FancyManacles

joined 2 years ago
[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My dad loved to set off fireworks, especially mortar shells, and we would always try to set them off in quick succession. He had the brilliant idea to use PVC pipe driven into the ground instead of the little tubes they came with so we could light more at one time. None of us knew enough about the physics to question him, until 8 shells went off in rapid succession and barely made it higher than the roof of the house. I miss that man.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's desensitization. We're seeing so much AI content these days our brains are becoming trained to ignore things like this like they are normal.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It is. Foreground cat's shadow has hair, back left cat's right paw is melting into the roll holder.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lucky. We got awful fried fish and runny coleslaw.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Space Oddity - David Bowie

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You're right, it was 2015, but as a simple layman I was aware of Russian meddling by the time this dinner happened. So if Jill and the Green party weren't aware of how bad this would look, and how worthless an olive branch to Putin would be, then at the very least they're too incompetent to be worth a vote. Unfortunately I did not know about this gaffe by the time of the election and even voted for Stein in that election, which I still regret.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (21 children)

To draw votes away from the Democratic party nominee at the behest of her Russian donors. NBC News Link about the infamous dinner.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

This points out one of the evilest parts of the Republican party and that is the fact that their political opinions have nothing to do with their actual beliefs and are only a way for them to hurt other people. At the end of the day they don't care if someone changes their name or what bathroom they use, but talking about these things in relation to transgender issues is a way for them to cause pain to others which is the only point to anything for Republicans.

People that say things like "I'm not a conservative but I'm voting for Trump/Bush/Romney" are really saying they're only voting for the fascist parts and don't really care about the fiscal policy as long as they get to cause undeserved pain to someone. And remember, if it's not undeserved pain then they're not into it. It's must be undeserved or at the very last disproportionately cruel.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great campaign image for them: "Do you want want to vote for fat Homelander or hot fey lady? The choice is obvious"

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I made my wife look at it, then I had to go back because she noticed even more insanity. It just kept getting worse every time we went through the pictures.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago (7 children)

This is the first time I've seen a "it just keeps getting worse" post and actually agreed. I went in n just expecting terrible siding, then the inside of the house, then the chairs, then the lights, then more chairs, the carpet, the exposed wiring, why are there chairs there?, it just kept escalating. Thank you for this.

[–] FancyManacles@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't even learn about the Haymarket bombing until I was thirty. It's like Armistice day became memorial day and no one is ever told that it was originally a day to reflect on the horrors of war and now it's all just olive drab hero worship. We are intentionally under educated in the US

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