Barbarian

joined 2 years ago
[–] Barbarian 25 points 3 months ago

Honestly, if you're in the US, best you can do is focus on your local community. Help out your neighbours, find like-minded people, stay active on the local level. There is almost 0 possibility for a normal person to make a difference on the national level, but you absolutely can on the local level.

[–] Barbarian 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it'll have to accelerate.

Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.

[–] Barbarian 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

American voters in general dgaf about things that don't affect them. Israel is irrelevant to your median American voter.

[–] Barbarian 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It really was (or at least the Democratic party's fault). If you take every single third party voter, assign them to Kamala, she still loses.

[–] Barbarian 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is more about ramping up domestic arms production to fill the gap that is going to come from US production no longer going to Ukraine.

[–] Barbarian 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I am insanely curious as to the context here. Was he a time traveller? Did he grow the beard to hide some identifying mark? Is he a member of a cult whose perfectly manicured beards are the membership card?

Comics be crazy. Could be any of these and 100 more crazier things.

[–] Barbarian 13 points 3 months ago

When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way

being able to consistently and reliably operate the thing without taking your eyes off the road

Considering they'd just spent the previous few questions discussing the visual-first aspect of touchscreens and accessibility issues for the visually impaired, I think that's exactly what they were talking about.

The generalizations are about completely different devices. They talk about CT machines & automatic defibrillators later.

[–] Barbarian 49 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The funniest part is that in one of his dialogue trees, he reveals that he's never actually been to the Semenine islands and his whole understanding of Semenese culture is based on stuff he's read and heard on the radio. He legitimately has no real understanding of the culture he presents as superior, and no place in it.

[–] Barbarian 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure, but my whole point was that you can't exactly expect defederation to impact their culture in any meaningful way considering being completely defederated was the status quo.

[–] Barbarian 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I highly doubt there's much more migration than before. Hexbear existed as a standalone site with no federation for years before the reddit apiocalypse caused the mass migration to Lemmy.

[–] Barbarian 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Apparently reading so many bad takes over the last few years has destroyed my ability to detect sarcasm. Sorry about that.

[–] Barbarian 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you mean added to the bible after the council of Nicea decided on the contents of the bible, no. The bible, both old testament and new, is very explicitly pro-slavery.

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