There’s a bit in one of the Expanse novels where one of the main characters is remembering a dog he’d lost as an adolescent. The dog laid down and one of his parents explained what was happening. He vowed to remain at it’s side until it’s last breath, but after three hours he was just bored.

That bit always stuck with me.

If two parties are at odds with one another, and one on them is willing to use violence and the other isn’t, the violent party wins.

Non violence works when people care about what you’re going through. If the right people know and care they’ll come in and do violence for you to make it stop. Or at least verifiably threaten violence. But violence is happening whether you did it or not.

Nazis don’t give a shit about you, they’re eager for violence. They want to exterminate entire classes of people. Non violence does not work on Nazis, we’ve already seen this play out once before.

785/10. Would pet.

Lake Tahoe is a mispronunciation of a native word that kinda means lake. Lake Michigan is literally lake large lake. There’s a lake in the UK called lake semerwater which literally means lake lake lake.

The list is quite extensive.

Fun fact, Chad means lake. This is one of many Lake Lakes

This was a different person. They’d taken a username of someone popular in a number of communities on Reddit and were purporting to be that person.

There was, back when I was active there. Around the time I migrated to Lemmy there was some drama and I believe that user was suspended. I don’t check it frequently enough anymore to know if there’s a current Picard maneuver surrogate.

I grew up in the 80s and 90s. I like new music.

This is the type of music Joe Montegna was bitching about in Airheads. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just so… Bland?

That’s exactly what it is. I’m not sure who’s jam it is, but it’s hard to like, hate it.

But think about who cool and mysterious you’d look with a cape!

“That guy surely fucks” they’ll say as you walk by. “What a handsome and mysterious fellow” they’ll happily exclaim. If only you had the will, the enormous cajones to pull it off. Oh your life would change my friend, your life would change

I go through a lot of no sugar propel. Probably more than I should? But it’s good.

I read this in Majel Barret’s voice and you can’t take that away from me

Computer, can you expand on the last point please

Puffins can fly???

I think that eiher, we fundamentally misunderstand gravity at a quantum level, and we are seeing all of the matter there is, but can’t anyway calculate gravity with our current understanding of it, or, we fundamentally misunderstand how time, gravity, and space interact.

Economics is purely based on assumption, at it’s core. There’s no proof the assumption is true, and recent trends seem to point towards it being false.

Economics assumes people are rational spenders.

But the “economy” is often just represented by the stock market, which is both not rational, and not a good measure of the economy. It’s a great indicator of how much wealth is being extracted from the working class, but it’s shit at representing how most of the money is being spent.

I am out to revoke degrees from chiropractors.

Giving them a degree is like calling myself a writer because I post bullshit comments on Lemmy.

It followed the spirit of the request gracefully, I appreciate you

Ok what’s the joke in 50 words or fewer?

He’s “training to be a manager” which is manager speak for “I have nothing concrete to offer you, here’s an empty promise”