Europe needs to follow the USian example. Shining city on a hill and all that. Get rid of all of your regulations and protections and Europe will be as great again as America! 🤡

The “Empires last 250 years” thing is bad history and not really supported by fact…but…

Installing BG3 is taking forever

Skill issue

Humming seems a bit odd. I wonder if those people are just humming to themselves.

I’ll do things like scuffing my feet, jingling my keys, or pretending to talk on my phone. I am a large guy and I naturally walk very quietly. I have scared quite a few women, and honestly, it is unpleasant for both of us.

BTW, thanks for the reminder to rewatch GalaxyQuest. It’s such a great movie.

TBF, they want everyone dead.

In the US we call that the National Guard. The state governor controls them. In no way are they for this sort of situation though.

I don’t care what the dictionary says. I’m telling you what every American means when they say “militia”: crazy fringe conspiracy theorists who spend a lot of time discussing “the Jew problem”.

“Hoarding” was just another example of American media blaming individuals for systemic problems. There are always a few idiots, but what actually happened was a breakdown in supply chains.

Same thing happens every time it snows. Stores have enough stock for X people to buy TP. When the whole neighborhood decides to stock up at the same time, they run out.

You can use it to rinse Grabthar’s Hammer if you want.

Companies used to train workers, now they just complain that workers aren’t pre-trained by some magical process. (And millennials are old enough that we’ve forgotten how dumb we were in our 20s.)

Hanna Barbara cartoon from the golden age of animation.

Your fundamental misunderstanding is that “militia” is a euphemism for “right wing domestic terrorist organization”. You won’t find them on Lemmy. There are a few small armed leftist organizations, but they wouldn’t call themselves militias and their mission is defending their communities. They understand that our government has always been tyrannical and a few guys with guns will just get themselves killed.

Don’t believe right wingers. (You can be forgiven for not knowing these were fringe right wing idiots. Media coverage tends to obscure that part.) They say they’re against government tyranny, but really they just hate brown people. (They meant the “tyranny” of having to sit at the same lunch counter as [slurs].) They love what is going on now.

I don’t think the person above meant anything by it, but if we’re just discussing grammar: if I say something is “my idea” that does suggest that I thought of it. It is reasonable to read the sentence that way, and Americans do have a tendency to reflexively think we are exceptional.

Both readings are perfectly cromulent.

Those are the gang tattoos we need to worry about.

Yes.

America has always been more or less of a fascist state, and this is not new activity, although it is worse and more brazen in a lot of ways. Civil Rights for ethnic minorities has always been pretty iffy.

30% of the country loves this shit, and another large fraction doesn’t even know it’s going on. A lot of us are working to try to change things. The media is not covering all of the demonstrations, but we definitely need more people to get angry.

Derek is a decent person, so you don’t have to worry about that.

I’m sorry–small, but necessary, correction:

The biggest player being Elon: His daughter, Vivian, has transitioned. And when his daughter called out Elon’s nazi wave as being legitimate, Elon tipped his hand by saying the woke killed his “son” and he is out to kill the woke mind virus.

The problem with that is that a guy who murdered his three kids is known for something.

At the most generous, maybe the professor in the article shares a name with the killer. Articles will include enough information to clear the professor (like maybe the killer has been in jail for a decade ). A LLM will weave together real information about the professor with the “fact” that he killed his kids.

ChatGPT shouldn’t be used to find any real information, period.

People thinking a glorified autocorrect is a source of factual information is horrifying.