Perpetually tired mental health counselor, sometimes retro game streamer, comedian, Mensan, coffee connoisseur, bacon lover, chronic pain survivor, nefarious pirate, and generally all-round nice dude…

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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023
  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump calls on Republicans to ‘nationalize’ future elections
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    9 days ago

    It’s funny how easy it is for other people to call for us to revolt as if it’s just that easy. Oh yeah, just all of you get together and overthrow the biggest, most well armed government in the world. Sure… yup. Easy peasy. We do that every other weekend in my country!

    The people of the US aren’t going to rise up and overthrow a government that can curb stomp literally any other formally trained militaries in the world. It just won’t happen. All it will mean is fewer dissidents and an even stronger fascist response in the event of future uprising. We just don’t have any hope of attaining the sort of power.

    If there’s a revolution, the only way is to start from the top down. Formal legal complaint and lawsuits, impeachments, etc. That’s where we’re at right now. If that fails, then we need our officials to start talking dissolution or secession.

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Currency
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    15 days ago

    Shortly after Donnie finds out…

    Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

    ​The RADICAL LEFT wants you to eat bugs and kale. NOT ON MY WATCH! We are building a massive reserve of Big Mac Coins. High quality, high VALUE! I met with the Hamburglar—great guy, very misunderstood—and he agrees: the Mac Coin is going to the MOON! Crypto is fine, but you can’t eat a Bitcoin! A total disaster for SLEEPY JOE, but a HUGE WIN for your stomach! 🇺🇸🍔💰 🇺🇸#BigMacStandard #FastFoodFinancials

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Many guess that it's some type of religious symbol
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    23 days ago

    Yes, actually, some players had thicker spindles.

    So here’s the story, at least as far as I understood it… 45s were created during a format war between Columbia records and RCA, a la betamax VS VHS, cd/dvd vs laser disc, or Blu-ray vs HD DVD. RCA’s 45s were designed to compete against Columbia’s 33s as both of them fought to create a sturdier successor to the old shellac 78 designs and bring a more reliable standard to the industry.

    The larger hole was claimed to be a design feature that gave the records more stability, but really, RCA just wanted to make them incompatible with other players…

    In the end, 33 LPs won. Turns out, people and musicians wanted whole albums, not just singles. Whoda thunk? However, 45s ended up being perfect for jukebox players. Plus, we got those nifty convertors, also called a spider, that ultimately made it so it didn’t matter as long as your player had a speed setting.

    Fun fact, my first record player ever was actually a Fisher Price, and if you look, it’s got a built-in 45 adaptor that just popped up when you pressed it. It sounded about as good as you would expect, but I loved it.

    I’m gonna go feel old now…

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Resolution to block Trump from invading Greenland introduced by Sen. Gallego
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    1 month ago

    In a sane world, this would be articles of impeachment met with unanimous shouts from the rest of the government. In a sane world, the people wouldn’t have forgotten how batshit insane his first presidency was. In a sane world, he wouldn’t have gotten any further than “grab em by the pussy.” Fuck, in a sane world, Trump would have died years ago from a stroke and/or heart disease from a combination of the McDonald’s he constantly eats and the syphilis he undoubtedly has and the best legacy he’d have left behind is “You’re fired.” That is, of course, until we found out just how involved he was with Epstein and any scant trace of him or his celebrity was wiped off the face of the earth in disgust.

    We don’t live in a sane world.