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  • Nice sources! Puts things in perspective for me. I really mean that.

    Still doesn’t change the fact that the enemy is at the gates. And has been for decades. And it ain’t America’s gates. Which is not to say, “Not our problem.” It eventually will be our problem.

    Europe has to spin up a war economy. Yesterday. We Americans have the privilege of being able to do that with two oceans buffering us. Europe has no such buffer. Once again, the filthy Russians are knocking.





  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldThis Planet's On Fire (Burn In Hell)
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    Give me a break. How about the people having kids in:

    • -900,000: Whatever happened to kill off almost all humans
    • -1177: Bronze Age collapse
    • 535: Volcanic winter of 536
    • 1347-1351: Black Death
    • 1914-1918: WWI and Spanish Flu
    • 1929-1939: Great Depression and Dust Bowl
    • 1962: Great Leap Forward
    • 1943-1945: Worst killings and bombings of WWII
    • 2020: For our lifetimes. COVID and 100 other disasters. So bad most have forgotten it started with Australia burning to the ground, 1 billion animals killed.

    As to racism, we watched Mississippi Burning last night. My wife isn’t from America and was horrified. “Honey, that was happening when our parents were kids.”






  • to pay a fair wage

    Funny how in the dozens of conversations I’ve read on this subject, the people receiving the tips aren’t the ones bitching about tips.

    I worked at a payroll firm and many of those folks are making more than a “fair wage”.

    But the system MAN! Apparently servers are loving the system. Because they’re absolutely silent in these threads. If you had your way, they would make less money. But I guess you could be satisfied that you brought “the man” down low. Worker solidarity, right?





  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoHumor@lemmy.worldWhat are they planning?
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    None I’m aware of. Certainly not in Chicago, lived there a couple of years. There’s a half-mile straight run of houses in my neighborhood back home, but that’s unusual and only because it was originally an airstrip.

    A long, straight road like that is going to be zoned commercial, no houses at all. Flip that around and a Hobby Lobby can’t be in a residential zone.




  • Sun Tzu, The Art of War:

    “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” (That last describes the Democratic party to a tee.)

    So yes, it behooves us to understand them if we want to win. If you want to rage and stick your fingers in your ears, good luck with the toddler approach.

    And since 100 toddlers will take that statement to mean “appeasement” or “how to get on their level”, fuck you, you’re a child. Leave these discussions to grownups. In the mean time, go read a grownup book. (Hint: The Art of War is 100% applicable here.)

    Here’s one with far too much nuance for liberals:

    “When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”

    Not even going to explain that one in modern political terms. In any case, we lost, and goddammit we’re not going to learn anything from it!




  • More likely, From Dusk Til Dawn we’re hearing:

    “All right, pussy, pussy, pussy! Come on in pussy lovers! Here at the Titty Twister we’re slashing pussy in half! Give us an offer on our vast selection of pussy, this is a pussy blow out! All right, we got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy, we got hot pussy, cold pussy, we got wet pussy, we got smelly pussy, we got hairy pussy, bloody pussy, we got snappin’ pussy, we got silk pussy, velvet pussy, Naugahyde pussy, we even got horse pussy, dog pussy, chicken pussy! Come on, you want pussy, come on in, pussy lovers! If we don’t got it, you don’t want it! Come on in, pussy lovers!”

    Or, the “we got dick” version.

    Love it when the frogs go off at night.

    “Fuck ME! Pick ME! Pick me! Fuck me fuck me fuck me.”