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[–] riskable 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

$500 billion in federal spending cuts.

defunding organizations like Planned Parenthood and public broadcasting

  • Planned Parenthood received about $148 million in 2021 and much of that was for providing COVID-19 vaccinations. No idea how much they're getting right now but I know it's less.
  • The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a budget of $535 million for 2025.

If they cut both entirely that's 0.0014% of that $500 billion in cuts they're promising.

[–] riskable 8 points 1 hour ago

There's an even more basic premise at work here that has nothing to do with LGBTQ matters: Entrusting your children with church people gets them abused. Not 100% of the time but it drastically increases the odds.

Doesn't matter what church, denomination, etc. It's a universal rule that's been around for thousands of years across many different religions. Allow people with no qualifications and designs for power to become authorities and you have a recipe for abuse.

[–] riskable 9 points 2 hours ago

For those that don't know, this is one popular way of laundering money.

The other is real estate (which is how Trump made his comeback from early business failures).

[–] riskable 7 points 2 hours ago

Where I come from we call these, "up only" stairs. Kind of like how Perl is a write-only language.

[–] riskable 12 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I was going to say... Sure would be nice to have this feature in all the open source AI image generator tools but you're absolutely right 😩

[–] riskable 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is there such a thing as a conservative sociologist? Does that even exist? It sounds like a myth, like a conservative professor of ethics (not a self-described "professor of ethics" 🤣)

[–] riskable 2 points 3 hours ago

She lives outside all year round! We have a heater in there and heating pads for the winter months when it gets cold (we're in North Florida so it only gets below freezing for like a week or two every year and even then only at night).

She seems to prefer 65-75°. When it's around that temperature she'll spend all day wandering the yard with plenty of energy. When it's hotter she doesn't wander the yard as much when the sun's out and mostly does her foraging in the morning and evenings.

[–] riskable 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The "angle" is that slavery is very inconvenient for their world view. If you want to Make America Great Again you have to pick a time in the past when it was great. For most on the Right that means a time before the civil rights movement but for another huge segment on the Right it's the time when the country was founded... They truly believe the Constitution was perfect after the Bill of Rights (when the 2nd Amendment was added).

[–] riskable 2 points 3 hours ago

Historically, there were probably tens of thousands of people named, "Jesus" around that time. There were also loads and LOADS of people crucified by the Romans. If you were to make up a story and try to make it believable wouldn't you pick a likely starting point?

[–] riskable 3 points 3 hours ago

Just one? Sherwin Raymond: https://newrepublic.com/article/167633/roe-wade-abortion-doctors-dobbs-prison

...but doctors have been imprisoned or killed for treating the "enemy" since, well, doctors.

[–] riskable 72 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

At least they're open about it: The entire point (according to them) is attrition. The actual plan is to make work for these people much more hostile so they quit.

[–] riskable 14 points 18 hours ago (6 children)
 
 

Electoral College elects The President. No other type of election works like that.

 

Came pre-lubed and ready for battle

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Incident Postmortem (programming.dev)
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I've heard this phrase used often by those on the right but every time I hear it I can't help but laugh because of what I picture in my head. But perhaps my image is wrong! I want to read everyone else's depictions.

So as to not influence the responses I will not be sharing what I imagine a "woke mob" looks like.

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Learned helplessness (en.wikipedia.org)
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Something tells me it's not anime's depictions of trucks that's making people re-think becoming truckers (hint: it's the terrible hours and inadequate pay).

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List of eponymous laws (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 4 months ago by riskable to c/[email protected]
 

This is the page you can learn about things like Cunningham's law which states that every program attempts to expand until it can read mail

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Wilhelm scream (en.wikipedia.org)
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If you watch movies and TV shows you should learn about this to maximize your obscure knowledge of every day things 👍

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Sticky aftermath (programming.dev)
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The remnants of battle (programming.dev)
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