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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • For one thing - it’s not just one grenade. I said it 3 times: grenades. Say, scattered all around the playground and classroom.

    I’m not asking who is responsible. Knowing who is responsible isn’t going to stop the ankle-biters from blowing each other - and themselves - to smithereens. It doesn’t matter who is responsible right now - first we need to stop them from exploding.

    I’m asking what the better solution to the problem would be: should we try to separate the kids from the grenades, or try to teach 5-year olds the proper use and care of handheld explosives?


  • Let’s say we have 2 kindergarten classes, and in one of them we let them play with balls, Frisbees, and playground equipment. In the other, we let them play with balls, Frisbees, playground equipment, and grenades.

    If some of these tykes get exploded, do you think it would make more sense to limit their access to the grenades, or to try to teach them how to use the grenades responsibly?





  • The prison industrial complex was the status quo long before Biden was even born. Why limit it to him? Blame Nixon and Reagan for both the drug epidemic and the criminalization of drug possession (accounting for something like 40% of the current prison population), and the near collapse of mental health and rehabilitation programs. Blame Clinton for enabling the corporations to grow even richer off of slave labor.







  • For bathrooms without a separate bidet (dedicated bidets are very uncommon in North America at least), you can buy an attachment that sits under or replaces the toilet seat that performs the same function, and is referred to as a bidet. They have a separate water source that is split from the toilet’s source.

    I highly recommend getting one if you don’t have at least one bidet I your house.


  • klugerama@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worlddisco
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    Their music is catchy, and their lyrics are creative and clever. But I remember when I first heard this song and started looking up other songs (ahoy!), and I remember thinking, “Huh, this song is also about fuckin’…and so is this song…”

    I realized that 90% of their songs are about fucking. Sure, a lot of music is about that, but these guys aren’t couching it terms of “making love” or poeticizing or romanticizing it. That’s fine for some people, but I found it frankly obnoxious. I feel like can’t listen to them with anyone else around - I have kids, and conservative family (not me obviously) and adult friends that aren’t in junior high. I mean I have no problem playing Warrant, AC/DC, Metallica, or Korn around my kids but something about Bloodhound Gang makes me uncomfortable.

    They have a few songs that aren’t explicitly about fucking - Ralph Wiggum is pretty cool.



  • Almost learned this the hard way with a coworker. Mentioned to my boss that another (previously overweight) guy in our office had clearly lost a lot of weight and that I hadn’t had a chance to let him know he was looking good, and my boss got wide-eyed and said, “Don’t do that…he’s got stage III cancer.”




  • You’re right, but I just noticed something about that (I’m probably very late to the party here): so an endpoint of unregulated capitalism is that ownership is limited to a few, who almost certainly acquired ownership through some form of class exploitation and theft. Or, to oversimplify it…ownership is theft. Hmm, sounds familiar.