shottymcb

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TIL in the Carboniferous Period, no fungus existed to decompose trees. They just grew on top of each other up and up.

The weight of the trees was so great that the ones on the bottom got squished and became coal. That’s where coal is from. Bonus fact: the whole time this was happening, sharks were hunting in the oceans. Sharks are older than trees and fungus!

shottymcb,

You’d think they could just take Academy award nominated actress Margot Robbie’s word for it.

shottymcb,

They don’t care if you’re under 16. They have to ask if they want to collect and sell your data. This is a big red sign that says “WE’RE WATCHING EVERYTHING THAT GOES THROUGH YOUR NETWORK AND SELLING IT TO WHOEVER WILL PAY US!”

shottymcb,

You don’t want to be a speaker at a librarian convention though. 500 people shushing you.

shottymcb,

There’s at least 10 states with no annual fee. Arizona is $50 to file, $0 annual fees, and no annual report to file.

If you’d prefer your company to have voting rights, you can file in Rhode Island, and your company can vote in local and state elections without ever stepping foot in the state. Hooray late stage capitalism 😞

shottymcb,

Not in Arizona. You don’t even have to live there, just have to file there.

shottymcb,

Yeah, but Valve doesn’t really give a shit if it’s abused. Steam is a solitary positive example of the weird “(mostly)benevolent monopoly” idea. GabeN owns the company, there aren’t any shareholders to appease, so as long as he’s alive steam will be solid. I hope he has a successor picked out that can uphold his ideals.

shottymcb,

There are two and only two things that makes Epic Games a pariah.

(1)Exclusive content on PC should be shunned so hard that it’s not even a fucking option. You can explain away exclusively on PS3 because of its unique hardware, but it’s just a naked monopolistic power grab on PC.

(2) Epic game store sucks on every level. It’s a pigs 3 week old rotting corpse compared to Valve’s packaged ham.

shottymcb,

That’s a “game” that my friends play, player 1 plays 3 songs with a vibe, player 2 attempts to continue the vibe in their own library, etc…

It’s a pretty fun background activity. The vibe always shifts slowly from player to player.

shottymcb,

Chiquita is a cartel. The list of heinous shit they’re responsible for is absurd.

shottymcb,

I remember leaded gas too, from 15 seconds ago when a propeller plane flew over my house dumping lead out it’s exhaust. They inexplicably are still allowed to use leaded gas in small aircraft. Even new planes are designed to only accept leaded cause it’s all they have at the airports.

shottymcb,

commercial airlines crash less than once a month.

A lot less if you’re only counting advanced democracies. The last multi-casualty commercial plane crash in the US was in 2009, 15 years ago. I only make that multi-casualty caveat because otherwise you get weird one offs like a guy running into a landing strip and getting run over.

Even the one in 2009 was a fairly small propeller plane.

shottymcb, (edited )

Those name tag magnets are ubiquitous in food service. Could be any fast food place with whipped cream. That said, yeah, I don’t know of any chain that’s made their own whipped cream since 2005.

shottymcb,

I’ll tack on apple bananas. They’re tiny and taste like an apple and a banana had babies.

shottymcb, (edited )

good frying technique

Followed these instructions. I have started a grease fire.

shottymcb, (edited )

We have those in the US as well. They’re meant for women who just gave birth to clean their privates. The hospital gave my wife 3 that we got to take home since they can’t reuse them.

shottymcb,

I mean, If a bird shit on me, I wouldn’t consider myself clean if I just hosed it off with water either. Soap needs to be involved. Bidet or TP is just a stopgap until you actually wash your ass. With soap.

shottymcb,

Our bathrooms aren’t set up for that in the US at least. The floor is often wood or fake vinyl wood. The only part of the bathroom that is waterproof is the shower/bath.

shottymcb, (edited )

A bidet only sprays your asshole though? And it doesn’t get it’s water supply from the toilet bowl, it’s hooked up to clean water? I don’t understand why you think any of that happens.

Edit: I read your other comments farther down, so the context changes matters. I get what you were aiming to say.

shottymcb,

It’s not a threat, it’s a reality here in the south. You can clutch your accelerationist pearls if you want, but that just leads to LGBT rights going back to the 50’s. I have a friend that’s an LGBT teacher in Florida, she literally committed a felony by acknowledging the existence of LGBT people.

If there’s a revolution in the US it’s going to be y’allqueda instituting a theocracy, not the communist revolution. The only hope is shifting the Overton window back to the left over time. The current crop of Republicans have to be rendered entirely unelectable.

shottymcb,

This is the best we can put forward as a nation, a narcissist with dementia, a normal old guy with dementia, and a guy who refused to have his brain tumor investigated and opted to believe the one guy that said it could be a dead brain worm. Also probably with dementia. We’re fucking doomed. I’m still voting for normal guy with dementia, but… Doomed.

shottymcb,

The problem I see is bigots using that as cover for their bigotry. “Sorry, this golf club is a safe space for people triggered by black people and women.”

The government would have to decide that the discrimination we like is ok, but the discrimination we don’t like isn’t. Which has incredible potential for abuse when the wrong people end up in charge.

shottymcb, (edited )

I mean give it a go. Yeah, it’s easy to distinguish in a common sense sort of way. It’s very much not an easy problem to solve in coherent legal wording, or it would’ve been already.

I agree that discrimination against vulnerable populations should absolutely not be ok, and women especially should have safe spaces to escape abusers even if it’s difficult to make a legal argument.

Anyway, that’s going to have to suffice for my argument, my daughter needs my attention more than lemmy😅

shottymcb, (edited )

Context is king. Yes, anything can be said sarcastically. But when a child shares their candy with another child and 7 people are like “Aww bless his heart!!” It’s not fucking code. The fact that it’s usually used as a compliment is exactly what makes it so cutting as a sarcastic insult.

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