Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•AI Job interview warns against using AI yourselfEnglish
6·26 days agoYou’re hired.
What are the CO2 canisters for?
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Technology@lemmy.world•LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devicesEnglish
5·28 days agoYour neighbor’s open wifi.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you were an NPC in a game and only had one line of dialogue, what would it be?English
5·1 month ago“Did you get all that?”
Yes
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politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for NowEnglish
5·1 month agoWhen I googled that was the list I got, but I know that California, at least, still has in-person voting too.
California has “universal mail-in voting”, not “mail-only”. Meaning every voter is eligible to vote by mail, not that in-person voting is unavailable.
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politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for NowEnglish
5·1 month agoWhat states are “by mail only”?
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why do American kids rely on the school cafeteria than bringing their own food?English
11·1 month agoThe lunch arrangements will vary greatly by age/grade level. A high school is more likely to have the canteen style while an elementary school is more likely to have the cafeteria style. In either case, bringing a lunch from home is also reasonably common.
No matter how well you understand the passage of time in the abstract it’s a shock the first time you meet a full grown adult, with their own keys and everything, but you can remember what you were doing in the year they were born.
Grandma knows what she’s doing.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
1·2 months agoI don’t think you understand what “mass murder” means.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
1·2 months agoBut that’s not what it means to the public
I know that. That’s why I’m saying something.
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News@lemmy.world•White House press secretary leavingEnglish
14·2 months agoMaybe Sean Spicer will take the job back? Someone check the bushes.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
12·2 months agoIt seems like you’re advocating mass murder.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
1·2 months agoI’m saying that the bombing, etc. of Nazi Germany was a justifiable level of force under the circumstances. I’m splitting hairs and making a big deal over the difference between “force” and “violence”. I think it’s important to know exactly where that line is so as to avoid stepping over it, so I’m not just being intransigent and clinging to a minor point here.
The guillotine symbolizes to me a clear stepping over of the line from justified force to mob violence. And I think we would be better off if everyone shared my opinion.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
1·2 months agoIt looks like you ninja-edited in the second part of your comment. I was responding to the original that only had quotes of prior comments and nothing else. That would have been a low-effort comment not really worth responding to.
was it a mistake to bomb, kill, and invade nazi Germany?
No. But it would be a mistake to start bombing political rallies today, for example.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
11·2 months agoI don’t feel like you’re putting in the same effort I am in having a sincere discussion.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
13·2 months agorevolting against the rich
But a guillotine is not a weapon of war. It’s not even something that the powerless can use against the powerful. Quite the opposite, actually.
Which makes the guillotine is a terrible symbol for a revolution. Not only is the symbolism ahistorical, but the actual history directly contradicts the supposed symbolism. The modern people who invoke the guillotine as a symbol of revolution are making the exact same mistake that the French Revolutionaries made.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should popularize using the guillotine as a symbol of the common man.English
12·2 months agoSo why not use a symbol from a successful example? Why use a symbol from an example we should avoid repeating at almost any cost? I think it’s because most people see the guillotine as a symbol for retribution against the ruling class.










The lack of self-awareness is truly astonishing.