yesman, yesman@lemmy.world

Excuse me, but why should anyone care about what Lee wanted? The gentleman was accustomed to not getting his way after all.

The only pedestal he belongs on is the kind with a trap door.

Unlike Lee, some patriots in Virginia understand America First!

Lot’s of people avoid using the word retard. But that’s hard on some people because the loss of that word can decimate their whole vocabulary.

I support your freedom of expression; language is hard, and some people need verbal prognostics to make their point. It’s rude to pick on people just because of a diminished capacity.

A coworker saw me using a terminal and educated me that computers used to just be just a terminal with no mouse.

Hey, remember that time ICE was under attack with artillery or other explosives? No doubt led by Field Marshall Walz. Buy War Bonds!

I don’t know why Iran would be more credible. Counting Israel, the three regimes are all infamous and world-class liars. If we can’t trust the word on any of them in isolation, trusting one over another would be madness.

Every time I see a white dude pilot on my flight I get a little nervous. I hope he’s qualified and not just here because his uncle owns the airline.

The Earth’s population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. I’m pretty sure we’re not quite endangered yet. I’ll also point out that poor countries that tend to spawn brown players are well above replacement levels if you count those as people.

You know that when a pig catches charges, they must have done something indefensible. That’s because you know that the other pigs, prosecutors, and judges are doing everything they can to defend it.

AI slop.

The lid is wildly bigger than the seat, and not aligned in any way either. It’s also interesting that the seat is hinged in the back, and fused with porcelain in the front.

Air defense weapons are “provocative”? That’s like a rapist saying it’s provocative for women to buy pepper spray.

it’s pretty trivial to avoid a nation’s air defenses. Effortless in fact.

Pirated games have almost always been a superior experience. Games companies hate their customers almost as much as they hate their employees.

I’ll just point out that monotheism creates some interesting and silly problems too. The Pegans can just assign fertility to a female god for example. Without that option, monotheists have to shoehorn the concept of fertility and birth into the patriarch god.

This is the genesis of the idea of men’s spunk being referred to as a “seed”. It was “common sense” in Western civilization from Roman times to the 18th Century that sperm contained fully-formed little people. Women were just the dirt where you planted those little guys. The inventor of the microscope studied sperm first. And he fully expected to find homoculi in his spunk.

Meanwhile the “primitive” people’s of the world would have found this to be insane. Babies come from women, stupid.

Unpopular Opinion: Hendrix’s version is superior.

This is an opinion I’ve come to by listening to both dozens and dozens of times. What I can’t escape is that while the cover is longer and more expansive, there is nothing in SRV’s version that’s absent in Hendrix’s. Hendrix’s version has lyrics, that slap. So I have to give it to Jimmy by a hair.

I want to point out for context that I was exposed to Stevie’s version first and more often. Both versions can bring me to tears; I’d be difficult to exaggerate how much I love them both.

edit: also, Jimmy created little wing. And that counts for a lot.

Their is an old joke from Ireland, during The Troubles.

A man drives up to a checkpoint and the guard in the balaclava and holding an FAL asks: are you a Catholic or a Protestant? (this would reveal your allegiance to the Republicans or the Loyalists).

The man answers: I’m and atheist.

The rifleman responds: Yes, yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

This is funny to the heretic because we’re still culturally attached to our sect. I read the book; I sat in the pews; I sang the songs. I’m a Protestant atheist and that Catholic shit will always be foreign and weird.