theoretical/conceptual tone of discussion, ruling out most of what few were still interested when you started into the topic. And once you're that far down the rabbit hole, I feel like there's going to be hyper specific topics that dominate, and unless your conversation partner not only has that knowledge but also wants to have that conversation...well the conversation isn't really going to happen at all.

It's also a very brain-power intense set of topics for a leisure time get together where most people have the goal of not having to think too hard on anything.

Other than the primaries, what else do they have?

Corn?

Let them have their thing.

Super cereal.

That’s one way to look at it. Another way is to see it as entertainment trying to get you to watch, not a lecture trying to be concise.

Hmmm what's worse: giving a video a shitty and misleading title because you're a dumbass...or giving a video a shitty and misleading title very intentionally because you've decided that the content isn't good enough to draw viewers on it's own and have therefore decided to deceive people into clicking and watching based on said title?

"It's the viewer's fault the creator gave their video a shitty title!"

The best part was when you checked the AQI, didn't know what the number meant so you checked Google for a breakdown, and your current AQI number was more than four times the highest number on any chart you could find.

Mainframe sounds like an Axe spray scent name.

And in fairness the Romans did do it, but only at the absolute insistence of the Jewish religious leaders.

It's the government giving money they got from taxpayers to corporations that are buying up housing but having a half a million people launder it.

Depends who's saying it.

I remember many moons ago I was on a hike with my scout troop and one night we camped in this group campground with a lot of...well...super rednecks, most of which appeared to just live there.

Anyway, one of these little redneck kids (maybe 6 or 7 years old) for whatever reason picks one of our scouts (who was maybe 15?) and just basically starts following him around the campsite calling him "Daddy".

It was hilarious...to everyone except him.

I wish I could say that was the weirdest thing that's ever happened on one of those hikes.

Just spit balling, but maybe the program that does the transcription doesn't just use the image, but instead scans the image, finds the Twitter account shown, and checks the tweet text in the image against the matching actual tweet.

And since it's accessing the actual tweet, maybe that Walmart text is like a profile tag line or something that's attached to the user?

And pretending it has nothing to do with the weapons is just disingenuous.

Your virtue signaling aside, I feel it's disingenuous to pretend it does come down to the weapons.

Americans have owned millions of guns throughout its entire existence. Why all the shootings in the news now?

I guess the guns finally got serious about their mind control plot to wipe out all the humans.

Hahaha you dumb fuck!

2016 was proof not to put so much stock in polling.

I strongly disagree with you, but I definitely give you credit for at least actually saying it.

Most that I've had this discussion with insist they don't want to touch the second amendment and revoke the rights of law abiding gun owners... then most of their ideas both won't solve gun violence while also stripping millions of people who've never broken a gun law of their rights without due process.

Guns are one issue where I strongly break with the Typical American Left™, but if you're going to be anti-gun, I absolutely give you credit for having the wherewithal to just say what you really want.