1dalm

1dalm, 3 months ago to random

In an alternate history timeline, do you think the industrial revolution happens without the Protestant movement?

#althistory

1dalm, 4 months ago to HashtagGames

Bible verses are much funnier to read if you end them with "- for $8 a month."

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life -for $8 a month."

#HashtagGames
#8DollarsAMonthABibleVerse

1dalm, 2 months ago to random

"In 2021, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. However, the state has recently faced a large rise in overdose deaths and had the second-highest rate of substance abuse disorder in the U.S., according to a 2023 audit report. "

Huh... maybe that was a bad idea after all.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4569303-oregon-governor-signs-law-recriminalizing-drug-possession/

1dalm, 6 months ago to philosophy

Honest question:

With the rapidly declining proportion of Americans self-identifying as #Christian, which now is below 50% of the general population, should a workplace shift manager have a reasonable expectation for their non-Christian employees to report to work on Christmas Day without additional compensation?

#nonreligious #atheist

1dalm, 11 months ago to apple

Great. So #Apple is now apparently artificiality badly compressing photos sent via MMS to Android phones.

1dalm, 1 month ago to TikTok

#TikTok is being banned for one reason: The current crop of politicians didn't know how to use it.

That's it, that's 100% of the reason. It's a potentially very powerful political tool and they didn't know how to use it.

1dalm, 29 days ago to apple

After watching the decidedly poorly thought out #Apple iPad commercial, I kind of suspect it was a set up. It's so bad, it looks intentionally bad.

Like some business guy thought up the idea and told his creative people to do it. His creative people told him it was a bad idea and the guy made them do it anyway, so they said "We are totally going to make that jerk regret this!"

1dalm, 6 months ago to OrphanCrushingMachine

"McIntyre’s husband, Andrew Rose Gregory, posted the messages on Tuesday, and the campaign quickly blew past its $20,000 goal. It had raised about $140,000 by Friday afternoon, or enough to buy around $14 million in medical debt."

I'm not an accountant, and I don't pretend to have even a casual working knowledge of how the medical debt industry works. But how does $140K buy $14 Million in debt.

And if it can, then why do we still have medical debts at all?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bc-us-medical-debt-posthumous-plea_n_6557ca4fe4b0e47670144827

#medicaldebt #orphancrushingmachine

1dalm, 5 months ago to bookstodon

I bet you didn't even know you needed this:

https://www.bullzerk.com/products/i-m-hiding-banned-books-tote-bag

#bookstodon @bookstodon

1dalm, 2 months ago to Canada

Dear Canadians,

Tell me honestly, is poutine is just a joke on Americans isn't it.

#canada #notfunny

1dalm, 6 months ago to random

There are lots of things that are believed by people to have any wide number of completely bogus health claims.

But #Wegovy is one that is actually, surprisingly, seriously holding up to it's hype as a miracle drug.

https://time.com/6334001/weight-loss-drug-wegovy-heart-study-results/

1dalm, 10 months ago to random

I have an employee from South Africa that went back to his home country for vacation. He left before his work visa was renewed and can't fly back yet.

On the phone, my stupid white male babyboomer boss tells him that he wants him to get on the plane anyway and fly to America because "I've always found that I can resolve most any issues by just looking a person in the eye."

I said, "yeah, not going try to sweet talk immigration."

1dalm, 1 month ago to random

All musical instruments are useful for expressing love, hope, anger, fear and a host of other emotions. Only one is used for war. The drum.

1dalm, 6 months ago to Christianity

I really wish more people knew that there are many other branches of #Christianity besides #Evangelical and #Catholic.

1dalm, 2 months ago to random

When you see people that get their news from TikTok was their fingers at Biden for the Gaza genocide, remember this: China and Russia vetoed the cease fire.

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-us-vote-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-f6453803b3eacc9fbaa2ce5a025e2a94

1dalm, 21 days ago to random

A village generally functions as a large family.

A town or neighborhood generally functions as a large village.

But a city does not function like a large town or a large neighborhood. It functions like a collection of competing and cooperating towns and neighborhoods.

I think this is a big reason why capitalism and our car dependent zoning has broken the way cities function. Urban and civil planners and franchise planners, etc. plan out development to optimize cities, not to optimize towns/neighborhoods.

For example, when Walmart plans a new store, they plan to optimize their sales based on service to the larger city, not in service of the town/neighborhood they are opening up in. When city planners plan a new highway, they plan it to optimize transportation in the whole city, not to optimize transportation in the town/neighborhood. Everything is planned to optimize on the city level and the village/town/neighborhood level is sacrificed as a result.

That's why people have to drive 30 minutes to go to a grocery store and 40 minutes to go to church, etc. this is what has killed our communities.

1dalm, 1 month ago to demographics

2025 represents a very important year in US demographics. 2025 is 18 years from the great recession, and every single year since that date has seen a near continuous decline in US births.

That means, every year going forward, there are going to be fewer students going to colleges, few recruits for the military and fewer workers for employers. This is not a small thing coming very quickly. #demographics #babies #genalpha

1dalm, 2 months ago to random

Does no one at Nvidia know what nurses do?

1dalm, 8 months ago to asia

What would #LordoftheRings have looked like if it were set in a fictional magical world based on Medieval East #Asia instead of #Europe?

What would be different? What would be the same?

1dalm, 3 months ago to random

My Amazon Prime Video series pitch:

"Secession."

A 12 episode TV show about what would happen if Texas tried to secede from the United States starring Chris Pratt as the Governor of Texas with an over-macho political persona and Queen Latifah as the first Black Woman President of the United States who was elected based largely on her Hollywood popularity but is now facing the possibility of a Civil War with a team of military brass that doesn't think she belongs there.

1dalm, 5 months ago to random

Don't forget to put the baby Jesus in the manger of your nativity set at midnight tomorrow!

What! You thought you could just put the baby Jesus in the manger anytime during Christmas season?! You heathen!

#christmas #8lb6ozBabyJesus.

1dalm, 2 months ago to random

1dalm, 2 months ago to ask

Tell me about an object you have that was previously owned by another person that has died.

#askmastodon #ask

1dalm, 6 months ago to Parenting

Marketing and branding question:

If you are marketing a product to parents of teenagers, why would you brand your product as "Pro"?

(I actually like the company's products a lot, just seems like weird branding.)

#parenting #ads #marketing

1dalm, 1 month ago to random

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