[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 30 points 2 months ago

"I'm regretting hiring you now. Don't call me outside of work."

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[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 27 points 3 months ago

What you don't know is that 80 year old voted for decades to dissolve social safety nets.

So now he gets to more my lawn.

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 30 points 3 months ago

More like the judge saying, "I know this is a pretty cut and dry legal case, but I'm gonna do my part for my team."

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[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 58 points 4 months ago

You say it was a coincidence, but how do we know that his name didn't encourage his invention?

Maybe if his name was Thomas Cureforcancer we would be living in a very different world.

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submitted 4 months ago by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world
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This fact has been cited in countless environmental reports and NEPA documentation.

Granted it's described as "small c" catholic, so it's unclear in the documentation whether or not it recognizes the papal authority of the Bishop of Rome.

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 25 points 4 months ago

Talk about lying with statistics. The Y-axis isn't labeled and the far end of the chart is still 47% of humans in extreme poverty.

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 33 points 4 months ago

It's so funny to me how badly people want this to be some nefarious governmental conspiracy. Listen, the government already has much better tools to track you online. Your computer has, on a hardware level, sent unique identifiers to ISPs and websites since Pentium IIIs. This age requirement thing isn't a government conspiracy to track you, they already track you.

It is a *corporate *conspiracy. It's Meta and other major websites, games, and applications companies that want to off load their liability. Meta and Alphabet just lost major lawsuits for their negligence in protecting kids on their own websites. There is a liability dam about to break for these companies and schools and other advocacy groups start their own lawsuits. That's what this is about. That's the real conspiracy.

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[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 22 points 4 months ago

Several capsules are designed to effectively and safely land on land.

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 25 points 4 months ago

This is my go to evidence that the whole beliefs that real estate values always increase is absurd.

If real estate prices always increase, even modestly, then an apartment in Rome or Paris would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars. Obviously that's not the case, and since land speculation isn't exactly a new thing, there is a correction somewhere.

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submitted 4 months ago by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/religion@lemmy.world

I just watched a YouTube video about the false narrative that there is a Gen Z revival in American Churches. https://youtu.be/l7Y-AF-Zt0Y. I've long been very interested in how Religion and Culture interact, and I'm sure YouTube knows that and fed me this video because if that.

What I found very interesting is at the end of the video the guy pitches raising money for his humanist ~~church~~ community center. I'm old enough to remember (and participated in) the rapid ramp up of the non-denom movement in the 90's and 00's. I can't tell you how many "We've outgrown our building" fund raising drives I've seen in my life. That's literally what he is pitching. 😂

This dude literally is the same guy as every one of those non-denom church planters. (If I'm willing to be generous) He's a young, talented, ambitious guy with a real dream to help build communities for people. Good for him. (If I'm more cynical, then I know his kind too.)

But, even generously, he's falling for the exact same trap all of the non-denom church planters fall for. If his private community center (or another like it) attracts enough growth, then it will become attractive to corrupt people. That's a given. 100% going to happen.

I just find it so fascinating to see this cycle happen all over again, literally repeating the exact same language. (I don't know the guy and don't know if he just doesn't know what he's doing, or if he knows good and well what he's doing. Could be either.)

(I don't at all disagree with the thesis of his video. I've been an active Christian my whole life and it's really obvious there is not any kind of contemporary revival going on. )

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submitted 4 months ago by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/parenting@lemmy.world
[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 64 points 5 months ago

Is anyone surprised? I mean, did you guys think it was really a $300 million dollar ballroom?

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 50 points 5 months ago

If Texas became it's own nation, it would probably become a cross between Russia and Switzerland. It would quickly develop a highly centralized oligarchy, basically operating off of oil and gas exports, while still having good relationships with it's larger neighbors and have beneficial tax policies.

It would become a great safe place for super rich people to hide money while it's actual population declines economically.

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submitted 5 months ago by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/parenting@lemmy.world

I'm constantly amazed that scouts isn't more popular with families. I'm a huge supporter of the whole worldwide program (particularly Scouting America and the Girl Scouts in the US).

Yes, let's all acknowledge that there were past abuses that the Boy Scouts ignored and covered up. But, primarily due to the lawsuits associated with those abuses, Scouting America has instituted a lot of really strong child protection policies that arguably make it the safest youth program anywhere.

It's a really great, comparatively cheap, program that offers amazing opportunities to kids and families.

If you find yourself having trouble making friends as an adult, I really recommend looking into it.

[-] 1dalm@lemmy.today 24 points 5 months ago

Liberals like to conveniently forget that being a white woman is also a very privileged position in our society.

Most White women want to maintain their privileged position too.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by 1dalm@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Okay you are ready to take a stand for freedom!

You are going to use an OS that isn't going to bend the knee and comply with age verification laws. I solute you, comrade!

Here are the likely consequences of your choice:

The Feds aren't coming after you. You aren't going to be out on a watch list.

What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says "Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled "Everyone"."

That's basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to "kid friendly" areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.)

That's the real driver of these laws. Facebook and other app producers know that the days where they can just shrug off child predators using their products is coming to and end. Regardless of your opinion on age verification is as a solution, child predators are a real world problem and it's not just the parents fault. The platforms have some responsibility too.

Which is exactly what Facebook and the others specifically don't want -responsibility for their own platforms. That's why they are pushing for these laws that off load their responsibility onto the OS makers. Then they can just say "Oh, we don't have any responsibility for this child being abused in our platform. We asked the OS what the user's age was and the OS reported 18+. What else could we have done?"

So, that's the consequence if you choose to use an OS that refuses to comply. You'll just be relegated to the kid friendly version of website, games, and applications.

(On the other hand, if your OS chooses to falsely report to a website or an app an age for a child that is abused, then the OS should also be held responsible. But at that point you can go ahead and blame the parents too for letting their child use an OS that isn't safe for them to use.)

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