I think of “the line” as the event horizon around a black hole. You can recognize it from a distance, but it’s not like there’s a physical barrier you go through when you pass it. That means that if you were actually falling into the hole, you wouldn’t necessarily know when you’ve past the “point of no return.” It’s all just more freefall (and eventual spaghettification) from your point of view. Only those on the outside, looking in, could see that you’re already full and truly screwed.

I think we passed the event horizon long ago. Anyone talking about “going back to normal” (as I’ve seen some politicians say) is depressingly naive. There is no turning back - the only way out is through.

Former President Barack Obama stressed that “this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy.”

With all due respect sir, if our democracy were functioning for all of the people instead of just for the rich, people wouldn’t feel the need to vote with the ammo box.

simple man.

Bruh, wrong band. That’s from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

(In seriousness though, The War on Errorism provided a soundtrack to my youth.)

A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

They’ve got my vote.

Their critique is valid, what’s with all the assumptions? They’re pointing out additional details that enhance the darkness behind the message, not denying the original point. It’s not an exaggeration - it’s an observation. Different people notice different things. It’s an aspect of human diversity, and it’s supposed to be a good thing. Maybe it takes an artist’s eye to notice it, but the disembodiment of the girl can definitely be interpeted as a display of dehumanization toward their victims. Faceless, anonymous, they clearly see those girls as no more than sentient sex toys.

Are we so desperate to attack someone that we must complain when someone on our same side notices more than one shitty thing about our shared target? Are we not all in agreement that this is a really creepy card? It seems to me the real detraction here isn’t the new perspective provided, but the assumption that a new perspective only exists as part of some greater pro-Trump scheme.

Your comment led me down a rabbit hole. I don’t know much of actors - I suck with faces and my unmedicated ADHD makes watching movies a chore, so I rarely do it. That means there are a lot of names I hear that don’t have faces attached. Jodi Foster is one of them.

Starting at her Wikipedia page, I went Jodi Foster > Bugsy Malone > Scott Baio > a news article from 2016 about Nancy Mack, the wife of RHCP drummer Chad Smith, being accused of attacking Scott Baio at a children’s school function by imitating how Trump treats women.

I had never heard this story before, but found it morbidly interesting. It sounds to me like both sides were right - it was inappropriate, but that was the whole point.

Ooh, and I found an update!

Anyway, just thought that was interesting.

The way it lands would probably depend on context, including who the speaker is. Having a uterus and calling yourself a “potential host” is vastly different from someone else, for example RFK Jr, using the term to refer to others. One is a deliberate subversion of the expectation that anyone with a uterus is supposed to be pro “having babies.” The other can be straight-up dehumanization (depending on how it’s used.)

Being on the internet, where the sex and gender of a speaker aren’t always obvious, you’re probably making a wise choice by avoiding the term.

With all that said, as a uterus-haver, I still laughed when I read it. So… ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

that stupid fast pass plus bullshit

I went to Disney for the first time as an adult, on a college trip. The school handled all the logistics, including buying the tickets. I didn’t know about Fast Pass. Imagine what it was like to show up and find out not only that it’s ubiquitous and free (other theme parks I’ve been to only sold them as an upcharge, so I never would’ve considered getting it even if I’d heard of it), but that it’s also a thing you have to sign up for in advance.

I felt cheated. Yet, nobody seemed to care because everyone expected me to already know about it somehow. Excuse me for not being Disney-obsessed, for not living around Orlando, and/or for being too poor most of my life to afford going there. It seems the days of “buy ticket, go into park, get on ride” are long gone. I got there early, yet I went on a total of 3 rides that day: Space Mountain, the Haunted Mansion, and the frickin’ Small World ride (which was the only one without a line. It was just as bad as advertised.) There was no time for anything else, because the lines were insanely long and I was apparently the only person in the park who didn’t have some sort of Fast Pass.

That was over a decade ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s gotten even worse since then.

I learned this lesson when I was in middle school. Our school cafeteria sold students expired food. Not, “Oh it’s a few days late, these dates are estimates so it’s probably fine.” I mean food several months past dates, with obvious changes to consistency and taste. Two examples I vividly remember were moist cheetos and ice cream that looked like foam.

I thought it was disgusting and unsafe. I personally stopped trusting all such school cafeteria food from that point (and never touched it again.) My friends, however, didn’t seem to care? Somehow?

Every time a friend took a bite and asked, “Does this taste weird?” I’d examine the food. If it was a packaged food, I’d check the date. Every time, the expiration date would be from last semester. I know this, because at one point I started keeping records in a notebook about it.

But before I started doing that, I encouraged the affected friends to tell the lunch ladies and ask them to exchange the expired package for a fresher one. They refused to. They were terrified of “causing trouble.” I was like, “It’s just a simple exchange. I’ll go do it for you.” But they begged me to just stay there and say nothing, like the rest of them. They were so scared to potentially upset someone.

Must be quiet. Must behave. Must not dare consider speaking up for our own well-being, even if it means we must literally eat garbage.

I’ll give 'em this, the long-game authoritarians from the 90s and early 00s did a bang up job conditioning the kids to accept fascist rule in 2025. Want to know why so many Americans aren’t fighting back? Because we’ve been raised to accept this abuse. Many are active enforcers at worst, or spinelessly compliant bystanders at best. Anyone outside that spectrum is a trouble-maker that the first group would gladly make suffer (while the second group “minds their own business.”)

Being an adult involves tolerating a lot of things without externally reacting in the moment. There’s always an incompetent boss we can’t call out, or an insufferable family member that we still have to be nice to, or a neighbor that we have to somehow share a wall/fence with. We still get annoyed about things, we just save it for appropriate times and places. For example, frustration about ding dong ditching, could be shared on a post about ding dong ditching.

It’s sad it needs to be said, but calmly expressing an opinion online ≠ going overboard IRL.

Bruh, it sounds like you and OP are both on the same side. Like the point of this post is to kind of -nudge nudge- that “disobedient” thought that’s teetering on the edge of realization, without making a direct call for action. You call for it one way, they call for it another way, but both of you seem to be attempting to conjure the same idea.

Why in the world waste time complaining that your teammate isn’t using the same tactics as you? We have to stop letting arbitrary shit divide us. If we all have the same goal, we should be aiming toward it together.

They didn’t even read their own links. From the Wikipedia page they linked (emphasis mine) :

Inheritance has become more common among households, with 60% of surveyed households in 2022 having received, expecting to receive, or planning to leave inheritances. Wealthy individuals make up 1.5% of all households but constitute 42% of the expected transfers through 2045, approximately $35.8 trillion. The wealthiest 10% of households will give and receive the vast majority of the wealth, with the top 1% holding about as much wealth as the bottom 90%

First off, the background is based on surveys, not hard data of any type. Expecting an inheritance doesn’t mean being guaranteed to receive one. Where’s the actual data? Second, it’s painfully clear that this “great wealth transfer” is going to miss the vast majority of us. How OP could’ve read this and interpreted it to mean that Gen Y/Millennials are somehow, as a cohort, supposed to become super wealthy? I have no idea.

Then their CNN link, from its very first paragraph (again, emphasis mine) :

However, over the next twenty years, Millennials are poised to inherit some $90 trillion of assets and become the richest generation in history – but only the ones who already come from affluent families, potentially deepening wealth inequality further.

It’s just rich people doing rich people things. This inter-generational phrasing is propaganda to distract us from the real opposition, the ultra wealthy, who are holding all of us down regardless of our age.

There is no war but class war.

What will be different about Gen Y once they become the wealthiest generation in history?

😂

It was weird sometimes. Say you uploaded an image as a visual aid to a point being made on Reddit. It would make no sense without context, but you put it on Imgur because that’s what Imgur was made for. Shared on Reddit, the image successfully aided whatever you were trying to communicate. Mission accomplished!

But later you’d look back at the Imgur link, and find a bunch of annoyed Imgur-users complaining that your post made no sense.

I left Imgur when I left Reddit, since the only thing I ever used it for was hosting things to post on Reddit. Funny, I must have gotten spoiled to Lemmy instances self-hosting images, because I forgot Imgur even existed until I saw this post today.

Aw fuck. Why, man? Just why?

To those that don’t know, Snoop Dogg has been making a lot of material for kids lately. He has a YouTube channel (called “Doggyland”) designed for preschoolers. That means he actually does have an audience these days, even if they’re far too young for Lemmy.

I used to think, “Aw cute, becoming a granddad has inspired him to create educational videos. He even gets to explore his new Bow Wizzle fursona!” (I mean.)

But this, this takes back all the joy. I wouldn’t be surprised if some parents who hear about this decide to unsubscribe and/or block his channel.

This is how I first read the headline, too. It took a double-take to read it correctly.

Just looking at the wall behind the counter in 7-11 boggles my mind. Dozens of cigarette and dip brands (and now vape and nicotine pouches too), with most smokers having a preferred brand and style - they don’t buy anything except the one type they like. Which means the demand must be high enough for each of those products to justify keeping them fully stocked all the time. Then consider that every corner gas station and convenience store has the same set up, even if they’re all within walking distance from each other.

That’s a lot of tobacco/nicotine users.

I’m reminded of the phrase “Hoovervilles” which was used to describe the make-shift towns built during the presidency of Herbert Hoover at the start of the Great Depression. Apparently there were multiple terms named for Hoover in that vein:

Democrats coined other similar terms that were jabs at Herbert Hoover: “Hoover blankets” were old newspapers used as blanketing, a “Hoover flag” was an empty pocket turned inside out, “Hoover leather” was cardboard used to line a shoe when the sole wore through, and a “Hoover wagon” was an automobile with horses hitched to it (often with the engine removed).

Get ready to coin a new wave of disparaging terms for the things that Trump forces us to use to survive.

That’s true. I don’t disagree with you, I just think we’re reading this post differently.

Companies lie about their reasons all the time, especially when they claim they’re doing something for the environment. I interpreted this post as another example pointing out their hypocrisy, not as “this is the one and only thing companies lie about.”