Holy shit… How can you rightly identify that the US military (and the US government’s use of said military) is evil, and that killing people for their ideas just spreads those ideas, but then somehow come to the conclusion that public health mandates during a pandemic are unconstitutional and “billionaires in this country got rich by actually serving their fellow man”?

Fucking hell, the propaganda machines are in overdrive.

Appreciate a veteran telling kids not to join the military. (Assuming this was written by an actual veteran, and isn’t just fictional propaganda.)

The rest is idiotic corpo bootlicking unrelated to the topic.

I’m starting to give legitimate consideration to the question, “Are they trying to lose?”

I know, “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence”, but… Come on! At what point is it no longer an “adequate explanation”?!

Normandy. Launching attacks on fascists for 80 years.

I somehow don’t think we’ll find a site that breaks down every purchase the government has made, let alone one that specifically detects and highlights corruption.

So I guess the official budgets are the best I can do to helpfully answer the question. Sorry.

I haven’t had my blood boil like reading that McConnell piece.

I can’t even put the rage into words.

Just did a quick search, “interactive chart of us state and federal budgets”.

Found this government site for federal budgets: https://www.cbo.gov/interactives

For instance, here’s a page with charts for the 2023 federal budget: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59727

I would hope similar sites exist for most, if not all, of the states.

I want to see this variation of a zombie movie.

Patient zero is a prominent politician.

His handlers continue to puppet him, because they already spent so much on his campaign.

Followers literally line up to be bitten and infected.

Imagine how hard it would be to resist wording things in the Imperative just… Accidentally.

You get frustrated, yell “Shut up!” at someone in passing, and that person is now mute unless you realize your mistake and undo it.

To confirm what you mean by “I’m a conservative”, which of these commonly held “conservative” beliefs (each which implies a lack of empathy) do you not subscribe to (i.e. “I don’t think like that…”)

• Black people only get harassed by police more often because they commit more crime.
• Gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry.
• Women should not have the choice of abortion.
• The state is allowed to infringe upon free speech to prevent you from telling children about gay people.
• Foreigners are ruining this county.
• Climate change is a lie.
• COVID was a lie.
• Contemporary statues honoring Confederate traitors and slave owners are “honored cultural heritage”.
• All corporate media lies about Donald Trump, except that corporate media which supports him.
• Rich people earned all that money, and we have no right to take it back, or to limit how they use it.

Might subcategorize, like “Frankensteinian irony.”

That, or she should be named “Mary” instead, I guess.

Confidence? Not so much. But it’s less a fear of rejection, and more a fear of upsetting someone.

In short, my thought process goes like this:

• Approaching women can make them uncomfortable.
• I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.
• Therefore, I don’t approach women.

I basically limit myself to online dating, but as we all know, that’s a shit show unless you’re in the top 10% on the scale of attractiveness. And so I’ve been single 10+ years.

Currently somewhere around 10 years single.

I struggle with social cues, anxiety, etc.

It’s lonely.

Golly! Three whole data points?! Now we are cooking with gas!

/s

You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it’s 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

EDIT:

Also, that’s only a difference of 7%, so it’s not even that drastic.

EDIT2:

Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?

The Brood War remaster was actually pretty good, too. It was the last Blizzard product I bought.

As disappointing as it is to see it end, 5 seasons is a decent run, and I’d rather it end before they “jump the shark” or just fizzle out.

I’ve seen “tankie” in leftist discussions on multiple sites for ages before I joined Lemmy.

Just because its a real word with a wiki page doesn’t make it any less annoying […]

And just because you first encountered a word in some place doesn’t mean that word originated in that place.

I’m with the above commenter. I’ve worked at many companies of various sizes, from small local shops up to international corporations, including at least one contractor for the US military.

Every one of them had rules and policies and training on security, to varying degrees. But at every one of them, I’d find some vulnerability, or instance where someone was neglecting security. Each time, I’d bring it to the attention of someone in management. Each time (with one company as exception), those warnings would be “heard” and “passed up the chain”, and then nothing would happen. Only one company in 20 years of work actually fixed a security issue I found. And no company I’ve ever worked for was leak proof.

In my experience, until it threatens to cost a company much more money in losses than it would cost to fix the problem, but said problem will not get fixed. That’s profit motive. And often it seems they’d rather roll the dice until a loss occurs, and then (maybe) fix the issue.

I used to believe this, but recent incidents have exposed systemic issues in engineering and QA at at least one major US aerospace manufacturer.