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yesman ,

If you invented something unique your first problem is going to be describing it to yourself. You'll need new nomenclature. The second problem is describing the unique thing to someone else.

One could argue that anything that can be nailed down by language cannot be unique because the metaphors and phrases to describe it preexisted.

How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals

I constantly see angry mobs of people decrying "woke", "critical race theory", ""grooming"", and whatever other nonsense they made up this week. They march around with guns, constantly appending lib as a prefix to any word they can use to denigrate. They actively plot violence and spew hatred in the open....

yesman ,

Liberals are conservatives, they hate leftists.

What happens to those who are severely disabled while in prison?

For some reason began going down a rabbit hole thinking about this. Let's say you are blind, and reliant on a guide dog, but end up in prison for a non-violent crime like possession of illegal drugs. Are you allowed to keep the dog? No, right? But if you are entirely reliant on the guide dog to perform daily tasks, how do you...

yesman ,

Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.

Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252

Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it's the State's duty to care for people in it's custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you're arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.

https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

yesman ,

Headline: US officials admit that TickTock ban intended to censor Gaza news.

Article: Romney and Blinken blame Israel's disastrous PR on social media and opine that this is a good reason to ban platforms like TickTock.

yesman ,

If you want an institution that keeps the peace, protects citizens, and is accountable for use of force, then you'll have to create one whole-cloth. Because the police are not that institution and they never were intended to be.

yesman ,

DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?

At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?

yesman ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cf293ad0-31f7-4813-b069-61d8285fc071.jpeg

Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya ( www.economist.com )

Yet they and their descendants would go on to transform Europe and much of Asia genetically, culturally and linguistically. Among the many innovations that these steppe migrants ushered in, scientists believe, are the Indo-European languages that are dominant in Europe today, and which are spoken by nearly half of humanity....

yesman ,

Just going to point out the irony that modern Europeans are descended from migrants that infiltrated the Continent and interbred with the locals until their genes and culture were dominant.

yesman ,

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy.

It's kinda hard to describe. I recon it's a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.

It's like a melodrama in that it's light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.

This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.

yesman ,

Satan plays the fiddle. This is not just the country song, but folklore going back to Medieval Europe. The early Catholic Church frowned on dancing which the violin was associated with.

In the 19th Century, Nicolo Paganini was rumored to have gotten his talent on that instrument through a pact with the devil, which may have inspired 20th century folklore about Robert Johnson and the crossroads.

yesman ,

I love it. Tucker used to have an enormous platform he'd share with knuckleheads. But his platform has gone from a stadium act to a tent revival.

And it's not because he was fascist, it's because Rupert Merdoch traded Tucker's whole career to get a discount on the Dominion settlement.

yesman ,

The problem is that too many people think they are thinking critically. Pushback, fact-checking, and ridicule are all seen as evidence that one is correct because the crackpots all think they're fucking Galileo.

Exclusive: Israel planning ring of checkpoints to prevent men from fleeing Rafah ( www.middleeasteye.net )

Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity....

yesman ,

military age

In the Nakba, that was 10-50

yesman ,

Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility

It's ironic because the more people who accept the plot of 'Idiocracy' (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.

yesman ,

Had a friend with problem neighbors kids cutting through his yard to get to the store. He was friendly with the parents and didn't want to stir shit. The neighbors were super all-natural, hippie, no chemical types, so he told them he switched to a new fertilizer packed with micro-plastics and forever chemicals made by Monsanto that he had to sneak in from Mexico because it wasn't allowed in the US. That fertilizer sure worked because the trail the kids were carving filled right in that summer.

yesman ,

Waland is the British half of the mega corp Waland-Yutani. Sometimes called Wa-Yu, or simply "the company"

Founded by Charles Bishop Wayland, the totally not evil billionaire industrialist, Wayland LLC was known for energy production, computer technology, and planetary terraforming before it was acquired in a hostile takeover by the Japanese Yutani corp in 2099.

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    yesman ,

    Articles like this are madding to me. The author painstakingly catalogues why policing doesn't work now, and never worked in the past. What's the problem: Incompetence laziness. (personal moral failings) What's the solution: reform. (of course)

    Implied is the idea that policing is necessary. That society will just fall apart if we don't pay salaries to armed, unaccountable, and violent street thugs. What could undermine this childish faith more than the fact that pigs, in fact, don't do the core service we "require" them for?

    The answer is that pigs do a great job, it's just that protecting the public isn't part of it. They're job is to uphold the social order and protect the property of the ownership class.

    yesman ,

    Can you imagine going to school for all those years just to have some MBA condescendingly tell you how to do medicine?

    This is a reality for many, maybe most Drs in the US

    yesman ,

    “It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.

    This is the most selfawarewolf shit I've ever seen. Galloway mocks progressive students, then comments how mocking progressive students is just like the Brown Shirts.

    yesman ,

    I'd rather be on the Ukrainian front than any place accurately represented by Blood Meridian.

    yesman OP ,

    Sometimes when a defense contractor and military branch love each other very much, they do a special hug, called an engineering and manufacturing development contract.

    yesman ,

    All you need to know about Ayn Rand is that she cashed her Social Security checks.

    yesman ,

    Why is it that the States that'd force you to have a child are the same ones who make it harder to raise one?

    The amount of government intervention in parent's lives is crazy. It's easier to take your kid than to take your gun.

    yesman ,

    Countries that have to jump through hoops to get their hands on, or sell sanctioned goods is an example of sanctions working.

    Y'all remember back in 2022 when certain items were hard to get a hold of because of supply chain issues? You could still get what you wanted through the one weird trick of paying a premium for it. And that was a significant factor in inflation.

    The goal of sanctions is not to hermetically seal a country off from global markets, but to damage that countries economy.

    yesman ,

    This is a common rural mentality. Animals are utilitarian and those who fail to be useful or prove to be a nuisance are a waste of resources. "useless eaters"

    Unless you're vegan (and I'm not), you participate in this kind of cruelty, even if you happen to be a few degrees removed from it.

    yesman ,

    Back in the 60s, People used to criticize the American Civil Rights movement because the Soviets supported it. Bad faith then, bad faith now.

    yesman ,

    I'm a huge keyboard shortcut guy. But any more than two modifiers can fuck right off. I wanna launch a program, not play carpel tunnel Twister.

    yesman ,

    I don't think the Warsaw uprising is an apt comparison for the war in Gaza. Never-mind the inflammatory nature of the Israel/Nazi comparison. But it's just doesn't add much context or illumination to what's happening.

    I think historic examples that could bring more light than heat are : Plan Dalet and the Nakba (47-48), Beirut ('82), or the First Intifada (87-93). I think it might help if people understood more about this conflict, rather than trying to retread it over with WWII.

    yesman ,

    I feel like the people most affected by paywalls, i.e. people who read their news, are already pretty well informed.

    There's plenty of access to quality journalism, more than ever, the problem is that no amount of quality or availability can compete with misinformation tailored to addict, comfort, and flatter it's audience. You can't inform people against their will.

    yesman ,

    Is the UN official saying that the pier is enabling the Israeli invasion of Rafah, as though it wouldn’t happen otherwise? Or is he saying that but for the pier, Israel will open more land crossing to aid?

    And what is the corrective action? Should the pier be built somewhere else, or not at all? Are their any factors about where to locate the pier besides political? Like the depth of the water or existing infrastructure?

    And if the problem with the aid is that it’s a meaningless PR gesture, then does PR medicine not heal? Dose PR food not nourish?

    Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

    yesman ,

    I normally don’t encourage clicking on someone’s post history, but this jackass is something special.

    yesman ,

    Everyone lives in layers of self-constructed fantasy and coming into contact with reality is called trauma. At least according to Jacques Lacan.

    yesman ,

    Cable news’ job is to sell advertising. Nelson is the judge of how well their doing.

    This is what’s so frustrating about neolibs like Jon. They think a call to honor, or perhaps some light regulation can reform capitalism. And even sillier, they imagine that a responsible cable news would somehow lead to an informed electorate.

    This is an old schtick for Stuart. Fox News is crazy and CNN is stupid. Both sides, you guys. Please don’t look at the incentive structure behind the curtain.

    yesman ,

    Lots of times you can ‘one and done’ a series. Dune comes to mind as a great novel on it’s own even if you ignore the rest of the series.

    But I understand what you mean. The only time I’ve been glad to read an entire series was Kings “Gunslinger”.

    What's a band that has one album that is just about perfect in your opinion, but rest of their discography misses the mark with you?

    One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS’s stuff just doesn’t hit the same way....

    yesman ,

    Metallica: Ride the Lightning

    I love this album, but can’t stand any of their other stuff.

    yesman ,

    Oh, the production quality on Lightning is trash. The drums sound like their not in the same room with the the microphones. Part of the charm. It sounds like a band who doesn’t know any professional producers.

    yesman ,

    And my adult children don’t speak to me.

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