$10 says the “disproportional usage” is largely tied to them not “working” on the Sabbath and using disposable utensils as a loophole.

“War is terrible”

Wow, such a great take. You should be in charge. Any more deep insights?

“I went to places where people congregate for this kind of thing and was surprised there weren’t people calling it out”

Well DUH. The normal people see that shit and don’t bother to register an account on the forum to post. And if they do, the mods removed it. How is that surprising at all? There are numerous instances on Lemmy that have the same behaviour(albeit for normal hobbies). Are you really surprised that in the Conservative instances it’s not wall to wall “you guys suck”?

This is just confirmation bias. You found what you were looking for while actively searching it out.

As much as I despise Obama for vastly expanding our extrajudicial drone strike policy… All things put into perspective, yeah he was pretty decent.

Maybe check the timestamps and see that they replied it was a joke long after id had the discussion with star. So no?

Again, this is World. Not Memes. Default assumption is your speaking truthfully. Just because you made a shitty joke doesn’t mean I need to humor it either. I’m sorry I’m not content with everything being a joke.

Boo fucking hoo.

We literally had to invent /s because sarcasm isn’t obvious. Before that, “jk”. Before that emoticons. Yeah, I’ve been around. And we have always had Poes Law. I was there when the ancient magic was written.

Dude didn’t add the jk until hours after id commented.

My bad, I forgot we were still on Reddit where nothing is serious and everything is a joke.

You’ve clearly not been on the Internet long if you haven’t seen someone spout that exact line of bullshit as absolute truth before.

Maybe save your jokes for your comedy hour instead of thinking every discussion needs your half assed jokes? This isn’t the meme community.

Nah, I’m just done with handling ignorance with kid gloves. It’s how we got to the state of the US today.

You clearly put forth your unsubstantiated theory that Nessie has active camouflage and it totally explains the murky photos. You took the LACK of evidence and used that as proof of something even more extreme and requiring of even more proof. When asked a very simple question like “well then how would it work with a stationary camera?” suddenly it’s “well I was just playing make believe, you need to touch grass!”

Nah, fuck your goal post moving ass.

Oh shut the fuck up. Telling someone to touch grass after spouting your delusion? People like you need to be told to shut up more. We shouldn’t entertain your nonsense. Trying to call it a joke after the fact is the only laughable part.

No, it’s delusional. Writing fictional stories is fine. Trying to warp reality and evidence to fit your fantasy is delusion. “This would be cool…” is not the same as being told why you’re scientifically wrong and then going “but what if it were true anyways because I want to believe?”

It’s the same shit with Bigfoot. As more and more “evidence” is debunked and the case becomes more obviously just a mistaken identification at best you get these whack jobs talking about how Bigfoot is a dimension jumping shape shifter. Not because they have any actual evidence, but because “this is the only way to explain why we got zero pictures despite decades of trying”.

Imagination is fine. Delusion is not.

Yeah, but when it’s clearly a hoax and you have someone going “yeah, but still, what if it’s really X?” it makes it really clear how badly our education and mental health systems failed.

And it knew to react to an unmoving camera how? It just perfectly puts out its camouflage cloud every time it passes a camera? You realize that makes zero sense, right?

Some people have noted that it’s very likely she doesn’t have “4 days to live”. It’s more likely she’s heavily on pain meds and was told “if you don’t start dialysis or get a kidney transplant, you will die in 4 days” and in her state misheard it. She’s a young healthy person and renal failure doesn’t work like that.

Yeah, I goofed. You’re right.

Well fuck me you’re right. Ok fair enough

In fairness, the Second Lady has traditionally taken on various projects, although usually of a kids/education/health/humanitarian angle. Nancy Reagan was particularly well known for her various causes. Michelle Obama was advocating child literacy and healthy lifestyle I believe.

Not defending her at all, but I think it’s important to keep our facts and histories straight.

Edit: I dunno what I was thinking. Those are all First Ladies. You’re right, I can’t think of shit a single second lady has done, or even who any of them are. I retract my point.

No, originally I said “Bitcoin is great if you don’t use the blockchain”, mocking the lightning networks existence because blockchain on its own is terrible for transactions. I never said they were almost comparable. They’re not. One is a database that’s been proven to work for all kinds of things, and the other is a techbros fantasy that wastes energy and is basically just tech stocks at this point.

Keep up.

Remind me again where Bitcoin is actually used vs actual databases. It didn’t solve anything and did it in an energy hungry way. It’s not “almost sort of comparable”. All of the scams that immediately came about because it doesn’t have the numerous regulations regular financial instruments have is proof. For the last decade Bitcoin has been struggling to reach parity with financial regulations. Ffs, the US PRESIDENT JUST PULLED A RUG PULL.

Blockchain is just digital speculation.