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dojan , 25 days ago to Microblog Memes in You know it in your heart to be true

Proboscis!

dojan , 26 days ago to News in Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit

I don’t see why she couldn’t take the money and get off the jury. It’s not like the briber is entitled to illegal money. At that point she could just make sure the money ends up where it needs to go.

dojan , 29 days ago to Technology in The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates

The golden gate bridge is so far away from me. I don't know what to do to cure depression. :(

dojan , 30 days ago to Science Memes in Miracle cures

Does turmeric need to be a miraculous panacea? Isn’t it enough that it’s delicious?

dojan , 30 days ago to Political Memes in "Socialism is when LGBT folk are given human rights"

I’m okay with the MAGA types drinking themselves to death. At least then most of them won’t vote.

dojan , 30 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

Honestly I support this. You probably deserve money more than all those billionaires that are currently profiting off them.

dojan , 30 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

Right. There are so many links in this chain that could cause the entire thing to break. Corruption in the verification bodies. Fake credits. Deception about actually buying credits.

We’re talking really large sums of money too. Like if I take an aeroplane I can tack on a significant sum to “offset” my fare, and I have absolutely no guarantee that that money doesn’t just end up in the CEOs pockets.

Sure, the company could say “of course we won’t just take the money and run”, and as we all know, companies never lie.

dojan , 30 days ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Corporations invested in carbon offsets that were ‘likely junk’, analysis says

I mean yeah, no shit. The idea that you could buy off your carbon footprint was always ridiculous. It reminds me of letters of indulgence.

Are there legit credits? Yeah probably, but who is overseeing it? What’s stopping a polluter from faking it?

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

You too!

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

Yeah, I mean it's easier to do online since generally I move in fairly sex-positive circles. With my in-person friend it was because I misheard what she said. I thought she mentioned that she'd ordered dildos and whatnot from a particular book store and I was like "wait, they have dildos??" We'd only met like a couple hours earlier, but we've been good friends ever since. 😅

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

Aww, that's so sweet! I suppose this means that the way to make adult friends is to tongue-in-cheek talk about adult toys.

I did actually make a in-person friend doing exactly that once.

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

Aww, and Lemmy loves you! 💖

Also, just to toot my own horn, I felt pretty proud of that last one. I initially was like "how the heck do you casually drop Fenrir or David in a sentence" but... It's not nearly as elegant as Chance.

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

I still don't quite get how these people make sense of the world. We recently had a big reveal that our nazi party is using "anonymous social media accounts" to try and influence popular opinion. They claim that they don't, and that the accounts aren't affiliated with the party, but there was a whole report on the thing and it's landed them in some hot water. The people voting for them are pretty much unfazed but the right-block alliance overall has taken quite a hit to their public support.

One of the things these people who supposedly really love Sweden discussed, was how they could perhaps create some sort of campaign website to try and incide violence among migrants, and possibly incite terror attacks. Like, how do you reconcile your "patriotism and love for your country" with wanting people to perform terror attacks?

Were I to play devil's advocate I'd say that it's possible that they were just shooting the shit, but even then? Isn't it a bit over the top? As a gay guy I'm not joking about conversion therapy or forcible sterilisations.

dojan , 1 month ago to Lemmy Shitpost in It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

I started talking to a dude from Brazil a couple of months ago, and was blown away just by how different Brazilian Portuguese is from Portuguese, even just phonetically. I should've probably mentioned that I really only speak English, Swedish, and Japanese, so any other examples are ones that I've dug up in lexicons and the like, so there may be terms that are direct translations but not actually used colloquially.

I can totally see different words being used between Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal-Portuguese.

dojan , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)

It does cost a lot though, gotta be careful not to Nix your wallet and Crash your economy.