And people laughed at me for sticking with my MOS 6502. Who’s laughing now?

His childhood in “Appalachia” that actually was a suburb between Cincinnati and Dayton.

If he was actually from West Virginia, he’d know couches are for burning after a football game. (You can still fuck a burning couch but it’s the most dangerous game.)

I’m from New Orleans I don’t even like to claim to be from the South — I’m from the Northernmost point in the Caribbean — and this motherfucker is claiming West Virginia heritage when he grew up basically equidistant from Chicago.

My personal opinion (as a dispassionate atheist) is that religion isn’t the problem with human nature. In the U.S., for instance, we have some Christians who have strayed so far, I don’t get how they’ve even seen a Bible verse. But also, basically every major Civil Rights leader was a Christian preacher or woman of faith. There are similar situations everywhere. There’s Buddhists who are so non-violent they wouldn’t kill a fly and other “Buddhists” who commit genocide, which doesn’t even make fucking sense.

So, my view of religion is that it’s mostly not the thing to focus on. People can be organized for good or evil and there’s plenty of secular things where people define an identity. I suspect if religion never existed, we’d have all the same problems. I mean, we have soccer hooligans and it’s not because people object to 22 people getting some exercise on a lovely afternoon. (Or a miserable, rainy Wednesday night in England.)

I have no idea if that framing is outrage bait — like, who gives a shit about hideous industrial blight when people’s homes and a national park are being destroyed — but also, what horrors are unleashed when an oil pipeline meets a wildfire? It sounds like it’d be pretty fucking bad.

Also, I get protecting the waste treatment plant. Firemen have it hard enough without having to trudge through actual hot shit. (And it might be flammable too. I do my best to avoid learning what happens after a toilet gets flushed.)

TL/DR: I’m totally ignorant of what happens when oil and shit meet fire but I’m guessing it’s bad.

I get what you’re saying but I like that Lemmy has a left wing bias (with a dash of libertarians). If it was the dominant media site, I’d agree about the echo chamber risk but so much media (in the English speaking world, anyway) is under right wing ownership now. Having a handful of sites that are a refuge from it all is a feature for me, not a bug. It’s an escape from the echo chamber.

You’re not wrong but Tesla is probably more of a meme stock at this point. We might not be able to blame Wall Street for this one. There’s a lot of retail investors in Tesla stock because they think Elon is a super brain genius despite all evidence to the contrary.

Biden didn’t support segregation. He worked with segregationists to pass legislation. To call Biden a segregationist an insult to Cornpop. And you don’t want to insult Cornpop. Cornpop was a bad dude.

This is a bit like saying we shouldn’t judge the leaders of the Confederacy by modern standards as if there weren’t slaves and abolitionists and a global movement to end slavery. Trump was notably racist even for the 70’s. He literally refused to rent to black people and there was a whole federal housing discrimination case. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html

If we can just get the remaining countries to jump on board by the year 2005, we might avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Oh no! What will we do if morbidly obese 70 year-old slobs who are so afraid of cities that they think they need a gun to visit San Francisco start a civil war? How will we ever defeat the sandy vagina brigade that thinks a reality TV host is a big a strong man?

What’s the “Iraq treatment”? The U.S. spending a trillion dollars to create enough instability for something like ISIS to emerge?

It appears the world’s most divorced bozo is at it again.

I’m not super into Biden or anything but The NY Times committing its entire front page and opinion section to one story has really made me cynical about The NY Times.

Right? Who is surprised the openly fascist fascists are fascists? Peter Thiel was a fascist in college. Elon Musk talks about eugenics all the time. It’s not like they’ve kept their political views a secret.

The Republican Party hasn’t had serious policy positions since like 1980. And arguably since 1964 but we don’t talk about how it’s been a John Birch society shitshow for so long, that whole grandparents remember it turning into a conspiracy theory driven shitshow.

I kind of doubt Trump debates Harris. He’s obviously senile and he can just say, “She didn’t win a single primary. I don’t have to debate her.” He’ll probably pull the same shenanigans as in 2020 and get CNN or whoever to have a “town hall” Q&A where everyone in attendance is a Trump supporter.

You must be thinking of a different Trump. The one we have in America is a senile, diaper wearing old man who couldn’t even run a casino profitably and asked a medical professional if a possible cure for COVID was shoving a UV light up his own ass.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/nate-silver-polymarket Nate Silver did, in fact, do the right wing grift thing.

If it’s like oil spills in the U.S., volunteers with Dawn soap and maybe some of the costs will be felt by the oil company after 25 years of litigation.

Fact checking him will definitely work this time.