I remember reading at the start of Covid in the US, when the government was saying “masks are dumb”, but local churches were going “masks save lives”, the churches were surprised at how much pushback they were getting.

Turns out raising someone from a young age to believe without questioning, and look up to one person as their only source of truth, and ignore compelling scientific evidence, is pretty hard conditioning to break.

Shockedpikachuface.jpg, #leopardsatemyface, etc.

How’s that any different from today?

(Just kidding, gallows humor)

Seconded - Fuuuuuuck that jelly-bean-eating bastard.

I do like jelly beans though.

I think it’s like “vee-shee-swah”?

Source: some French classes in elementary school 🤷🏻‍♂️

Saddling up to the bar of a cyberpunk ramen shop to ask real questions with my real voice

I want this guy to argue with me at the ramen shop:

https://piped.video/watch?v=xkkNvMgza1g&t=50

“Four…no, two,two; four! (sigh)… with noodles.”

Lemming > Chihuahua > Honey Badger

Just angrier and angrier all the way through

Hmm… maybe Zebra > Okapi > Giraffe?

This one’s my favorite!

I’m watching the show “Fisk” on streaming, and there’s a character that paints portraits with his dingus - your username made me think of that character!

Watching a playthrough of the God of War franchise: “who’s this Kratos guy, he seems like a bad-ass…”

Returns home, founds a new religion: “No, see, Ares IS cool and all, but I’m telling you, someone’s going to come along and beat his ass…”

I’m doing MY part!

“Michael Tuesdays and Thursdays” was funny, but also had some layers to it; a very complicated patient and his therapist, who is writing a book about his care - so not always totally objective, as he has something to gain. And then that therapist also sees a therapist (played by the late, great Ed Asner) who seems to be going senile.

It’s funny, sometimes sad, sometimes very sweet, with a good cast.

ProPublica, TST, a local tree-planting charity, Wikipedia

There’s just too much… between work, home life details, and trying to pay attention to the state of the world on 20 different fronts, I just don’t feel like I have the bandwidth to be like “gee, I’m going to pick up a new skill today!” I need that downtime to veg on the couch and look at memes, it’s way less exhausting.

Yeah, same! I thought I had a pretty good guess from the context, but “cold camera shoe” is a new term for me. Glad Lemmy has such a great community though, there are some awesome responses in this thread!

Not sure if this is what you’re describing, but phones like the one you pictured have a reversible tab for use if you mount the phone to a wall - if the tab is sticking up, it keeps the receiver from falling off the cradle.

Here’s a site selling them, but it has a diagram showing where it’s located:

https://www.zcover.com/store/catalog/zCProduct.php?wp=WP_CI881CTR&zPath=212-213-255

We finally get to ride the train? That’s awesome!

That’s pretty great. ConcernedApe is a prince!

I thought the same - not a stick in the most traditional sense, but heck I’d give it a swing!

Diabolical!