laranis

True, if the justice system retains any of its authority under the next administration. Our laws and the institutions that uphold them are just constructs that can be influenced, dissolved, or repurposed.

Vote, people.

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I'm attending an all day workshop tomorrow with a bunch of leaders at my job and I expect this is a better summary of the upcoming proceedings than anything else in existence.

I will be waking up in a cold sweat after I dream of sliding, wading, or being passed through this tunnel in some being chased, helpless, forgot-it-was-test-day nightmare scenario.

Appreciate it, Lemmy.

That's awesome.

The PG&E comments, not the earth scorched by lightning.

Ancient times? If I had stepped out and seen that this morning shit would be shat.

I mean, someone has to be the first person to watch the beginning of the end of the world, right? My lizard brain would have instantly decided I was the lucky person.

I found it clever that ephrin noticed that the last name of the artist happened to be Venn, and called out the picture correctly as a Venn diagram, as in a diagram made by Venn.

Add to that I spent a measurable fraction of a minute searching for the hidden overlapping circles only to eventually discover the pun, I was amused and thought others might have appreciated it more than the paltry 8 up votes received.

When things like this don't make sense there is a tried and true method that usually sheds some light on it: Follow. The. Money.

I don't claim to have some knowledge of some deep state actors or even understand the nuances of late stage capitalism. But, I do understand some writer, reporter, or publisher not wanting to have to explain to their family that they're moving to a van down by the river because they wouldn't write an article that didn't explicitly call bullshit on some billionaires people-based checkers game. It is easy to compromise on a story, then another.

That's just my hypothetical for this comment, but extrapolate to everything else we're seeing that just seems batshit insane and yet is being reported on as nothing more than slight variations on business as usual or two sides with slightly different ideological views. You start to feel like the only sane person in the asylum and it drives you mad.

At 12 hours with only 8 up votes. This is officially the most underrated comment on all of Lemmy.

I got one of these scam calls saying they were my bank and they saw suspicious activity on my account and just needed me to read back the numbers on the SMS message they were about to send me to confirm they reached the right person.

Um, no. That's not how that works. But I realized just about everyone in my less tech savvy family would have done it instantly. I called everyone I could think of and warned them never to do this but I have no idea if it really sank in.

I'd give them a little more credit than that. They also calculate if the planet will outlive them by at least a minute and then maximize gains in the interim.

Seriously. Can we stop this ridiculous obsession with "generational" comparisons, please, and the click bait that goes with it? Let's instead start learning empathy and stop trying to force fit everything into an arbitrary category. Can we really not, collectively, as a species, grasp nuance and the eternally changing state of everything?

Probably not, but here's to hoping.