RoidingOldMan

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Within reason, yes. Not looking for anything complicated.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I hate vertical filmed shorts.

 

Guess the Episode

  • 1 point for the episode/main plot.

  • 1 point for the joke/scene.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Gas is up about $1/gal in the last month or so. It was up 10 cents a day for a bit.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 42 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

including 80-something-year-old Bob Heironimus, who confessed to being the individual wearing the fake Bigfoot suit in the film.

I saw a doc at least 10+ years ago with this same guy saying the same thing. I believe him. But somehow people who believe in Bigfoot don't care.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

What about Nixon?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It also suggests that by 2029 we could have "an incredibly luxurious universal basic income." Which seems absurd here in 2026.

 

Long but well written article. It's hard to disagree with any of the specific points. Warning that it's pretty long, and reads like a sci-fi novel.

Curious for opinions. This seems alarming? But also doomsday predictions tend to be wrong.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I get what you're saying, but jihad has a more complex definition. This is closer to shouting 'deus vult' during the crusades.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Reservoir of the Dogs trilogy.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Uh... it was like the default example for "evil leader" before Hitler.

Sounds like someone who wants attention. Enjoys the edginess and obvious absurdity in a statement like that.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It's such a modern thing to frame everything as a 'left vs. right' debate. As if one group makes all the cults. And if you believe that there aren't left wing cults, or that they aren't right wing cults, then you've stopped critically thinking and you'll be prone to falling for it. Thinking you're too smart to be scammed is how people get scammed.

Nothing about cults or their diagnostic criteria have anything to do with WHAT the message actually is.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There's a real situation that fits this. A major racial incident in 1955 Mississippi. The killers were acquitted by an all white jury. The woman who had accused Emmett Till in the first place, on her death bed said she made some of the story up. She basically caused a lynching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If it's on the internet archive, then it's probably been scanned by AI.

Not sure I understood your question.

 

Here's the process as I understand it (please correct my errors):

  1. USA likes Israel, a lot for some reason
  2. "Israel" attacks Iran. This whole thing is being done with the USA's airplanes though.
  • Why does the USA love Israel so much?
  • What's the logic here? Not just the conspiracy. But why now? Why at all? Is Israel gaining something that I'm not seeing? Destabilization the main goal? What's the USA gaining here?
 

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes suffered a season-ending torn ACL in his left knee in the closing minutes of Sunday's 16-13 loss to the Chargers, a result that ended Kansas City's playoff hopes.

 

I remember doing this at the Embassy Suits probably around 2002.

 

As I understand it, birth defects are like 99.999% of the time unhelpful. But that 0.0001% of the time the genetic freak is a huge advantage and that gets passed down in the gene pool and thus, over many many generations, evolution.

Alcohol, which is known to increase birth defects, should increase the speed at which that happens. Right? Like playing the lottery with more tickets.

 

Since we're using El Salvador like it's a new Gitmo. Like yes, it would still suck for the people from El Salvador.

But at least people from other countries would go back to their home country. Presumably to be treated far better than El Salvador.

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