GarbageShootAlt2

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[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh certainly, they'll fuck you up way more readily and viscerally than a horse ever would, I just always wondered about the logic of their name.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Maybe that's why they're "water horses", because they gallop underwater.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe if you engineered some new pedal vehicle that is no longer really a bike, but hippos have neither the build nor the kind of gross motor skills (or prehensile forelimbs) needed to be successful as a high-level bicyclist.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Presumably the hippo also needs to ride a bike on that stretch, so they probably aren't managing their full running speed.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Counterpoint: "Fact checkers" with an institutional bias are an excellent way to cover for lies promoted by those institutions

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

I rarely see it, but MBFC is an atrocious website that defines bias by distance from the center. It's just nonsense.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Social mobility only describes the ability of the hierarchy to reorder itself. It does not negate or even mitigate the fact that most people are poor.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

Israel's actions now are, like the American military's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, both propped up by American imperialist interests and the MIC. The people opposed to Israel's campaign of genocide are more analogous to the (admittedly totally ineffectual) anti-war crowd from back then.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, me too. I think it was just a lack of reinforcement of those earlier plot points because most of them are literally never mentioned after chapter 1.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But this is the very beginning, not the middle

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, there are a host of languages that could be called "Taiwanese" (those indigenous languages you mention), but the actual dominant language by overwhelming majority is Mandarin.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In a sense he is right, since more people without work means more people you can employ in a new business, it's just that this makes the case that our economy is organized in a bad way rather than that poverty is good.

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