Nah, you say it to sap unity and make people stay home from voting.
Your vibe is the same as the girls who say they bluntly “tell it as they see it” in their dating profile, but anyone with any relationship experience knows that means they’re completely willing to make things toxic as fuck because they’ll just vomit their selfish so called truth anywhere without caring about consequences or how it destroys, because it serves some sort of other motivation for them.
Using words to encourage people to embrace hopelessness and not vote is a propaganda technique to put Trump back in the Whitehouse, and him being there weakens the nation so immensely and catastrophically that it’s extremely attractive to cash and weapons poor enemies to plop someone in front of a cheap computer to spread propaganda to attempt to destroy a nation from within. People who can’t fight the US with military might will use words instead.
In short, your words are not neutral. You’re either what is called a useful idiot, an ordinary person who swallowed outside propaganda whole and does the work of other interests here, or you’re a knowing perpetrator.
I hope people here use whatever skills they picked up in English class however many years ago to think about not just the exact words of the poster I’m responding to, but why they posted this thing at this moment, their motivations beyond what they claim they are, and the effects of an appeal to truth on a reader and how that can influence perception even when the thing said isn’t actually necessarily true or contains such a small flake of some truth that it is effectively turns into a lie when put beside the bigger and more vast and complicated truths.
Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn’t be on Disney’s board....
I was out doing some outdoor work last week, and I’ve basically the skintone of a vampire so I cover up, so I had a big unstylish fishing hat with a neck protector on. And some kids from the local junior high mocked me in terrible Spanish as they walked home. (And by terrible, I mean I could identify how bad it was and I haven’t had Spanish classes in 20+ years and never was fluent in it and I could still tell it was bad.)
I’m not even Hispanic, but it made me mad enough with it happening just one time that it hurts inside to know similar stuff happens on a daily basis to other people. And some of it totally comes from young racist fucks.
Someone elsewhere pointed out that Cio’s teeth (in both mouths) are blue, and that she might actually be asking Gog for a shard of her mask that’s hiding on Gog’s person, not a worm.
But Cio is clearly struggling to form words, so I imagine Allison thinks she is asking for a worm (and she might be doing that too, or there might be no blue shard on Gog at all).
Thus, Allison might take a worm just to save Cio from it, and that’s how Allison gets wormed.
(Which, of course, also brings up the complicated question–if Cio IS asking for a worm, who is Allison to disrespect Cio’s wishes…again…?)
Anyway. If Gog Agog was smart, she’d work with Allison without worming her. Because given Allison is prone to doing things she shouldn’t be able to do, I would imagine it’s a possibility that if Allison gets access to the worm-mind, SHE will take over Gog Agog, and not the other way around.
Regarding the White Chain scene, the editor in me wants to edit a bit of Abbadon’s dialogue to make it flow better. In particular, the panel where Solomon David says, “Breathe, and you shall know it” and the one with White Chain’s, “This body…I yearned for it”. The dialogue between the two doesn’t flow properly, it’s a bit fumbly-awkward. I would’ve said the same thing in a different way. Probably would have put a pause on WC’s face and had her say pensively, “I yearned for this body.” The current usage of “it” by both of them doesn’t sound right and doesn’t evoke any sort of rhyme or rhythm as purposeful repetition sometimes does either, which is why I think it’s an unthinking error.
Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage of functioning buses, and county supervisors this week advanced a proposal to try and fix the problem....
This guy’s comment history suggests to me they’re trying to instill hopelessness so people don’t vote. And when people don’t vote… well, we get another shit show.
I know someone would immediately jump in with water if I didn’t caveat that, haha. Tap water is the most frugal drink, yes I know, but for me plain ol’ water more of a basic survival thing. And I like to be happy too, not stuck permanently in survival mode, even if I’m also being frugal....
Oh! You reminded me. So, I learned that vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is basically a tart flavor. I already got a big tub of powdered vitamin c since I tend to struggle to keep it in my diet in other ways–but that kind of evolved to using it to flavor other drinks to “brighten” them a bit, because it’s just as much flavor as it is a vitamin. It basically turns drinks into almost-lemonade, without the lemon flavoring, and just the bright somewhat tart flavor.
I’m a fan of What-Cha.com, but they’re in the UK so I have to wait until it makes sense to do that international shipping. kuchata.com is in Denver and closer, but I also like Harney and Sons and Adagio Teas.
I was just thinking in the back of my head about how cheap LEDs have made types of lighting that would’ve cost way too much (both to install, and in electricity usage) no longer stupidly expensive....
In the pre- cellphone era, you would pay for telephone calls by the minute, and you would be charged a different rate if you called someone who lived out of your area. Like, a different rate per minute to talk to them? (I’m an Elder Millenial, so I grew up hearing about this stuff but didn’t live with it in my adult life, I just vaguely remember the adult freak-outs about unsanctioned long distance calls…always due to the impending huge telephone bill you’d get for it.) My point being, companies like AT&T (Ma Bell) had an utter stranglehold on telecommunications and would make you pay out the nose to call someone out of your area in the same country, and international calls were even steeper.
This was an age where the telephone company monopoly was so bad that they were forcibly broken up into smaller companies by the government to force competition and a better market for consumers. (Imagine if, say, Amazon, was forcibly broken up into smaller companies by the government.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System
In the digital age, I can basically call someone in the next room as cheaply as I can call someone in Australia. (Speaking from a USA pov.) One of the few things that’s better in the 2020s is how easy/cheap it is to call people now. (And text, and email, etc.)
I’ve noticed how cheap TVs are. I was thinking of getting one for like the first time in decades and I got sort of reverse sticker shock at how much screen you can get for so cheap a price.
Hand in hand with that, there’s a lot more marketing gobbledy-gook out there trying to upsell schmucks on features that are only marginally better, probably because basic large TVs are so cheap now. So they try hard to get people to upgrade more frequently than needed, or to get features that probably won’t make one iota of a difference in the viewing experience, just to sell more units/pricier units.
House phones were a great source of entertainment in the 80s.
I never experienced this myself, but your comment here reminded me that in rural areas, some people’s homes would be on a “party line”. Meaning, one phone number for several houses, and I guess all the phones in all the houses on the party line would ring if it was called? And neighbors could just pick up their handset quietly and listen into calls and snoop and get gossip that way if the people talking didn’t watch what they said over the phone?
And even in homes that had their own dedicated number, you could quietly lift any phone handset in the house and listen in. If you were careful the other people talking would never know someone else was listening in.
FYI, Newegg got sold to some company a few years back and is no longer the geek nirvana it once was. So YMMV if you use it. It can still be good, it’s just not as central as it used to be to computer geekdom.
An individual bulb is somewhat more expensive, yes, but I’ve noticed I no longer half-expect the typical popping sound of an incandescent bulb going dead randomly when I turn on a light because it’s been so long since I’ve had a bulb truly burn out on me. Used to be a few-times-a-year thing, now it’s more like once every 5+ years.
Farmers in Australia were left “stoked” when they noticed that among the blueberries they picked, there was one as big as a golf ball and weighing significantly more than average....
I just got a Pixel 8, but it’s not all that frugal since I paid…not the full highest price, but high enough. That said, I plan to hold onto it for the full 7 years of updates–and thankfully, Pixels can be rooted so if I want I can slap my own stuff on there if I don’t like what Google’s doing a few years in.
I broke my previous real phone about a year ago when I didn’t have money to replace it, so I got THE cheapest smartphone in the universe to tide me over–and my god, it was horrible. A year of torture using that thing. I didn’t even think a smartphone COULD be that bad–I still think of it as a new technology, cutting edge, so how could any model possibly be awful?–but it was truly awful. Moto G Pure. Don’t get one. Awful awful awful. Basically, it just doesn’t have enough power to deal with ordinary apps–lots of freezing, lag, etc. Could barely keep one app at a time open. Like, it would choke on ordinary grocery shopping apps. So I’d be trying to apply this or that coupon, and I’d have to twiddle my thumbs in the middle of the aisle like an idiot until it decided to work (or not).
So I think I over-compensated with the Pixel 8 by getting the first flagship phone I’ve ever had.
…I do use Mint Mobile on the cheapest yearly plan, lol, so I have that going for me.
Team Biden Roasts 'Feeble, Confused, Tired' Trump After Unhinged Presser (www.rollingstone.com)
The president has been going after his presumptive 2024 opponent with a little more venom than usual...
Stupid evolution. (lemmy.world)
Elite Hunters (lemmy.world)
'Why do I need an all-Black cast?' Disney criticizes Peltz remarks (www.reuters.com)
Walt Disney Co on Friday said that remarks by activist investor Nelson Peltz criticizing the company for making movies dominated by female and Black actors is evidence that he shouldn’t be on Disney’s board....
Kill Six Billion Demons » WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-81 to 3-82 (killsixbilliondemons.com)
Lack of buses keeps Los Angeles jail inmates from court appearances and contributes to overcrowding (abcnews.go.com)
Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage of functioning buses, and county supervisors this week advanced a proposal to try and fix the problem....
What are your favorite (non water) frugal drinks? (Mine is tea.)
I know someone would immediately jump in with water if I didn’t caveat that, haha. Tap water is the most frugal drink, yes I know, but for me plain ol’ water more of a basic survival thing. And I like to be happy too, not stuck permanently in survival mode, even if I’m also being frugal....
Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with prosopometamorphopsia (www.sciencenews.org)
We need to pollute less and yet ! (lemmy.ca)
We need to wrap this plastic bottle in a plastic bag !
What are some things that used to be expensive, but which no longer are?
I was just thinking in the back of my head about how cheap LEDs have made types of lighting that would’ve cost way too much (both to install, and in electricity usage) no longer stupidly expensive....
World's biggest blueberry the same size as a golf ball leaves farmers 'stoked' (www.mirror.co.uk)
Farmers in Australia were left “stoked” when they noticed that among the blueberries they picked, there was one as big as a golf ball and weighing significantly more than average....
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people' (www.pcgamer.com)
What's your favorite frugal find this week?
Just curious what you guys have been able to score recently....