Komodo Rodeo

I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?

And someone did replicate this

Can you recall who?

Thanks, much appreciated.

Alright, I’m going to say it out loud, despite the risk of this being counted as uncivil (via Rule 1) 🤞 🤞

These imbeciles don’t need stern lectures, fines, or jail - they need livestreamed floggings to humiliate or even cripple them. Hundreds of millions should see, record, archive, and openly mock their distress publicly as a stark reminder of the stakes involved.

The Sentinelese are a genetic sub-group so isolated, and so unique that their loss would be incalculable. They’re a living, breathing, irreplaceable time capsule of human culture and genetic information, and the thought that some thrill-seeking wanker could decimate them by passing the common cold to one of their members is beyond worrisome - it’s enraging. As lucky as we were that the last worthless dick-beater - American Evangelical missionary, John Allen Chau - to make their way to the island was summarily killed, that luck may not hold out. We’re talking about a group whose immunity is such a throwback that something like Chickenpox, Rubella, or Influenza could decimate the island’s population. For next-nearest historical comparison, Smallpox, to which the inhabitants of North America had virtually no resistance due to longstanding geographic isolation from infection, is estimated to have killed 90% of the continent’s population via European contact.

May I have some sauce, please?

I mean, I’m not going to spend time trying to duplicate their results, but it wouldn’t even slightly surprise me. Cops have been using ChatGPT to streamline their bullshit cop-lingo incident reports, to the extent that it’s caught the notice of lawyers and judges… 100% I believe that the dolts who shit out Trump’s tariff rates used it too.

Elon Musk’s job approval

It’s phrased in such a way that I’m reminded of politician’s approval ratings, but he’s not an elected official. Are there polls to determine the approval of persons appointed to position by the U.S. President, or are we talking about his approval as Tesla/Space X is concerned?

Not so uncommon a situation as you might assume, there are plenty of shortstacks willing to work with the height discrepancy.

“I can’t believe that you could break the law like this, ICE, especially as law enforcement officers. Honestly, you should know better than to disappear political opponents of the President’s global policy, and people with tenuous residency status without so much as a hearing. I’m very disappointed in you, Mister.”

Don’t feel bad for being cute, you do you - which also may or may not be the dream of a woman 1+ ft. taller than you.

As is tradition.

Sure, they’re pieces of shit too, but the previous comment was asking about the blowback against Tesla by comparison to insurance CEO assassinations.

The insurance CEOs aren’t making a spectacle of seig heiling during internationally broadcast events, or dogwhistling Nazi references on their personally owned social media platform.

*bussy

Meth, the drug that makes you so horny you’ll move on JD Vance’s ex.

Like some pantomime of those bizarre fictional bureaucracies seen in Beetlejuice, Loki, or at best, Monsters Inc. Imagine getting stymied, deferred, redirected, misdirected, sloughed off, and dismissed by administrators and clerks who know full-well that your life or death is on the line.

That’s the reality for these people getting systematically and entirely legally fucked around, and you’re right, they often don’t have the resources to fight owing largely to their poor health - being subjected to unnecessary suffering as a means to get them just give up, go away, and die somewhere that no one has to see. Mangione is unequivocally a hero, these people are legitimately, maliciously evil. State and federal legislators either can’t or are unwilling to stop them, but so few victims are even able to “air their grievances face-to-face” that the bulk will never see justice for what was done to them.

I was thinking something else, but I’m not sure how flexible the Lemmy TOS is with “inflammatory statements”.

Sound advice that, I can’t stand the stink coming off the boarder, and am won’t even consider passing through via connecting flights until shit’s cleared up stateside.

That is a bit of an odd sticking point, honestly it makes me wonder if they thought it would be possible to obfuscate investigations and conceal the identities of Police involved.