jaaake

joined 2 years ago
[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

That kid is cooler than I'll ever be.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why does this graph not show total registrations? Fuck the Democratic Party. They've dropped the ball consistently for too long. I only hope that enough leftists continue to vote in any races that survive this administration.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

The audiobook is also quite good. It's fully cast, so each section is voiced by a new actor who writes the letters in the collection.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why does this graph not show total registrations? Fuck the Democratic Party. They've dropped the ball consistently for too long. I only hope that enough leftists continue to vote in any races that survive this administration.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

A student spiked a teacher's drink with acid. The morning of that day, the kid that got arrested told me he wanted to fight me after school for talking to a girl he liked.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-11-mn-47764-story.html

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The damn thing has a servo-driven articulated jaw!

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20120201081506/https://www.washingtonpost.com/gene-weingarten-defines-shanda-for-the-goyim/2011/05/17/AFaOBn5G_story.html

To be a shanda for the goyim is to confirm the most hurtful stereotypes,thereby doing damage twice: a Jew who dishonors Jews by not only doing something bad, but doing something that confirms the worst fears of others about Jews in general.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's crazy how predictive this 1990 B-Movie was about our graduating class: https://youtu.be/3w-ph46XYWQ

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I grew up in the 80s in a Southern California suburb. All the neighborhood kids used the transformer box as a meeting place. My first kiss was absolutely at one that looked really similar to this. I haven't thought about Becky C. in decades.

Another transformer box story:

Before helicopter parenting was standard, folks used to let their kids wander around the neighborhood pretty much as soon as they could talk. All the kids watched each other. 12 year olds hanging out with 4 year olds. When I was part of the older kids group, we had convinced the younger kids (the ones that couldn't yet read) that the transformer box was actually a trap that housed an electrical monster, thanks to this Mr. Ouch sticker:

I'm pretty sure the recent release of Ghostbusters had influenced this story and the acceptance of it.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The German words on the sign in the background support your observation

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Completely agree. In fact, if he dies before then, it's likely to have the opposite effect.

 

Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the next two months.

If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend.

Voting for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else make that decision for you.

That said, we have got to get out of this constant cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the present.

 

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