It's really weird to make a blanket statement like that because different people have very different salaries and expenses. Especially in reference to the US where these things heavily depend on the state a person resides in.

Who's your favorite Hectress, though?

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think any supreme court justices are in this thread, and they are the ones that mostly have a say.

Eroding voting rights will be done on a federal level.

I'm not saying you are wrong, we should definitely protest, resist, and vote in local elections, but we don't really get a say now that the country decided to give the reigns to fascists. I don't think people realize how hard this will be to undo. These SC justices are going to be there for a very long time.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Putin will probably have him killed if he doesn't follow the plan, but I have a feeling Trump wants to follow the plan regardless.

Putin/Russia doesn't have this power. I don't get the conspiracy that Russia is controlling the US government, when the shitshow in Ukraine has shown the incompetence of Russia on a grand scale. If anything this power dynamic is the other way around. The US has way more power and resources to make Putin disappear than Russia does to do the opposite.

I do think you are correct that Trump just want to be allies with Putin and follow his plan. I don't think there is any coercion involved in this except maybe financial and diplomatic benefits to Trump. (for example, election interference/social media psyops)

Basically, if Trump wasn't on board with this and allowing this conspiracy to happen, then Russia wouldn't even be relevant here.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The Democratic campaign underestimated just how stupid, racist, and misogynistic the average US citzen is. Don't get me wrong, they should've known and definitely could've ran a better campaign, but this is mostly on Americans being too dumb to know what's best for them.

I personally don't blame any minorities, considering white men and women were by far the most prominent Trump voters. The US is a country of racist dumbasses.

hit that one RFK fan we have on Lemmy with it

Idk why, but this made me laugh so hard. I know I have seen the elusive Lemmy RFK fan in a thread somewhere.

One could hope, but the evangelicals got many of those Catholic judges installed. So they won't get to that point anytime soon. There's too many progressives, LGBTQ+, POCs, and atheists left in the US for them to target, still, and it will be that way for a long time.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's a horrible outlook, and I'm sorry you've been driven to that point. I understand, as I have been there before.

Now that I'm older, I realize that pulling the lever is the right thing to do as much as it hurts. I don't think letting apathy win and watching the government go full Fash was the correct choice, but I don't blame you, or others who decided the same. The system isn't going to collapse, though, it's just going to get a lot shittier for awhile.

Hey now, not all of them are racist. Some of them are misogynistic. There are some plain old stupid people in there, too.

There's also some people who meant well, but their hearts were just bigger than their brains.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Orange asshole is definitely going to get more of those court appointments over the next 4 years. And they will all pretty much be there for the rest of our lives. Any sort of sense of democracy that the US had was probably dealt a death blow today.

[-] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Poor guy learned the hard way.

Microwaves are not to be fucked with. Microwaves are produced inside the oven by an electron tube called a magnetron. The microwaves are then reflected within the metal interior of the oven where they are absorbed by food.

When a magnetron bombards another magnetron with microwaves it produces a feedback loop that can result in an explosion. This phenomenon was first recorded in 1998, the same year that The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

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A blurry pic of my LabPei being his happy derpy self. His name is Lemmy of all things.

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