[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

So 1.2M needs a zero, but 10M is an order of magnitude too high? Ok. 🤣

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah, all we need is an organized, non-violent ten-million person march, then we can change things! 🙄

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago

Yes, as I mentioned, 60 years ago.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

If you follow the thread here, this is in a US context (the "we" referenced by the commenter), and it's about "non-violent" protests, given the commenter said violent protests have been "protracted" with "low rates of success." Euromaidan activists seized the government quarter by force and stormed Yanukovych's mansion.

While I take your point, this isn't a particularly illustrative example in this context.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Or in 2000 when 750K joined the Million Moms March and stopped gun violence. Or in 2004 when 1.2 million marched to protect abortion rights and 2017 when 500K joined the Pussyhat Protests and prevented Roe v. Wade from being overturned. Or in 2014 when 300K joined the People's Climate Match and stopped climate change.

Yep, walking around with signs has truly been the only way "effective change" has happened in "the last two decades."

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 35 points 19 hours ago

The fine was not written in red ink diagonally across the postage stamp. No countsy.

-Elon Musk

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

That's why, even though he was in the middle of an assassination attempt, he demanded to put his shoes back on before standing back up.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This won't help much, hard to tell much just by someone's face. What we need here is a window specifically for viewing the children's genitalia. And then we need a dedicated monitor to watch all the children use the bathroom.

John, the repressed religious fundamentalist, has already volunteered. We've designed a room where he can monitor the genitalia from the holes we've cut, and we've also installed cameras inside the urinals and toilets with a feed that goes to the monitoring room, in case anyone tries to defeat our system.

The monitoring room has no windows or cameras in it, and the door locks from the inside, so, I think we've finally solved the problem. Consider the liberals owned!

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

You can tell it's AI because it tried to make his hands normal sized.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 118 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My neighbor bought a new 64K truck (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) had a lift kit installed for 15K (I know because he constantly mentions the cost) has four kids who are bullies (I know because I see and hear them), and constantly complains about gas prices and property taxes, despite the fact that he is one of two houses in the neighborhood with kids.

Most of property taxes go to fund the public schools, which his children attend. Basically the neighborhood is subsidizing his children's education, but he thinks he deserves to pay less in taxes. I explained this, and he told me I was full of shit, but I think he knew I was right, because he started revving his engine early in the morning the day after that and did it for like two weeks.

Hilariously, he stopped doing it not because I complained -- I'm up early anyway -- but because his wife came out in pajamas and started screaming at him for waking her up. Quite the metaphor for Republicanism.

I gotta get out of this neighborhood.

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Phonebooks (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by WoahWoah@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I was talking to a coworker about these new phishing attacks that send your name and address and sometimes a picture of your house, and I was saying how creepy it is, and they told me that phonebooks were delivered to everyone and used to have like literally everyone in a city listed by last name with their phone number and address. Is that for real?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by WoahWoah@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

As this recently updated article discusses, while extremely unlikely, given the way this timeline is going it's possible the electoral college ends in a tie. Nate Silver projects this as a .3% possibility.

Things to think about:

  1. Only about half of the states require their electors to vote for the person that won their state. Who are the electors? Generally no one you know.

  2. If there's a tie, the House elects a president and the Senate elects a VP. Sub-consideration: it is the composition of the House and Senate after the November election that makes those determinations.

  3. This would all technically be decided on January 6th. And you remember how that went last time.

Regardless, it's highly unlikely this will happen. Still, this would be utter and complete madness. There is literally a non-zero chance we have a Trump/Harris administration. 🤣

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by WoahWoah@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Why are knife control laws so strong in the United States as opposed to gun control?

I was realizing it would be nice to have a knife with auto opening for boxes, etc., basically a switch blade or similar, and I found out that they are super illegal in my state (and/or there are length restrictions, or both sides of the blade can't be sharp, etc), but I can go into a sporting goods store and buy a pistol and ammo in under 30min.

Shooting open an Amazon box seems inefficient. What is up with restrictive knife-control laws??

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Ok, so obviously no one here has done anything to make this world what it is. Wall Street, corporations, and racist social structures are why the world is how it is, and that is just the truth.

I don't understand why I should feel bad about anything when obviously all of these rich assholes and structures of oppression exist. I didn't make them.

Until the corporations and wealthy people change, why should I feel guilty or bad about things. This literally isn't my fault, they did this, so I just feel like I should be able to live my life and not have to worry about all this. Why can't I?

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