Benjaben

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[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Okay thank you! Fully understand the subtle difference you described, and it's interesting. If you feel like saying more, what led you to use these characters? Are there spaces where they're used more commonly that I'm just ignorant about? I personally found it harder to read, but I'm probably just old lol and would need a bit longer, I do basically like the idea though.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Okay, I've seen you in two comment chains now and I can't help but ask what is going on with your "th" characters? At one point you described the US as "we" so I'm extra puzzled.

But the straw that broke the camel's back was:

monþ long

I understand having two different characters for lower and upper case, but what the fresh fuck is this one for lol?!

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Yeah that was really some trash and made me furious. The one guy just directly stating all the ways we need to help the working class and also saying basically fuck the rich, with the career-long credentials to back it up, and instead we got force-fed Hillary. She was so unlikeable and entitled, it set the Dems (and shit, maybe even women in leadership as a whole) back by like 10 years. Cuz she acted like a shitty stereotype about women that fed right into the misogynists. Such a colossal fuck up, and that really is putting it mildly. I deleted a whole screed of even more forceful complaining, lol.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I did similar, I'm ashamed to admit, except slightly worse - I actually just didn't vote at all, thinking I was really making my dissatisfaction clear that way. What a dumbass I was, and for the same reasons you described. And while a lot of that was undeniably true and a problem, I also now feel fairly sure the "don't vote / vote 3rd party" push was an op, and I fell for it like a dope.

I've voted in every election I've been eligible for before and since 2016, and I will never allow myself to drop the ball like that again. Fuck the DNC but we gotta fight like hell to keep things from getting even worse and they're all we've fuckin got at the moment.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's funny, I had the opposite reaction, I see this as pretty strong evidence of our decency. It's really, really hard to get most people to behave this way, and the ones who do wind up fucked up from it (as they should).

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

That line, and then just by instinct going to Fig 1, and seeing its caption...incredible lol

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Never heard that about Sam Altman, do you happen to have a good source? To be clear, I invite you to tell me "nah man, go do your own internetting" lol, but I wanted to ask in case you happened to have something particularly informative!

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

From what I very vaguely remember, the idea is that they're (somewhat accidentally, just by instinct) causing a reverberation in the ground that seems, to worms, like rain. Making the worms (somewhat accidentally, just by instinct) go "aww shit, this lovely dirt hangout spot is boutta turn into a bathtub, I gotta get outta here!"

It's pretty cute watching em on actual dirt. Especially with a young'n, the little ones figure it out pretty quick. Somewhat accidentally, just (largely) by instinct!

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Fucked up, what war does to us.

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Man, ads like this worked SO WELL on me. I was sure having the right stuff would make me extra cool just like the commercials. Pretty messed up when you think about it, those things had a country of little dorks like me sitting around fantasizing about being liked, haha.

But we were kinda poor, and whatever cool toys I did manage to acquire did not make me any cooler, lol. Drugs, on the other hand...

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