Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.

That’s not how republicans work. The shit they do is always about the cruelty. The “law and order” shit was only ever to cheer on enforcement on people they don’t like (dark skinned people, women, non-christians, etc).

You’ll drive yourself nuts trying to do things like point out hypocrisy on their ‘law and order’ or any of their other paper-thin dogmas because they’re all made to be bullshit in the first place.

The cruelty is the point. Once you start considering their actions through that lens, they become much more consistent and predictable.

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago

So, living in the cousin-fuckingly deep south, the LP is actually a great tool to redirect votes away from Trump.

There’s pretty much zero chance I can sell the local rednecks on Biden, but I’ve had decent luck with the whole break-room-political-banter situation - they’ll have Fox or some shit on, get all heated about whatever the bobble-heads on screen tell them to, then start bitching to me about it.

My strategy is to bitch right along with them - don’t defend Biden or (more often) Hillary, but connect whatever it is they’re whining about to Trump, and lump him in with whichever dem is in their spotlight.

Like when they bring up Hillary’s emails, I’ll hit em with something like “Dude, I don’t know how they get away with shit like that - if I did a tenth of what Hillary did with her private email server or Trump smuggling classified docs over to his private property, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison!”

‘Both sides’ em. End with a sales pitch for the LP as the only viable alternative, and hopefully you’ll get that “hmmm” response.

Don’t get me wrong, the LP is a bad fucking joke, but you can do some good talking up their on-paper highlights to the less crazy end of the Y’all Quaeda horde.

Sterile_Technique, 12 days ago

what are modern Republicans even about?

Cruelty. You can run circles around pretty much any issue pointing out examples of their hypocrisy and inconsistency, but they’re pretty reliable with harming their community.

Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, their bullshit starts to make a lot more sense.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago

In light of the last decade, I’ve come to almost appreciate the dumb, harmless conspiracy theories like this one.

Flat Earth, birds aren’t real, etc - if folks think spending their time on that shit is fun, then more power to em.

More of the fun dumb shit, less political conspiracies that almost invariably shepard idiots over to supporting fascists.

Sterile_Technique, 13 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Just finished the 1st semester of nursing school!

bends over Do your worst.

Sterile_Technique, 14 days ago

Speaking as a Monster junkie myself (Ultra Paradise FTW!!), remember that this shit is medicine and not something to just reach for whenever you’re thirsty. 400mg of caffeine in a day is where shit starts to get dangerous for healthy adults; a can of Monster is 140mg (or at least, the Ultra Paradise is… no idea if the other flavors have more or less), so even if you’re sucking down a can of these every single day, you’re fine unless you have some heart condition or taking in lots of caffeine from other sources.

…and don’t forget to drink actual water. I think the kidney stone thing is mostly driven by dehydration.

Sterile_Technique, 14 days ago

tweet --> xcrement

Sterile_Technique, 16 days ago

I deleted my reddit when they backstabbed their 3rd party app devs. Came to Lemmy around the same time - have had no reason to look back. You’ll love it here!

Sterile_Technique, 17 days ago

Humans go extinct; orangutans evolve to become the chillest high intelligence in the history of the universe.

Sterile_Technique, 17 days ago

It’s dependent on wealth, not date.

Sterile_Technique, 18 days ago

Price cut doesn’t mean cheap. Target is basically Walmart products at Walgreens prices.

They used to sell Tim Tams, but ever since they stopped there hasn’t really been a reason to shop there.

Sterile_Technique, 18 days ago

Some of them are capable of learning - they’re called 'ex conservatives '.

Sterile_Technique, 18 days ago

Fucking hell, it’s like he’s trying to lose.

Sterile_Technique, 18 days ago

Totally sold on the Darth Jar Jar theory. So much supporting evidence, and it makes the shit that character does make so much more sense.

Re-watching Ep 1 through that lense made it a much better film imo.

Sterile_Technique, 20 days ago

“Cave Johnson here. I have bad news, and I have good news. The bad news is that the AI we developed for our melee sentry turret concept developed a targeting error due to misinterpreting the verbal input ‘aim for center mass’. We think it misheard the last word. It only ever delivered nonfatal injuries to the test subjects rectal regions.

The good news is that one of our interns replaced the knife with a dildo and stationed one in his supervisor’s office along with a scathing resignation letter. The supervisor reported faster and more intense prostatic stimulation than any sex toy currently on the market - apparently this guy’s a connoisseur! HA!

The turrets have all been refitted with different sizes and shapes of dildos, and tight little studded leather vests. Testing will resume tomorrow morning: we’re rebranding and exploring its potential for the sex toy industry.

Also find that intern, we need to get him back as a paid employee - that type of innovative thinking shouldn’t go to waste!”

Sterile_Technique, 22 days ago

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mimicry

We are prey.

Sterile_Technique, 23 days ago

It’s more like taking a digital copy into the test room with you and Ctrl+F’ing every question/answer.

Sterile_Technique, 24 days ago

Honestly kinda wish they’d have succeeded. We’d be down one monster at the hands of another; and the justice system would have handled the situation with MUCH less legal circus and kid gloves. The overall response to J6 has been a joke, and this would have forced us to take it seriously.

Sterile_Technique, 24 days ago

Not sure if Pence dying would have made a difference there actually. There was already an insurrection, so if martial law is what he was after, he could have just used that as an excuse regardless of how successful the insurrectionists were.

I like to think that ‘we the people’ wouldn’t tolerate a Trump instigating an insurrection and then calling for martial law on the basis of that same insurrection; but it certainly wouldn’t be the first time I’d have been disappointed at our collective lack of a spine.

Sterile_Technique, 25 days ago

Yeah if someone’s benefitting from a placebo effect, the worst thing you can do is point out that it’s a placebo. If you convince them it won’t work, then you’ve just destroyed the therapeutic effect their brain was giving them. Just shut up and let the placebo do its thing.

Sterile_Technique, 27 days ago

This should be good news. If automation can free us from spending two thirds of our waking life on ‘the grind’ then fuck yeah! Do it!!

It’s time for UBI, free healthcare, and free education, to name just a few.

Sterile_Technique, 27 days ago

We need to stop giving Trump (and the other neonazis that have surfaced in his wake) the village-idiot or bat-shit-crazy pass and treat him as though his actions are lucid and calculated. We can assess the state of his brain during autopsy. Until then, he’s a traitor and domestic threat to the United States, and we should treat that threat as seriously as its consequences merit.

Sterile_Technique, 29 days ago

So all the AI enshittification of Google results was just 4D chess all along!

Sterile_Technique, 30 days ago

In their defense, that’s still better than most news.

Sterile_Technique, 30 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/774042f4-f19d-49d3-9d3c-f1e348803bae.png

Neck is the last of that guy’s worries… his shoulder is dislocated as fuck!

Edit - Looking closer, I think his radius and ulna might be flipped too. Yeah this guy’s not having a good day.