root_beer

root_beer , 5 days ago to News in The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers

On the contrary, they don’t have any cognitive dissonance, that’s why they’re not bothered—dissonance suggests they feel discomfort in holding their opposing views

They’re just really good at doublethink

root_beer , 5 days ago to News in The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers

On the contrary, they don’t have any cognitive dissonance, that’s why they’re not bothered—dissonance suggests they feel discomfort in holding their opposing views

They’re just really good at doublethink

root_beer , 5 days ago to News in The United States will need 7 million migrants to cover old age support programs for baby boomers

Don’t forget the abortion bans and the push from people like Elon Musk to have more children (with no financial incentive to do so, of course)

root_beer , 14 days ago to News in Ex-Trump Official Makes Stunning Revelation: Trump Talked About Executing People At Several WH Meetings

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

root_beer , 24 days ago to Nostalgia in Pizza in your school 1993

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

root_beer , 30 days ago to politics in Biden camp warns Trump could still get re-elected with ‘unhinged campaign of revenge’

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

root_beer , 30 days ago to The Onion in Nation Shrugs After Hearing Trump Guilty Verdict, Unpauses ‘MILF Manor’

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 , 30 days ago to politics in Biden camp warns Trump could still get re-elected with ‘unhinged campaign of revenge’

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

root_beer , 1 month ago to memes in Go Your Own Way

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

root_beer , 1 month ago to politics in Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’

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 , 1 month ago to Political Memes in Enlightened Centrists

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

root_beer , 1 month ago to Political Memes in Enlightened Centrists

Yeah, pretty much nowhere.

root_beer , 1 month ago to Political Memes in Enlightened Centrists

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

root_beer , 1 month ago to Science Memes in We're all a little crazy

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 , 2 months ago to Science Memes in kids are gowing up faster and faster

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