CoolThingAboutMe

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This one goes out to Dennis Prager in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From what I've heard adopting is actually very difficult and arduous. There's way more families trying to adopt an infant than there are infants that can be adopted

John, 75, wanted a taxi outside Sydney airport to take him 1.5km to his hotel. Drivers refused in c/sydney@aussie.zone
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Yeh okay, that makes sense

John, 75, wanted a taxi outside Sydney airport to take him 1.5km to his hotel. Drivers refused in c/sydney@aussie.zone
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't understand why short trips would be refused.

Aren't cab fares charged a flat fee then also per minute? So multiple short trips would result in more money than 1 longer trip that takes the same time?

Crossherd #244 2025-11-07 in c/dailygames@lemmy.zip
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Crossherd #244

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A reminder that it's always been this way, the manosphere is just the latest version of it in c/witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Society collapsing due to half the population disappearing, yes.

All women dying out in "days" without men, no. 😂

Even if in work like water treatment and electricity generation/distribution that are mostly men, there are still plenty of women. And huge swathes of the world live without these things anyway. It seems like you're only thinking of cities becoming unlivable, or only thinking of a very narrow microcosm of women.

As someone who has known extremely competent and intelligent women all through my life, and also lived in really remote and rural places, I can say with absolute certainty that if men just blipped out of existence one day women would be just fine.

Yes, life wouldn't continue as it had. There would be changes. Just like there would be changes for men if women all disappeared. But to suggest that women would just let rubbish and bodies pile up, and that they wouldn't give any thought to or take action about food supply is delusional.

Map of Every Country that the USA has invaded, bombed, couped, supported dictators, supported terrorists and/or interfered in elections since 1900. in c/history@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

Same with KRudd. Not proven, but seems likely.

https://youtu.be/LkJZhCjUL9E

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NYT Connections #870 28 Oct (www.nytimes.com)
 

Connections Puzzle #870

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Circuits #730 2025-10-14 in c/dailygames@lemmy.zip
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Clues by Sam 2025-10-14 (cluesbysam.com)
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:37

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The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche (1833) in c/artporn@piefed.social
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

I thought how young she looked. Then read the wiki article, yep 17.

Dwayne Johnson Speaks Out After ‘Smashing Machine’ Becomes His Worst Opening Ever: ‘You Can’t Control Box Office Results’ in c/movies@piefed.social
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

I do think this kind of tendency is fairly common. Most humans find it easier to be kind and giving when everything is going well for them. And conversely most humans, when their life starts going to shit, really find it difficult to care about other people's problems.

Of course there are examples of people who are going through the worst time ever and still manage to muster up empathy and patience for others. I think people like that are remarkable because they are not the usual.

(Not to defend Dwayne Johnson, I have no feelings at all about him or knowledge about what he has and has not done. Just a side note thought)

real, us government website in c/greeneggsandspam@quokk.au
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago

Hell yeah brother!

What is the best advice you can give to teenagers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This will be great for my daughter, thank you

Selective rage in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully... But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for "making everything political". And by migrant friends.

One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.

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Clues By Sam 2025.09.18 (cluesbysam.com)
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 18th 2025) in 05:48

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Wordle 2025-09-04 Thursday (www.nytimes.com)
 

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Why Western hegemony is over (johnmenadue.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21644011

The US will not be able to prevent the emergence of multipolarity, but it will try. Trump will try one thing or another, but without success or coherence. Multipolarity has already arrived.

The broad pattern of economic convergence — in which the emerging economies narrow or close the income gap with the high-income countries of the West — means that Western hegemony is over. This is leading to deep frustration, not only in the US political class but in Europe as well.

China vastly outproduces the US in advanced industrial goods, such as EVs, solar power, wind power, advanced nuclear power, batteries, low-cost 5G and many other key technologies. China incorporates AI into advanced manufacturing processes more than the US.

Many European leaders feel that if they stick with the US against China and Russia, then maybe the Western hegemony will continue. This is delusional in my view, but nonetheless creates a lot of noise, friction and risks of conflict. None of it is a coherent strategy, however.

The US has no strategy to stay ahead of China. In fact, the US can’t succeed in that. We hear a lot of US sabre-rattling against China, Russia and the BRICS countries. This is all dangerous. I think the heated rhetoric by itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. There are a lot of ignorant people in the US political leadership, and I worry very much about their naivety and delusions.

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Why Western hegemony is over (johnmenadue.com)
 

The US will not be able to prevent the emergence of multipolarity, but it will try. Trump will try one thing or another, but without success or coherence. Multipolarity has already arrived.

The broad pattern of economic convergence — in which the emerging economies narrow or close the income gap with the high-income countries of the West — means that Western hegemony is over. This is leading to deep frustration, not only in the US political class but in Europe as well.

China vastly outproduces the US in advanced industrial goods, such as EVs, solar power, wind power, advanced nuclear power, batteries, low-cost 5G and many other key technologies. China incorporates AI into advanced manufacturing processes more than the US.

Many European leaders feel that if they stick with the US against China and Russia, then maybe the Western hegemony will continue. This is delusional in my view, but nonetheless creates a lot of noise, friction and risks of conflict. None of it is a coherent strategy, however.

The US has no strategy to stay ahead of China. In fact, the US can’t succeed in that. We hear a lot of US sabre-rattling against China, Russia and the BRICS countries. This is all dangerous. I think the heated rhetoric by itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. There are a lot of ignorant people in the US political leadership, and I worry very much about their naivety and delusions.

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