“Homelessness is a direct political choice.”
Talk about a quote that can be read both ways.
Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
“Homelessness is a direct political choice.”
Talk about a quote that can be read both ways.
It’s complex I guess. There’s a stereotype that doing a good deed in China usually ends up backfiring on the doer of the deed.
Here she died and was praised, but then, the backfire had already taken effect.
We could conclude from this that the only correct way for a Chinese citizen to do a good deed is to die in the process.
Then note that the praise could be not for doing the deed but for saving whatever other forces are at play from having to provide the backfire.
The hard part is determining the shades of truth of all the various aspects here.
You’ll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as “And then I woke up.”
Unsure if sarcasm
No, this is an actual irony.
Humanity is unable to remember, for any length of time, a fact about whether goldfish can remember things for any length of time.
Ironic, isn’t it?
Ah, an excuse to attack an organisation that worships something other than Mighty Xi and the CCP.
Using children as the pawns too. Masterful.
Sounds a bit like the S&M methodology. SpaceX & Musk
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: There are better things to attack Trump for than how he looks, what physical conditions he has or how he smells.
At face value, those sorts of things have little effect on the ability to run a country well.
Even his hair is a better target because how he wears it would appear to show vanity, a quality that might actually interfere with stable management. That’s still a relatively big stretch without other evidence (of which there would appear to be plenty) though.
Attack his ideas, his intents, his politics. He makes this easy enough, right? Start there.
“LOL u smel” is something you expect in the playground. Something Trump himself might use, perhaps.
We have to be better than that.
Man goes away. Comes back with a plank of wood.
What happens next depends on how perverted the tree is.
(Would you like to be slapped around by a dismembered limb?)
For “academics” read “two guys we found in the cafeteria at a local university” unless otherwise specified.
If they’ve heard of Lemmy then it’s probably the Tankie connection that’s putting them off. If.
Guessing Kbin/Mbin is also either unheard of or tainted by association.
Or it could just be: “But why male models not Reddit?”
In other news, Fred Bloggs from Bournemouth has been on the phone to the White House telling Joe Biden to stop using toilet paper.
Other than the psychopath angle, there’s also those who are mentally ill and/or delusional and believe they’re terrible people when they’re not far off average, maybe even better.
Likewise, perfectionists, but maybe I’m repeating myself.
Got to hope that you’re not right for their sake.
Personally, I’m hoping for oblivion. Like it was for the billions of years before I was conceived, I assume, not that it’s possible to remember that.
Fun fact: The past tense of “wend” was once “went”, but that was co-opted for the past tense of “go”, and the past tense of wend is now “wended”.
“But what was the past tense of ‘go’ before that?”
Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but “goed” does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular “yode” / “yoed” is closer to the old form and is also possible.
Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as “do” becoming “did” suggests a less likely “gid”, “gig”, “ging” or even “gang” (compare “sang”).
He won’t stop until every last potential Hamas member (read “Palestinian”) is dead or out of Palestine.
He’s been pretty clear on this.
Maybe not in any legal sense, no. How people and even news media use it, there’s plenty of wiggle room.
e.g. allowing the ambiguity of “British home owner” to go unclarified, that is as “home owner who is British” as opposed to “owner of a home in Britain”, and any similarly loose interpretations that go along with or derive from that.
The way things are going, libraries themselves will be outlawed.