it's not 20-30% of them, it's +20-30 net percentage points which means a majority or at least plurality want it (eg if 60% of ppl support it, 30% are against it, 10% don't know, then 60% - 30% = +30 pts)
mar_k
joined 2 years ago
capitalism breed innovation
probably had a bunch of assholes spending weeks making a 300 page marketing report on why they chose roboto over arial while earning 7 figures
the other day my 70s born dad got pissy when i asked him if movie theaters had color when he was a teenager
people who say that have either never owned a cat or never truly tried to bond with theirs. my cat rubs on me and purrs when i'm crying, guards the bathroom door when i'm taking a shit, and freaks out meowing and scratching on the door like i'm drowning when i shower
she also has full on separation anxiety from me even though my mom's the one who feeds her and stuff. the first couple weeks i was away for college she got depressed and full on neglected herself, not eating as much and looking mangy because she barely groomed herself. last time she heard my voice over the phone she meowed and searched the house all confused :/
communism is when the government does stuff. communist = authoritarian. aspiring strongman leader = communist
implied that natural gas was a renewable energy source
literally something i've only heard from ultraconservative climate denialists
"This debate swayed my vote"
1 in 4 yes
do they just..not know what sway means?
most americans are heavy into the "we do not negotiate with terrorists" fantasy
she's an immigrant who was raised by muslim refugee parents, definitely about to be fodder for swiss fash who'll ignore the fact she's agnostic
i'm expecting to see dozens of social media clips captioned "Kamala served BRAT 💚🥥" and edits of her to charli xcx and other mediocre popstars
phone or work phone that gives email notifications? i feel like that'd be a lot more convenient seeing they could wait 5 minutes vs having to immediately drop whatever they're doing for a call
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federal congressman btw 💀
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cognitive decline of 20 percentage points
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My East German grandma mailed us a bunch of her and my late grandpa's DDR memorabilia 💪
(hexbear.net)
love my Oma, she's turning 90 next week (born 1934!) and was the first person I came out as bi to. Defo hanging one or two of these up in my dorm
Whenever people imply communism = lack of incentive for human greatness, I think about how my grandparents had lower class parents and were extremely poor (even starving) in their post-war childhood, but ended up leading pretty impressive lives, despite knowing they wouldn't live much above the material reality of their neighbors for it.
My grandma was an interior architect and my grandpa an astrophysics professor and professional photographer. Both were gymnasts in their 20's (my grandpa has a couple medals below). They didn't do any of that shit for luxury, they figured they'd lead a modest life in the standard plattenblau housing block as the other working people of their town (small but cute and cozy apartment, I was there not too long ago), and that's what they wanted.
They never needed to drive a car in their lives, and often visited countries across the Eastern Bloc by bike/public transit. My grandma always had a thing for making fruit preserves and cool pottery (still killing it), and my grandpa for art from wood carving (he was also a mountain climber). They had a nice community garden they always tended to too. It's a beautiful town with a lot to see, honestly can't wait to visit again
My mom was 19 when the Berlin Wall fell. She studied english abroad when everything went to shit under capitalism. Ended up moving to the US just because she met my dad. Usually when she tells an American she grew up in the DDR, they look all shocked and ask some insane shit like if she was starving to death, or if she knew anyone who was shot and killed trying to climb the wall (💀⁉️). Certainly no one was starving by the 70s/80s. My mom and all her friends and acquaintances had great childhoods. She had a small town, middle of nowhere school system that pushed sports, music, art, multilingualism, sciences, etc. on her heavily (when I did track and field in high school she always told me how her school's facility was 10x better lmao). The DDR fostered genuine human greatness. But ig they didn't have bananas at grocery stores and a hundred car brands like the west 🤷♂️
https://nitter.net/lucydacus/status/1682149257015595008
Haven't really gotten into much of her music with boygenius (she's with Phoebe Bridgers), but "Night Shift" is like my favorite sad indie rock song, amazing build up
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phone's browser (safari) had 1.2GB of website data in my local storage, nearly 1.1GB of that was hexbear??
when i deleted the hexbear data safari took up 90% less storage, have i just been that much of a chronic lurker or is more data being stored than should be? i promise i use other websites