whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 18 days ago

I think so, there was a spammer a few weeks ago and after mods removed the spam it still showed up for a few days. Here’s what it looks like in sync:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ef3948d4-acac-46ae-883a-2b48e4bbcf10.png

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

As soon as the initial Russia attack failed, invalidating the treaty where Ukraine agreed to deproliferate as long as Russia doesn’t attack them, Ukraine should have acquired a handful of nuclear weapons.

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

It’s the movie equivalent of needing a /s to know the content is satirical in nature

whotookkarl, 18 days ago

Haven’t seen it but it seems like the kind of movie that has a montage of talking heads at some point, probably close to the beginning.

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

June 30th, 2023. There were always subreddits like r/thedonald that used violent right wing authoritarian cult-like political rhetoric, but after the users and mods who gave half a shit left when they banned third party apps and sided with advertisers over the people keeping it from becoming 99% bots and bootlickers.

whotookkarl, 20 days ago

Traditional move of someone completely innocent and not trying to hide anything

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

You literally just started by saying you won’t vote for him for a single issue, then end by saying you are not a single issue voter.

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

I don’t even necessarily disagree with your ideas, it’s the rhetoric I find disheartening.

whotookkarl, 19 days ago

Clearly not a trustee to the beneficiary… filibuster

whotookkarl, 20 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

It would also help if more than a handful of people in the House knew semitic is a pretty archaic term and would include Palestinians in Gaza as well as Israelis and people from several other countries as well.

Protected classes are race, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy status, gender, citizenship, disability or veteran, family status or genetic information. Nobody gets protections for genocide.

Edit: genetic not generic

whotookkarl, 20 days ago

Not scary for the auto workers who want to work on them, build them, supply parts for them, etc or the families who want affordable EVs. More scary for the wealth class who didn’t reinvest enough into updating their facilities and processes to stay competitive businesses. The government already gave them extra time with the embargo but that isn’t going to last forever.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

Most of us have no intuition about millions of anything let alone billions, same as we have a good handle on seconds and days and years but start talking about nanoseconds or centuries and most of us have completely lost any meaningful frame of reference.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

Expanding piracy, a pretty brutal form of robbery, to include ignoring digital media copyrights only really makes sense if you’re trying to vilify nonviolent criminals. I haven’t heard good arguments for more than 5-10 year copyrights.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

It is but the Senate failed to do their job as usual and enforce it, thanks Mitch

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

“”" Within minutes of the assault on the building, Columbia University officials said they had no choice but to request police intervention.

“We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions,” “”"

The Columbia administration forgetting they have nothing without the students. One person gets yelled at and they clutch their pearls and call the bastards in to beat and arrest peaceful protesters. They are escalating things, not the students.

Students asking to expunge arrests related to these protests should be putting on their resume they are willing to stand up for their rights and the rights of others without a voice. The university and cops are the ones who should be embarrassed and ashamed.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

m.imdb.com/title/tt0216035/

The night of the headless horseman. It’s got some great voice actors and storytelling but it also has that rubbery shiny early CG that I think a lot of people can’t get past.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

Yes, prohibitions of addictive substances creates dangerous black markets and criminals out of addicts who usually need medical support not a judge or jail. We try to prevent children from driving, drinking, smoking, etc for the same reason we don’t send children to jail & that’s not a good way to legislate adult or general populations.

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

If you’re beating USD inflation rate for holding cash then you’re at least not losing money. Good returns can be anywhere from like 6-10% depending on the risk involved, but if you have a significant amount of capital to invest over a long term like years you can expect much higher for riskier ventures. The usual idea is start riskier when you’re young with individual stocks, BTC, startup or small business ventures, etc; then gradually shift to lower risk index funds, utilities, CDs, bonds, retirement savings like 401k annuity pension etc low risk financial products as you get closer to a retirement goal.

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

Any criminal law punishable with a fine only (and bail in general) is fucked up because justice is supposed to be about applying fairness under universal laws and our means are not fairly distributed.

law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2022/jud/…/751/ has it also starting with 30 days max along with the 1k & it would be interesting to see how often those charges come with jail time.

whotookkarl, 21 days ago

New loyalty test dropping soon, 2+2=5

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

Business homps trying to do math with no understanding or background smacks of clergy trying to do philosophy or athletes composing a symphony, sure you can try it but practically nobody is interested in your uninformed amateur gibberish nonsense.

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

Turns out the internet only works like that if you put some effort into your education and maintain a healthy skepticism.

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

Never signing in and resetting occasionally is the only way I’ve found to try to keep from getting funneled into whatever bubble they think I fit in

whotookkarl, 22 days ago

Dopefish image

whotookkarl, 23 days ago

It’s more of an idea that’s like that than a place always being like that I think. Pirates, wild west, etc.