JackBinimbul

Nigel Farage makes outlandish claim of Islamists 'embedded' within UK establishment

4mon 6d ago in uk_politics@feddit.uk from www.middleeasteye.net

. . . you mean duly elected officials who happen to be Muslim? Rightfully hired citizens?

Meanwhile, he's sucking off Saudi princes. What a fucking muppet.

Relatable

4mon 6d ago in funny@sh.itjust.works from lemmy.dbzer0.com

This is just pen dragging. It's not at all the same as cursive.

Fuck that, and fuck her.

This shit has no place in schools.

I agree with some of your points. I also lived through the 80's and 90's and can pick them out more acutely.

But they're also long ago enough for the survivorship bias to kick in. There are highly specific aesthetics of the 80's that are regurgitated back to us through media that says "THIS IS THE 80'S". Think Stranger Things, where they just condensed an entire decade into head nods. Whether or not we personally experienced some of these things, we collectively accept them as "the 80's".

Meanwhile, no one is putting Bow Biters forward as iconic of the era, despite the fact that I remember seeing them everywhere when I was a kid. They are not a culturally recognized touch point the way that acid washed jeans and curly mullets are.

I think the average person has a very strong link to the aesthetics of their childhood, too. Someone born in 1995 is going to have a much sharper sense of what the "2000's" looked and felt like than you or I.

Tons of reasons.

  1. You lived through them. There is a continuity in your mind, rather than a dissociated aesthetic.
  2. Survivorship bias takes time. We think of bell bottoms for the 60's, even though there were many other pant styles. Over time, specific things become iconic of an era.
  3. The internet and mass media flattened and accelerated trends.

That is already how public defenders work.

Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data

4mon 13d ago in technology from www.biometricupdate.com

jfc

Trump Repeats Call to ‘Nationalize’ Elections, as White House Walks It Back

4mon 13d ago in usa@midwest.social from www.nytimes.com

"Nationalizing" elections also gives the president control over whether or not elections happen at all. As it stands, Trump can try to announce that there will be no elections and states can tell him to pound sand.

Do women fart when they pee too?

4mon 14d ago in nostupidquestions

Yes. And sometimes poop.

It's a lot more difficult for AFAB people to do one and not the other if the urge is present for both.

Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE

4mon 15d ago in leopardsatemyface from www.theguardian.com

> [missed] a court hearing

Aha! Another criminal caught! /s

Not the rich, but we gotta start eating somewhere

4mon 22d ago in politicalhumor from lemmy.blahaj.zone

mlmym breaks Blahaj?

4mon 29d ago in main@lemmy.blahaj.zone