https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388

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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Dune, #1)

I’m viewing this post with the Thunder app and I only see one photo: a box with a fan on top. I see no filter. Is there supposed to be a second photo?

Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo

The Islamic Iranian regime have been adveseries of the US for decades. IRGC leaders and supporters regulary chant “death to America” and denote it “the big satan”.

Is it really that mysterious why the US would want to support attacking the Iranian regime?

Do these people imagine entire battalions of non cishet people?

sacred band of thebes, US military edition

walkpilled - variation on “red pilled”

cardiomaxxer - variation on “looksmaxxing”

carcel - variation on “incel”

gascucked - gasoline + cuckold

best i can offer is "false"

Got it. Thanks

“Let’s test if anyone remembers: write down when, where and how we met each other :-)”

Sounds phishy

Getting an error trying to access this:

https://den.dev/blog/pihole has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site.

Dan Savage (of the sex and relationship advice podcast “Savage Lovecast”) says this frequently.

A short term relationship can also be successful. It doesn’t have to end with one of the partners dying in order to be considered good and worthwhile.

I’m on Thunder and I just labeled you as “taught me that users can be labeled”

**The occasional plastic carrier bag is fine **

A single-use plastic bag: the sin of any environmentalist. Many of us know the agonising pain of turning up at the supermarket, then realising you’ve left your reusable shopping bags at home. The next 10 minutes is a comedy show, seeing how many items you can stuff into your pockets, clutch in your arms, and even grip between your teeth. You will not let the team down by asking for a plastic bag. I do the same. Even though I know better: the data shows us that the occasional plastic carrier bag is not that big a deal. In fact, in many ways, a single-use plastic bag is better than some alternatives. At least when it comes to the carbon footprint, it’s much lower than the rest. You’d need to use a paper bag several times, and a cotton one tens to hundreds of times to ‘break even’ with the plastic carrier.35, 36 This is also true for other environmental impacts such as water use, acidification, and the pollution of water with nutrients such as nitrogen. This doesn’t mean you should switch back to using single-use carrier bags: it just means you should make sure you’re reusing the other types of bags a lot. If you’re buying a new organic tote bag every second visit, you’re really making things worse. And as seen in previous chapters, you should be focusing much more on what you put in the bag than the bag itself. It will have a much bigger environmental impact. The problem with plastic bags, then, is that they can pollute our waterways. But, like any other form of waste, only if we don’t manage it properly. In rich countries, unless you’re littering near a river or coastline, they’re probably not going to end up in the ocean. Even sending it to landfill is not a big deal. This is a problem in low- to middle-income countries where the use of plastic bags is on the rise but the infrastructure to deal with the waste is not. That’s where tight rules on single-use plastic bags, and the availability of alternatives, really make a difference. So, be conscious of how much you’re using. Take a rucksack or a sturdy bag and reuse it again and again. But you don’t need to stress out if you reach the supermarket till and realise you’ve left it at home.

“Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet” by Hannah Ritchie

As a homosexual dater, I dissent.

It’s genuine.

From “The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1219966-in-a-traditional-german-toilet-the-hole-into-which-shit

fake

Good human

I remember when in 2018 there was an uproar against Trump using that language

President Donald Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries” during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators

The U.N. human rights office said the comments, if confirmed, were “shocking and shameful” and “racist,”

[source]

I’m not surprised to see Lemmy embrace and adopt Trump’s language, so long as it’s aimed at countries y’all dislike, and so long as it fits y’all’s agenda