EVERYONE sees through the bullshit

Group 1 is MAGA and lying is fun to them. Truth is meaningless and the cruelty is the point. Trump could say “sike I lied” tomorrow and they would not care one single bit.

Group 2 is the rest of the GOP, too scared to say anything and with no incentive to do so anyway.

Group 3 is “enlightened centrists” aka “why should I care about the rise of fascism for I am not a Jew”.

Group 4 is dems too scared to say literally anything because it might scare away swing voters or rile up Trump’s base. I guess focus groups have shown it’s more effective to let him dig his own grave and look like a bumbling fool than intervene and fight him on his truthless turf?

Group 5 is us, shouting into the void.

So The New York Times will be banned with extreme prejudice for doxxing F1nn5ter the other day, right Anakin?

Anakin?

Yet another day where I get to use the “sound cleverer than I am” cheat code by just randomly inserting French words in my English.

It’s not. You have the “explore” tab which is more like “today’s viral toots” (which tend to be a lot more varied than Lemmy’s “All/Top 24h” since Lemmy is a link aggregator and doesn’t really lend itself to jotting down thoughts or diatribes), and you have your personal timeline which is people you actively follow. It’s not a cafeteria, it’s your RSS feed.

Where it gets shouty is in replies, especially as those get federated weirdly. But that’s only a problem for the few percent of users who are making content, not for consumers.

We do that all the time to diagnose cancer.

Except the glow is gamma rays from radioisotopes that clump up in fast replicating cells (i.e. tumors) but potato potato, do you want your insides to glow or not?

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I mean, they’re close enough to French. As a Belgian, it pains me to admit that they probably originated in Paris anyway, though we perfected the recipe (and they’re called French fries in American English for a different reason).

At that point he’d outed himself as an asshole to the general public, but he still got big results with SpaceX and Tesla. That incident could have been lost to time and a legacy of undeniable successes.

Hyperloop is where things went cuckoo-bananas business-wise IMO. The delays and broken promises at Tesla were weird, but anyone who’d heard of subways could tell the whole hyperloop thing was doomed to fail, and it became increasingly obvious to anyone who read tech headlines that he wasn’t just any asshole, but a clueless asshole.

It’s crazy to me that they felt the need to include safety instructions lol. Handmade Filet Américain for sure I’d eat same-day or at most next day, but the store-bought variety uses preservatives and can last for 3 days in the fridge no problem.

Americans be acting like beef is like fugu or something, but if fresh raw beef gives you E. Coli you need to be suing people! My understanding is this pathological phobia of raw meat goes back to the mid-20th century where long supply chains and untrustworthy cold chains led to the advice that all meat had to be done well, but that’s outdated advice that would not develop nowadays. Red meat just can’t go bad that fast at 4°C, so if the supplier is trusrworthy there’s no issue.

Brits have kind of the same thing with electrical plugs in bathrooms, they’re scared to death of them and you can’t convince them it’s safe and that the rest of the world does it just fine. Interesting how there are these localized “fear islands” around certain topics that people take for granted.

Belgium and Northern France have Filet Américain (American Filet). So an American dish right? Well no, it’s raw ground beef, basically the last thing most Americans will ever willingly eat. Here it’s basically the default sandwich topping.

What if instead of aggressively going off on people we consider that they may have valid experiences shaping their worldview, and that their point is not even necessarily opposed to ours anyway?

I haven’t seen anyone here “support Israel”. Almost everyone agrees that the Israeli State is not free of guilt, far from it.

What people really disagree over is whether that alone makes Palestine right (nuanced) and whether it justifies Hamas’ actions (unhinged but unfortunately semi-common take on here).