Robbeee

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[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A number also took private flights. Unless you happen to live where its taking place you have to possess the means to afford travel, a place to stay, and potentially legal fees to attend a protest. You also, as you said, need to be able to afford the time off work. This restricts most protests to college students and PMCs with a few locals thrown in.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Fuck, the wanted to hang Mike Pence.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The president and commander-on-chief of the United States had just heavily implied it would be a good idea. Those of them not just caught up in the enthusiasm probably thought they would have military support. Trump always appealed to people that can't really separate reality from movies and they thought they were living the climax. Reality is, however, much more pragmatic than that and they were lucky they were of the privileged class so they were merely arrested rather than gunned down the way anyone else storming a federal building would be.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, and once you platform enough nutcases no one else wants to be associated with or listen to you.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infowars had some reputable people in its earlier days too. Rogan seems to be following the same unhinged path.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Simon R. Greens Deathstalker series is pretty much what you're describing. Very much space opera, melodramatic and big on action. They're not incredibly well written but lots of fun.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Rob : You're a total paranoid.

Alvy Singer : Well, how am I a para-? I pick up on those kind of things. You know, I was having lunch with some guys from NBC, so I said, uh, "Did you eat yet or what?" and Tom Christie said, "No, didjew?" Not, "did you", "didjew eat?" Jew? No, not "did you eat", but "Jew eat"? Jew. You get it? Jew eat?

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Landscaping crews tend to pull trailers though. I imagine that's why.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the hell was Johnson a communist?!

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...although the authors do not claim that humpback whale songs meet the linguistic rigor necessary for a true language.

Despite the "human-like" use of hierarchical syntax to communicate, Suzuki and his colleagues found that whale songs convey less than one bit of information per second. By comparison, humans speaking English generate 10 bits of information for each word spoken. "Although whale song is nothing like human language, I wouldn't be surprised if some marine mammals have the ability to communicate in a complex way.

Did you even read the article you submitted? I get it, you like animals.I like animals, even humans, some of them. But you're comparing other animals to humans at the things that humans are demonstratively best at. Its like saying that cattle are sometimes faster at running than cheetahs and maybe we've been defining "fast" or "run" wrong. If you move the goal post far enough apart and select the outliers you can find examples of anything, but you've proved nothing.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Other animals communicate. Language involves syntax and grammar which only humans are capable of. That also has nothing to do with the fact that intelligence is a human word to describe humanlike capacity.

[–] Robbeee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Silver age Superman was a complete asshole. Comic book characters change and more over time.

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