[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 hour ago

Such an ignorant, lazy take.

How the heck are they complaining about biden's take on immigration when he increased the border control budget so much despite Republican protests against border control?

What happened is the opposite of what this article is talking about.

"Biden's weak policies and incoherent responses during the debate may give us another four years of Trump"

No, the election May give us another 4 years of trump.

It's an election.

Biden has very strong immigration policies, this article doesn't know what it's talking about.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

You're mistaking consequences for unilateral penalties absent of due process.

He's facing a whole ton of consequences, like 500 million of them.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I blocked them a while ago, lemmy seems more open without the clutter.

Who's bones of the Moon though?

Dang it, he just posted an awesome video that I love.

Well...probation it is.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Sure, learn to chew your food or it'll go down the wrong pipe.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours ago

This one guy invented "the laff box", a fairly complex machine with a wide variety of laughs that you could put together however you wanted to, and it was so successful in getting the audience to laugh that every show used it.

And that one guy would often be the only one who knew how to operate it, and could basically play a piano of laughs to suit the mood or whatever for any tv show.

It's a pretty great story if you're interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvzPDZrpTHo&t=0

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Is that a reference?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Unwritten rule that I guess we should write: no drugs for children.

They don't need their minds expanded, their tiny minds are still sealing themselves together.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You made perfect sense, and this post was overwhelmingly upvoted.

Chill out.

Next time:

"Was this ai-written?"

"No, I wrote this."

"Cool, I like sailing too.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Did you type all of that out?

That is a lot.

Is that AI generated?

I don't get it, if it's free why is it 5.99?

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Pretty important to note that while the no surprises act is a successful piece of legislation alleviating medical poverty, the " surprises" the article is talking about is shitty doctors acting poorly.

"Insurers, however, charged that big physician groups — some of them owned by private equity investors — are trying to manipulate the process to squeeze out higher payments. “A small but significant number of bad actors” have flooded the system with cases “as a way to maximize revenue,” said Kelly Parsons, a spokesperson for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. “Should this trend continue, health care costs are likely to rise unnecessarily.”

The no surprises act is helping people, and greedy assholes are taking advantage of it.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do it.

They are awesome, non-addictive and physiologically safe.

Make sure you're in a safe, comfortable place, and if you're doing them with other people, make sure you trust those people, but otherwise have a blast.

Magic mushrooms are the "drug" I really do think everybody should try.

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I feel like that game literally changed my life in the 2 hours or whatever it took me to play it.

That game is so beautiful. It made me a better person.

I was absolutely entranced.

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/21123242

Thanks. it's fine if nobody knows the answer to this or has not seen the movie, it's not a very good movie.

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Thanks. it's fine if nobody knows the answer to this or has not seen the movie, it's not a very good movie.

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This is the most fun I've had with any Ninja turtles media since like that comic book where they had to fight a bunch of stuff some kid drew because he had a magic crystal.

The art is beautiful and very cool, the jokes were really fun, the turtles have great personalities and everyone is a great voice actor.

I had so much fun watching this.

There were even a few spots in the movie, like more than one where I was on the edge of my seat enthralled by the action sequences.

Highly recommended.

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So apparently 60 animated white ninja shorts based on the white ninja web comic aired on Vine, does anyone have any idea where they are now?

https://ipf.ca/series/white-ninja/

This place says season 2 is available on toonstar, but I didn't even know what that is.

I checked their website but there's nothing, like not even links anywhere to anything so I could poke around the site at all.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

Very weird that I am so old and have literally never heard this mentioned in a TV show or book or movie or anything.

In four out of five states, if you go to prison, you are literally paying for the time you spend there.

As you can guess, this results in crippling debt as soon as you're released.

The county gets back a fraction of what they hold over your head the rest of your life until you commit suicide(or die naturally and peacefully with the sword of damocles hanging over your head).

$20-$80 a day according to Rutgers.

Counties apparently sue people and employ wage garnishment to get back the money that majority of people obviously cannot pay back.

https://www.rutgers.edu/news/states-unfairly-burdening-incarcerated-people-pay-stay-fees

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/movies@lemmy.world

Update: Answered in the comments much more thoroughly and succinctly than I can summarize, so head below for some great answers.


She's apparently the warrant officer, which I've seen hypothetical explanations state is the XO, the second in command, but she explicitly states that she is the third officer at the end of the movie, and throughout The movie she is the pilot and she checks the electrician's work and volunteers to go fight the alien first, and also states that she is in command while the others were off the ship.

So was Kane second in command?

And what is a warrant officer?

Thank you

BTW if there is a crazy Aliens expert, I have a few tiny questions that only a crazy fan who literally read everything ever written and watched every interview about the movie might be able to answer.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote.

There have been several experiments that indicate people can see without using their visual cortex.

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submitted 3 months ago by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/movies@lemmy.world

So the dog. Opening scene. If it's just looking to infect everyone it possibly can, it doesn't make a lot of sense for it to turn around and stare at the pursuing helicopter.

Are there prevailing fan theories about the reason that the dog, presumably the surviving thing, stopped and looked back at the pursuing helicopter?

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submitted 3 months ago by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/movies@lemmy.world

Sherman: Your methods pretty scientific lady

Anne: studied urine biology before I met Steve

The movie is way more fun than I was worried about, it was James Cameron's directorial debut.

It's very dumb, but the enjoyable kind.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.ml

Everything takes place over a few hours, or entirely set during the immediate aftermath of an automobile crash, for example?

I'd like to avoid "and it was all a dream", time travel, or similar plot devices if possible.

I'm curious what a novel of any length purposely confined to a strict time window in-story reads like.

Maybe I should be reading more plays.

Thanks.

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submitted 4 months ago by Varyk@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area.

All of the permits issued were canceled upon the ruling.

It's awesome.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/02/plan-to-mine-in-ecuador-forest-violate-rights-of-nature-court-rules-aoe

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