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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It doesn’t help that welfare does actually work this way.

    I don’t know the actual figures but my understanding is government assistance tends to work along the lines of “if you make less than $300, then the government gives you $100” so getting paid $350 is actually worse than being paid $290 for example, since going over the threshold cuts off the welfare completely.








  • I can’t remember where I heard this originally, but I subscribe to the belief that you need to maintain the rights of criminals (like voting) to prevent tyranny.

    Because if being labeled a criminal is enough to remove your rights, a corrupt government need only declare you one to take your rights away.

    It used to be criminal in some parts of the USA for black and white people to intermarry, for example. Imagine losing your right to vote because of who you married.



  • (Note: There are some dumb stories floating out there about Reddit CEO Steve Huffman getting paid $193 million last year. You can ignore those in general since they are really about stock and options awards with a long vesting period. And you can specifically ignore them for this story since those costs aren’t included in the R&D totals.)

    From the article. Reddit wants you to believe it had $193m to throw at the CEO, to imply they are great at making money. The more people spread this lie the more reddit wins.


  • Hilarious as all the other answers are, my guess is that this species has more complex sex chromosomes than the XX/XY variations we’re familiar with – perhaps there are more than 2 slots for the chromosomes to go, and then there are more than 2 options per slot, resulting in the humongous number of options stated in the post.


  • drislands@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    8 months ago

    I’ve made an effort to engage with you, to tell you why a person would disagree with your opinion without belittling you. I even outright said at the end of my last comment that I don’t agree that calling for violence against the police is the right course of action.

    You clearly haven’t even read my comments, much less tried to explain your own position.

    If you’re being ridiculed, it’s because you’re making a fool of yourself – not because anyone else is wrong. Honestly, dude.


  • drislands@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    Why do you think calling for violence against the police is a bad thing? Is it bad, in your opinion, to call for violence against any group, regardless of what that group is?

    Say for the sake of example that we were living in Nazi Germany. Would you say that calling for violence against the SS is as bad as calling for violence against Jews? I don’t think you would.


    Granted, we are not in Nazi Germany. The police in America are not the SS. But there are plenty of legitimate problems with the police, including the murder of unarmed minorities going unpunished.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but I suspect you don’t believe that the police are bad enough to warrant calls for violence, and maybe that’s true. However, there are people who don’t think that’s true – they think the police, as an institution, are corrupt enough that they should see violent consequences.


    Bit a side note, but I don’t know that I agree with calling for violence against the police. I don’t think it’s going to accomplish anything at this point because of the very real risk of extreme backlash. But I do understand why people want to.