mriswith

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[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No.

The vast majority of ADHD memes made by self-diagnosed people who have no idea how it actually works.

They're the same as the type of people who claim they have OCD because they like to clean up right after eating. While in reality people with severe OCD can end up standing outside their front door in the rain and get soaking wet for 20min, because they have to unlock the door in pattern they can't get right.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

I am surprised to not see used much more yet

It's because a huge amount of people in leadership positions around the world still think they can just keep their head down and pretend nothing bad is happening.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Such a profoundly dense thing to post, it could have only been made up by an American. How can anyone have such compartmentilized view of history is truly beyond me, unless of course they are incredibly ignorant or some kind of Putin’s lapdog,

It's mostly narcissism with some ignorance.

I used to hang out in alternative communities. And if you listen to people who promote full communism as a good way to run a society, you realize that their entire proposition hinges on there being no "evil" people. Their mind seems to operate on the idea that their society will be so perfect that there wont be any corrupt people who lie, steal, cheat and try to take advantage of others or if they are they will instantly and always be caught.

Same thing with anarchists. They love to talk all flowery and nice about their mostly anarchist commune with 10 people. And just dismiss the idea that it wouldn't work with 10 million.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I know people love to repeat that on social media, but he did technically win the popular vote.

Harris: 75,017,613

Trump: 77,302,580

https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/2024presgeresults.pdf

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They're not doing anything because they are complicit. The DNC and the majority of Democrats are completely fine with fascism as long as it does not impact themselves.

It's not even a question anymore, every single House Democrat proved it recently by voting in favor of the "Take it Down" act.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

At the end of the day they're just selfish.

My favorite example is the "Free Town Project", where a bunch of libertarians from all over the country tried to take over a town in New Hampshire. After they managed to force through cuts to everything from firefighting to street lights, they had a single police officer left. And he couldn't respond to any calls, because his cruiser was broken and they refused to pay for repairs so crime rose and sex offenders started moving there.

Then came the bears.

They didn't pay for any sort of forest ranger and the cop couldn't respond. So bears started getting close and some people spent years feeding them, while their neighbors walked around armed at all times and would shoot at bears on-sight. Which led to the first black bear on human attack in the state for over a century, where a woman was attacked inside her own home. And shortly after two other attacks happened in nearby towns. So the people went into the forest one night and allegedly shot and killed a dozen bears, which didn't help. Some people suggested the city put bear protection on the trash cans, but it was not passed and was called "government overreach" by others.

So the freedom loving libertarians who moved to a town without zoning laws to live in improvised housing and roam free without laws, ended up having to put up big fences and walls around their homes to keep the bears out.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago

Yes...?

It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

At this point, if a news outlet or politician refuse to call it what it is, I assume they actually approve.

So far it's most of them across the world.

[–] mriswith@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yeah that's how it goes.

Just earlier today I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying figure out an issue where the classic "debug print" didn't give the correct value. And as is often the case, I had forgot to change print to the new test variable.