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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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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you ever get trapped in an alternate dimension, the first thing you should try to find is a history book
2·4 days 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
2·4 days 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
61·4 days 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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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?
29·5 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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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•when robots have all the jobs, who's gonna buy all the stuff?
6·6 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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Lord of the memes@midwest.social•Personally, I'd swap Bilbo for Treebeard and add Radagast.English
2·9 days agoHe’d be the dealer.
You gotta sit and listen to his mix tape before he sells you any weed
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Lord of the memes@midwest.social•Personally, I'd swap Bilbo for Treebeard and add Radagast.English
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I think Jon Stewart and John Oliver should promote socialism without even saying socialism.
2·10 days agoJohn Oliver looks like a batch of over whipped vanilla pudding in a toupee.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I think Jon Stewart and John Oliver should promote socialism without even saying socialism.
2·10 days agoYou son of a bitch. I’m in
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memes@lemmy.world•Daily trivia - there actually was no difference between the Greeks and Romans, that's a 19th century AD invention of Hellenophobes secretly working for the Ottoman Empire
3·12 days agoFun fact, Cesar was actually named after the salad. His mother was eating one in August and that’s the month he was born in, so that was his name.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?
341·13 days agoWe need some form of law enforcement.
We do not need a standing military with a license to kill any random citizen.
Fun fact, prior to the stars being adopted, the Grand Union flag was literally just the British East India Company flag. Like, they didn’t even have one made, they took one off a boat and said “this is ours now”
There’s 102 stars.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is cryptocurrency good for anything?
112·15 days agoLong answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo

Needs more hand bruises