Orcocracy

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Do they teach that line at schools in the US? I’ve seen Americans on the internet mention it very regularly, but it just seems so odd. Some (liberal) democracies are monarchies and some are republics. Why do Americans all seem to think those things are mutually exclusive?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

In this city the pizza is this thick, and in this other city the pizza is this thick! It’s like being in a completely different country!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Americans desperately want a monarchy. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the Obamas or Clintons or Kennedys, the American public apparently has a deep subconscious desire to be run by one single fancy family

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Yeah, talking about overthrowing the system while refusing to go outside is what Hexbear is for. How dare that be in a game, that’s, like, copyright or some shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if Boeing is a great example of doing good aircraft repair work right now. Maybe they should take the fucking VR googles off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, their traditional cultures embraced pure adversity and never created a codified sports league designed to fit a two hour television broadcast with commercials. This must mean that they never had fun in the snow until a heroic mission of American advertising executives brought them their first can of red bull and a snowboard.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The invention of the concept of the “teenager” has been a disaster for the human race.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And just like a real cop, it’s guilty of the same crimes it accuses other of. These LLM chatbots are machines built on piracy and plagiarism. They downloaded everyone’s shit, put it in a database, and are now selling it as their own (slightly rephrased).

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah the proportion of the adult population who won't or legally can't vote in so-called democracies in the west is fucking huge. In the last US election Biden won with about 24% of the total population voting for him (81 million votes in a country of about 332 million people). In the last UK election the tories had roughly 20% of the total UK population vote for them, and in Canada Trudeau and his lot got about 14% of the total population's vote. It's kind of shocking when you actually look at how little of a country supporting a party it takes to claim democratic legitimacy.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Too late, it’s real. I tried to use a public toilet in Sweden once with QR code payment lock on the door. I couldn’t get the fucking thing to work while I was in the middle of doing the gotta go dance so I ran up the street and found another public toilet at a place that still had an actual human person taking coins.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am imagining the burger slowly rotating.

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