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I guess I'm curious about generations (namely GenZ and Alpha) who didn't live in a pre-Internet time. Like,

  • How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?
  • Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it's absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant?
  • Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?
[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 154 points 3 months ago

Fucking love this. Think about it:

  • While Russia concentrates defenses in the southern Donetsk region, Ukraine simply pushes forward into Russia itself and grabs easy land. Like squeezing a balloon, the bulge finds the least resistance.

  • It causes domestic unrest and panic.

  • It forces Russia to spread thinner their already-thin resources.

  • It gives Ukraine a bargaining-chip at the negotiating table.

  • It helps nullify net-territorial gains made by Russia elsewhere.

  • It gives Ukrainian forces a boost of morale.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 274 points 3 months ago

I read somewhere else a woman who said, "Walz represents all the dads we used to have but lost to Fox News."

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 190 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ok my respect is quickly dropping for these buffoons caught in the crossfire. But it's like interviewing an attendee from a nazi rally, what should I expect? Critical thinking? Morals? Hah!

"devout Republican" haha... They're a religious cult.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 143 points 4 months ago

Isn't it painfully ironic that right wingers who cried about being told what to do by the state suddenly imposed a non-scientific law imposing what people can't do to their own body?

So much for individual freedumb amirite.

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June 28 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. voters who were unable to choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump before Thursday's presidential debate delivered their verdicts after the contest and it was almost universally bad news for Biden.

Of the 13 "undecideds" who spoke to Reuters, 10 described the 81-year-old Democratic president's performance against Republican candidate Trump collectively as feeble, befuddled, embarrassing and difficult to watch.

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All undecided voters in a U.S. swing states focus group hosted by pollster Frank Luntz said President Biden should be replaced as the Democratic nominee after watching his first presidential debate against former President Trump.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 207 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 213 points 5 months ago

FDR was much closer to being a Social Democrat than a Democratic Socialist. They sound similar but are quite different. Hell I think Bernie is closer to a Social Democrat, too. He praises the Nordic model and they're textbook social democracies.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 161 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That poor child... And those poor ems workers who had to dig out her little body...

I tagged along with my wife for a pool day at her friend's house with our kids. I was swimming along near the wall of the pool when my foot was violently pulled into the vaccuum line. Really spooked me. It's code for those suction lines to have a spring-loaded cover. This one didn't. I luckily freed my foot and went to check the valves on the pump. All suction was routed to the vacuum line, none to skimmer.

Some expensive pumps have an anti-entrapment system but most do not.

I warned her to get that shit fixed ASAP...

For commercial pools of this scale, there's just no chance to resist.

I own a pool now and I take all that shit very seriously. You don't mess around with water.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 191 points 5 months ago

The thing is, you can sometimes get through to these Trump supporters if you can deprogram them from their echo-chamber... That requires very long conversations, an expose of facts, dismantling of their fallacies, and keeping them away from right-wing propaganda and peer pressure for an extended period of time.

... Which just so happens to be what jurors go through.

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Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales.

He said the UK supplies just 1% of Israel's weapons and warned Israel must do more to protect civilians and allow humanitarian aid through.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 138 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lowest bidder aside, how is this clearly not the armorer's fault front and center? It was her responsibility to handle the set props. What Baldwin paid them is irrelevant to what she claimed she could provide and was obligated to provide under contract.

She is literally the one to (a) claim the firearm was safe, but (b) load it with live ammunition.

???

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 139 points 11 months ago

Of the three people involved in Reddit's creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit's greater vision.

Swartz was a far better person.

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago

It's okay. The other voice inside his head is a good guy with a gun.

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https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

They must oblige within a certain time frame — even if your account has been suspended and I believe even if you've deleted your account. Curiously, this might be one effective way to protest. Golly I wonder what would happen if many people requested such reports simultaneously. It seems these must be processed manually by admins.

As a bonus, it's nice because all your comments and messages are searchable.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago

... And just like that, Reddit is down site-wide. Awfully convenient.

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