I have fond memories of stealing my buddy’s S10 with a screwdriver. We had summer school together and I’d move it down the lot. To get me back one time he and a few of the other delinquents picked up my Tercel and carried it to a different lot. Good times.
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World News@lemmy.world•Taiwan's opposition leader meets China's Xi Jinping as both sides call for peaceEnglish
51·6 hours agoHow well did “one country two systems” work for Hong Kong?
By submitting to the PRC, the ROC loses it’s foreign allies guaranteeing it’s autonomy.
Also the microprocessors we need for things like, missiles and other fancy weapons are made primarily in Taiwan, China wants control of that.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you ever get trapped in an alternate dimension, the first thing you should try to find is a history book
2·18 hours agoSorry the dimension you’ve been transported to has laws of physics that don’t allow water to exist.
Which means you’ve got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you ever get trapped in an alternate dimension, the first thing you should try to find is a history book
2·18 hours agoI’m sure they’ve read the Bill Cooper collected works.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party
61·22 hours agoSpoilers… For a joke from a kid’s movie with the plot depth of a sidewalk rain pond from 13 years ago.
Some of the children obsessed with that movie when it came out are old enough to rent a car now.
Given the rest of the package, I will not extend the grace of assuming the best case scenario.
It’s pickle pepperoni pizza.
Which… I mean…
I feel like pickles is offensive enough
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politics @lemmy.world•‘We lose the midterms’: Republicans worry Iran might have already cost them Congress
6·1 day agoDemocrats
Taking a hard stance
Pick ONE.
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World News@lemmy.world•Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, threatening ceasefireEnglish
45·2 days agoCeasefire you say? Boys! They’ve stopped shooting shoot them!
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?
29·2 days agoThe war on drugs was a dog whistle continuation of the Jim Crow era. Because it was now illegal to discriminate against black people simply for being black, new methods of oppression needed to be instituted. When Nixon announced the war on drugs, drug use was going down and was approaching it’s lowest point in decades. His hope was that by finding ways to continue to police black people, he’d win support of Southern Democrats who were largely at the time, pro labor but mad about the civil rights movement.
This strategy worked, and it was continued and expanded under Reagan. When Nancy Reagan pleaded with Americans to ‘just say no’ drug use was at about 3% nationwide.
American police were always a tool of oppression of black communities. They grew out of post civil war racist brotherhoods like the KKK. On multiple occasions, entire chapters of KKK members were deputized.
The narco trafficking the CIA did was a natural progression of this, and was used as an excuse to further militarize the police.
“Because they were black” is a simple answer. And it’s correct. But you could add “and black people are who we oppress in this country.”
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World News@lemmy.world•Meta employee in London accused of downloading 30,000 private Facebook imagesEnglish
37·2 days agoWhen the NSA does it it’s fine.
When Facebook does it to train it’s models it’s fine.
When individual employees do it it’s fine until the government notices and raises a stink. Then it’s a problem.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump warns a ‘whole civilization will die tonight’ if a deal with Iran isn’t reached
131·3 days agoWell it’s been knowing you all.
The maniac will end all human civilization. Best of luck to our successors.
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump says US could charge for Strait of Hormuz passage amid Iran warEnglish
7·3 days agoDid they buy the Trump insurance? Ohhh shame that, see if you want safe passage you gotta buy the Trump insurance
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•when robots have all the jobs, who's gonna buy all the stuff?
6·3 days ago“maybe the clothes are made of paper. The food is just nutrient paste…”
Or something like that from the Expanse. Sure, your needs are met, but living life on basic assistance seems like a nightmare.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump drops Easter Sunday f-bomb in new threat to Iran
35·5 days agoThat doesn’t sound like his typical cadence. I don’t think Trump wrote that.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I think Jon Stewart and John Oliver should promote socialism without even saying socialism.
1·7 days agoYou son of a bitch. I’m in
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox.English
1·9 days agoYou know what they say, nothing beats thirst like a cop beats black people like a crisp cold coca cola. The cops beating up innocent people of beverages.
Yes indeed coca cola loves to assault your thirst. The way cops assault their wives.
Coca cola and cops, two peas one pod. Like two girls one cup. Except instead of two girls eating shit it’s coca cola.
Mmm. Coke.
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politics @lemmy.world•Schumer faces discontent from Democrats running for the Senate
2·10 days agoWell, he represents that imaginary Republican couple from Kansas pretty well.

Anybody who isn’t adamantly pro-capitalist.
Weird how much those groups overlap huh?