[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But won't you think of the children!! Think of how many kids have never seen a poorly drawn penis and have to have their first experience looking down at a pothole.

I do wonder if anyone actually did say a charting on wanksy's city... (IE city claims that it had no influence on their decision to fill potholes, but it was aknowledged that some are getting filled. Realistically that should involve a test, Wanksy should have found 10 potholes, penis'd in 5 of them, quietly took note of 5 and put on his list... Then anonymously slipped that information to a journalist with instructions not to publish for 2 weeks. At which point he'd analyze the 10 potholes and report back which ones were filled.

My point is, there needs to be more scientific rigor with the penis drawings.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 104 points 1 year ago

Sad how many people don't seem to get not persecuting people based on their race/religion/orientation, does not mean blindly protecting people who are doing terrible things.

Judge people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Which to be quite frank, Netanyahu's character does not appear very good.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately for the most part, capitalism is. The companies that do exploit their workers and their customers make more money, Corporations that make more money than their competition then get in positions to do shady shit to kill their competitors. In the end of course there's plenty of shitty jobs that treat their employees like garbage to jump between, and very few jobs that actually treat their workers like humans.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

or more accurately users just have no grasp of what things come from. No shortage of times in tech support where I've heard things like "Yes I know the internet is down, I'm not trying to go to the internet I'm trying to go to facebook".

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Agreed to me it also seems just dumb for pence. By not commiting treason he's made an enemy of trump, and therefore trump supporters for life. He should really just court the anti-trump republicans rather than continuing to try and win back the unrecoverable trump base.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah the statements like that made me really hate that he was winning the primary. Standing next to obama should have taught him... if you do everything they ask, strip 80% of the good things out of the bill, throw in a few favors to the republicans corporate donors. You will still get 0 republican votes, and if you somehow are able to pass it you will still be called a dictator unwilling to work with them.

In short the lesson is, dont' try to work with them.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

I do have to second that concept there. Giving everything away absolutely free is not a sustainable business model. If we don't like ads, and we don't like paywalls, we need to actually start figuring out a sustainable model. And no tiny ads that are nowhere near where anyone looks, do not actually generate revenue, because people don't fork over much money to put up ads in places where few people will see them.

So we either need a system to have people give money directly to avoid ads, or we need a system of ads that... well are appealing both to those who want to post ads, while being acceptable to end users.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

I mean I'd imagine it's pretty expected.

Lemmy.World was kind of the go to instance for exiting redditers during the mass exit over the API changes, while a majority of subreddits protested. As we all know, most of the subs did not stay closed. So a majority gave up

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

So 2 datapoints = the trend forever? I mean today I parked my car one space to the left of where I parked it yesterday. So I guess in a month it will be in the middle of the street.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 43 points 1 year ago

He’ll run on his own Freedom Party ticket and we’ll get a 3-party election. Oh no, now the rightwing votes are split. Bummer!

Republicans are too spineless. Realistically trump will threaten to run third party, and they will forgo the primaries and hand him the nomination.

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 35 points 1 year ago

Reminds me a bit of how carrots became known for helping eyesight. (in short the military claimed carrots helped eyesight so they were feeding them to their anti-aircraft gunners, to hide their mastery of radar).

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

Is there an actual group pushing for that? (I'm pretty sure I remember a decade or so back there being an arm the homeless group, that put out santa's etc... though didn't actually accept donations. (Their actual goal was common sense gun laws, and they knew the people who are pro-gun would argue strongly against it shooting their own pro-gun arguements in the foot).

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