[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

This is really the key device in the ruling. How are we going to let judges decide if their acts were or were not official if he has presumptive immunity for official acts and they aren't even allowed to bring the evidence to court?! The ruling prevents the very review they are suggesting should happen in any case where the president argues he was discharging his official duties.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Naw I didn't mean that, but hell yeah let's be here anyway. To me, technically the joke is that none of us probably bother to put in our real birth month and date when Steam asks us to verify our age before viewing the next game suggestion in our discovery queue or wherever; just spin that wheel for the year lol. But the wording you pointed out is the only tipoff that it's what I'm talking about, over-explaining would have made it boring, and if I go too subtle, then nobody gets it. I was genuinely thanking ye for the noticing the deliberate wording and I hope you got a chuckle :D

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Cheers from across the hellscape, friend.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Glad you noticed that lol, it's really the make or break part of the joke.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Don't you dare go ruining my joke with your reality-ism.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

HTC Droid Incredible.

It kept telling me its storage was full when it was nowhere close, and then because it only allowed over the air factory resets, it couldn't even erase and reformat itself. It was the top rated Android phone at the time and it's why I've never gone back.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

This, we moved from Tribes to towns to cities to be more efficient but lost the cooperative aspect of the tribe which made it more efficient in the first place. Now corporations do market research until they figure out exactly what we can afford to get our needs met and then charge that price instead of anything related to their actual costs. It's resulted in a situation to where most people live month to month and can't afford vacation or even an unexpected car repair.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Let's go with the atomic bomb...if you disagree, consider that we made a weapon too powerful to ever be used again, but nations that have them get taken way more seriously in diplomacy.

And let's be serious, it's pretty much tick-tock, tick-tock before they get used again when they get put in the hands of zealots. Let's be doubly serious, it will be religion that convinces some leader that they are within their divine rights to cleanse the world of their enemies.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

For me, this post is right under the person who said "Agriculture" and the response "Because it lead directly to feudalism and other forms of autocracy?"

And if unqualified businessmen ruling instead of experts in their "given fields" isn't a perfect way to describe feudalism, I don't know if irony has survived.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 56 points 3 days ago

Not true as I've often been born on January 1st in the early 1900's.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

I hate to say it, but regardless of one's stance, on his back should be "Public perception of Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3-mile Island."

I say regardless of one's stance, because even if the public's perceptions are off...when we remember those incidents but not how much time was in between them or the relative infrequency of disasters, they can have outsized effects on public attitude.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Beats me, I live in Arizona and hearing other people speak Spanish is a daily occurrence. I don't get even the slightest bit upset by it and I feel like you'd have to be insane to care about such a thing.

So maybe you have it here, some people are insane.

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