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can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Thumbs up to people dying.1·11 days agoYou listed all the back to Johnson.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Thumbs up to people dying.11·12 days agoClinton explicitly didn’t support segregation. One of the biggest influences in his life was his mom’s parents, who he spent a significant portion of his childhood living with. They owned a grocery store and faced frequent harassment and threats because they refused to segregate their business. There’s plenty to go after Big Willy for but this particular point is incorrect. You can’t even shoehorn in his VP like with Obama because Gore was an avid civil rights supporter as well.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Does the creator or the audience determine the meaning of a work of art?1·14 days agoI would like to understand the meaning of Goatse.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling sparks new round of legal fights4·18 days agoHopefully they can get adult children of undocumented immigrants who were born in the US. They have already had their citizenship recognized but the EO doesn’t say that it’s limited to new births so they should still have standing on the basis that, if taken as written, their citizenship is at risk of being retroactively stripped.
Disclaimer: ianal and could be completely wrong.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Technology@lemmy.world•Blocking real-world ads: is the future here?29·19 days agoAl Bundy peaked in highschool, never went to college, was a shoe salesman at the mall. Al Bundy had an, at least, three bedroom single family home in a nice neighborhood, supported a family of four plus a dog on his single income, had ample free time to spend with family and friends and to spend on hobbies.
Al Bundy: Failure and constant butt of jokes in the 1980s, unobtainable vision of success in the 2020s
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?61·26 days agoI wanted to reminisce about the Daily Show when it was at its best. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert were huge for me. Realistically though they aren’t the right kind of people for the type of role model your talking about. Part of the left’s problem is that the language and style that are used is too intellectual. It contrubitues to the right being able to dismiss progressives as “coastal elites” Part of Bernie’s appeal is that he seems very down to earth and straightforward and that’s one of the reason that the right has so much trouble going after him. We need a progressive plumber.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Got a "Free Tablet" for Health App, but it's managed. Can I root this or is it a lost cause?5·27 days agoHow much personal information is going into the intended use of the tablet? If all you need to do is watch some videos can you take it to a public library or a McDonald’s? Does your Dr’s office have wifi or could you watch it at work?
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?121·28 days agoTo your point, I think that there is a fundamental issue with how we talk about success and failure. We effectively target white straight cis men setting them up so that they can never really succeed. As the majority, at least in terms of social and political power, we recognize that they have significant privilege in our culture. We weaponize that privilege such that all successes are external (the system is pushing them up) and all failures are internal (must be something wrong with them if they can fail despite having all of those advantages). Everyone else, to varying degrees depending on how much social and political power we perceive them to have, has the opposite logic applied to them. We say that their success is personal and special because they do it in spite of the system working against them and we blame their failures on the system.
There is of course legitimacy to that reasoning. There are many roadblocks that, especially visible, minorities face that white straight cis men do not. That doesn’t make this mindset not problematic though. The biggest issue with it is that we apply the general to the individual. Does a rural white kid whose parents both work retail have more privilege than Jaden Smith just because of his skin color? That’s of course an extreme example but the point is that the totality of a person’s circumstances is more than just how their biology is perceived by the culture. Privilege does make success easier as compared to people in otherwise similar circumstances but it certainly doesn’t guarantee success or mean that successes don’t have to be worked for.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•A country run by terrorists is paying YouTube to show me propaganda12·29 days agoI like How to Cook That. It’s cool when YouTubers are legitimately educated on the subjects they do videos on.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•No True Star Trek Fan would fail this test4·1 month agoThe Federation got him out during the Dominion War and made him a captain according to the games. He’s free in canon too. His name was on a list of Starfleet officers being taken into protective custody on an episode of Lower Decks.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Kinda fucked up tbh10·2 months agoSo basically, the Karman line is the theoretical highest point that an airplane can fly, or at least it was when it was calculated. If it were recalculated today it would be higher because of technological advancement. The definition used by the agencies that define it as the edge of space set an altitude near the originally calculated line. The functional difference between being above the line and below the line is that the keplar force will keep an object above the line from falling to Earth within 24 hours while drag will slow the object below the line enough for it to fall back to Earth within 24 hours. It’s fine as a functional definition but I see no reason that it should be universally applied. In the scope of this discussion why should we consider something that will fall back to Earth in 25 hours not be on Earth but something that will fall back to Earth in 23 hours to be on Earth?
The ISS was launched from Earth, in pieces but still it’s of Earth origin, and will eventually fall back to Earth. It’s inside the Earth’s atmosphere and experiences drag. It’s orbit has to be adjusted and maintained.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Kinda fucked up tbh12·2 months agoI like pedantry but want to go the other way. The ISS orbits in the thermosphere, still inside Earth’s atmosphere. I say that you haven’t really left Earth until you exit the atmosphere.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?2·3 months agoI guess it’s worth a shot but you’d a few hundred years after the Norse abandoned their settlements in North America and about 120 years before Columbus’s first voyage.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?19·3 months agoI’m in the US and in a place that native Americans didn’t have settlements. I’m very familiar with the area and have hunted, hiked, and camped here my entire life. With no preparation or modern equipment I give myself about a week before I get eaten by wolves or a bear, maybe gored by an elk or bitten by a venomous snake. I don’t expect that I would see another human during that week. Native hunting parties visited the area so it’s not impossible that I would see someone but it’s very unlikely.
Not that recently, urban dictionary has a post from 2006 that defines goon as a chronic masturbater or as the act of masturbation.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto Woodworking@lemmy.ca•Worth restoring this step stool?3·8 months agoI think this is made from an exceptionally hard wood. It looks a lot like walnut or pecan. I would be concerned about cutting across the grain with a powered saw causing chipping and ruining the piece. I think I would repair the current joint and add a center leg or probably a leg on both sides to support that joint.
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.ioto News@lemmy.world•Ramaswamy wants to defund unauthorized government programs - like veteran healthcare71·8 months agoNASA is definitely a target. Musk wants to make SpaceX America’s privatized space agency.
If they’re under the justification of the US does that mean that they are entitled to the same rights and protections as prisoners still held in the US? Prisoners in the US have a right to be protected from physical and sexual violence, to medical care, they have limited first amendment rights and a right to communicate with their families in most circumstances. Prison overcrowding has been ruled to violate prisoners 8th amendment rights multiple times.