“France, Germany vow to compete in torment nexus market”

“I can excuse seditious disinformation, but I draw the line at author credit in comic strips.”

Your moral compass could use some Adderall.

Take responsibility for directly linking to the unfiltered words of one of the main people who tried to overturn the 2020 US presidential election and who would have literally every reason to publish this right now with Trump loudly trying to blame the CCP for his 2020 election loss?

Quoting The Kansas City Star’s editorial board:

No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

You can quit playing dumb.

“US senator” is not an honorary title, it’s a job.

What an odd response to calling out the fact that Josh Hawley cannot be trusted for even the most insignificant claim.

You’re the one who decided to directly link to a press release from Hawley right as Trump and his gaggle of election deniers are trying to claim that the CCP rigged the 2020 election for Joe Biden; the least you can do is take some responsibility.

You could’ve linked to The Guardian even to soften the blow, but you decided “Nah, Josh Hawley unfiltered is fine” and then got defensive about it.

Save you some time: “US senator” is disinformation peddler and election denier Josh Hawley, and his word for literally anything is as good as dirt; he’s actively nefarious. We should be looking at other sources (ones, of course, that aren’t reliant on him), and if other sources don’t exist, then it isn’t worth spreading here to begin with.

Beep, you should know better.

Headline kinda missed the scale of this whole thing.

It’s LLM-generated from some mill called UpWorthy; the fact it’s on Yahoo! News just lends it some credibility because most people aren’t going to understand that, while Yahoo! News has some original articles of its own, it’s primarily a news aggregator with minimal quality standards.

Restoring the balance of these elements is not only critical to marine life, but human life as well. And we’re not just talking about food supply here. A lack of fish means a lack of income for fishermen, and higher prices at seafood restaurants. Dirty waters lead to a decline in tourism. Reefs even provide natural protection during coastal storms. It’s almost like every aspect of our lives is directly affected by the state of our environment. What a concept!

OP genuinely doesn’t seem to give a shit about the quality of what they post; I administered the other day what I think has been the first temp ban of a poster from !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world because they refused to learn when their posts got removed for clear lack of relevance.

Edit: This article never once sources this information. The FDEP talks about using oysters but never says 500,000 tons, and all I can immediately find about that specific claim are some shitty AI videos from late 2025.

Edit 2: But here’s a neat report! Again, though, the 500k number seems to have been pulled out of an AI hat.

While we lack a rule against reposts and thus this isn’t a moderative action, I still have to say I’m a bit befuddled at the crosspost of a crosspost that leads back to a popular post from… this community three months ago.

And that you’ve done this exact thing two times in the last two hours.

Sigh, 'is girlfriend just broke up with 'im; 'e is 'art-broken.

My first thought when reading your previous reply is that you’re someone who likes to argue for the sake of arguing.

Bbbbbbbbbbb wrote: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

GreenBeard responded to this totally innocuous, non-argumentative statement with: “That’s like embellishing a prison camp number with a fun design. That’s not self-expression that’s morbid.” Then went on to call the practice “gross” and “tacky” and the people who get custom plates under a “sad illusion” and “letting themselves be tricked”.

Again, in response to just an extremely benign and normal statement: “I like plate customization, its a form of self expression.”

Truly I’m the one who likes arguing for the sake of an argument here – not the person who started and perpetuated this abject, comically combative nonsense.

You resent other people having values you don’t share.

As you sit here saying those who have values you don’t share are participating in something “gross”, under a “sad illusion”, and “letting themselves be tricked” into doing something that’s “morbid”, “tacky at best”, and akin to “embellishing their prison camp number”. lmao okay

So are you a Mercator or a Robinson kind of guy?

If you think the magnitude of information gained is even worth considering for either (or frankly any) party, you’re grossly misunderstanding the scale of the surveillance state or just have really terrible ideas for custom plates. Your plate is inherently already a 100% unique identifier; if you’re worried enough that like six characters of custom text or a chosen design will in any way further government or corporate surveillance, then – and I say this as someone who frequents privacy communities, hates defeatism, and thinks people (myself included) need better privacy hygiene – have fun pissing on a forest fire.

You think it’s snobby to not waste money on a stylized government ID?

If you could read, you’d know I think that it’s fine one way or another and that what’s snobby is your obnoxious attitude toward people who do get one. The difference between you and I is that I see it as a waste of money for me and leave it at that because I don’t pretend to be superior and enlightened when my level of insight that the unwashed masses surely lack is “um, didn’t you know that license plates are tracking IDs?? by the government??? Fucking idiot, Sandra, with your stupid fucking ‘museums are for everyone’ plate with Snoopy on it.”

I don’t see the point in paying extra to have an ID on my car that tells The Man more about me than I think they need to know

Literally what on Earth are you doing to your license plate that tells The Man more about you in a way that realistically matters? You don’t need your Ashley Madison credentials to create a custom plate.

If you’re worried about dragnet surveillance, I guess it’ll help them when they divide the prison camps by baseball team. If you’re worried about automated surveillance like by ALPRs then, uh, pretty sure the model whose literal entire purpose is to create its own features for classification will find abundant other ways to uniquely fingerprint and extract actual, pertinent information about you. And if you’re worried about targeted surveillance by humans scrutinizing you down to what your custom plate says about you, then god help you, and viva México.

I’m just saying a licence plate is intended as a vehicle tracking ID

Everyone here and everyone who gets them knows and understands that.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t be registering cars

I didn’t say or even imply you were, and the fact you clarified that anyway is bizarre – because it’d be completely batshit.

letting them trick your brain into pretending that they belong to you and are an extension of your “self” by adding fancy designs is kind of gross.

Brother, my god, it is a fucking identifier plate on your car; no one’s getting “tricked”, and I don’t know if you can believe this, but people can enjoy making objects into extensions of themselves without becoming slaves to The Man – if you can apprehend that someone in Kentucky who pays $25/year or some shit to signal that they’re into amateur radio isn’t offering up their soul in a plate-shaped vessel on the altar of Rebecca Goodman.

Even if you want to bring ALPRs into this, custom plates existed long, long before we had the technology to turn plates into mass-surveillance tools.

This is so goddamn snobby that it’s painful.

1. What the actual fuck is this comparison? I’m extremely anti-car, and even I’m wondering what has to be wrong with you.

2. Incidentally got a chuckle out of me that you’re saying this about what’s often effectively a social green-beard (e.g. plates for sports teams, hobbies, causes, etc.).

Honestly super fair re: bleeding out. I was considering the thigh there and forgot to mention my problem specifically with the calf, which would be chronic pain. I know that comes with getting shot anywhere and especially in the limbs (sort of Sophie’s choice if you want to gamble on the distal or proximal for the arms), but I figure the problem for me wouldn’t be potentially losing the leg as much as it would be feeling pain every time I walk due to the pressure. If anything, the shin protecting the tibial nerve makes it seem like you wouldn’t be all that likely to lose sensation.

Fair point. I’d still prefer the right arm*, but I think you could reasonably debate distal or proximal. Proximal has less chance of hitting the brachial artery and surrounding major nerves, but if you do hit them, you’re in bigger trouble than in the distal – where the median nerve and the brachial artery have split, making it easier to hit something but for that individual hit to be less severe.

* Another comment mentioned your glutes, which, yeah, fair if you could hit it from the side-on (and be fairly accurate, otherwise ouch, that tailbone).

The gut is notoriously one of the most painful places you can get shot. It’s fairly “safe” overall with antibiotics and prompt medical intervention, although it would carry a higher risk of infection. Plus hitting a kidney seems like a pretty severe complication. So I think I’d rather take the arm.

Edit: Plus possibility of hitting the spine. oof, ouch, owie

100% somewhere in the arm (like assuming this isn’t in some test lab where “the ear” can be consistently guaranteed).

• Foot would likely be serious, lifelong pain when walking.
• Leg is extremely dangerous for bleeding out. Like maybe if I could get immediate medical attention it wouldn’t be terrible, but there are still better options. (Plus avoids an accidental shot to the knee.) (Edit: Forgot to mention chronic pain in the calf when walking.)
• Abdomen is obviously not a first choice.
• Head and neck are obviously going to be the worst, and I even mean that in the sense that a shot to the head isn’t inherently some insta-kill. Lots of ways to hit the brain that completely debilitate you for life.
• Hands seem like a great way to fuck up the nerves and have dexterity trouble for the rest of your life.

So arm it is, preferably right because it’s further from the heart.

That cat looks overweight.