A transferee from Reddit. Also the person who does those imgur meme dumps.
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Oh sweet man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
I have met people who think like that on the regular and I just want them to go move to an American Car Suburb and see how they like it.
“Why should I, a man who religiously drives and has no children or grandchildren, pay for these things?”
Because it benefits you and society at large in other ways. It is in society’s best interests that people are educated so they can do much more in society than they would’ve otherwise. It is in society’s best interests to have robust, comprehensive public transport, because that way the roads won’t be clogged up, stopping you from driving. It benefits you that the nurses at your care home can read what meds they’re giving you and can do maths. It benefits you if people can get to their destinations without driving otherwise you would not be able to park at your destination. Your meals on wheels not getting stuck in traffic? The ambulance being able to get to you and get you to the hospital on time? The people around you being able to have the skills to operate in not just the work place and the world? All of that benefits you.
Thinking like this is how we ended up in the shit we’re in worldwide.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse imageEnglish
19·4 days agoFor anyone outside the UK, the bridge in the picture is carrying the West Coast Mainline (WCML).
The UK basically has two major routes between Edinburgh and Glasgow (where most people live in Scotland) and London, the East Coast Mainline and the West Coast Mainline. They also connect several major cities and regions.
The person who posted this basically claimed that a bridge on one of the UK’s busiest intercity rail routes had started to collapse, which is not something you say lightly. It’s like saying all of New York’s airports had shut down because of three co-incidental sinkholes.
Prager U will be like “America is the only country with Freedom” then the very next things they say is “the following things are bad and this should be illegal”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for EveryoneEnglish
14·4 days agoHere’s the thing though, Reddit provided a lot of AI training data. Now AI content is ruining Reddit. This is like a large corporation making millions off cider and then destroying the orchard.
Option 4: “The revolution is coming and my chosen ideology will rise from the ashes.”
Chapman: It trying to remember if he turned off the stove.
Idle: Has asked for the manager to complain, but turns out the manager is right about everything and he’s realizing that just now.
Jones: Waiting for the bus, looking forward to the Pizza that is in his fridge.
Palin: “Hey kids, do you wanna see a dead body.”
Cleese: Has just conceived of a new, exciting way to commit arson.
Gilliam: Not pictured because the new, exciting way to commit arson involved his car.
and then cutting younger people’s real time pay then calling them lazy for not accepting 168 weeks.
Throwing a tantrum at 60: you vote for a fascist and crash the economy.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
412·7 days agoThe only people who believe in infinite growth in a finite world are mad men and economists.
OH WOODROW WILSON.
I thought you meant Harold.
Wilson and Reagan left office before the dementia really took hold at 60 and 78 respectively, Trump on the other hand is 79, one year older than when Reagan left office and has four years left to go, when he’ll be 83, and dementia doesn’t stop for anyone.
Wilson threw in the towel when he realized he was getting too long in the tooth admitting that he was not up to the job. Reagan left office because he legally had to (two terms) which is something Trump is openly saying he will not do.
So one admissions of poor health, one case of being legally required to. Not exactly good arguments against a man who openly is saying he will flout the constitution for a third term.
Oh I don’t think he’s on death’s door, I think however he’s got a condition that makes him unable to be president.
That can be done though street design. See: The Netherlands.
And in another five years, I’m sure he’ll look even worse.
First off, have you ever had relatives with dementia? When you have a relative, especially a close relative, you can see the signs. A drop in the face is one of the most noticeable, often it’s one of the first things you notice, alongside other things like trouble walking, coordination issues, and often Erratic, Hostile behavior. The last one of course is one that Trump has always had, but the other ones can be seen very clearly in most news footage of him. Man’s got issues.
Second off, I don’t know what things are like over there, but here we have public information films that are broadcast on TV to teach people how to spot a stroke, because it’s imperative that you get someone help when you suspect a stroke. The signs are:
- A droop in one side of the face.
- Trouble lifting their arms.
- Slurred speech.
The Acronym “FAST” is used here: Face, Arms, Speech, Time. A droop in the face is something that remains for a while after a stroke. Donald Trump very likely has either had a stroke or a severe brain injury on the level of being shot through the head and surviving. If I saw a man who looked like Donald Trump in that picture in the Supermarket, I would stop and ask if they were OK, because I might need to call a fucking Ambulance!
And I’m not saying that for partisan reasons, even with Biden’s senior moments I thought that (as did he) that he was getting too long in the tooth, but it’s very clear this man has dementia and it is developing quickly. His father had dementia and people who have had family members with the condition are at a higher risk of having it.
All of this is an issue because this man is in charge of Nuclear Weapons and is also the head of a personality cult that the ruling party want to maintain no matter what and thus is reluctant to officially at least trigger the Twenty-fifth Amendment. Donald Trump is becoming incapacitated and the Administration is reluctant to accept that.
Despite not being American, the fact that America has nukes, one of most powerful armed forces in the world and are in a Cold War with two others nuclear armed nations with one of them at war with a European country and the other threatening to Invade an ally and the source of the world’s Microprocessors, and has a President who’s very clearly had a stroke and is developing dementia, it is kinda my problem because I don’t particularly want to be vaporized when the Russians slam nukes into Edinburgh City Center and Edinburgh Airport, because I just happen to be in the blast radius of both of those places, ken?
Trump appears healthier than Cheney and Cheney lasted five years longer than Trump is right now. So don’t hold your breath.
My sibling in sin, half his face is drooping.











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