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kraftpudding, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

(I know this is probably impossible, but it would be so funny)

Tell a knock knock joke, but only the first part. Don’t reveal the punchline, just pass out. So they work extra hard to keep you alive, because only then will they hear the punchline.

UtMan1988,

I endorse this one.

ChaoticNeutralCzech,

They won’t either way. You’ll wake up in a hospital room terribly confused and barely able to move. Most of the operating staff will not see you then.

Wogi,

It will eat them FOREVER

ours,

The first words are likely “thirsty”.

misterdoctor, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

In your best Ace Ventura voice: “If I’m not back in five minutes…just wait longer.”

Good luck with your surgery, hope it goes well and your recovery is as easy as it can be. 🙏

PP_BOY_,
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Similarly,“and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!”

jasondj,

Those were Jesus’s last words.

mjhelto,

:: SpongeBob three days later meme ::

NABDad,

Good luck with your surgery, hope it goes well and your recovery is as easy as it can be. 🙏

For a second I thought that was your suggestion for what OP should say to the surgeon.

misterdoctor,

We should normalize wishing your surgeon good luck, have fun before he operates on you, and then GG if it’s successful and you live

bjoern_tantau, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?
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I feel like it’s kind of the same in other meme communities like 9gag and reddit. Reposts upon reposts upon reposts, with the occasional funny new thing.

Topical meme communities are sometimes a bit better with this.

Damaskox,
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And sometimes a meme doesn’t age. Sometimes, old sayings can still work wonders in new situations. Sometimes even better than what a new one would.

I don’t think old needs to be reinnovated just because it’s old. I enjoy many old things!

Krudler, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?

Controversial opinion perhaps, but I think because in general humans aren’t funny and they don’t really have anything new to add to anything. Babies love to see the same joke a million times, it never stops being funny to them, but it’s something that only changes a little as we age and not as much as we would think to think about ourselves.

Shardikprime, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?

We are avoiding copyrights

girl, in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

They definitely think they’re the good guys, both the men and women. Not many people knowingly choose to be villains. They are convinced that their ideals are just and true, and their opponents are godless child-murderers and rapists.

intensely_human,

No, we don’t think you’re evil. We think you’re good hearted but mistaken about what works and what doesn’t.

Chetzemoka,

“We”

I think YOU need to go meet some conservatives, because I have absolutely heard that exact terminology from some of my conservative relatives.

datavoid, (edited )

Don’t downvote this just because you disagree with it - we need people with different views for this site to thrive

Edit - I’m sorry for the suggestion, please fire up the echo chamber

girl,

I’m glad you feel that way. I have a lot of family down south who 100% think we’re all evil and that our explicit goal is to destroy America. Even in this thread there is someone saying liberals want to murder babies.

bernieecclestoned,

If their job is a cop, then they’d be somewhat correct in that notion?

EvolvedTurtle,

There’s a lot of stigma around cops now

And tbh most of it is deserved

bernieecclestoned,

Yeah, the rotten apple nonsense has been shown to be just that. The Met in the UK have been repeatedly shown to be institutionally racist and sexist

Fried_out_Kombi,
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Yeah, it’s the expected outcome when you grant a group of people a monopoly on violence but with insufficient to non-existent incentives for good behavior and insufficient to non-existent disincentivizes for bad behavior.

grue,

That’s exactly the opposite of nonsense; it’s proving the point. They get called “bad apples” specifically because the idiom is that “a few bad apples spoils the bunch.”

The people who say “it’s just a few bad apples” as if that excuses it are the ones who don’t have the slightest fucking clue what they’re talking about.

bernieecclestoned,

No, the theory is that removing a few bad apples is all that’s needed to solve the problem when it’s actually systematic.

The barrel is the problem.

girl,

If they’re a good cop, sure, in that one regard. Not many good cops these days, the system actively punishes and removes good cops.

Blamemeta,

That heavily depends on the department. You can have good cops in one department, and a bunch of crooked cops in another.

Jonna,
agitatedpotato,

All I can offer her is anecdotal evidence heard from retired officers but they made it sound like this is a problem in every department. Maybe not to the same degree everywhere, but in general bad things happen to people who follow the rules when the rules implicate wrongdoing on the part of another officer. Weather that’s shunning, teasing, pranks, being assigned to only specific duties or shifts, or worse is gonna depend on the situation. The impression I got was this was commonplace and most officers understand the unwritten rule to not report thing little things (and sometimes even the big things) that could get a fellow officer in trouble. It works too because at the end of the day you gotta entrust your life to the people you ratted on, people who know how to make things look like accidents and have a network of people that will vouch for them.

Serinus,

All Cops Are Bad because good cops don’t last long. You’re either doing bad shit, standing behind the thin blue line while you watch other cops do bad shit, or you’re getting harassed and bounced out soon.

alvvayson,

They 100% think they are the good guys.

I know for sure, because they are my close family members.

Those who supported the KKK, Nazis, confederates, slave owners and apartheid leaders.

They all have in common that they saw themselves as the good guys and saw the other people as bad or naive.

Boozilla,
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This has been my experience with my own family, neighbors, coworkers, etc. They think of themselves as the good guys “standing firm” against the hoards of those “scary other people” who want to take their guns, raise their taxes, and wage war on Christmas. Even though what those “other people” really want is affordable healthcare, education, and housing.

aredditimmigrant,

Right. If the 20 teens and 20’s taught me anything, it’s that everyone has a story going on behind their eyes and they’re always the main character/hero in their own story.

ComicalMayhem,

Perception is reality as they say. Some people buy into that a little too hard.

Fogle, in How are in-store pickup sales tracked for revenue?

When I worked at Costco it did. And if you bought it at one store and returned it another that store gets the hit for the return.

BigBlackCockroach, in People talk about ideas being living things. How can we do better at cultivating and propagating ideas that are helpful / sustainable?
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  • Teach people how to think (logical falacies etc.)
  • Teach people about rethoric and sophism
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • Debate culture that goes beyond gotcha!
trash80, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?

I would guess there’s not a lot of zoomers here.

Pirky, in Why are most memes on Lemmy from 5-10 years ago?
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I believe it started out as a joke to post ancient memes. And then it just took off and people kept posting them.

That and like most other people said: on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.

Sabata11792,
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on average there are older people here, so they relate to the memes of yore.

Old memes remind me of when I had the normal amount of sad and existential dread.

Ghostalmedia,
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Yeah, I might be to blame for some of that shit. I started !antiquememesroadshow a few months ago, then it blew up and started covering c/all, then it spread like herpes to the other meme communities.

Shit has died way down since that one weird week.

yyyesss,

thank you for your service 🫡

neptune, (edited ) in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

Obviously everyone is different. Etc. But you should read this article.

archive.ph/2023.08.18-142255/https://…/616725/

Basically this one woman immerses herself in the worst corners of the new right.

Come for the schadenfreude, stay for the man who won’t eat ketchup.

WldFyre,

Aw damn it’s paywalled

neptune,
WldFyre,

Thanks!

slowwooderrunsdeep,

wooow. that was a wild article.

“this (ketchup) doesn’t taste European”… uhhh, no shit dude, tomatos are a New World food.

all sincerity, thank you for sharing that.

neptune,

I love that essay so much. I reread it occasionally. I think about the man who won’t eat ketchup pretty frequently.

ComradePorkRoll, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Every company here deserves some sort of corporate death penalty where the CEOs face consequences and the company becomes worker owned and operated.

lettruthout,

and the company becomes worker owned and operated

That’s brilliant!

ComradePorkRoll,

It’s a certain spooky, scary word is what it is.

lud,

“cooperative”?

ComradePorkRoll,

SoCiAlIsM!

I should note, I’m for it. Workers controlling the means of production would mean workers won’t run whatever business they operate for endless, unsustainable profit. Maybe we won’t have Funko Pops and pickle flavored cotton candy, but at least we won’t have that “grind harder” mindset that’s killing our planet.

lud,

Yeah, I figured that you were for it.

There are a few clues.

Either way, a workers cooperative isn’t socialism and they exist all over the world.

ichbinjasokreativ, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Microsoft, although regulators sure as fuck help them make that impossible

Rolive,

Wish I could. I use linux whenever possible but gaming, hdr and some drm features won’t work on Linux any time soon.

Deckweiss,

I’ve been on Linux exclusively for a decade now and I am super excited to get an HDR monitor when it gets implemented (there was some major work being done by redhat and others).

In the meanwhile, I am still having fun with games, hdr or other fancypants features won’t vhange that.

ichbinjasokreativ,

Gaming is most of the way there, except for some anti cheat engines. There’s usually still some performance hit though

foggy, (edited ) in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

They think the things you’d be surprised to learn people actually think.

I.e.

Crying makes you weak. They’re with manly men who don’t cry or go to therapy or any of that woke commie bullshit. They’re with strong men who will protect them. Louder = smarter.

aidan,

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  • foggy,

    I’m not so sure I care what it is you think about my perspective on fascism or fascists.

    aidan,

    Right wing != Fascists. Fascism isn’t even particularly right wing imo

    foggy,

    If you are voting Republican in the US, you’re advocating fascism. Full stop.

    And also lol what a dumb thing to say. Fascism is by definition right wing. It is the terminus of the right side of the spectrum. That isn’t an opinion, that’s it’s definition.

    aidan,

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  • foggy,

    You can use Google. I’m not here for your sea lioning. Cheers.

    aidan,

    It is not sealioning. You are arguing something cars are blue, to address that I first have to understand what you mean by a car, and what you mean by blue. To me, fascism seems much more contradictory with right-libertarianism than with certain forms of socialism. Hence why I think its more reasonable to say its not far-right. That is unless your definition for right-wing is “bad”, and the badder it is, the further right it is. That’s why I asked for clarification.

    darq,
    @darq@kbin.social avatar

    Fascism isn’t even particularly right wing imo

    Oh please.

    aidan,

    Again, what is right wing then?

    darq,
    @darq@kbin.social avatar

    What do you mean "again"? You haven't asked me before. And right-wing is another way of saying the side of the political spectrum that conservativism occupies.

    aidan,

    What do you mean “again”?

    I said it in reply to another person on the same thread before you commented, but yeah that was kinda bad phrasing- sorry.

    And right-wing is another way of saying the side of the political spectrum that conservativism occupies.

    Okay, and what is left-wing? Also what do you consider the main traits of conservatism to be?

    darq,
    @darq@kbin.social avatar

    Okay, and what is left-wing?

    The opposite side of the political spectrum, which progressivism occupies.

    Also what do you consider the main traits of conservatism to be?

    Fundamentally, the belief in hierarchy. Which manifests as support of capitalism, private ownership, and traditional social values.

    Opposed to progressivism which opposes unjust hierarchies, and favours egalitarianism. Which manifests in desire for more equitable distributions of wealth and power, and critiques traditional social values.

    aidan,

    In any form of hierarchy? Would a technocracy be right wing? Or leftist states with a leadership structure? Like, any leftist state.

    darq,
    @darq@kbin.social avatar

    In any form of hierarchy?

    No not any. But conservativism is characterised by belief in inherent hierarchy. That all people are not equal. That some people are more or less worthy than others.

    And note I've said "characterised" and "belief". In reality ideologies are complex, and the humans and organisations implementing them are even more complex and subject to corruption. So it's not a simplistic "presence of hierarchy == right-wing". Some ostensibly left-wing governments fall to authoritarianism. After all politicians are vulnerable to greed and corruption. Though notably those governments begin to quickly abandon their left-wing principles as they do so. For example, the Chinese Communist Party has certainly gone all-in on capitalist ideas of private ownership of land and the means of production.

    That characterisation is simply a useful lens for understanding political movements. One can easily see that when there is a push to distribute power "down" the hierarchy, people who refer to themselves as conservative will be more likely to oppose it. They oppose social safety nets that benefit those at the bottom, they oppose transgender recognition, they opposed gay marriage, they opposed ending slavery.

    Would a technocracy be right wing?

    Depends. If you mean replacing the democratically elected government with a government of "experts" (who gets to be an expert being decided by, you guessed it! The experts)? Then yes. As that is basically just a form of aristocracy.

    But if you mean democratically elected politicians relying on expert advice to make policy decisions, then no.

    Or leftist states with a leadership structure? Like, any leftist state.

    Depends. How is that leadership structure maintained? If those positions are elected, and the elections are fair and representative, then no. Because the power ultimately lies with the people, with one person having one vote.

    But, do you have a point that you are approaching? Because at this point it seems like you are just asking endless questions. In which case I kinda agree with the other person, you're sealioning.

    whaleross,
    @whaleross@lemmy.world avatar

    And they are not the ones to suffer and be subjugated, that’s for The Others only.

    Narrrz, (edited )

    except they are, they just believe it when the owner of the boot stepping on them tells them that actually, this isn't subjugation.

    Jakdracula, in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?
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    Blamemeta,

    Yes, leftists are the baddies

    sin_free_for_00_days,

    I think you may be confused about left vs right, as far as political definitions go.

    Blamemeta,

    No, I got it.

    Leftists want to murder babies, saying that its womens choice if they want to murder babies. Thats cartoonishly evil.

    sour,
    @sour@kbin.social avatar

    what babies

    Blamemeta,

    So when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy will put his penis inside the mommy’s vagina.

    This makes babies.

    jabeez,

    Thanks for so clearly demonstrating your 3rd grade understanding of the issue. Also, go fuck yourself.

    Remmock,

    Actually, this makes intercourse. It sounds like you have a slew of bad definitions and explanations. You might want to educate yourself before having an opinion about these things.

    sour,
    @sour@kbin.social avatar

    what happens when they use contraception

    Blamemeta,

    Well thats before conception.

    sour,
    @sour@kbin.social avatar

    ._.

    Narrrz,

    right wingers get mad.

    sin_free_for_00_days,

    LOL. OK, I see you’re one of those. Not worth any more time.

    FlyingSquid,
    @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

    Fetuses aren’t babies no matter how many times you and your ilk call them babies. No one would swaddle a 1 inch fetus and rock it to sleep.

    ViscloReader,

    Sarcasm?

    intensely_human,

    When you live in a cartoonish world, it’s your perception that makes it cartoonish.

    Narrrz,

    righties want women to have fewer rights when alive than when they die.

    did you know, you can't take the organs from a deceased person without that person's explicit permission, prior to their death? not even to save the life of an unborn foetus that some broad is being forced to carry to term.

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