TheFriar

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TheFriar,

Don’t feed your dog vegetarian. If you have a problem with the way an animal eats and you refuse to provide them what they need, don’t adopt them. Dogs are opportunistic carnivores. Cats are obligate carnivores. Both are carnivores. Don’t feed your carnivore animals vegetarian for your own stupid reason.

The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish (apnews.com)

Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it....

TheFriar, (edited )

I think you’re missing what people are saying. They’re saying it’s not about exerting outward influence, but about the editorial bent of the newspaper. What to chase, what not to publish, who to piss off, who not to piss off, what to spend resources on or not. No one can show you an example of this kind of influence in a lemmy comment section. You’d need a research grant and a year’s worth of a team’s dedicated investigation into word choice with inside sources telling them stories that were chased that never got published for some flimsy reason, etc. These things aren’t so neat and concise as to fit into a meme.

TheFriar,

“My wife put that flag up after a dispute with our neighbor.”

Headline: Should Justice Alito be blamed for his wife’s neighbor feud?

It doesn’t even matter if those of us that frequent sites like lemmy believe it. Because much more powerful forces control the narrative.

TheFriar,

yewtu.be/watch?v=gcb06Gx9VMA

“Tell him, ironically, he has 10 seconds to grow a pair.”

TheFriar,

lol there were plenty of colonialist genociders before the US. The British empire, the Roman Empire, etc.

TheFriar,

I mean, yeah I’m all for it. But most of us don’t have the money to buy European/Us made e-bikes. I got mine a few months ago, thankfully. It’s a US company, but they use Chinese parts. It’s a great bike, and I got it on sale for $700. A bunch of the nice ones were like $2500+. So many of us don’t have the option of getting those.

TheFriar,

You though the hooters owl was a creep…

TheFriar,

Meaning what? I’ve consciously stayed away from election/polling news

TheFriar,

Right? This whole “cats bad/evil/hellions/selfish” trope is boring and wrong. Like, how do you treat your cats? All of mine have been love bug, cuddle bug sweethearts. I’ve met some cats who are annoying mischief makers, but I think a lot of that depends on the people.

TheFriar,

At least cats are never cops.

TheFriar,

I have a good sense of smell but…that sounds more like cripplingly good

TheFriar,

do they? They make a statement…and then ask someone else to do the legwork to prove it.

TheFriar,

Eh. Dog kibble is engineered to benefit the human. They should be eating a variety of fresh foods. Majority meat, organ, and a calcium source with some fresh vegetables thrown in for vitamins. Kibble is human laziness, capitalist “innovation,” and sacrificing our supposed beloved pets for our own convenience and to save money.

TheFriar,

Yes. Yes, yes, yes. As a cyclist in NYC myself, the hate that I see bicyclists get is fucking absurd.

“That person is riding their bike in traffic! How dangerous!”

Like, motherfuckers, you’re the ones forcing us to ride in traffic. And it wouldn’t be dangerous without the car element. The danger is in the cars. A bicycle crash can hurt and cause damage, but with a helmet? You’re mostly pretty safe from deadly accidents. THE CARS ARE THE ONES CAUSING THE DANGER. Not the cyclists.

And then all this talk about congestion pricing being ridiculous. TAX THE FUCK out of them. Ban them. It’s a fucking addiction. And a crippling one. Why people take cars into the city is mind boggling. Like you said, it’s necessary, especially here, for there to be some traffic. Deliveries for businesses, cabs. That’s pretty much it. But, no. Every single road is full of parked cars, driving cars, double parked cars BLOCKING THE FUCKING BIKE LANES EVERY 100 GODDAMN FEET…it’s actual lunacy.

It’s such a bikeable city. Few hills, relatively short distances. But with cars creating so much traffic, it seems far because everyone sits in a car in stop and go traffic for 45min to get from the FiDi to the park. All these wasted resources with cops directing traffic UNDERNEATH FUNCTIONING STOPLIGHTS BECAUSE EVERYONE IS SO AGGRAVATED SITTING IN TRAFFIC THAG THEYLL ALL JUST BLOCK THE INTERSECTION BECAUSE THEYVE GONE THROUGH FIVE LIGHT CYCLES, the constant construction…it’s lunacy. There’s really no other word for it.

This is a sensitive subject for me lol clearly

TheFriar,

I think I’m getting old, I don’t understand any of this. Nor who is even talking. I guess I just never used tumblr, though its heyday was definitely in my time.

TheFriar,

Jesus. I mean, thank you for that explanation, but I also feel even more in the dark because I’m not even familiar with most of them. Except the Lorax. But I definitely don’t remember the book well enough from my childhood to remember the villain.

TheFriar,

Did you read the article? They list them.

TheFriar,

I mean, yes and no. You read the article and think, “that…sounds like bullshit.” You don’t read the article, read the two paragraphs where they attribute the “miracles” to this kid and think “what miracles are they attributing to him?”

lol see what I mean? It’s not a super uncommon thing for people to not read the article. I’d say even maybe the majority of commenters don’t.

TheFriar,

I read “I’m pushing 40” and was like, “oh, I guess we have different sensibilities.” But then I remembered I’m pushing 40 myself.

TheFriar,

Unwanted sexual urges? Have a bowl of cornflakes and calm down.

TheFriar,

It really is a conundrum. I love having one football game in rotation. It’s almost a rule for me.

But…would I rather support FIFA? Or EA? Both turrible choices.

TheFriar,

“MAGA=socialist”

Does nothing mean anything anymore?

TheFriar,

And these fuckers aren’t anarchists. They’re asshole right wingers who think they want companies to have even more power because they read ayn Rand once.

This country needs more than two parties. But these assholes? What the fuck, USA?

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