Skip Navigation

User banner

sh00g

@ sh00g @lemmy.zip

Posts
2
Comments
16
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Welcome our next comedian, the All-Knowing Orb! [Rae the Doe]

    Jump

  • As a Gen Z'er I will definitely be using this incredibly stupid joke even though "67" is 100% a Gen Alpha thing.

  • 'Hateful, Bigoted' Chip Roy Introduces MAMDANI Act in Congress

    Jump

  • I'd like to propose another immigration reform bill: the CHIP ROY Act. The bill would allow us to deport, denaturalize, and deny US citizenship to Christian Hypocrites, Islamophobes, Pedophiles, and Racist Old Yokels.

  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

    Jump

  • "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    "It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln (or honestly a like a dozen different other sources...this one has many different variants).

  • Linux @lemmy.world
    sh00g @lemmy.zip

    I broke my Arch Linux installation yesterday

  • Removed

    What's a thinking tool or method that is useful and practical that you've benefitted from and can share?

    Jump

  • I like this summarized as "don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough."

  • How do you get over information paralysis?

    Jump

  • I don't have any revolutionary advice to give to you my friend. I'm quite a bit younger than you and I already am feeling the creep of losing touch with the speed of new technology. I think to a certain extent that is inevitable. I will say that there is a tremendous amount of survivorship bias in the videos of young people making racks off of day trading. These videos are designed to get people hooked on what is functionally gambling. No offense meant whatsoever, but if you're living paycheck to paycheck it's the exact type of slippery slope that can turn a bad financial situation into a ruinous one. I hope you find something that you like though and wish you the best of luck in whatever you do!

  • Trump hijacks West Point ceremony to rant about ‘drag shows’

    Jump

  • A USA today article seems to dispute this slightly. It's a minor tweak but in the sake of fairness it completely changes the interpretation.

    "The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures (and) spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun," he said. "The military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place."

    Does anyone know whether he said "but spread democracy..." or "and spread democracy..."?

    If the former like this post suggests, then it is indeed another notch in Trump's belt of horrific quotes that would get any other politician at any other time in American history vilified. If the latter like USA Today is reporting then he seems to be arguing that the US military's role is not to "spread democracy at the point of a gun."

  • Locked

    What is one moral you have that most people don't agree with?

    Jump

  • I believe it is immoral to own more than one house.

  • mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question

    Jump

  • The main point is to take advantage of Trump's reckless misunderstanding of how the modern global financial system works to deliberately drive the United States into a recession so that American oligarchs can buy up all the collapsed pieces and force ordinary people into permanent rental of all essential services. My perspective is that RFK is a eugenicist with respect to vaccines in a, "if you die when you get sick you weren't strong enough to be worth keeping alive anyway" sort of way. And of course there are the Curtis Yarvins of the world who want to turn the "mentally unfit" into biodiesel. Combine that with the recent own the libs joke bills about making so-called "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a classifiable mental illness and you can see where the writing on the wall is. The broader goal is to make it so any disagreement with Trump and Republicans is either a deportable offense or a mental illness.

  • TIL that in DuckDuckGo !g in front of your previous search will run it in Google

    Jump

  • !wa for Wolfram Alpha and !aw for the Arch Wiki as well!

  • Deleted

    In your opinion, what's the ideal work schedule (workweek)?

    Jump

  • I work a 9/80 currently (so 9 hours a day every Monday through Thursday and then alternating 8 hours every other Friday with a Friday off) and I have grown to love it so much I think I would have an extremely hard time taking a five day workweek job. I also think I would easily work for 10s if it were an option as a constant three day weekend would be wonderful.

    I have done my own research on my productivity levels and found that I pretty much get nothing done on working Fridays anyhow, leading me to believe a 35 ish hour four day workweek would be more than sufficient to get everything I currently do done. That's notwithstanding the fact that during each day I swing back and forth between high and low productivity too, so really something closer to like 25 hours a week of total work is accurate. So something like a certain minimum mandatory set of hours with flexible time to get your tasks done as others have suggested would be the ultimate solution.

  • What happens if there’s a tie in 2024? Be ready for a ‘contingent election’

    Jump

  • A tie in the Electoral College is an extremely remote chance, less than 1%. Widespread interference in our electoral process as part of a broader scheme to put enough doubt in the vote totals to force the issue to SCOTUS or Congress is literally the plan being executed by Trump and the GOP right now. The best chance we have is overwhelming voter turnout to make those "close" states as decisive as possible.

  • Mission report

    Jump

  • We should do both! A human being can do more science in a handful of days than all of our robots we've ever sent to Mars have done in the years they have been there.

  • Harris stresses abortion rights and early voting in packed Atlanta rally

    Jump

  • Right so let's allow the serial adulterer, racist, sexist, convicted felon who has no respect for rule of law or democracy win. And then when he proves too senile to serve (or dies) we'll be treated with a President Vance who is ready to open the portcullis for Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 fascist goons into the castle.

    Harris might not be your favorite candidate. She may not currently be campaigning on issues that are the most important for you. But the alternative is unconscionable.

  • Large Majority of Americans Want to End Electoral College

    Jump

  • Your suggestion is wrong. Eliminating the Electoral College is advocated for by everyone who supports Democracy. It is also not a coincidence that the Electoral College disproportionately benefits one party over the other. And to cement that advantage they employ anti-Democratic measures in an attempt at voter suppression.

  • Anybody watching the US Presidential debate right now?

    Jump

  • I have been disappointed by that as well but this has been astoundingly good as far as debates have gone. The immediate fact checking is long overdue. And frankly I look forward to pointing at Trump's extra speaking time as a bulwark against the "iT wAs BiAsEd By ThE lIbErAL mOdErAtOrS" complaints.