I just posted this Eli Valley cartoon:
on lemmy.world's political meme comm: https://lemmy.ml/post/15144141
I saw it in a post that CyborgMarx just made.
What do you think, will they like my cartoon as much as they liked the Squidward one?
I just posted it at lemmy.world political meme sub: https://lemmy.ml/post/15144141
As kind of a response to their earlier thread: https://lemmy.ml/post/15124123
That hexbear dunked on here: https://hexbear.net/post/2438811
Will I get banned or just downvoted to oblivion and flamed for being a Trump supporter? We shall see.
So they really are all worthless now? 
After all that? If so...
I never did understand NFTs. What happened to them? I know everyone here clocked them immediately for the obvious scams they are, but of course there were celebrities swearing by them and talk of them was everywhere and unavoidable. Now I don't hear a peep about them. My hope is that this is because every rich fuck or cryptobro who swore by them has been driven into the kind of financial despair they always mocked. Is that true? Are all the mid-to-low level NFT connoisseurs now destitute or at least dispossessed of much of their ill-begotten wealth that they had accumulated before going all in on NFTs? Are NFTs 100% dead now (thank Allah), or is there a chance these dipshits will push hard enough that there will be some kind of a resurgence?
From another old timer lurker.
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Ugh, Ok, thanks for the update. What a shitshow, damn. I only hope whoever the real abuser is (are?) faces appropriate justice. But who the fuck knows beyond all the celebrity spectacle.
Edit: I don't know, is that a shitty take? I really know nothing of the situation, I just remember liking Johnny Depp like 2 decades ago. Basically fuck celebrity worship culture. Culture matters, but celebrity shit ime is just distraction. Movements for recognition of suppressed or abused people (example: MeToo) is one thing - good and necessary, but celebrity gossip and trials of the rich and famous? I don't know. Feels like deliberate, even manufactured spectacle to me, but feel free to school me if I'm wrong, I often am.
I don't know who Amber Heard even is, and I'm disappointed to know that Edward Scissorhands aka Gilbert Grape is probably a douche. (Is he really? Damn :sadness: )
I might be behind the times though.
yeah, I think she's pretty much perfect in my personal subjective book, I'm just trying to latch on to and identify whatever that shitheel pill popping loser Peterson has a problem with.
Like everyone has their preferences and that's fine, whatever. But if your appreciation for sexual attractiveness is so horrifyingly policed by what is perceived to be socially attractive at some given point in time, within some given culture, that you don't find this person who is utterly gorgeous by almost every metric other than that she's slightly overweight.... you have a sociological pathology imo. Beauty is subjective. Sexual attractiveness is subjective. But there are certain common threads and she meets nearly all of them. The fact that this woman doesn't meet one very highly specific metric of current social attractiveness is enough for this fucking ghoul scumbag grifter loser Peterson to write her off as not attractive to anyone but for... fucking authoritarisnism.. (WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!) I just... I can't. It's just sickening. It's ideological body shaming fascism. Please someone tell me if my take is bad because I feel like I can't even fully comprehend all the layers of bullshit here.
As I'm sure you know, it's quite the sign of love. Mine likes to headbutt my beard.
I just looked up "dandelion etymology" because of your comment. I was not disappointed. It did indeed make for some entertaining reading, so thank you. Some of the text from this site:
Piss-a-bed (also pee-a-bed, wet-a-bed) is also a concept borrowed from French pissenlit. While dandelions do have some beneficial components—vitamins, iron, potassium and zinc—and have historically been used in various parts of the world as a diuretic
the plant is also called pisacan, or “dog pisses,” because they are yellow and found along the edge of pavement where a dog might relieve itself.
even,
Irish daisy draws upon the mocking English use of the word “Irish” to mean “poor man’s [something]”, e.g., “Irish apricot” = potato.
I wonder if this would be worth setting up an online task force to keep tabs on? Decentralized watchgroup. Even a wiki or something that comrades can contribute to. Obviously it's still not without risk, but safer and hopefully more resistant to infiltration or other fuckery.
Russia may have fucked up in some ways, but over all they are "winning" in terms of achieving their goals while the US/NATO flails about struggling (and ultimately failing) to maintain supremacy and global dominance. Just as the West is absolutely shooting themselves in the foot with the ridiculous, backfiring sanctions, Sweden and Finland are making a grave mistake that many assume they will regret by sacrificing their neutral status. They're essentially signing up to join the hegemonic/economic decline that most of the West has already fullheartedly committed itself to. US Hegemony is a sinking ship and it's been astounding to watch so much of the "first" world hitch themselves to mast, determined to go down along with it.
No worries at all. I get it about being too embarrassed to start delving into some deeply personal shit. But if you ever do decide you want to, there are comrades here, not just me, who I know would be happy to at least help sift through it with you. A broad, explanatory post of your situation on c/mentalhealth might be the place to start. Good luck comrade.
I have no real outlet for frustration in my life at this moment. I’m basically trapped
I feel that so much. I know what it is to be completely stuck with no avenue towards relief or respite. But hexbear really is a place where empathy and camaraderie can be found. I think so long as you frame it as you just did - that you are lost and don't have any outlet and don't intend to take it out on those here, but might do so inadvertently, I think 99% of our comrades here would understand, empathize, and only want to help. I am trapped, alone, stuck, and boiling over too. So you have my solidarity, and I'm open to talk.
The megathread writers missed an opportunity by not doing one based on the lunar eclipse. Glad to see it's brought up in the comments though! Fun fact: People tend to think that solar eclipses (where the moon blocks out the sun, leading to a striking, beautiful, and even eerie darkening of the world with a glowing ring in the sky in place of the sun) are exceedinly rare, whereas lunar eclipses--when the moon passes into the shadow of the earth, making it appear dark, "blood" red--are common. They actually happen at roughly the same rate. But many many more people have seen the latter, a lunar eclipse, and relatively few have seen a solar eclipse. The reason is that to see a lunar eclipse, you only need be on the night-time side of earth as it is happening, and it's there in your sky. But to see a solar eclipse, you have to be in the narrow shadow cast by the moon as it sweeps across a specific path along the earth. You have to be in that narrow band of shadow where the moon is blocking the sun to see it. So again, even though they both might not be all that uncommon, you still have to be much more lucky, or make deliberate travel plans, to see a solar eclipse. And fwiw, solar eclipses are generally agreed to be a lot more striking, profound, and inspiring. All eclipses are beautiful, but solar eclipses upend our expectations of how the world "should" look. I would encourage everyone to see a solar eclipse at some point in their lives, if they can. And this doesn't even begin to touch on the lore from cultures throughout history and their storytelling around these events.
Edit: Absolutely no offense to @Pseudoplatanus22 who wrote an excellent, fascinating megathread topic, I just felt like it was a little bit of a missed opportunity given the lunar eclipse that roughly half or at least a third of the earth was able to see tonight. But I'm an admitted astronerd, so...
I live off a rice cooker. I mostly use them to cook quinoa, but various rices and even lentils too. That said... possible paranoia inbound. Does the bowl that holds/cooks the rice have teflon? I am literally convinced that I was poisoned by mine with PFAS. Really, look into it. Teflon is BAD. That shit is in everyone to some degree, but I got some really fucked up neuortoxicity symptoms after using mine. No joke, just do some research on that shit, I know I sound like a loon. If yours isn't stainless steel or some other non-teflon (non-PFAS) design, consider getting one of those instead. I deeply regret that I didn't.
lol no, but currently at -47 votes.