protist

joined 2 years ago
[–] protist@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day ago

Fructose is by definition a vegetable sugar

[–] protist@mander.xyz 24 points 1 day ago

It was Colorado, and it was purely symbolic. If his DOJ were to take this one to the Supreme Court, and SCOTUS rules in favor of the Trump Admin, then the US Constitution, which is currently only wounded (gravely), would be truly dead.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 177 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Entertainment is getting worse and you're getting old. The media landscape has fractured, and there are no dominant cultural touchstones anymore. You're looking for media in all the ways you used to, but everything is different now. There is still plenty of amazing long form content on YouTube, and lots of great movies. You have to do more seeking now, though, where before you could just open up YouTube or turn on the TV

[–] protist@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

The movie Koyaanisqatsi has some documentary footage of New York City streets from the late 70s, and there are some scenes where they're packed. I've never been to NY so can't speak from experience, but if they're less busy now, maybe that has to do with cultural changes and the internet replacing much of what we used to do in real life?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Poor Unfortunate Souls from the Little Mermaid. Pat Carroll's key is perfect for dudes and this song is great to ham up. I also go with Let's Dance by David Bowie and Rock Lobster by the B52s when my wife is there to duet

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

60 years ago, Democrats were creating Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and the Job Corps, passing civil rights, voting rights, and labor protection acts, and massively expanding investment in public housing and education. It's only in the past 45 years things have really gone sideways

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

What's crazy is how much deference the media continues to give this guy. Trump said in a social media post "consider Venezuelan airspace closed." He didn't say anything at all in an official capacity, much less take any steps to set up a no-fly zone, which is what it would take to actually close Venezuelan airspace. This is just a thought he had while he was pooping

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I live in Texas, and can confidently tell you the people writing these laws have no fundamental concept of what the internet is or how to implement or enforce such a law for consistent adherence.

I can also tell you with confidence this law will be wielded with impunity against specific companies/sites our corrupt, petulant AG decides to go after. Fuck Ken Paxton.

As far as users in Texas, this is nothing a VPN can't fix.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where'd you read that? Here are at least the known sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus

There's way less evidence of a ton of historical figures and events that are taken for granted as established history. Just my two cents

[–] protist@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm about as atheist as they come, but it seems pretty settled history that the man existed and was politically impactful

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