Opinionhaver

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[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I simply took your message and swapped out Republicans to Jews just to highlight the eerie similarities in tone and logic. I hoped this would be obvious and wouldn't need explaining. I guess I was wrong.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago

Does this have something to do with the maggoty cum farts?

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 6 points 19 hours ago

It's extremely rare that I turn down a cup of coffee.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Honestly, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was probably the last major news event I actually paid significant attention to. The constant firehose of bad news has made me pretty apathetic. Even serious events - ones that aren’t minor at all - just end up feeling like yet another distant dumpster fire I have no control over. So I scroll past them and get on with my life. The world was supposed to have ended already - yet here we are. I just can’t bring myself to feel that sense of urgency anymore, unless it’s something as immediate and personal as Russia trying to invade my country next.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 6 points 19 hours ago

Except it’s not the same thing. Spoiled refers to milk that has gone bad due to age or improper storage. That’s not what the swill milk scandal was about. It was milk that was bad to begin with - not spoiled, just poor quality because it came from sick animals.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 0 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

For fuck’s sake, this whole “we need to live peacefully with our neighbors” rhetoric is pure garbage. They’re trying to pull that “oh, we just need to coexist” crap, but that’s a load of bullshit. We’re not talking about disagreements over taxes here. We’re talking about a group built on lies and corruption, poisoning the roots of our nation and threatening everything we’ve worked for.

This isn’t about “different ideas on how to build a society.” These people live in a fantasy world, manipulating the media, the economy, and the schools. They don’t care about our culture, our history, or our future. You can’t “understand” someone who undermines the moral fabric of the country and destroys our unity from the inside. That’s not a belief - it’s a threat.

And this whole “tolerance” nonsense? Please. You don’t tolerate a parasite. That’s not virtuous - that’s weak. Some ideas are poison. Some people are too far gone. Pretending otherwise just enables the collapse.

Sound familiar?

Because it should.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

In big cities like New York, some dairies fed cows leftover grain mush from distilleries, called swill. The cows were sick, the milk was watery and bluish, and to make it look normal, some sellers added stuff like chalk, flour, even plaster. It wasn’t about hiding spoiled milk like you suggest - it was about making terrible milk from unhealthy cows seem drinkable.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (9 children)

Framing one half of the population as beyond saving or inherently evil is not just lazy - it’s historically dangerous. It reduces millions of individuals into a caricature and gives people permission to treat them with contempt, as if that’s somehow virtuous. That kind of thinking has been used to justify some of the worst things we’ve done to each other as humans.

When you actually talk to people outside your bubble, you quickly realize that most of us want the same basic things - stability, safety, meaning, a fair shot in life. We just have different beliefs about how to get there. Writing off entire groups as irredeemable only erodes any future possibility of understanding or change.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 7 points 23 hours ago

I think the saying “if more money wouldn’t change the way you live your life, then you’re already rich” applies to me pretty well. I don’t think my life would be all that different. Maybe I’d spend more time working on my own projects instead of customers’, but generally speaking, there’s nothing I’m not doing because of financial limitations.

My ultimate goal, though, would be to buy a small old farm with some land and spend the rest of my adult life working on that.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think LG V10 was peak-smartphone for me - at least design-wise.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's why I always have 120 litres of diesel stored at home in jerrycans plus what ever is left in the tank. If the shit ever hits the fan and I need to get away quick then the gas station is among the last places I want to go fist fighting to.

[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an anecdotal note I must mention that my lawnmower works just fine with gasoline that's over a year old.

 

So, in other words: which of your core beliefs do you think has the highest likelihood of being wrong? And by wrong, I don’t necessarily mean the exact opposite - just that the truth is significantly different from what you currently believe it to be.

 

If a country like the UK decided to ban end-to-end encryption, how would they even enforce it? I understand that they could demand big companies like Apple stop providing such services to their customers and withdraw certain apps from the UK App Store. But what’s stopping someone from simply going online and downloading an app like Session? I mean, piracy is banned too, yet you can still download a torrent client and start pirating. What would a ban like this actually prohibit in the end?

 

If someone writes about things they think will happen, but those things never materialize, they shouldn’t just get to brush it under the rug and act like they never said it. You’ve made millions of people worried over literally nothing. That should come with reputational consequences - not just for the journalist, but also for the platform that amplified their speculation.

Now obviously, there are things worth writing about even when many unknowns remain. But in those cases, acknowledge the uncertainty - lay out the improbable worst-case scenario, the more likely outcome, and the possibility that the whole issue might just fade away. Just don’t present speculation as certainty when you can’t possibly know, or if you do then own it.

 

The Japanese have this term "intoku (陰徳)" which roughly translates to good deeds done in secret. What are some examples of intoku in your own life? Doesn't matter even if it's something minor like picking up trash.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Opinionhaver@feddit.uk to c/bicycles@lemmy.ca
 

The bike has over 7,000 km on it, and this was still the original front tire, while the rear one has already been replaced twice. I got lucky - the tire I had been eyeing on was 60% off, so I managed to get two for the price of one.

The new one is 5.05" wide, compared to the original 4.8". It fits the front just fine, but I’ll have to see if it works on the rear once the current tire wears out. I’d really like to get this wider tire on the rear too - I love how mean it looks.

The knobs on this Snowshoe 2XL variant are almost twice the length of those on the Avalanche model on the right (when new). I bet that, combined with studs, it would give infinite traction on just about any kind of snow or ice.

 

They say they value truth and honesty, yet they lie when the truth becomes inconvenient. They pride themselves on being accepting and understanding of those who are different, yet they’re the first to label and generalize anyone whose values don’t perfectly align with theirs. They see all the nuance and complexity in their own personality but reduce others to simplistic judgments based on the smallest bits of information. They expect understanding for their own mistakes and shortcomings but are quick to criticize and condemn when someone else slips up. They claim to hate drama and negativity, yet they actively seek it out. They demand to be heard but want to silence those whose opinions they oppose. They call themselves independent thinkers who don’t just follow the crowd, yet they fiercely defend beliefs they’ve never truly questioned.

I heard someone once say that "It's not a principle if it's not costing you any money" and I think there's a lot truth to that. People aren't holding themselves up to the same standards as they do others.

 

I guess what I'm essentially asking here is wether you mind seeing the same post several times in your feed? I've done it in the past, but also tend to feel that duplicate posts are a bit annoying.

 

I had one installed eight years ago when I bought my house. I’ve used it to heat the entire place, but this winter, I struggled to maintain even 20°C indoors on really cold days.

Well, today I finally brought my air compressor inside and gave the guts of the indoor unit a thorough blasting - and now it feels like an oven in here. I’ve been lowering the thermostat all day, and it’s still way too hot. It literally feels like it’s putting out twice the heat now. I was expecting a slight improvement, but nothing like this.

 

It's not the first iteration and probably wont be the last either but now atleast they're all in one place.

 
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