TJDetweiler

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'd reckon from his parents, but I never saw the incident myself. You know kids in high school though. Spread a rumour and it catches like wildfire. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually a machete.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Kid nearly lopped an arm off another kid with a samurai sword. Guess he was bullied and he lost his shit one day. Kid with the sword got help, and the kid who got cut didn't lose an arm.

If I lived in a country with lax gun control, this would have been a much different situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Chemically induced motivation. Just how I ~~like~~ need it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I read tasers at first and was thoroughly confused as to why this man was electrifying honey to hurt bears.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pretty shitty thing to say, but anyway...

Just because a few big corporations make cereal, doesn't mean you have an "illusion of choice". It's kind of how the system works. A company that makes 1 brand of cereal also makes dozens of hundreds more. They are using processes and equipment already in place to make a slight variation on existing products. It's kind of just how things work. Same with companies like Asus making dozens of hundreds of variations of monitors. I don't think that's illusion of choice. That's actual choices, with actual differences.

Anecdotally, where I live, large corporations stock the grocery shelves with all their cereals, but local companies do make it in as well. I think in my situation, I do have access to items produced locally.

If you want to make an argument that some dickhead company like Mondelez owns fucking everything, I'm right with you, but whining about cereal variety makes the argument really weak.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Okay fair enough. Then as a Canadian, what's your experience like?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I figured I was misunderstanding some context. Thanks for clarifying.

This still seems to me to be a US-centric post, not something involving all Western democracies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Sweden is a western democracy?

Sounds like that Swedish centrist union should pound sand

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (40 children)

For the first 2 points: Don't use "Western democracies". This is a US problem. Canada has much stronger labour and home protections.

3rd point: Getting banned online is a "you" problem. Your government has nothing to do with why your shitty opinions get you banned or muted. The fact that you even have the ability to complain about your government online is a luxury many other governments don't afford to their people.

4th point: Whining about cereal variety makes the entire argument hold less water. Who the fuck cares about brands of cereal. Buy your cereal or don't, but shut the fuck up about it. This is an empty complaint about capitalism.

5th point: Fair enough.

I don't directly mean you, OP. Unless you made the meme... In which case I do mean directly you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Not much these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or YouTube vanced/revanced for mobile

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Sorry it was harsh.

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