BenLeMan

@BenLeMan@lemmy.world

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BenLeMan,

$750m? That company worth about three fiddy.

BenLeMan,

I actually just bought a saddlebag for my bike which was cheaper because it has a (rather inconspicuous) company logo on it.

BenLeMan,

I treated every undergrad paper like a dissertation. Didn’t work out all that well. My grades were excellent, though.

BenLeMan,

Me, too. The thumbnail in conjunction with my tired eyes didn’t help. 😅

BenLeMan,

You should have sussed that out by now…

BenLeMan,

Yeah. I’m the neurodivergent person who usually turns on the light when they come into work. All my coworkers seem to enjoy dwelling in darkness (and cONsErVe eNErGy) but I apologize in case I’m waking anyone up and flip that switch anyway. We get a lot of visitors and the place shouldn’t look like a frigging bat cave. Plus, I need the energy that the light gives me, like you said.

BenLeMan,

Return of the Obra Dinn. City Game Studio. Until the Last Plane and Full Metal Sergeant (by the same dev).

BenLeMan,

My lockscreen is a photo I snapped at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago. On the one hand it represents a very personal memory. On the other I just find it aesthetically pleasing, so maybe someone else might as well? Thanks for posting your favorites, by the way! Walden

edit: this version isn’t cropped right, sorry, but if you take the middle part it should fit nicely on a phone.

BenLeMan,

Angeblich gibt es hier nur LiNkSGrüNvErSIfFtE vErBOtSpaRTeiEn, dachte ich? So pfeifen es jedenfalls die Moskauer Spatzen in der YouTube-Kommentarsektion von den Dächern.

BenLeMan,

Yes, we need to grow more independent of the U.S. (while maintaining good relations with it). Investing in a flourishing European arms industry will not just secure our independence and strengthen our common defense. It will also be an investment that pays off economically via jobs created here, corporate taxes paid here, etc. I wish we could invest into building a more peaceful and just world instead. But that is not what our current situation calls for. Right now we need to safeguard the peace and justice we have already. We’ve come a long way and mustn’t allow an aggressive and ruthless neighbor to threaten what we’ve achieved up to this point.

BenLeMan,

“Bummer in Gaza: Lovable IDF klutzes make another whoopsie doopsie”

Wegen kaputter Wasserflasche: AfD-Politiker alarmiert Polizei - Partei spricht von Angriff (www.infranken.de) German

Die Polizei ermittelt wegen einer kaputten Wasserflasche in Nürnberg. Der AfD-Politiker Ferdinand Mang bemerkte ein kleines Loch in seiner Wasserflasche. Die Landtagsfraktion sprach von einem Angriff gegen Mang....

BenLeMan,

Die Mücken werden immer aggressiver.

Blome rafft mal wieder garnichts (www.spiegel.de) German

Trotzdem: Schwarze Antifa macht mir schlechte Laune, wenn ich die Leute nur sehe. Klangschalen finde ich bestenfalls zum Kichern, »Omas gegen Links« würde ich gern mal sehen, und Fridays for Future kleben sich inzwischen überall mit dran. Auf einmal sitzt man mit Figuren wie Frau Bosetti, Tilo Jung oder Frau Chebli in einem...

BenLeMan,

Schön hätte ich es gefunden, wenn Herr Blome seinem eigenen Rat gefolgt wäre und einfach mal geschwiegen hätte.

BenLeMan,

Judge: “We’ll deal with it after the election” - wink, wink.

BenLeMan,

Ah yes, it’s the YouTube comments on anything considered remotely political.

BenLeMan,

I learned a few years ago that the Duke is, in fact, not frozen waiting to be resuscitated. Of course I only learned this after arguing with my prof in film class about it. Classic urban legend. Now I’m worried about any other hoaxes I might have absorbed in the pre-Internet years. At least I know that the Glomar Explorer was not looking for manganese nodules.

BenLeMan,

Ah yes, that probably showed my age right there. The Duke was the nickname of John Wayne, who died of cancer in 1979.

BenLeMan,

If I remember my constitutional law classes correctly, conscription was canned after a series of Supreme Court cases where conscientious objectors successfully argued that under the 1st amendment they could not be made to serve. Since “religion” is very loosely defined in the US, pretty much anyone can claim that conscription violates their free exercise of a peace-loving religion.

BenLeMan,

During the Vietnam era, several people used the 1st Amendment to avoid getting drafted. To quote Wikipedia, “United States v. Seeger, 1965, ruled that a person can claim conscientious objector status based on religious study and conviction that has a similar position in that person’s life to the belief in God, without a concrete belief in God.[4] United States v. Welsh, five years later, ruled that a conscientious objector need have no religious belief at all.” Widespread opposition to the draft during the Vietnam era led to official termination of the draft system in 1973. Since 1980, adult males are again required to register for military service in case their country enters a state of war. But there is no real punishment for failing to sign up, and the country hasn’t officially been at war since 1945.

Edit: sorry I can’t get the quote to work and it’s late at night here. This’ll have to do.

BenLeMan,

It is, and I apologize if my informality caused any confusion. Good night!

BenLeMan,

Abraham Lincoln thought they could not. In his inaugural address, he opined that the union was formed for perpetuity and that if the accession of a state to the union required the consent of all other states, so would its secession. He was, among other things, a lawyer so he usually knew what he was talking about.

BenLeMan,

Yes, this is the one time that “hoard” is the right one.

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