[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Yes. He said, to her. I swear to god, some people are so intent on outrage. Have you ever been laid? More than once or twice by pure dumb luck? Jesus, please don't tell us about it or I'll get non-consensualy drunk just to gag it down.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Local oyster place chunked the shells outside, covered the parking lot in fact. Attracted quite a feral cat population, but it didn't stink.

Also, I think you're confusing modern "stink" vs. 1800s NYC "stink".

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Is there a "young man yells at clouds meme" here?

"Yes, you're very clever calling out the hype train. Oooh, what a smart boy you are!" Until the dust settles...

Lemmy sounds like my grandma in 1998, "Pushah. This 'internet' is just a fad.'"

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

They have to take it home for homework.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud

Oops. Picked on the big dogs by playing their own game.

Seriously though, probably more going on than what we read here.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

So now we have names, where are the liberal, stochastically-driven terrorists? Nada? Nothing to be seen but bullshit on the high road.

These two should be hounded non-stop, driven from public life and desperately trying to hide in anonymity. But no, can't use their tactics. We have to be better! No. We do NOT.

Justin Caporale

Michel Picard - Unlike the above cretin, not finding a certain match. For now.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

We out here poking and peeking.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

A million bucks isn't worth a million bucks anymore. $1,000,000 might net you $75,000 in yearly interest, before taxes. What kind of purchasing power is that going to be at retirement?

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

So common, NYC streets were often paved with a mix of oyster shells.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

I chunk many of my shells in the tiny ponds around the house (not too many though, they only range from 15 to 70 gallons). Calcium dissolves back into the water and tiny animals get a free meal, bolstering the bottom of the food chain.

Also used to throw a shell or three in my fish tanks so the snails could pull dissolved calcium.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Solid write up! You've changed my opinion. I had thought terms like "octoroon" were merely archaic descriptors, had never thought of the "one drop" angle and what that implied.

Holy shit! There's even a word for all this!

such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate

1/64th: Sang-mêlé. My god, that's a laugh-out-loud racist word if I ever heard one. How far back did they want to go?!

For anyone else finding this interesting, this might be the opening of a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

He's describing what he said, not his thoughts or motivations.

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Finished a short horror tale yesterday. Is there a spot on lemmy that would get it read and criticized?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?

I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today!

She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.

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I'm wanting something to run around the hood and offroad, mostly in deep sand. An electric version of this: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/coleman-mini-bike-bt200x-g

What else do I need to be concerned about?

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submitted 9 months ago by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

Saw this on the table. Been waiting all year for the prism to start working well!

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submitted 9 months ago by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

It stands to reason he must have been doing something right to have stayed so close to the halls of power.

I was a toddler when he was carpet bombing Cambodia, never knew him as anything but "an important person" that was sometimes on the TV. Only learned of his crimes in the past decade.

How did an in-your-face war criminal retain such influence for so long?

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Just what it says on the tin.

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