OK, lets go through this again

OP accidentally upset her parents by saying “we have news”. He mother assumed it meant they were about to have a child when in reality she just wanted to let everyone know her two ducks were dating.

When the mother found out the news was about two dating ducks she got visibly upset; and when OP saw this look of sadness fall on her mothers face, instead of feeling bad, she thought it was funny. So funny that she’s decided she’s going to do this regularly

A user on Lemmy pointed out that this is a pretty mean thing to do. What kind of jerk gets pleasure from making other people visibly upset?

You tried to justify her mean behavior by saying it’s warranted because it’s mean for her parents to hound her for grandchildren.

This where I pointed out to you that even if OPs mother is hounding her for grandchildren, and that is mean, so what? One person being mean doesn’t justify you being mean too. Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s sad that the entire world seems to be in a competition to see who can justify their mean behavior the best

If OPs mother is hounding OP for grandchildren, and it is mean, OPs mother probably has her own justification for it. If you and OP decide to be mean in return, you do so with justification of your own. Both people are being mean and trying to justify why their mean behavior is better than the other person mean behavior

It’s sad that at least one of you can’t just be nice.

It’s sad that the entire world seems to be in a competition to see who can justify their mean behavior the best… instead of, you know, just being nice

And then you responded by trying to justify your mean behavior the best… proving you learned nothing

If I’m also a bad person I’m a good person

is that the logic here because that doesn’t make any sense

It’s like the whole world is in a competition to see who can justify being the biggest asshole the best

That’s all I want to do

If I paid for it either on disc or something like Amazon I would like to DL a copy I can keep

I’m not trying to download the summer blockbuster currently at the movies or anything. I’m not trying to just download a million movies and have a massive collection I never watch. I just want backups of the films I already paid for

Which is a small handful of films I bought so I could one day watch them with my kid when they’re a bit older

do i need to use a VPN or anything?

“By the 2020s, conservatives were dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap concentrated in internal causes (for example, heart disease, cancer and stroke). The divide since 2020 is substantial: while only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of internal causes between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher (P = 0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), (0.18, 2.11)). This gap is not limited to deaths from COVID-19 and is not reducible to demographic or geographic differences between the groups, nor is it a pure function of ageing: previous cohorts’ death patterns in older data did not show a similar correlation between health and ideology before 2010.”

Feeder app for android

It’s a great tool… and it’s only getting better.

But more importantly, it’s not going away. You can hate it until the sun explodes but this technology exists now and the world isn’t just going to forget about it. Your best bet is to figure out how to use it efficiently so that you don’t end up the guy that pushes shitty AI code and instead the guy who was able to get a lot done by using AI in a meaningful way and produce good work

Archer (Hulu)

Because while everyone is assuming this is a tweet by just some guy who keeps running into Americans at the Pub who tell him about how great life is after moving, in reality he’s a business owner making a sales pitch

Knowing it’s a sales pitch, do you still believe he regularly runs into Americans who moved to Italy? Or do you think maybe he’s just making that up to try to sell his business to Americans?

That’s choice is up to you I guess, but at least now you know

Sure but… does he keep meeting Americans that moved and didn’t know life could be that way though?

More than one thing can be true at a time but while this reads like just some guy who keeps going to the local pub and meeting Americans who talk about how great life is after moving, in reality he’s a business man making a sales pitch.

It’s kind of working too. The amount of people here who didn’t think to research who this guy is and just took his word for it is… something.

I’m not saying the guy is a grifter, I don’t know. I don’t know if he’s right or wrong. My point is to make people aware this is a sales pitch not a genuine observation. And it’s a sales pitch by a “spiritual guru”, for what that’s worth

Personally, the US is a big place and so culture varies state-to-state. Where I live, people don’t ask you what you do for a living when you first meet them

This guy is a weird spiritual business guru. This post isn’t an observation on modern American life, it’s one of his many posts that try to sell you on his business where he claims that he can teach you how to monetize your passions and not have to actually work

Here in my part of the US we do build with shops outside of neighborhoods. The problem is that these shops are rarely prime real estate so the stores that move in are rarely something you want to walk to

For example, outside my neighborhood now is

A convenience store, A dry cleaners, a sports bar, a military surplus store, an office for a business that builds floating docks, a tow truck company, some kind of repair shop for hydraulics, a Wendy’s, a burger king, and a bait-and-tackle store

Except not all of that is on my side of the street. If you left my neighborhood and went north you would run into the stores. Then there is a road, some more stores, and then another neighborhood. But that road between the two lines of stores is a major road. 8 lanes where I am. (8 lanes all-together. 4 east, 4 west)

So yeah, I could walk to the sports bar because it is close, but also I have to cross 8 lanes of traffic. And the other neighborhood could walk to the convenience store, but they also have to cross 8 lanes of traffic

On paper it’s ideal. In reality not so much

Sometimes you luck out and you’ll get a mom-and-pop sandwich shop or a small grocery store or something, but most of the time it’s dance studios or a place to buy used vacuum cleaners. Just random, lower-rent shit.

If you keep walking you can find more useful things. There’s a Starbucks and a doughnut shop close by. If I wanted to ride my bike there is a grocery store… but that just means crossing more main roads. Not 8 lanes, but still. Not 2 lanes with 25mph traffic either. It’s like 45mph 4-lane roads

And of course this is more difficult if you have kids. I’m not sure I’d feel safe riding my bike to the store with my young child. So if we need to go to the store, or even the playground, we drive. It’s not that it’s so far we can’t walk, it’s that the walk is sketchy

If you want to walk and shop, we have places built specifically for that. You drive there, park, get out, and then the next like 4 or 8 blocks or whatever is designed just to be for walking and shopping.

It’s not an easily fixable problem through. Unless you’re going to tear down a bunch of houses this is just kind of how it is

Then again, with everything costing $1000, I’m not sure who’s walking to buy anything. I do well for myself but I’m still not going to walk to a sports bar regularly and buy a $9 hamburger and spend $7 on drinks. So really, I don’t even care anymore.

If you did it for free, what boss is replacing you?

Why can’t you just keep doing it?

GWAR concerts are always rad. The music is second to the actual show

But you will get covered in fake blood (it’s pretty much just water) so wear a white shirt and if it’s cold outside, bring a change for the car

Seen them during the first election

They killed Hillary, Trump, and Bernie

Trump was naked and wearing a cartoon sack of money for clothes, Hillary was sick and kept vomiting blood, and Bernie was old, died first, and came back as a mutated super monster that tried to eat everyone and had to be killed

The story, if you can call it that, was that Gwar were running for president of the universe and the only way to win was to kill your competition

Any article that tells me how to feel… I have to question the legitimacy of that article

OH NO!

Anyway, who cares?

If this is the shit you care about you need to spend less time on your phone

Mine was hacking

Visually it looks like it’s navigating a maze but 90s films taught me that when it finds the skull in the center of the maze it’s successfully hacked the government

I’m so proud to American

I photoshop images of flat earth to make it look round

I always forget to add the stars though