juliebean

joined 1 year ago
[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 66 points 2 days ago

your kid goes for a walk? believe it or not, straight to jail.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

the only difference between a billionaire who believes in climate change and one who doesn't is that one of them is gonna spend more on a sweet apocalypse bunker with gold plated slurpee machines. neither would do anything about it if it hurt their bottom line.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

statistically, if he wins, he's likely to sit for life even if he doesn't cancel future elections (or however he plans to suppress democracy), because, you see, he is very old and likely to die soon (but probably not soon enough for my taste).

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

shuffling is a wildly different dance

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

i think you've hit the nail on the head regarding why robbing recent graves is unethical; that is, it's denying valuable data to the archeologists of 3024 CE.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

definitely hate DST, but mostly because of the annual death toll it entails, and the fact that it makes no fucking sense.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i thought they looked cool, until i saw one in person. i honestly expected them to be about 30% smaller. they're stupidly gigantic in real life.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

as far as most disturbing thing to watch, probably the self-immolation of aaron bushnell back in february. i generally avoid the more messed up infamous internet stuff.

eta: more disturbing, but not quite as punchy due to not being a video, was a post i saw once about a young lady who picked at her legs so much, that they had to be removed. there was a lot of pictures. she eventually dug a hole straight through them.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. all of them, as far as i can recall, are bots. most of them just reddit repost spam bots.
[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

let's split the difference: usetilize,

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

when i was a kid, i figured it was a reference to some now obscure detective story, where a bowl of pudding contained the important clue as to who the killer was or something. it wasn't until much later that i heard of this etymology.

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

so you're fine using 'like' as, like, a pause word, but not in similes?

 

For the past 20 years UK Post Office employees have been dealing with a piece of software called Horizon, which had a fatal flaw: bugs that made it look like employees stole tens of thousands of British pounds. This led to some local postmasters being convicted of crimes, even being sent to prison, because the Post Office doggedly insisted the software could be trusted. After fighting for decades, 39 people are finally having their convictions overturned, after what is reportedly the largest miscarriage of justice that the UK has ever seen.

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