No one brags about their Lemmy accounts’ special numbers. We don’t even have karma.

Free at point of access. Obviously doctors aren’t growing off of trees and falling like reverse apples. Free like public roads are free.

I mean, you were a super flamboyant Renaissance guy with dual wrist blades murdering dozens of mooks per encounter as early as AC2, and by Brotherhood and 3 it only got more overt.

Maybe both are bad?

“Facebook should be under incredibly strict regulation or killed outright” is also a position I’m fond of.

It’s just about 3 things mood, moisture and temperature.

Nothing spoils a mood like fear!

Calm down, Satan

Bread made feeding people cheap.

Bread is a luxury, if feeding people cheap was the only concern, porridge would be a better use of grains than bread. Porridge predominated when peasant culture predominated; bread becomes common with civilization’s connections, innovations, and specialization.

Found the heretic

Give me a loaf of bread, and I will eat it and be happy. End of story.

Condiments are nice conditionally, but bread is always fantastic

[dropkicks a man through a fourth-story window]

“I’ve never killed anyone in my life.”

I have adblocker solely set up to block Youtube ads.

They broke the implicit contract of “Don’t make ads too intrusive and I won’t go out of my way to block your revenue”. THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD

I’d love to give up modding the community entirely. Not because it’s a huge burden, but because I already mod too many communities as-is.

I think my main quibble with this is that cops in the US aren’t really beholden to anything or anyone except themselves. That description could be applicable to the legal system as a whole, but US cops have a weirdly loose relationship with the entire legal system despite, theoretically, being its enforcers.

US police departments are more like gangs that receive public funding in exchange for literally nothing, rather than state enforcers.

“Not all cops, but so many and in such incredible proportions that it may as well be, especially considering the choice to be a bastard is one that must be made every moment of every working day”

There are cops out there who want to do good in bad departments. They are either pushed out of the force, or pushed under the extant culture of callousness and brutality.

There are cops out there who want to do good in good departments. They’re rare, and the way that policing is (not) regulated in this fucking country makes all good departments inherently unstable, as power tends to corrupt, and unchecked power doubly so - but they do exist.

But the vast, vast majority of cops out there are complicit with their departments - and the vast, vast majority of departments in this country are rotten. And until we, as a society, reckon with that - ACAB remains a valid criticism.

What if I already have the power of being attractive 😎

Do I have to waste a choice to keep it?

And does immortality come with eternal youth?

I always smuggled a book in to auditorium bullshit, even though the lights were usually dim and it was hard to read. Fuck that noise.

Women were not specifically barred from voting in the United Kingdom until the Great Reform Act of 1832. This doesn’t mean that they voted often - and would have been practically barred in most circumstances, but it was possible in some. There were no bars on suffrage for black men in the United Kingdom at any point.

Before the reform act of 1832, something like 1% of the population of the UK could vote due to property requirements, stricter than any of the US states in the 1790s.

Late 18th century, yes. And if I hear pop history myths about the Iroquois, I will be irritated.

The majority of the population could not vote, either due to their skin color, sex, or degree of property ownership (colony by colony/state by state as I recall).

Yeah, you should look into other governments of the period.

The paper referenced gives an overview of its methodology and its data.

The three ‘hit songs’ you cite appear to actually be:

1. Foreign funding decreases democracy and increases antisemitism in universities

2. Some DEI programs are instituted in a counterproductive way

and

3. Glorification of Luigi Mangione could result in a feedback loop of violence like 4chan did with the alt-right (I agree, but I don’t see it as necessarily a bad thing)

Use https://12ft.io/ to bypass the paywall if you’re interested in past discourse on the matter.

I think this is from one of the early seasons of House.