You can’t lose an argument your base doesn’t understand
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potoo22@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Cisgender Boy Forced to Play on Girls' Sports Team Because of Birth Certificate ErrorEnglish
8·2 months agoNow I’m imagining a kid scoring multiple points and the other parents calling him a smurf
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Supreme Court to run out of funding due to shutdownEnglish
12·2 months agoAs much as I would like to not be tied to red states, the fight for federal assets and military assets would bring a lot of bloodshed. Also, most states do have nukes.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•CNN to host town hall with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie SandersEnglish
5·2 months agoI mean conservatives are the group that needs to hear them out. I already know what they’re going to say.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•A third of Americans believe Trump’s presidency is part of God’s planEnglish
17·2 months agoEverything they agree with is part of God’s plan. Everything they don’t is the work of the devil. When you can control what is “seen” as God’s plan, you can control the population. And anyone who disagrees is under the influence of the devil and an enemy. Basic cult mentality.
“I’m glad you changed your last name you son of a bitch!” (Wizards spoilers, but it’ll probably make you want to watch to whole movie to figure out how it got here)
I’m good at math, but I dislike it for the same reason I dislike cutting the grass: it’s work and my ADHD brain doesn’t get reward dopamine for accomplishing work.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump's approval rating underwater in all 7 swing statesEnglish
161·2 months agoPeople have the memory of a goldfish. In 2028, the democratic candidate is going to have some obscure flaw that’ll be pushed to every media station and social network that caters to the party that punishes opponents, and most Americans will forget the past 4 years and focus on this one flaw.
It’s the color that can be orange or brown depending on the surrounding colors.
Only looks good on limes
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Charlie Kirk was killed by a groyperEnglish
632·3 months agoIt’s just speculation. No real motive has been determined. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-12/what-we-know-about-the-suspected-killer-of-charlie-kirk
LA Times wrote this less than 15 minutes ago:
Investigators are still looking through evidence and trying to determine a motive in the slaying.
The only things in writing are the words etched into the bullets, and those are mixed. He wrote an anti-fascist statement on a bullet casing and other text on others, but nothing to indicate he had liberal or conservative ideologies. If anything, he appeared to be mostly mad at the whole system.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential termEnglish
7·9 months agoThere is an exception for wartime… FuckNevermind. I checked and that was false.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft accountEnglish
91·9 months agoAny gamers looking to switch, I’ve had a good experience with Bazzite.
Seriously. The human psyche was not designed for information overload. It evolved for hunting, gathering, socializing within a small group, and having a limited diet.
Now we got dopamine machines in our pocket, peer pressure from corporations, and rich foods that screw up our health, but leave us hungering for more. And we *can* have more, we’re told we can have more, it will improve our life more, so we crave more dispite the cost to health, sanity, and immediate social groups.
potoo22@lemmy.worldto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How many eggs can you eat before you feel full?English
4·9 months agoIt’s a weekend after payday. Gonna treat myself with 3 eggs AND avocado toast!.. Without avocado.
Depends on the library. A family member worked at multiple libraries. First one was as a part time aid at a small-town library. It was mostly quiet save for some parents who thought of the library as a daycare. Parents were instructed not to leave kids alone. Some just watched their kids run amok. That job was okay. Mostly shelving books and occasionally helping with a community activity like children’s storytime
Family member was offered an opportunity as a full-time librarian at a large city. That got too stressful. As a librarian, not an assistant, she had to do community outreach, event planning, managing the catalog, but handling the community seemed the most stressful. They had hundreds of visitors daily. Most were cool, but some people are… problematic. Unruly kids could cause problems. Angry adults are stressful (angry for various reasons, most often not staff’s fault). And occasionally dangerous people can enter.
But, on the other hand, she did feel like she had a bigger impact at the large library. She provided countless resources to people who needed basic life information, like where to stay if homeless, how to interview, how to use computers, etc. Her outreach also brought in more people who could really capitalize on their services and improve their lives. Eventually she had to quit for medical reasons, but the burnout probably contributed to her poor health. The city was also considering cutting library spending which made her feel unappreciated.
I have another friend who is a bookworm and got the full library sciences degree. She volunteered at a few libraries and decided library work isn’t for her.
Have you met the general public? Sure, the 99% of them are cool, but sometimes a kid will pull out all the books. We had a guy come in shouting racist shit and staff couldn’t reject him because freedom of speech in a public place or something. Someone brings in a knife and security has to be called. And some people are just rude and take it out on you. They had to switch staff who was trying to help a patron because the patron made the staff cry.
Source: family member worked at a big library





Wow, imagine being disappointed by your team and the internet decides to immortalize your disappointment.