great point. The orange should also be just the front of his face. the edges and neck should be his naturally translucent un-oranged wrinkly skin.

qanon is wildly conservative.

and what’s homophobic to you about two guys kissing?

very well could be.

I did not realize that graffiti was based on an actual photograph.

Good article.

I appreciate that this was the photo the bbc chose to express German concern over US Russian relations;

holy moly that is some serious ice cream hardware.

i prefer gelato to ice cream, does your ninja really mix it so different as to clearly make one or the other?

truth.

truth.

have you tried using an immersion blender to make an airy iced pudding?

I haven’t, but i like banana ice cream and just thought of this last week, and I’ve been obsessed with the idea for days.

what a great game, good call

the municipality asks civil engineers, who ask their computer, then forward the results back to the municipality.

usually the public has a window where they can offer input.

if nobody checks or notices anything weird, they start allocating funding and you have your bus stops whenever they have time and funds to build them.

i like civil engineers, and a lot of them seem to care about their jobs, but their jobs have a lot of restrictions and regulations, so not everybody will be happy with the results.

and more will follow, thank goodness

Rump bragged he would basically sabotage the utility of weapons and equipment the US sells to allies.

“am I just imagining some idealistic version of the past that never existed”

yup.

Americans have always been this stupid, but stupid people aren’t the problem.

everyone is stupid, greedy, or otherwise morally corrupt at some point or another or in some situation or another, that’s why legal rights and protections were so important, to keep the playing field level and the trains running on time when the assholes wanted to run riot.

the successful conservative suppression of civil rights and removal of restrictions on corporate and wealthy political stuff civil activity, particularly the allowance by the Supreme Court of money to dictate political action, has removed the guardrails that used to protect the stupid and keep corrupt people in line.

what a great handle.

BananashapedLemon

foam retardants aren’t effective? is the battery burning too hot?

oh definitely, I’ve been searching for these numbers forever, I didn’t really know where to ask. I think I tried Ask Lemmy once but no dice

thank you so much! it’s great to know that the national distribution is so wide, even considering those statistical biases.

thank you smjarf.

I am so curious how large the furry population is in general compared to the demographics on Lemmy.

I’m also curious about the country distribution on lemmy.

I don’t care about your hallucinations or your combat mode.

All you have to do is thoughtfully respond with accurate comments, and then you won’t get turned around by your “combat mode”.

If you agree with me, then don’t pretend I said things I didn’t to argue against them.

just say you agree or be quiet.

“Harris is better than Trump.”

…it’s demeaning to Harris to say she’s better than a rapist. most violent drug addicts are better than a rapist.

“But they will never give you freedom, they don’t want to.”

I mean, ridiculous.

I know, it’s a cool meme right now, but totally ridiculous.

“You need something more radical”

no one brought up Harris until you did .

I’m backing AOC and Bernie; if you don’t recognize their radical political nature, you do not understand the first word of what you’re talking about.

which, I suppose, evident here:

“Then, and ONLY then, will things change.”

things are changing right now, it sucks. you don’t need things to change, you need things to get better. stop looking for radical Solutions when AOC and Bernie are telling you the very normal everyday solutions that take a lot of work to get done.

those solutions work, those Solutions are better education funding, universal healthcare, money out of politics.

it’s not fun or a good meme, but those are the real answers and you have two people who are telling you what to do and how to do it if you really care about making things better.

I’ll tell you, I backpack between cities regular, and a lot of those agricultural towns don’t even have police stations.

every time someone, including myself quotes the population of China, (officially 1.4 billion), I think about the huge towns in the middle of nowhere that I’ve been to and think “or maybe 2 billion”

“You need me to recap this exchange…?”

nope, I did that for you a couple comments above.

“as they saw China, the country, as in the regime, as dangerous”

you are making things up. That is not what @DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee said.

@DicksAndPizza@lemm.ee said:

"I hate the culture”, “I hate Chinese culturue”, “fuck China”, “I hate the whole thing”

The whole thing, sport. The people, the culture, the whole thing.

After I pointed out this was racist, DP was quick to change his tune, and say he hated everything about China, specifically the culture, except the people.

Hating culture or thinking one is superior to another is racism, especially when you know so little about the culture except the people who make it up.

Quick def for you: “Cultural racism is a concept that has been applied to prejudices and discrimination based on cultural differences between ethnic or racial groups. This includes the idea that some cultures are superior to others”

“Your concern was their apparent racism”

Yeah, I don’t like racism so I call it out when it occurs. Usually it stems from ignorance, and they just have to be called out to be woken up.

“criticizing this position of your,”

not my position, you’re making this up.

" personally find America snd China’s regimes parallels,"

absolutely absurd, as I explained above. but it’s good you changed your tune to: “although ideologically opposite”, which is still incorrect but more open-minded.

See, all I have to do is call you guys out and you start thinking more critically.

“without addressing a single point of it”

Which part do you want more help on? I have a lot of time and am free to continue correcting and educating you.

“without addressing a single point of it”

clearly not true, and you know it:

“except for…”

except for addressing every single point. With verifiable knowledge.

“I’ve already deemed this a closed argument”

Oh, clearly, it’s so closed you needed to write paragraphs rewriting yours and others’ comment history and reframing their racism.

“Be well, have a good one.”

Thanks, I’m having a GREAT one!

I have to get all your uninformed false starts out of the way somehow.