I used to have a really barky dog, and there was nothing we could do about it, so we eventually bought one of those shock collars that reacts to loud noise.
I had a friend come over and say “What’s this? Shock collar?” He picked it up and put it across his own neck, and goes “woof. WOOOF! OOooowww, that fucking hurts.” and put it back down.
It had never occurred to me to test it on myself, and yet it was a thing he did without even pausing a second.
Yeah, that was a bad idea when the military members were being sacrificed to protect profits. It’s worse now that they will be used to attack their fellow citizens at home.
The average american has never walked a meter in their whole life. We’ll be dead in the cold cold ground before we measure distances in things easily divisible by 10.
Agreed. Grew up in dense East Coast cities in the 80s and 90s, pickpocketing was not a thing that happened.
I’m going to go eat my hamburger in my truck! Good day, sir!
I don’t think I followed this… did HBO also own Cinemax? Is that why they called the service HBO Max?
Be careful, because there is a limit.
You are 100% correct.
Look at OPs meme and ask the obvious question: “Why is this moving to the right, and not to the left? Aren’t both options equally possible?”
The answer is that it moves to the side that wins elections.
“Why is the right winning elections” is the much much better question to ask. In the meantime, do everything you can to move the center in the other direction one step at a time, and that doesn’t come about by losing elections while standing on principle.
You say that, but it was vastly anti-Harris and silent on Trump right around the election, so… bullshit.
That was my original Lemmy instance. It was weirdly fanatically communist and pro-Trump at the same time. I had a real hard time understanding what was going on other than Russian propaganda. I left for here and it’s much much more understandable.
It didn’t work. That dog loved barking more than it disliked pain.