You know, it should be obvious, but until you brought it up here, I was guilty of thinking of it as just some colloquialism (which it very well may be). But if you think of the suffix -oid, taking “humanoid” for example, you get something that isn’t presenting itself as a human. But I didn’t come to that conclusion, I just was like, wow, they bop the Pope with a hammer.
So thanks.
Same. Not even sure what we’re talking about, but same.
You’ve hit the nail on the head, and I sit and have this and other similar conversations with my brother, and they always boil down to change. And it’s a devil you know kind of argument, but the devil we know (establishment politics) has whittled away at the middle class consistently since it’s explosion in the 1950s. And it’s more than just policy, but down more to things like interpretation of the constitution and separation of powers.
And so we are in for a wild ride, and the smart thing for Democrats to do would be to put up their own candidate who stands to be the antithesis of Trump, and not this amalgamation of populist ideals, but a platform for change across the board. I like AOC for that, but we won’t get that. We will get another establishment Democrat who tries to run on the same policies they just lost on, or whose platform is blanket undoing of Trump policy. The Democrats need to not be an anti-Trump party and instead be an actual progressive party.
Yes, eat some billionaires, and then give everyone left a choice: Glorious Revolution or French Revolution.
You’ve nailed my languages:
Por favor (you’ll see this later)
Bitte (had to check the spelling, but I knew how to say it)
S’il vous plait
Pleeeeeeeeeease
Por favor
I dunno about Japanese.
I can also say it in sign language.
For reference, I am a 37 year old dude from Jersey. I took French in middle and high school (we got to go to Quebec in the eighth grade because someone thought that was a good idea). We have large spanish and Portuguese speaking populations, and my mom’s stepmother was also from Cuba, so we got some lessons early on. My high school girlfriend did the German thing so I picked up a little (ich haba einen bruder). Wife speaks pretty fluent sign language. Can also say Kurwa, but that’s neither please nor thank you.
Half the comments on any given post are a reproduction of some memeified response.
Piqued your interest.
Appreciate the share, because I can’t see something like this and not want to hear it play G.
Yes, he knows when I’m in that deep sleep like 30-60m before my alarm goes off, so that when I give him the boot I don’t have enough time to go back to bed for any meaningful sleep.
The northeast corridor has a lot of this. It’s rural America that’s (probably) not.
I live in Jersey, and mixed use is very big just about everywhere (not including South Jersey, I don’t know anything about South Jersey). The idea of a walkable downtown made a very big comeback in the last decade or so.
I see mixed-use zones in most of the towns in NJ, where a chunk of the work I do is in land use. I am assuming it must be different outside of NJ, because this is certainly not the first time I’ve heard this criticism of zoning.
The Busy World of Richard Scarry. To me two looks at Dick Scarry, not sure anyone’s ever referred to him that way until this meme.
I love two towns over from Manville, which was the asbestos capital of America, and I can unequivocally say those morons would vote to bring asbestos back if they could.
Ehh, I dunno. Back in high school and the years shortly after, we’d take trips down 287 to Rutgers to visit the Grease trucks for one of their famous fat sandwiches. The name tells the tale, the sandwiches are absurd, but great late night drunk food. Fat Darrel was my go-to, chicken fingers, mozz sticks and marinara, French fries, on a sub roll. They had a variety of sandwiches, and they’d even name one after you if you could eat three in an hour, which even back then, when I swam competitively, smoked a lot of weed, and was a human garbage disposal, eating three period was a tall order.
I will say, the French fries were probably the least important ingredient to most of their sandwiches, but it was a package deal, you get what you get.
Have a daughter also, so I know it all too well! Our focus is “It’s normal but private.” We will see how that goes.
They are the party of status quo. Say what you want, but Trump will buck trends. Unfortunately, it’s just in all the wrongest possible ways. We needed someone with the combination of confidence and stupidity that Trump has, but stupidity for good.
My wife texted me the other day:
You know that yellow slide our son carries around? Well, he started sticking his penis in it, you have to talk to him now.
He’s 4. It’s just what boys do.
I know I, for one, was concerned about all this wasted piss, and I’m glad there’s a team of scientists looking into a solution.
So pee all over the floor first so it’s at least your own piss puddle.
It used to be so much more Linux, but replacing that with politically charged statements parading as memes isn’t a much better alternative. My two least favorite parts of Lemmy are how every conversation is somehow just one degree of separation from Linux or Nazis. Meme about dogs? Now the conversation is about genocide.