root_beer

@root_beer@midwest.social

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

root_beer ,

If Hunter had been acquitted they’d just be saying his dad rigged the trial

root_beer ,

Not sure the peak of jncos’ popularity was contemporaneous with Kris Kross but I guess everything sorta gets compressed in nostalgia

root_beer ,

I’m not shrugging, but that’s partly because I fell and wrecked my shoulder last week

Also, and mostly, because I’m celebrating

root_beer ,

The SRA exists; actual leftists know and understand that the second amendment is not limited to maga hogs

root_beer ,

I’d expect people on lemmy to know better; anywhere else though, yeah, fair

root_beer ,

Watch this live version of Silver Springs; it’s like the wounds are still fresh even two decades later

root_beer ,

Biden wins, there *will* be a different Democratic nominee in 2028. And if you want it to be someone more in line with your thinking than Biden, well you know what you gotta do in 2028.

I’d say it needs to be sooner than ‘28, more like as soon as the election is over

root_beer ,

Any party you want in local elections, jesus fucking christ, do you not know what fucking “grassroots” means? God damn.

root_beer ,

Yeah, pretty much nowhere.

root_beer ,

I used to believe in the Green Party, twenty years ago.

root_beer ,

Absence of an inner monologue does not mean that there is no thought process. I’ve done just fine without one myself. Can’t speak to whatever is plaguing the fundamentalists apart from indoctrination and being steeped in an oppressive culture that’s been fostered over generations.

root_beer ,

Give it a few years, they’ll be picking it up in middle school at least

My daughter has been scoring very high in math this year in fifth grade so they wanted to give her more advanced stuff to do, like moving into basic statistics. She isn’t having any of it though, she hates math and gets terrible anxiety from it. She just wants to sculpt and make puppets instead. Can’t say I blame her, I was the same way.

…yet I’d cherish a job where I’d just spend all day futzing around in R

root_beer ,

The Onion’s TED parodies capture this dumb shit perfectly

root_beer ,

Hell yeah.

Pokémon: [day one] I wanna be the best Pokémon trainer the world has ever seen! [20 seasons later] Wow I got another gym badge! Pikachu is pretty decent!

Digimon: [day one] Oh this poor kitten, gotta save it from these big jerks! [end of season] Today, we must destroy God.

root_beer ,

It just dropped the canister with the Metroid hatchling

root_beer ,

Yeah, it could be confusing, except what individual on earth has a trillion (long-form billion) dollars? It’ll happen in our lifetimes, sure, but not right now

Also, look up lakh and crore if you want to think you’re having a stroke

root_beer ,

Abbott: “uhh, nuh doy, they’re prisoners, you do the crime you do the time” [puts on cowboy hat, does wheelchair line dance, fires six-shooters into sky]

Absolutely nothing will be done about this and DeSantis is trying to one-up them by baking non incarcerated people alive

root_beer ,

Not sure Scrubs counts so much as gets an honorable mention, as Bill Lawrence himself even said that the last season was supposed to be a spin-off and not the actual last season. I never watched after JD left Sacred Heart.

root_beer ,

Because the Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, which the GOP hated (the communist part of it, anyway), and modern Russia is kleptocratic oligarchy, which the GOP loves. Easy enough to tease out, really.

root_beer ,

Israel aid and Ukraine aid were two separate votes

root_beer ,

The aid packages were separate votes, most did not vote against aid for Israel

root_beer ,

Ah, I think I misread something, got it

root_beer ,

TikTok and Ukraine aid were voted on and passed separately; furthermore, the vote wasn’t for an outright ban, but rather a threat of banning if TikTok does not divest from China.

root_beer ,

Steeuw

root_beer ,

I don’t get it

root_beer ,

Someone said that the ‘90s were probably the best time to be a young adult in the US (with obvious exceptions of course), and having become one after 9/11–I got my first degree literally ten days after that—I am inclined to agree.

root_beer ,

Zoomers aren’t even 30 yet and the oldest of Alphas (incl. my daughter) are just preteens. That said, you’re right, they are in grave danger of having the wool pulled over their eyes by viral disinformation campaigns; however, they have massive potential to use all that for benevolent purposes. We also have some time and opportunity yet to teach them the importance of civic duty and the critical thinking they will need to combat the gauntlet of scams they’ll be running through in the years to come.

root_beer ,

Not a problem. I blame it on the media referring to everyone they see as “them damn kids” as millennials

root_beer ,

[1] What’s to say that someone getting an abortion isn’t god’s will?

[2] How can anyone really claim to know what god’s will even is in the first place?

root_beer ,

That’s pretty much my argument, yeah. Also, to the people who support Israel because they want to usher in the return of Christ: they’re trying to force god’s will. Do they not understand that god would be absolutely wrathful over their arrogance? There’s no rapture for them. Not that there will be a rapture in the first place, but that’s beside the point.

root_beer ,

That’s what I made as a grad student ten years ago, damn.

And yet, that was still the most I’d ever made in my life at that point.

root_beer ,

That’s kinda like how “underbed” was for me; like, how do you underb something? Or derb it in the first place, for that matter?

root_beer ,

Kid A was already out by then, I’m pretty sure Amnesiac dropped in ‘01

root_beer ,

I had Liam Howlett’s mixtape, Prodigy Present the Dirtchamber Sessions Volume 1, in constant rotation for a quite a while there

root_beer ,

They’re all idiots, but this guy was a special kind of dumb. What is he up to these days? I know Baked Alaska was sentenced for only 60 days, so it’s not like he sacrificed much for the carnival barker. I bet he’s still in the tank for him.

root_beer ,

I think it was Crowder, but you may be able to change my mind

root_beer ,

I’m in the path of totality but I fully expect it to be overcast here. Because of course it would be.

root_beer ,

Makes me think of Threedom where they play a game like this and end up in a similar loop, pretty funny when they fuck it up like that

root_beer ,

Exactly. Last November, there were two candidates running for the board of a local school, not even the district itself, more like a local education center. It’s a nonpartisan position but there’s no such thing as an apolitical elected office, so I did my research. One was a garden variety conservative, so she sucked, the other was a Mom For Liberty, so, you know. I had no choice, I ended up leaving that part of the ballot blank because there was nobody else trying for the job, and now some petty fascist is directly affecting policies at this one education center. It may not be much, but it’s a start, and brain worms spread quickly.

Wanna make change happen? Fucking do it then instead of complaining and expecting there to be a viable candidate at the top when there are none at the bottom.

Tap for spoiler

Disclaimer: I’m not doing it because I don’t have a molecule of charisma

root_beer ,

He already had a circlejerk with another poster talking about how China can do it in days (because no osha, you know), and then! said it could also be done more inexpensively by reusing the steel from the collapsed bridge, that, you know, is structurally compromised by the collapse and I can’t imagine the water it’s submerged in is good for its integrity either

root_beer ,

You better start believing in huge 3D printers

…you’re in one!

root_beer ,

I did that back in the ‘90s on a TI-85 while everyone else in my class was sideloading Tetris onto their fancy TI-86es and laughing at my poor ass; iirc there was already a function built in for solving polynomials though so not only was I a poor loser, but I also wasted my time

root_beer ,

At a workplace icebreaker, the mandatory FunFact™️ I offered about myself was that despite having cats, I was a dog person, but only because of the experimental heart transplant.

root_beer ,

🎶 It’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows, no one gets a piece of my time 🎶

Goddammit wrong season again

root_beer ,

Some cats love it. A couple of ours start licking/chewing air or give us li’l nibbles if they get whacked around the base of the tail. My parents’ cat demands to be bonked around with an empty soda bottle on a daily basis. They’re weird little gremblings, cats.

root_beer ,

Ugh gotta adjust the goddamn tracking again

root_beer ,

Honestly, the most memorable thing about this movie, to me, is U2’s single from the soundtrack

root_beer ,

I was more into rock back then but that is absolutely a good call

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •