Sensitivity and fellowship, yet my (former) friend who is a big stoner has gone all-in on conspiracy theories and is championing the Reform party in the UK because Labour are apparently race traitors. Guess weed can’t do all the lifting.

It’s a fairly common lining for coffins that you’re gonna either transport internationally or put in mausoleums. It keeps the body preserved for longer and takes about 100 years to break down.

Except no, they don’t.

If you only funded drugs through public funding, that means the government has a say in what drugs get funded and which don’t, meaning any and all drugs that don’t affect the broadest number of people simply won’t get funded.

Drugs will no longer be for all people, it’ll be strictly the people that vote for the government in charge. So… No hormone treatments, no birth control, no vaccines, no aids research, nothing that doesn’t explicitly align with the government.

You’re hiring junior programmers for $145k a year? Americans have too much money, I swear. The rest of the world has juniors on less than a third of that if they’re in Europe.

You’d think you could have doubled down on the joke and revealed that the person on the other end of the phone wasn’t actually a person at all, it was an AI.

I wouldn’t say Lemmy is much better though… It’s just Reddit but not on Reddit.

Yeah but Ælfwine got there by accident, and wasn’t escorted by elves.

It’s neither, it’s the Will of Eru Illuvatar that determines whether you can travel the Straight Road or not. Ælfwine travelled the Straight Road and landed at Tol Eressëa in 869AD after fleeing the Danes, and he was a Man, not an Elf.

A more accurate morality would be “Violence should never be the first course of action”.

I’m still waiting for a reliable way to pirate games with micro transactions and lootboxes.

Like, I know Assassin’s Creed Odyssey has daily quests and a rotating cash shop, and that must be talking to some sort of server that isn’t guaranteed to be there. Surely there’s a way to mock that server?

If you’re a juror and you vote guilty, knowing that the person you’re voting guilty for will be executed, if they are later found not guilty, your head should be next on the chopping block.

I am fundamentally against the death penalty. It is not a power the government should ever have.

No arguments from me about giving them somewhere to live and the healthcare they need. If you have any kind of soul, that’s the least you can do. In an ideal world, there should be enough service to cover 100% of the homeless population (plus some buffer to cover any sudden increase) whether they take it or not. The question I have is do you have the right to force them to take it?

If American society treated trans people like they did rapists, there’d be a trans president by now.

Why wouldn’t we as Americans want to help our fellow citizens overcome drug use, treat mental illness, and help rehabilitation efforts on their behalf?

It’s kind of a two-part question, that.

1. Do we want to spend the money to get fellow citizens off drugs and treat their mental illnesses?

That’s a pretty easy question if you have a soul: Yes.

2. If those fellow citizens refuse any and all help because they have a fundamental mistrust of the system. What do we do?

That’s the more difficult question. Forcing them to get treatment breaches their human rights and only stokes further mistrust in the system. Leaving them just leaves them open to exploitation and doesn’t make their lives better.

Homes are easy, it’s all the support that comes with it that’s difficult, especially if the person you’re trying to help either refuses to engage or actively fights you every step of the way.

Whether someone is a drug addict with severe mental illness is irrelevant to whether they’re homeless or not.

Do they have somewhere to live that has a permanent address? No? Then they’re homeless and need help.

Obviously there’s a bit of nuance with things like ProxyAddress where homeless people can have permanent addresses but still be homeless, but the gist of my point is the same! Do they have a home or not?

Granted humanity had to work pretty hard to get the planet to grow enough food. A lot of selective breeding went into making the food we eat today what it is, and in order to achieve that you had to invent agriculture and everything that came with it.

If you’re buying lego to build fine motor skills, it doesn’t need to be the Lego brand or even building bricks.

Hell, remember Meccano? Now if you want something age appropriate for an 8-year-old that develops fine motor skills, Meccano is the way to go! Sure none of it is licensed like Lego, but you can build some crazy stuff! They were building full-on steam locomotives back in the day! Meccano was actually used to build differential analysers in the 1930s.

What’s recreational about it?

“Oh boy! I feel amazing! I can get out of bed in the night without falling over my floordrobe!”

Yeah, sure… Super fun.

How the fuck can a faucet be smart? It’s a valve! It turns one way, or it turns the other way! It is only slightly less dumb than the counter top!