I’m doing an environmental science major and I’ve literally had three different lectures in three different classes about how bad outdoor cats are for the ecosystem. Like, ecosystem collapse and mass extinction level bad.

X - Doubt

Isn’t this from a movie?

You might not have a train in your area, but you can sure stick a train engine in your car and pretend everything’s going to be okay!

Yep, good ol’ imported European trees in North America that are completely unsuited to the climate and soil chemistry, and require more effort than the average baby to keep alive and is a massive resource and public funding sink! Perfect.

The device, part of a sensor used in mining, is believed to have fallen off the back of a truck while in transit.

Oh yeah, we got this tiny extremely dangerous thing that we need to make absolutely sure doesn’t get lost and kill someone by essentially rotting their bones and organs from the inside out.

I know, let’s just throw it in the bed of the truck!

So they’re not going to complain about China banning YouTube or Facebook or whatever anymore right?

That would be hypocritical. And everyone knows the West is never hypothetical!

Terry’s PC-Free Topics

Guess they’re a console fan

IIRC China has banned outdoor cats in many cities due to environmental concerns, namely wildlife. Has the US? Hmm?

Damn you right. My bad lol

Is Prince Harry the pedophile or is that another royal? Can’t keep track because they all look the goddamn same.

Ah but they didn’t tell you which April.

It’s the first April after the completion of heat death.

How much you want to bet most of the hate were from sweaty incels who were probably expecting the typical SK e-girl. You know, the way too young looking girls that are not so subtly casually sexualized?

Lord Haw-Haw

a waste of plastic and industrial production to prevent poor people from taking stuff that actually make their lives better

Is there anything more capitalist?

Based. This is some 007 movie shit!

o7

If I had a nickel for every time some moron at r/Europe said “They only respect strength, they see kindness as weakness!” about my country

No no that’s right.

They assume everyone else is as peaceful as themselves.

Europe is extremely violent and bestial.

They are often incorrect about this assumption because most other countries are not violent and bestial.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Forgive me for not taking seriously the publication that documented the colonization and genocide of the world, completely uncritically from the perspective of the colonizer.

You mean that “soviet leader kisses another man” propaganda the West put out during the Cold War?

Seriously, my first thought when I saw that was “so? What’s wrong with that?” Then again I’m not exactly the target audience for anticommunist crap.

Also, these people have never tried Mexican food in Mexico if they think anything from the US can top it.

Source: have been to both countries and ate Mexican food at both, there is no contest, at all. It’s almost like that’s the culture where such food comes from and therefore they’d know what they’re doing!

Also, these people have never tried Mexican food in Mexico if they think anything from the US can top it.

Source: have been to both countries and ate Mexican food at both, there is no contest, at all. It’s almost like that’s the culture where such food comes from and therefore they’d know what they’re doing!

Replace socialism with capitalism and this meme becomes accurate.

The US has a higher per capita rate of both food insecurity and extreme poverty than China, Cuba, Vietnam, and the former USSR.

• 1 out of every 7 US citizens needs to visit food banks to survive, despite having enough food to feed 10 billion people. Half of all food produced is thrown away by retailers.

• In the US alone, 20-40k deaths every year because of lack of health insurance / care. On average, that’s 300k over the last decade.

• 80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck, 40% cannot cover a $400 emergency.

• 70% of US citizens say they are struggling financially. In the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, Unemployment claims went to 6.6M in one week, compared to ~700k at the peak of the great depression. Food banks are running out of food in places like New York and Pittsburgh, and hospitals are short on ventilators needed to keep people alive. Lines outside an NY soup kitchen, May 2020. Americans turn to shoplifting food as 1 in 8 are food insecure as of late 2020.</div>

• US Life expectancy peaked in 2014, is on the decline, and is now lower than in China., 2

Meanwhile…

• USSR had a more nutritious diet than the US, according to the CIA. Calories consumed surpassed the US. source. Ended famines.

• Had the 2nd fastest growing economy of the 20th century after Japan. The USSR started out at the same level of economic development and population as Brazil in 1920, which makes comparisons to the US, an already industrialized country by the 1920s, even more spectacular

• Free Universal Health care, and most doctors per capita in the world. 42 doctors per 10k population, vs 24 in Denmark and Sweden, 19 in US.

• Had near zero unemployment, continuous economic growth for 70 straight years. The “continuous” part should make sense – the USSR was a planned, non-market economy, so market crashes á la capitalism were pretty much impossible.

• USSR moved from 58.5-hour workweeks to 41.6 hour workweeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960

• USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996., 2

• In 1987, people in the USSR could retire with pension at 55 (female) and 60 (male) while receiving 50% of their wages at a at minimum. Meanwhile, in USA the average retirement age was 62-67.

• All education, including university level, free. 2

• 99% literacy.

• Doubled life expectancy. Eliminated poverty.

Many more links here: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/capitalism_doesnt_work.html

Bring out the guillotines for old times sake

I hate this timeline.

Vlad the Impaler wants his suitcase back

So it’s a hyperloop?

I mean, I’m still hopeful and they do have a good track record, but, you know, ten times bitten, eleventh time shy.

Hey man, a lot of video games are Turing complete. So it’s not, not a development environment!

Aren’t there professional chess player unions already?

Wokism should say death to America too.

Nice try, Elon would never do something like that! The person who pioneered DRM on electric vehicle chargers being pro corporate monopoly? Noooo.

I’m honestly just surprised that people are putting up with their horrible redesigned webclient and app. I use Reddit a lot less than I used to specifically because of Lemmy, pretty much only for more niche tech/programming stuff not yet found on Lemmy, but when I do it’s strictly old.reddit.com and Slide for Reddit.

Being able to only see two or three comments deep in a forum specifically designed around nested comments is unacceptable.

When Queen Elizibath returns from the lake of fire, he’ll return as PM.

Honestly, with the right extensions, it can do pretty much anything a streaming box or smart TV can do.

Got a 2012 Roku feel to it lol