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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by stanleytweedle@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Everyone has a dream, /u/JonsJava has achieved theirs.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by stanleytweedle@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

I just want a 'dear leader' like the fascists have, is that so wrong?

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 111 points 6 months ago

"We're so in sync! I bet our social security numbers are almost the same- what's yours?"

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Rewatched this weekend and it's such a great film and I wish more people knew about it. If you love music and sci-fi you'll probably love this film.

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The idea that human personalities and behaviors can be sorted into two simplistic piles or even a scale between two piles is just silly.

There's no predictive value to it- you can't objectively classify\quantify people's 'vertion' and then predict behaviors or outcomes based on those classifications, not even statistically from a large sample set because it's meaninglessly subjective.

People are complex. Someone might appear 'introverted' in a social situation they're unfamiliar with, but in a different setting my appear 'extroverted' because they're very comfortable.

And some will say "social interactions give energy to extro and take it from intro" but what the hell does 'energy' mean in that context anyway? If I go to a small party with close friends all talking about sci-fi I'll enjoy myself all night and feel refreshed, but I'd be exhausted after 30 minutes at a rave and need a week to recover.

And do people migrate between intro-extro throughout their life? In my 20's I felt compelled to meet and experience new people all the time but now in my mid-40's I don't really care and tend to stick to the people I know. Does that mean I turned more introverted at some point? That's why even as a personality scale it's nonsense.

It's all just Myers-Briggs for dummies, which is already for dummies.

The only way it makes sense is as a description of immediate behavior, not of a personality. Someone may be 'behaving in an introverted way' but saying that makes them an 'introvert' is nonsense because they may go somewhere else and behave in an extroverted way an hour later.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 117 points 6 months ago

"how do I vote for the yellow line"

By voting towards the yellow line...

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 100 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm not a marketing person but maybe they should try making an OS people actually want.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 103 points 7 months ago

Carney succeeded Virginia A. Phillips as Chief Judge of the Central District of California on June 1, 2020.[8] However, he stepped down on June 26, 2020 in light of allegations that he had made racially insensitive comments regarding the Clerk of the Court, Kiry Gray, who is African American. Carney referred to Gray as "street smart" and telling her "it was not like I was the police officer standing on your neck."[35][36][37] Carney apologized to Gray for the remark.

Casually racist... shocking...

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 216 points 7 months ago

The incident bears similarities to what is known as a “rough ride,” a term used to describe police placing a detained person in the back of a van, without a seatbelt, and then driving erratically. The term came to mass prominence after the controversial 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, who suffered severe injuries as he was being transported in a police van.

Wish we could stop tip-toeing around it. This was clear extrajudicial punishment but everyone from cop to judge will pretend it's some kind of accident or misunderstanding and ignore the totally systemic source of the problem- that cops have zero accountability.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean... it's supposed to be a 'beauty contest' so why shouldn't they compete?

Not that I don't think the entire concept of a competition over beauty is stupid, but they exist, so why not just see who wins?

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 130 points 1 year ago

I still don't know what 'woke' means except it's like the opposite of the 'moral values' bullshit Republican's spewed before it became impossible for even Republicans to ignore that is was complete bullshit.

So basically they gave up campaigning on their own morality and decided to campaign against a made-up immorality instead... I guess if they've ruled out just not being morally bankrupt this is actually a good strategy.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

Amazing to me that we're still talking about how to hold this fucker accountable while he's gearing up for the next election.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago

r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit. The new r/place features we are introducing this year are only on our mobile apps and moderators can opt out of these if they want to.

This seems kind of desperate.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago

it would allow unfettered gender-affirming care.

OH MY GOD!!! THE HORROR!!!

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 111 points 1 year ago

Because his name is 'Biden' and a significant number of people operate at a sort of Pavlovian word-association level.

[-] stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 172 points 1 year ago

'Despite' seems out of place here. Those 30M users didn't sign up 'despite' the flaws, they give no fucks about how flawed their social media is.

Like me saying I eat bacon sandwiches despite the health consequences.

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Not just free because you borrowed them but does anyone go out of their way to find books authors have released for free? If so where do you find interesting\quality titles?

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Almost feel sorry for this guy, working so hard to create an echo chamber all by themselves.

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