1dalm

GottaLaff, 5 months ago to random

👀🫣 A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of #JeffreyEpstein's associates.

https://trib.al/VOMyY5M

RickiTarr, 8 days ago to random

America: You need to have health insurance!

Me: Cool, that makes sense, but it's going to cover my whole body, right?

America: Depends, do you use your teeth and eyes?

RickiTarr, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to random

What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

The Epaulette shark is only about 9 million years old as a species, making it the most recent branch in the shark family. And it is slowly but surely evolving into a land animal!

You will have to choose your side!

HELP THEM! “We' missed you, pal!” “Their filthy Water" "If you see a Horrid Beast evolving, welcome them home.

1dalm, 4 months ago to random

One of the worst lies that social media promotes is that getting upset and complaining about something is doing something.

GottaLaff, 2 months ago to random

#Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic

“Despite the late-day slide, Wall Street is still assigning Trump Media an eye-popping valuation of nearly $11 billion — a price tag that experts warn is untethered to reality.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/markets/trump-media-stock-truth-social?cid=ios_app

RickiTarr, 2 months ago to random

Harley Quinn is like Godzilla, sometimes they destroy the city, sometimes they help save it, you just never know.

RickiTarr, 27 days ago to random

I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

1dalm, 6 months ago to paganism

Fun fact: The Macy's #Thanksgiving Day Parade was derived from a #pagan celebration. Christians appropriated it to convert the local population that worshiped giant balloon beagles.

1dalm, 7 months ago to random

Person on dating profile: "Here is a photo of me doing a hobby I enjoy."

Certain people on social media: "HaHa! Look at this photo of this loser doing a hobby they enjoy! What a loser, an I right!"

1dalm, 1 year ago to random

I don't know guys. As a lib I'm totally owned by Fox News telling their viewers to go outside and breathe poison.

1dalm, 2 months ago to blackfriday

A feature of the #Episcopal Church I like that wasn't really present in any of my Evangelical churches I grew up in is the acknowledgement that human emotions are complicated and deserve recognition and communal processing. Today is #BlackFriday, for example. A day specifically set aside to recognize human feelings of pain and loss. This is very much at odds with last Sunday's Palm Sunday parade celebration and yesterday's anger and betrayal.

Human emotions are good.

1dalm, 9 months ago to random

Pro-Tip when choosing a Tent:

• A 1-Person Tent is a 1-person tent.

• A 2-Person Tent is a 1-person tent + gear.

• A 4-person tent is a 2-person tent.

1dalm, 8 months ago to random

Honestly, sometimes it feels like Google and Amazon don't know me at all. 😥

1dalm, 8 months ago to HashtagGames

Jurassic Plaque
The Flossed World

#HashTagGames
#dentalabook

1dalm, 7 months ago to random

Fun fact: "They would commit genocide if we let them live" is not a defensible position to excuse supporting genocide

1dalm, 7 months ago to linux

Any #linux gurus in the Dallas area interested in helping me try to save a Windows Dell by installing linux?

Send me a DM.

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, 7 months ago to random

I hope you have found a loving and supportive IRL community.

1dalm, 5 months ago to HashtagGames

Nobel Prize for perfectly seasoning a cast iron dutch oven.

#LittleKnownNobelPrizes
#HashTagGames

1dalm, 9 months ago to IndianaJones

A lot of people are upset about the Hollywood trend of having our childhood heros face their own decline. (See #LukeSkywalker, #NickFury, #IndianaJones, etc.) But the truth is, this is a long standing trope in hero sagas.

Think Beowulf, King David, King Arthur.

Heroes don't stay heroes in literature. The fallen hero is not a new trope.

1dalm, 8 days ago to random

If you've followed me for any amount of time (here or previously on Twitter and Facebook before I left those platforms), then it won't surprise you that I'm very happy about yesterday's trial result.

I'm most happy about it not because I hate everything about Donald Trump and everything he stands for (I do) and not because it helps "my team" (that's still unclear) but because it demonstrates that the institution of jury trial still works. An appeals judge can choose to overturn the conviction, that can still happen, and we still have to defeat him at the ballot box, but for today the institution is still functioning as intended.

This ruling demonstrates why strong, robust institutions are more important than ideologies.

#verdict

RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

If the gods exist, it's mighty presumptuous to think they have our best interests at heart, or even think about us at all.

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.