jballs @ jballs @sh.itjust.works

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I dunno if I would say 🇬🇧 is traditional. At the time of the American Revolution, the British accent was pretty close to what's considered an American accent today.

Check out this video around 13:40 https://youtu.be/KYaqdJ35fPg

Yeah I regularly spend hours here every day with no lack of content. For example, did you see the guy with the thermal camera a couple days ago? Facisinating.

I had a management class years ago in college where the professor made the argument that in order to be ethical, every single action a business makes must be done to increase profits for its shareholders.

Charitable donation? Only if it increases public perception in a way to be justified by the cost.

Pay your employees well? Only if paying them less would cause you to lose them to your competitors.

The list goes on. It's a very depressing way to look at the world. But as time goes by, I've realized just how accurate that professor was. Companies don't give a shit about you and will turn on you the second it makes their quarterly numbers look better.

Lol had never seen that before, but Jesus Christ that is a painful depiction of my life.

It's kind of funny, but we all do this to some extent. I used to think most people on Reddit were super smart. If someone says stuff with authority, then it's easy to believe what they're saying and assume they know what they're talking about.

But then every once in a while, I'd come across a topic that I know deeply about - and the comment would just be blatantly wrong, but still have tons of up votes. It really made me start second guessing all the other comments I had read and thought were smart, but it's an easy trap to fall into.

I guess what I'm really saying, is that you all are a bunch of morons, probably.

Peak irony is that the first ad shown is them trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

I hate how people think Elon isn’t happy. He’s probably having the time of his life.

I don't think so. Did you see how he joined that chat room with a voice changer to talk about how good of a guy he was? That's not something a regular, happy person does.

They basically said it wasn't up to a state to decide if someone could run for a federal office. Instead it would require an act of Congress.

Which was odd, since the amendment says that Congress can act to override the decision to bar an insurrectionist running for office.

So yeah, this court has shown they are all about intentionally misinterpreting the 14th amendment. They won't save us from the worst of MAGA.

They already disregarded the 14th amendment last year when they ruled that Colorado and other states couldn't keep an insurrectionist of the ballot.

lot

Following the Trump playbook of always attack and never defend or apologize. The dude literally posted racist shit in September and they're acting like it was ancient history of something the guy posted decades ago.

In September!!!

The account linked to Elez tweeted in September, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

The same month, the account tweeted ″‘Normalize Indian hate,’ referring to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal reported.

Wtf I thought this was something years ago that they're saying "don't let an old post ruin your life now". He posted this shit in September

The account linked to Elez tweeted in September, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

The same month, the account tweeted ″‘Normalize Indian hate,’ referring to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal reported.

I saw that and then realized my user name wouldn't actually hamper a public career as much as I had previously feared.

Now that you mention it, offering someone an egg went from "wtf?" to "hell yeah, free egg!" real quick.

policies relating to "diversity, equity, and inclusion" ("DEi") and "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility" ("DEIA") "violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws" and "undermine our national unity."

Thank God for Lemmy. Reading this made me feel like I was taking crazy pills until seeing your guys's comments. These people are straight up going full 1984 "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Math checks out.

I don't understand why they'd make this a separate app and not a configurable setting in Messages.

Oh damn I didn't realize he was a mod for years. I figured it was like a day or something.

Was that even a sub critical of Elon? I haven't been on Reddit since the API migration, but I remember that sub just being a joke response to BlackPeopleTwitter, which mostly just reposted funny tweets.