argyodite

1891 pts · July 17, 2022


I feel like we need OP to weigh in because I think it’s more likely her friend is a prude than that this seemingly inexperienced person discovered estim was the only thing that could get them off.

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

There you go again, it’s like you can’t help yourself lol. Interesting hill to die on. “Ya the brown shirts suck but the real problem is that you’re out I. The streets protesting them instead of getting fired from your job for trying to unionize”

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

You took time out of your day to discourage and disparage protests against the current US racist regime.

Protests which have resulted in, for the first time of Trumps second administration, actual movement from the useless democrats in positions of power, and even made some gross centrists speak out.

Instead of calling them useless go to a protest and sign people up for your organization of choice. Lots of people go to a protest as a first step and progress into further organization later.

2 months ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

It’s supposed to snow.

Same here in Colorado, it’s rained twice in January, and been above 50 F everyday. Which is very abnormal for the winter.

2 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Penny farthings weren’t a fad, I think. It’s my understanding that they just hadn’t invented the chain gear that bicycles use. So they made the front wheel (which the peddles were attached to) larger so each turn of the peddles turned a larger wheel, making you travel further / faster.

2 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Sorry you asked me to tell you ‘one way’ in which your life as an average person in Venezuela was currently negatively impacted by us foreign policy. So I showed a direct example.

What I argued in my initial response to you, and what you have not addressed, is that the terrible conditions you described above are the direct result of the US crippling South American countries for its imperial goals for centuries. Stole your future from you and now you’re thanking us for it.

2 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Do you truly believe that your life has not been impacted by US sanctions in place since 2017?

If so, you need to get your news from somewhere other than Imgur I suspect

2 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The economic sanctions against your country have significantly affected the prices at which your natural resources can be sold, and the exclusion from the financial markets has impeded the selling of your national debt.

Who do you think bears the brunt of this? Does Maduro skip a meal? Do the heads of mining and oil companies stop making money?

No. They pay their employees less. The government spends less on its people. Already high prices increase as trade is impeded.

2 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So the US can intervene in your country for centuries for its own benefit without a care for the wellbeing of yourself or anyone else living there. It can lead sweeping sanctions to try and pressure civilian populations into doing our foreign policy for us. It can murder random people in boats. It can invade your country. It can say, “We’re going to run Venezuela”.
It can do all that because Maduro wasn’t elected in free and fair elections?

Huh. We’ll have fun with that I guess.

2 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yes there will be no other consequences, certainly this time the United States doing a coup in South America to further exploit its natural resources will benefit the citizens of Venezuela. /s

2 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I have a hard time imagining it could be any worse than actually playing league or dota

2 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

It’s crazy how many people blame voters and not the democrats who refuse to change their platforms or, even worse, consistently drift to the right.

Democrats being anti immigrant or anti-trans or pro-Israel doesn’t make the tent bigger, it doesn’t win over conservatives, it just pushes away people with a moral compass.

3 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

These are wind speeds from in and around residential areas. So, not really comparable to mount washington.

3 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I started an adobe trial a few weeks back to be able to sign some legal documents, and then when I tried to cancel it early it said I was going to be charged a ‘$98 early cancellation fee’ which feels like it shouldn’t be legal.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

3 months ago | Likes 373 Dislikes 0

Crucial RAM is being shut down, I’m not sure if manufacturing is officially done or not, but anyone selling those products will have raised and be continuing to raise prices on those products now that restocks are limited.

3 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

At some point you just have to be ok with some people not understanding you.

4 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Right. We totally know what the effects an end to tribalism would have, there are so many historical examples of a borderless society to draw from.

Where as we have no historical examples of absolutely terrible things being done specifically to maintain our imagined differences.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

This bad boy can kill 500 civilians a minute

4 months ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 5

Democrats don’t need to be more moderate or adopt republican policies. Stop learning the wrong lessons from things.

4 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Because he’s black? That’s fucked up.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I just hate to give them something they can deny honestly.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I dunno, call me naive, but I feel like even for someone who would join ICE under trump, saying “this person was shot seven times and I was responsible for 5 of them” would be too clinical and explicitly violent. Using the word ‘hole’ gives them a remove, even if it’s minor, that I think lets them celebrate it freely.

Also other people have been saying 5/7 is a meme like 6/7? I dunno I’m too old for that.

Regardless, I’m not trying to minimize how awful this is.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

From the context of other statements of his I believe what he’s saying is “I’m responsible for 5 out of 7 of the bullet wounds on this woman, and I am proud of this fact”. So, still an objectively terrible thing to say, but I don’t think he was sexualizing it.

4 months ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 3

The vending machines have served the same purpose in every borderlands game as far as I can tell; every thousand visits you find a single gun that’s better than something you have equipped while leveling, and more importantly, you can shop for accessories with specific stats (class mods usually) where a sub par item is less important than it having giving a level in your most important skill or having a certain proc or whatever.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Yes, LLMs are equivalent to encyclopedias. For sure.

5 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

What was there to cut lol?

5 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

They’re only allowed to go certain places without a warrant. Not everywhere, even in a government building like a court house, or a publicly owned hospital, is accessible for enforcement action without a judicial warrant.

It’s probably complicated by the new rules around what constitutes ‘reasonable suspicion’… but at the end of the day there’s no real point trying to argue the rules with this administration, they don’t care, they break the rules and face no consequences.

5 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0