How fast will your heart be beating when YOUR BLOOD BOILS INSIDE YOU, HUH?!
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Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.netto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Code inspector goes to house over tall grass complaints; resident has mental health crisis and points gun at inspector; cops come in armored vehicle and shoot resident to deathEnglish15·10 days agoThis sums up in two sentences why I never really fancied visiting the US
Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.netto Privacy@lemmy.ml•i am really worried about what's going on in euEnglish39·11 days agoI do agree. But calling the UK Orwellian is kind of funny, given Orwell’s 1984 is largely, if not mostly, based on the UK:
- Like Winston, Orwell worked in the UK as a war propagandist, and lamented that he constantly had to lie and censor facts, but thought it worth it to defeat the Nazis.
- The ‘ministries’ were entirely based on the UK’s, especially e.g. the ‘Ministry of Defense’ actually being a ministry of war.
- Orwell complained that the UK secret police constantly opened all his letters because he was a commie.
- Room 101 and the Ministry of Truth is basically just satire of the BBC.
As well as cultural changes in the 80s-90s, I think people don’t quite realise how much the internet ‘escaped’ the grasp of governments for the past few decades. By constantly banging the drum of “what about the children D:”, governments are finally just catching up to where we used to be.
Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.netto Science Memes@mander.xyz•it's called speedrunning, my dudesEnglish24·11 days ago“you can look it up” provides no specific details.
It is true, the beetle is the Regimbartia attenuata. There’s a paper on the idea of active escape post-predator-contact https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220308423
Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.netto Science Memes@mander.xyz•Can any scientists confirm this important fact?English21·18 days agoWe have strong evidence to the contrary. Cats only meow to humans, not to other cats. So they know we’re fundamentally different.
Soot [none/use name]@hexbear.netto World News@lemmy.ml•McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]English3613·2 years agoMillions of fellow human beings are constantly dying, being severely injured, or displaced. You fucking ghoul.
You definitely should care, what a weird thing to say.
I like Firefox and use LibreWolf all the time, but Mozilla should still absolutely get lampooned for their bullshittery.