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  • Wild Ones

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  • I don't think I could eat a whole house.

  • Wild Ones

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  • Roaches infest your home and spread diseases. Butterflies live outside and spread pollen.

  • American workers are tired of waiting.

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  • "Here's a graph that shows that, on average, real wages have gone up more than inflation!"

    "Well my wages haven't gone up, and now I can't afford groceries."

    "Did you even look at the graph?"

  • American workers are tired of waiting.

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  • We'll see. The only cure foe scapegoating, far-right populism is genuine economic populism. I'm optimistic that, if we excise enough of the third-way rot from the party, the remaining Democratic hacks will see which way the wind is blowing and fall in line behind an actual progressive vision.

  • American workers are tired of waiting.

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  • A) This person is very clearly not saying they are the same, and even provided you a visual guide explaining the difference.

    B) "Fixing the economy," always means stabilizing the stock market and lowering the deficit, but never improving the material conditions of the working class. Obama stabilized the stock market by bailing out the banks who created the financial crisis, not the homeowners facing foreclosure. Biden curbed inflation with supply-side measures instead of price control. Even Clinton responded to the H.W. Bush recession by gutting welfare and deregulating Wall Street (hell, repealing Glass-Steagall is one of the main reasons we got the financial crisis in the first place).

  • American workers are tired of waiting.

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  • The Democratic Socialists are fielding a lot of viable challenges against Democrats this year, both in open seats and against incumbents. Mamdani is the very famous example, but there were a lot of DSA victories in city council races across the country, and there's also a primary challenge for Rep. Richie Torres.

    He's not DSA affiliated, but Graham Platner just pushed centrist Janet Mills out of the Democratic primary race, allowing him to challenge Republican Susan Collins. Progressive Analilia Mejia also defeated AIPAC centrist Tom Malinowski in her primary and went on to win the special election to represent New Jersey's 11th district. It's still early, but this is could be a real reckoning for the centrist liberals that have ruled the party for the last 3 decades.

  • How has this not come up?

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  • But without hands, those shrimp people aren't going to be able to do much in the way of tool use...

    Maybe they have specialized claws that they use to fashion tools out of giant coal trees that grow out the planet's core. Maybe they have a form so foriegn we couldn't possibly imagine it. My point is, convergent evolution makes a lot of sense based on our understanding of how life evolves, but in terms of systems that produce life, we have a sample size of one. If we're wrong about some of the fundamental requirements of life l(ike carbon, water, light), and there are a plethora of systems that produce life, all bets are off.

  • How has this not come up?

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  • Yeah, this is a viable explanation, although it is dependant on life evolving mostly the same way across the galaxy. If life mostly evolves on ocean planets in the Goldilocks Zone frim the same basic elements, then sure, prokaryote, fish, tetrapod, biped could be an extremely common path. But it's entirely possible there are a wide variety of initial circumstances that can generate life, and there are tungsten-based hyper-intelligent shrimp people living in gas giants

  • American workers are tired of waiting.

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  • The best solution would be for Charlie Brown to kick Lucy and run the ball himself. (This is a metaphor for primarying sitting Democrats.)

  • Your grammar lesson for today

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  • It is definitely not a grammatical issue, but it a good rule of thumb for writing, particularly academic writing. One of the first things that was drilled into me as an English major was to drop, "very," and find a better adjective.

    Also, yeah, a lot of these are very poor matches, especially without context, but one of my favorite things about the English language is that it is a very large, redundant language, but none of our words have the exact same connotation. Big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic, tremendous, mammoth, gargantuan, and humongous are all technically synonyms, but all conjure different images in the reader.

    But yeah, telling someone to say, "fragile," instead of, "very weak," is dumb, given they could mean, "delicate," or, "feeble." And if you're not writing a term paper, just say, "very."

  • It depicts a great battle

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  • It always feels like they're being described to the artist one subject at a time.

    "Draw a guy."

    "OK."

    "He's looking at a snail."

    "Alright, I can fit that in."

    "And he's being stabbed by a fox."

    "(sigh) ...might have given him a different expression if you'd led with that."

  • 8 people arrested at protest during ICE arrest in Brooklyn, NYPD says

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  • The DHS statement said that during the arrest, Okeke “weaponized his vehicle” in an alleged attempt to hit ICE officers...

    At this point, it irresponsible to report this without a qualifier like, "ICE has made this claim on multiple occasions, including the killing of Renée Good, but so far, none have been substantiated, and many were later contradicted by video evidence."

  • 'They’re Lost, Dude’: Jon Stewart Torches DNC After Democrat With Massive Lead Says He’s Heard Zilch From Them

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  • Well, don't count Collins out yet. She's down in the polls, but she's bounced back from that before. Still, Platner is much better positioned to beat her than Mills ever was, and his campaign has already weathered a huge storm.

  • What Happened?

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  • Like all right-wingers, when she says, "I believe in," she doesn't mean, "these are the principals by which I conduct myself." She means, "this is how I think others should react to me, regardless of how I conduct myself."

  • The perfect language

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  • LOL, I'm honored, thanks!

  • The perfect language

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  • I kinda thought of it as, "My native tongue is as ancient as the seas, as foundational as the mountains, as incomprehensible to you as the stars are to ants. Anyway, 2000 years ago I had to hire a guy to translate that into one of your languages just so you people could sign a fucking contract. It was a huge mess, guy took twice as long as he quoted me, legal department rejected it three times before it got approved, the whole thing went way over budget. Long story short, I'm not updating the paperwork. You can Google it if you want the fine print."

  • 'They’re Lost, Dude’: Jon Stewart Torches DNC After Democrat With Massive Lead Says He’s Heard Zilch From Them

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  • I view Platner as a sort of political Pascal's wager. Let's say there's a 10% chance of him being a secret Nazi or the next Fetterman. Hell, let's say it's 50%. The alternative was Mills, a centrist hand-picked by fascist collaborator Chuck Schumer, and Collins, a member of fhe fascist party. The loss of electing a secret fascist over a fascist collaborator or different fascist is minimal, while the gain of electing a genuine progressive is massive. You might as well make the bet that he's genuine.

  • What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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  • That makes sense. I know he didn't write the movie, but I assumed that he had a lot of input on the monster design. He always has a lot of input on the monster design.

  • What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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  • Honestly, I remember similar vamp lore dragging down the first one. There some interesting stuff with Frost being lower class because he was turned Vamp instead of born Vamp, but the third-act vampire-god thing was kinda meh, ending with some horribly dated CGI.

    Also, while the world building was cool, it's not as though Blade is a super interesting character. He's a super cool bad-ass, but I find myself checking out when they get into his emotional backstory. Whistler id mich more of the emotional core of fhat movie, which is probably why they had to bring him back in the second (which ie something in fhe second movie that I thought was a cheap cop-out).

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    Some noob questions before I jump in...

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    "Winner"

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I mean...violence is bad.

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Seems Legit

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    He's cracked the case!

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    Ghosted

  • Out of Context Comics @lemmy.world
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    I have been waiting for this community my whole life

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Not to get too topical, but...

  • Facepalm @lemmy.wtf
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    I want to thank Sync for placing this ad next to this post

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I thought he sounded fine.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm begging you to learn how to use this term.