Tomatoes [they/them]

Yep, the worst kind of story. “Be careful what you wish for, because you might get fine print.”

Main characters: make wish Monkey’s Paw: gives wish and something else Main characters: Oh, the problem was me wanting the reasonable thing, not that I trusted a really shady entity in asking for it! Me: May I leave this planet now?

Don’t worry, it will crack soon…

As an aircraft crew member, I can confirm: it is all vehicle types, it can be initiated by the vehicle or the ground person, and we all love it. Not really sure about the community size, it’s not like I’ve ever known anyone I waved at.

So many people going “opposite sex does X in relationships” and me just being like “you could stop dating people who do X” and they always look at me like I’ve sprouted horns. Like seriously, people who do X in relationships don’t need to be enabled to continue uncriticized

Uncritical, naive, gullible… no, I think credulous works fine there.

I know Lemmy is tech heavy, and that still passed completely unnoticed.

ROFL! I’ll see myself out.

I personally cannot distinguish satire from reality. And no, it’s not because I’m credulous, but because every day incredible things happen. I don’t need fake headlines that are just as crazy as the real headlines.

Just so long as we don’t put them on “reserved” land that we shrink every year or two until we suddenly decide that we want to take it back etc. I think it would be just grand to get a bunch more Palestinians in Palestine! For Americans, anyway. Immigrants are good for the economy. The Palestinians themselves might have better luck elsewhere.

I don’t know who the poster is. I was just nodding along like “Yes, that is true why is it a hot take”

Similar. Riding on rollercoasters, watching wholesome cartoons, and reading good fiction don’t feel childish to me, they just feel like well-deserved fun. Why associate that with childhood, when childhood lacked freedom?

I wish it was the latest. This animal abuse has been going on a long time.

Cops: *go on strike*

Nothing: *changes*

Bourgeois: “Give them everything they ask for or society will collapse!”

Yeah, police are the enforcement tools of the owner class, designated extra privileges to give them the impression that they’re somehow distinct from the proletariat. They’d have too much power even without unions. Listen to politicians who urge corrupt cops to stay on payroll because of literally getting the “rotten apple” metaphor backwards. I’m not really sure how you can judge some unions good or bad, when ACAB is a fact. Just, get rid of the police and leave this hypothetical to historians.

But even the prequels are speaking directly to Lucas’s feelings about Bush-era politics and the erosion of democracy, where the originals straight up talked about Nam and WWII. Idk, I guess I could understand the Andor hate if I hadn’t had a lot of years of people trying to make Star Wars be about the space swords. No cohesive plot, no commentary, no thought provocation, just one cool moment with a space sword leading to the next cool moment with a laser gun. Andor was like “hold my beer.” So refreshing.

Two of those images are definitely tomato-flavored sugar. I’ll understand people not enjoying raw tomato, but at least make homemade sauces and soups from canned tomatoes as much as you can. Then you can enjoy your fries with tomato-flavored sugar free of guilt.

Yeah, I get the pun, but. Just why.

Oh, yeah, we technically understand that most Christians say the deal is “Keep doing terrible things, just say you’re sorry.” Jeffrey Dahmer: heaven. His victims: at least some in hell. Not a bad deal for terrible people. Or maybe just, you can masturbate whenever you want as long as you feel really guilty about it afterwards. That definitely sounds as enjoyable as our experience.

Everyone has innate value by merely existing, so technically Mouse declared a deep personal wellspring of value. Could’ve been worse.

Considering the policies of No Labels are just libertarian finance with even more billionaire backing, we really have to consider the likelihood that the idiots who might fall for it really are gonna be the “centrists” Dems have been courting for decades.

It seems that you and your responders have all forgotten what the electoral college is.

I remember when I bought into “voting third party throws away your vote.” Hey kids, take it from someone who grew up in a blue state. I get that thinking strategically fucking sucks, and you want to go with the herd, but it is not worth keeping the establishment party established just so you can be part of the 80% of people who say, “The actually good candidate wasn’t electable.” With any luck, solid states that show growing support for third parties will start applying the pressure that any incumbent party needs. Because the Supreme Court sucks not just because of Trump, but also because of Obama’s milquetoast policies before that, and another Justice’s refusal to retire when she knew the level of risk.

(Using your format limited my response, but the most important thing I’ve been learning lately is that voting is the token the government gives us so that our politics start and stop with the ballot. You can say “Why not vote and be politically active?” and I’d agree. But I’m concerned about how most people just forget to do anything after they vote.)