Bam, Cam, Dam, Fam, Ham, Jam, Lam(b), Ma’am, Pam, Ram, W(h)am

Whoa, Black Betty!

“As long as you don’t have any standards, you can get laid!”

Gee, thanks.

It is. People have been saying it wrong.

If it wasn’t for the weed-smoking, nobody would think that Rastafarianism is cool.

Pushing anti-Russia propaganda? Clearly a Democrat shill.

It’s probably more like they can’t deny the reality of trans people, but they think that it’s a very tiny minority and the rest are just cultists.

You see this same fallacy with autism. Why are there “suddenly” more autistic kids? It isn’t because vaccines are giving them autism or something like that. It’s because doctors know what to look for to diagnose now.

People fall into this same trap with trans people, because 20 years ago it was extremely rare to meet an out trans person. So, now it looks like they’re suddenly everywhere! What could be the cause? A trans cult recruiting people?!

No, it’s a cultural shift. Damn, people can be stupid sometimes.

We base our risk analysis on things that happen to us, and that’s error-prone. Just because something happened to you, that doesn’t make it a frequent occurrence. Again, just because your neighbor was a serial killer, that doesn’t mean that you have to worry about living around serial killers for the rest of your life.

There’s a type of person who thinks that their “lived experience” trumps facts or logic. That’s why you have people who justify their racism based on a few bad experiences they had with black people or something. I try not to get in arguments with those people, because it’s a waste of time.

This is a boomer level of paranoia, and the logic is akin to “I once lived next door to a serial killer, so now I assume that all of my neighbors are serial killers”.

The real thing. I don’t know anything about a chocolate bar.

No, it was from a different post. Several months ago.

Okay. Lemmy told me that Turkish delight was gross, so I got curious and brought some. And it was awesome.

I think a real genocide, which has been called out by the International Criminal Court, trumps your imaginary, fantasy genocide.

Here’s a crazy thought: maybe all genocides are bad.

Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That’s a “sentence pointer” made out of copper. It’s archival quality, so it won’t damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)

It’s not even about being a communist. It’s about being a tankie.

I haven’t had this problem. It could be the filesystem you’re using? Sometimes Linux gets weird with Windows filesystems. Try formatting it to ext4.

You still have to go through the central hub. You can’t spin up your own, wholly independent Bluesky. You can only make your own node.

Which AI is the ethically-sourced one

I have a very sensitive sense of smell, and I still can’t do it. I’ll always add too much or not enough.