[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 months ago

If everyone on .world just blocked a handful of people, the issue would disappear. It's mostly a small number of shitheads using a common "enemy" for attention and power.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don't know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.

I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite not being a scientist and having no idea what our many beige boxes do.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 months ago

Great so far! There are a ton of fellow tourists and it's a bit pricey, but it's beautiful and the people are very nice. Plus where else can you eat a puffin?

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 months ago

She's famous for vociferously promoting spitting on a man's penis for use as lubricant during oral sex.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 7 months ago

Any parent who says you owe them love and respect simply because they birthed you is likely someone you should cut ties with. Don't ask me how I know.

I love my chosen family far more than most of my genetic relatives.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 7 months ago

Because it was photoshopped from the original

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Capitalism and being an oligarchy are neither mutually exclusive nor mutually inclusive, nor is the presence or absence of competition neither mutually inclusive or exclusive of oppression of others for gain. One could argue, though, that capitalism tends to eventually lead to oligarchies and, as the graphic suggests, oppression for gain as these are both strategies to maximize gain and the capitalist operator with the most gain can use that gain to further increase future gain, and so on. This can lead to the systematic selection for oligarchic, oppressive capitalists.

Norway is rich, like many other countries, due to its economic oppression of the global South. While its distribution of that wealth is more equitable than the United States, it still relies on the same system of oppression to accrue disproportionate wealth.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 8 months ago

I curl mine up like a butterfly's proboscis.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 9 months ago

I think he does help some people, primarily his rich donors and the rest of the do nothing class.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At the very least, get a ~~trigger lock~~ cable lock or firearm safe. We don't even have kids but I could never live with myself if a relative or neighbor kid hurt themselves or someone else with one of our firearms, so we have a safe.

Edit: oops, I didn't mean a trigger lock. I meant a cable gun lock, which is more effective.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm a biologist (well, microbiologist but we learn a lot of regular macrobiology stuff as undergrads) and used to get into arguments with my dipshit former high school classmates all the time about this. There was the ever present "hunters are the best stewards of the land" bullshit as an argument to get rid of permitting, tagging, etc. Hunters are mostly terrible, especially trophy hunters. They in particular select against some of the more advantageous traits.

Even if the steward bullshit was true for most hunters (spoiler: it's not), it only takes a small percentage of them misbehaving to drive animals to extinction.

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