While I wouldn’t argue it saves the planet, sequestering garbage in far off, centralized, contained locations is a little better for public health than simply tossing it in the streets like we used to do. Cholera outbreaks happened on the regular before organized waste collection became a thing.
It’s like when chuds try to take credit for civil rights, or 5 day work weeks (Henry Ford willed the concept into existence, not years of direct action by the labor movement).
Lenin talked about how the ruling class will actively oppose a revolutionary figure, but once society at large accepts them, the ruling class will switch face and pretend like it always supported said figure.
Every time a new apartment or condo development gets built here, there are people in the local community forums who rabble about “15 minute cities” and how they are trying to force us get rid of cars and control our travel. In spite of the fact these buildings are built with parking lots and garages that are as big as, if not bigger than the buildings themselves.
Rats have gotten into the confiscated marijuana at the vermin-infested and decaying New Orleans Police Department headquarters, the city’s top cop warned....
I guess Carano’s post-Disney movie career with Ben Shapiro wasn’t paying the bills. With Musk having skin in the game this shitshow is gonna be so fun to watch, but the better part of me knows Disney is just gonna settle out of court for some undisclosed amount and the chuds will say they “won.”
Going by social media reactions, I’m seeing these street-blocking protests getting praises from both people on the left and the right. I’m trying to decipher what I can by translating French articles on the matter but I’m still not entirely sure what the ideology behind this protest is....
TL;DR It was an old Wang system, 286 processor(I think, anyway), with no hard drive, a 5.25" floppy drive, and a lovely green monochrome monitor. I didn’t have it long enough to reach the point where I could have identified the actual hardware/specs....
Are we talking first computer in your household, or first computer you ever bought yourself?
Our first family PC was a hand me down from my uncle that we got when I was 12 or 13. 486DX2 66MHz processor, a couple MBs of RAM, 700-ish megabyte hard drive, Windows 3.1 and DOS. AOL install disks didn’t work on it because they needed at least Windows 95, and I was still clueless on how to set up a modem connection in 3.1. So it was entirely for games installed via disc only. We ended up getting a Windows 98 machine a year or two down the line.
First PC I bought for myself was a custom built machine from a computer shop that has long since gone out of business. I think I paid around $200 for it, so it was a fairly basic PC for 2004. Athlon 1.5 GHz CPU (with a loud as fuck cooler fan), 512 MB RAM, a video card that I forgot the make and model of, Windows XP. Lasted me about 3 years until I built one myself.
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
Unfortunately in a country where the infrastructure is so hostile to public transit or even pedestrian/biking amenities that it’s nearly impossible to live, work or function without a car unless you’re lucky enough to live in a dense urban community, I can see how people might believe this.
More often than not, the plots are a variation of “woman in the big city gives up her job, leaves her (admittedly bougie and shitty) boyfriend, and moves back to the small town she grew up in where she hooks up with her old boyfriend who, in spite of his working class salt-of-the-earth appearance, has money.”
For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
I think the earliest instance of “brain worms” I remember was from an episode of Invader Zim in 2001. Zim is offended at the concept of paying to ride a filthy, poorly maintained bus and shouts at the driver “Have you the brain worms?!”
High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds - Glyphosate found in samples from French infertility clinic raising questions about controversial chemical’s impact on (www.theguardian.com)
Second Boeing whistleblower dies ‘suddenly’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Joshua Dean, who warned of manufacturing defects in the planemaker’s 737 Max, developed pneumonia following a ‘fast-moving’ infection
It is that easy /j (lemmygrad.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/4326691...
Amazing (hexbear.net)
Literally every time something explodes or falls down. (hexbear.net)
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One (www.wired.com)
Comrade rats destroy evidence: "Rats are 'all high' on marijuana stored in infested New Orleans police evidence room" (www.nbcnews.com)
Rats have gotten into the confiscated marijuana at the vermin-infested and decaying New Orleans Police Department headquarters, the city’s top cop warned....
Backed by Elon Musk, Gina Carano sues Disney over ‘Mandalorian’ firing (www.nbcnews.com)
I guess Carano’s post-Disney movie career with Ben Shapiro wasn’t paying the bills. With Musk having skin in the game this shitshow is gonna be so fun to watch, but the better part of me knows Disney is just gonna settle out of court for some undisclosed amount and the chuds will say they “won.”
So, the Paris agriculture protests: reactionary or based? (hexbear.net)
Going by social media reactions, I’m seeing these street-blocking protests getting praises from both people on the left and the right. I’m trying to decipher what I can by translating French articles on the matter but I’m still not entirely sure what the ideology behind this protest is....
Good thing the economy, disease and poverty have all been solved so the government can focus its efforts on things that REALLY matter! (hexbear.net)
Looks like Twitter is banning some socialist accounts (lemmygrad.ml)
Imagine buying a workhorse truck and being scared of getting blemishes on it. (hexbear.net)
Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc.
TL;DR It was an old Wang system, 286 processor(I think, anyway), with no hard drive, a 5.25" floppy drive, and a lovely green monochrome monitor. I didn’t have it long enough to reach the point where I could have identified the actual hardware/specs....
"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?
I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.
Me too (mander.xyz)
Hallmark movies are "reject modernity, embrace tradition" chud propaganda in movie form, change my mind.
More often than not, the plots are a variation of “woman in the big city gives up her job, leaves her (admittedly bougie and shitty) boyfriend, and moves back to the small town she grew up in where she hooks up with her old boyfriend who, in spite of his working class salt-of-the-earth appearance, has money.”
Nah, I'd say it's still pretty spot on 30 years later. (hexbear.net)
Can we please (lemmy.zip)
edit: now it’s a meme and we can all hug in the comments.
What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?
For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
I don't get it (lemmy.ml)
Touch grass (lemmy.ml)
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Accurate (lemmygrad.ml)