I have had the belief for a few years that the rise of fascism is an emotional response to being afraid of an uncertain future that people feel like they have no power over.

Of course it ignores that, that was not the subject of discussion. You’ve just moved the goal post. I’m sure that was unintentional. Perhaps review the thread.

You’re not the boss of me. And in no moral position to criticize.

So, a bit more than one pound, instead of a bit less. *shrug* Not sure the difference was worth your abusive rhetoric.

Fair play, mod. I have a personality disorder and some of my dark humour/coping came though. I feel for people like VH who, like myself, have enormous difficulty dealing with people.

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I’ve only ever seen the Queen in this regalia and I can’t not see it as crossdressing when Charles does it.

I was in favour of mummifying HRH so that her preserved corpse could continue to be our figurehead leader. Honestly, as stupid as it sounds, I don’t think anyone can argue that it’s more stupid than the status quo.

Imperial units are all defined in terms of SI units now. A liberal tear is conveniently defined as 989µℓ. Making one elephant roughly 6738.5ℓ.

According to WolframAlpha, the volume of a banana is 124mℓ. So I believe there are 125.4 tears per banana.

Properly speaking, there is no such thing as nanoelephants. That’s just an informal unit used by coke dealers for marketing purposes. Elephants are obviously an imperial unit, and “nano-” is an SI/metric prefix. You have to break it down or use fractions. There’s 103 golden retrievers per elephant, 14 footballs to the the golden retriever, 9 eight-track cassettes per football, and 525 liberal tears per cassette. You should have been using liberal tears to be scientific.

make history

ok, victoria secret’s PR desk

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Well for one thing, it’s not and is not intended to be an international governing body. What nation would choose to belong to such a thing?

X-ray diamond finder

*rolls eyes* This is real life, not Minecraft!

Is this a real thing? I only hear news about it on a couple niche youtube channels that I am not sure aren’t propaganda. Searching “Ukraine” on Lemmy for the last week yields a very small number of results. I haven’t heard word one about it from my mainstream sources. What the fuck? Is there an embargo on this or something??

No, but it might be to charge a “missed appointment fee” if you don’t get there on time. That’s the fucking difference between punishment and consequences.

This is identical to “drug addicts choose to be drug addicts and so do not deserve medical care” except it’s closer to “blind people choose to be blind”

The argument isn’t that everyone should be allowed to come whenever they want, but rather we should assume good faith and not intentionally punish people for being late. The natural and social consequences are more than sufficient for whatever misguided purpose the punishment is meant to serve.

That’s just it. The sacrifices that a poor or disabled person has to make to be on time for their doctor’s appointment are much greater than the ones their typical patient has to make. We all have to make sacrifices for punctuality, but we’re not all asked to make the same degree of sacrifice.

sigh I miss the greatest generation.

Biden: “I really think we might negotiate peace in Gaza.”

One Day Later…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged in a scathing speech to Congress on Wednesday to achieve “total victory” against Hamas and denounced American opponents of the war in Gaza as “idiots,” …

JFC. Why do you never listen to Bernie. He just wants to keep you from blowing your own fucking toes off.