[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 38 points 6 months ago

None of that matters. I just like riding around town in one of Lara Croft’s breasts.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 35 points 9 months ago

It’s interesting that even MSNBC, stalwart bastion of resistance lib blather, never mentions that Donald’s father, Fred, developed Alzheimer’s.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 44 points 10 months ago

Yuri Gagarin was rumored to be drunk when he took the famous flight.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago

In 7th grade, many years ago, my school had an excited young teacher who convinced management to let them teach a Logic class. I can’t even remember if the teacher was male or female, but I use the shit I learned in that class constantly, particularly the fallacies and biases we memorized (and then promptly weaponized against teachers, parents, and pastors).

When billionaires attribute their success entirely to their own virtues, skills, or talents, and blame others or external circumstances for their failings, they are demonstrating a self-serving bias, a specific form of the fundamental attribution error. They fail to acknowledge external factors like market conditions, socio-economic advantages, or the efforts of their teams that may have contributed to their success. Conversely, they externalize blame for failures, ignoring any personal shortcomings or misjudgments.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

U.S. media just needs to say the magic word, “Iran,” and all atrocities be forgotten.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FWIW, I have never met an intelligent cop or detective. I have met some remarkably unintelligent cops and detectives.

It’s rather shocking that the next step in the criminal justice system requires 7 years of education and the ability to pass a bar exam, but police officers range from dolt to average in intelligence, and are often loosed on the streets with months of training.

This is no way to run a criminal justice system.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

Fascism has such weird body issues.

Next Trump admin, look for Liver King stuffed into a Navy crackerjack suit.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago

Now do San Francisco.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You’re not traveling in the wrong circles. Come to a VC fund dinner in September where junior VCs and 28-year-old “mortgage disrupter” CEOs brag about the air-conditioned plug-and-play camps they spent tens of thousands on, and play wink-wink with each other about all of the fun they had.

I’m a multiple-time BM vet, but it’s mostly an expensive, bureaucratized drug party for tourists now.

It’s perfectly fine to goof on it as it sinks into a physical and moral quagmire. Forgive a poorly scaled analogy, but your logic is the NRA’s logic when there’s a mass shooting: “Now, when everyone’s attention is focused, is not the time to highlight the underlying issues.”

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

Never again. Twice I’ve been at fast-growing startups that went with Oracle, and both times it was the worst mistake the business made.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Esq does not have regulated usage in the U.S. Anyone can put Esq behind their name without being prosecuted for practicing law without a license.

[-] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

Welcome to climate policy.

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