I was the guy people used to think about like OP’s brother. When you see me hog down, it’s because I haven’t put a single calorie in my mouth up until then.

Literally nothing in the article except what appears to be sane company policy. Of course you fire people who leak confidential company information.

Lemmy: “But it must be evil if they’re hiding it!”

Well, in FB’s case, it may well be, but you can’t run a mom-and-pop store with every communication open to the world.

FFS people, it’s no different than “don’t talk to cops”, no different. Anything you say can and will be held against you. Stunning lack of insight from such a privacy advocating community. Same people who rail against others saying, “If you have nothing to hide…”

I have loads and loads of guns. Who am I to shoot? It takes organization for effective action and the left has convinced a great many of us that we don’t need guns.

So while there are still plenty of gun-toting libs, how are we to get together? Right-wing militias operate with carte blanche, while if we lefties even whisper we’re investigated.

All I can do is defend my wife and home.

My Filipino wife, with a strong but perfectly clear accent, gets called Indian all the time and they ask for someone American.

Stewart’s damned fair with conservatives. Yeah, he pokes fun, but he asks questions and listens to the answers.

That comment came from a child, sounds like my 10-yo making shit up. Worst case, the very worst, is you lose a solid chunk of foot, and that’s so rare as to not worry about.

Think on it. If that thing starts eating you from the toes up, you’re going to pull free before it gets much in there, even if “pulling free” means no more toes.

I did hear the Crocs are bad on escalators. 🤷 I could see something heavy like combat boots sucking more in, but those are the kinda shoes that don’t get sucked in.

I’m stunned, daily, by these takes on lemmy. I quit a fat IT career to sling mulch, rocks and lumber for $15/hr., happier by far. I work hard, my physique is clearly better after only a month, my coworkers respect and like me, the managers all know me by name in a place where a 1-month employee wouldn’t rate a glance.

I’m learning more about the world and how things work, already got some great tips from customers for doing shit free and cheap. I’m getting better hours, and more of them. Already been offered a temp job, one they don’t ask dipshits to handle. And the fringe benefits! I scored $1,400 in culled lumber today for $50, can’t even haul it in a single truck load. New shed coming!

After my 4th real shift (not computer training) I found myself blabbering away to my wife about what all I did that day. That really hit me as to how much happier I am.

Sure, the hours and pay suck, but I have time and a 10% discount to work on projects I’ve wanted to try selling. Looking at bat houses, dog houses, kid’s picnic benches, fixing discarded washers and dryers, all that. Tomorrow I’m selling a dryer I found on the road, put 1.5 hours and $13 into, probably score $150-$200, start looking for more.

Am I reading this right? You’re for prosecuting people who have broken no laws?

I’ll add this; I have sexual fantasies (not involving children) that would be repugnant to me IRL. Should I be in jail for having those fantasies, even though I would never act on them?

This sounds like some Minority Report hellscape society.

Stop this horseshit. You only see the fatasses because that’s what the internet thinks is funny. You don’t see what I see IRL.

But hey, if you want to continue seeing them as no threat, you do you. I’m armed and train every week, at the least, but there’s only so much I can do against the inevitable Red Shirts.

He’ll need a false flag to bypass the 22nd amendment, just wait.

At this point in history, I am 100% fine with Israel being “wiped off the map”. They have abdicated all moral authority and their right to exist.

It’s not so much that he lies as that he doesn’t really make a distinction between truth and lies. The only meaningful measure of a claim is whether or not it will serve his goals.

Been saying this for years. The man literally can’t tell a lie, everything that comes out of his mouth is the truth. I don’t think many people have been around someone that’s full-on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

And yes, once you figure out that’s his disorder, he’s as easy to manipulate as a toddler. Also been saying since he won the election, his handlers are in charge this time and it couldn’t be more obvious. Look at his Truth Social posts for one example. They’re far more clear and focused, easily written by someone imitating him. Any one of us could do it.

He’s obviously looking at his phone. This isn’t the burn the meme makes it out to be.

The real fucked up shit is the world’s richest man addressing the Cabinet. In a fucking baseball hat.

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Why the fuck would I rat this man out?!

no visible identifiers that they were security.

Shoot. Them.

who refused to identify themselves or for whom they worked, then pulled Borrenpohl from her seat and dragged her out of the auditorium

Three unidentified men assault me, I’m shooting. It would be damned hard to get me to draw, get me into a situation I can’t get out of, but this is clearly such a case.

(If you carry, or even have a gun in your home, you damned well need to understand the self-defense laws in your jurisdiction. They’re often more restrictive than either liberals or conservatives think. It ain’t the free-for-all either side believes.)

RIGHT FUCKING THERE! THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SCREAMING ABOUT FOR MONTHS!!!

FFS, do any of you believe Trump wrote that?! It’s so transparently a staffer imitating his style. See anything that focused and coherent before the election? Remember the non-stop flood of wildly irrational, rambling posts and speeches?

Go to Truth Social, see for yourself. Almost all of his posts are like that, and they’re few and far between. (Just looked, there are more posts than I had seen before.)

I can’t believe anyone, for or against the man, thinks his senile old ass is still in charge. His staff has perfected handling him, and it’s no more difficult than fucking with a toddler’s head. Pat him, praise him, make him feel important, let him make a few inconsequential decisions (LOL, like paving the Rose Garden.), put him to bed on time.

This go-round won’t be a clusterfuck like last time. The adults are in charge, and that should scare the living hell out of you.

EDIT: On a lighter note, is his desk not backwards?

Those are pictures of the way the world has always been. It’s just now, in the last few decades, that we’ve had the global wealth to turn it around.

Pick your own graph if you don’t like this one. There are hundreds more showing the same massive decline in poverty.

The reduction in poverty has been stunning in my lifetime (born 1971). I’ve seen shit in America that literally has no comparison in modern times. But I’m sure some 20-yo will come along and tell me it’s a hellscape out there. LOL, should have seen black people in 1977 Louisiana.

I know two things; I’ve studied history, though I’m more ignorant than I wish. And I’ve lived history. Not sure how fast y’all expect times to change, but times are changing faster than at any other point in our civilizations.