It doesn’t matter the industry you’re in the Schmooze class will be there to make sure you have to bow to them.

It’s always hilarious how excited project managers are about sending their socially awkward developers to conferences like Pokémon off to battle

“Middle aged woman” fucking lol

Rigby would like to convey his appreciation that he was so well portrayed in a comic

I mean the lunar cycle is roughly 29 days with the argument that it’s 28 if you don’t count the new moon.

I realize this is a neat thought idea but it I think best demonstrates how easy it is to jump to conclusions.

Because teaching isn’t about having the smart kid demonstrate that they know the answer, it’s about getting the kid who doesn’t understand the question to engage and learn.

Any of you who may one day have children would do well to understand the above.

Solid points all around but I’d also like to add “it’s also the right thing to do”

Easiest way to not get hit with one of these is to fuck off back to Russia.

Gentle reminder that blocking the entire Lemmy.ml instance has made this place a lot less … tankie

🎶Got an old truck🎶

🎶Got some beer🎶

🎶Got an old dog🎶

🎶Got a weird sense of nationalism that won’t let me identify with anyone but people who look exactly like me🎶

In case anyone wonders, lizard people means “the Jews” in context.

They don’t actually think there are lizard people, they’re just extra othering Jewish people.

Someone put the number in her phone.

She isn’t sure how to navigate through the contact to get the number.

Something I learned as I got older and has drastically improved my relationships is to just answer the question as asked.

Japan isn’t actually demilitarized, they have gundams under the mountains.

Everyone knows this.

Plants having no nervous system is being challenged with the idea that the plant itself is its central nervous system.

They react to stimulus, they emit sounds (different ones when in “pain”), and communicate with each other.

They don’t have consciousness in a way we understand

I dont mean this as a “dunk” but more of a how neat is that

… I legit know folks at firaxis, I didn’t know this.

I’m gonna ask if it’s true lmaoo

Shame about the ears :(

The Gadsden flag, the snake, was a patriotic symbol during the American revolutionary war.

The snake in general was a common symbol used at the time with a famous (Franklin?) illustration of a snake in 13 pieces representing how the snake needs all 13 colonies to be whole.

The Gadsden flag was the “13 pieces of the snake united, coiled and dangerous” with its “don’t step on me” motto. This flag despite being anti-government oppression was actually supposed to represent the strength in our unity (sad they now use it to divide).

The blue line flag is part of a movement that implies that the police are the only thing holding back chaos from society. It’s designed to mean the flag only exists because police keep society existing. This has and was always been a load of shit but now has moved more into meaning “our side is the side who makes stuff work” and sliding even further into a fascist strongman style ethos.

Both are now effectively just “brands” of the American conservative right.

The thin blue line flag is supposed to support police, the weapon of the state. But the Gadsden flag represents that “they can’t or won’t be oppressed.” The Gadsden flag made a big comeback during the Bush years and the spread of a more “(what they called) libertarian” sect of the American right. Which frankly is bullshit because it’s an American symbol not the hate symbol they’ve coopted it into these days.

It’s a grab bag of US conservative branding but all in all on the surface you can make a measured bet that this person complains very hard about the taxes other people pay, don’t understand civics at a fundamental level, and likely while pretending they aren’t they are supremely racist.

You could equate these two flags to be the equivalent of someone flying a Thor Steinar logo flag in europe.

A better idea of how dumb this is would be imagine someone driving down the road in 2250 flying a Brexit flag and a EU flag on their truck

… what does it mean‽‽‽‽

By shifting what you sell to “this bad boy can disperse your targeted package across an area x by y in z time frame” instead of “we can turn the entire school to rubble” you help them sleep at night.

There’s also folks like me who came, 15 years on Reddit and I haven’t been back.

Those of us who actually interacted with the platform and left aren’t going back.

China is really refining capitalism into its own new monster.

Idk who’s capitalism monster scares me the most now.