The best reason to end any war is to ask how everyone can just stop killing one another.

This is modern day civilization, not the barbarian hordes of Europe 1500 years ago.

We have a choice to act civilized or like our ignorant ancestors from thousands of years ago.

Whether or not it’s true … it’s marketing for Google and their AI

How does anyone verify this?

It’s basically one person’s claim and it’s not easy to prove or disprove.

“Don’t be evil” …

… for now

$1,000 to give birth is just the start of the payment process to having a child

Last I read, on average to raise a child with the most basic requirements to give it a decent life in North America to the age of 18, the estimate was about $200,000 - $300,000 … that was about 20 years ago I read that, it’s probably way more now.

Alien: … yeah get the tranquilizer gun … and the anal probe … no, no, not that one … no, no, bigger … no, bigger and wider … yeah, that’s the one

Or hiring two guys to be co-referees for the no holds barred orgy that’s about to start.

I think you’re one of the coolest people in the fediverse … keep flying you crazy squid

@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world … your squid signal has been shone into the fediverse skyline

ahhhhh … I really don’t care any more … I’m nice and respectful and open to everyone … I accept everyone no matter race, gender, identity, nationality, background, religion (or non religion) and I do my best to respect everyone for who they are … beyond that, if people give me a hard time to be around them just to give me a hard time or show authority or try to be above me or control me - I really don’t want to be around you.

… or marketing, plain old marketing, advertising and public relations.

You can blast the airwaves with the same message over and over again eventually people just believe it … either because they are lazy, don’t care, it doesn’t immediately matter to them or they just don’t want to be bothered learning the details. It’s the same process of convincing people to either like Coke or Pepsi.

Goebbels and the Nazi party easily mastered it in the 30s … tell a lie, repeat it often enough and eventually it will be come true … if you tell a lie, tell a big lie, the biggest lie you can make and everyone will believe it.

It all boils down to money and marketing … whoever dumps the money into one party, politician, political movement will get the votes eventually and convince everyone of whatever reality they want them to believe.

I have one or two hot wheels shaped wounds somewhere on my skull from when my brothers tossed these things at me in a fight … and I returned the favor as well.

Hot wheels from the 70s and 80s were deadly weapons … you stepped on one it was like stepping on a roller skate, you broke one it turned into knife and if you threw one, you could cause a concussion. Even just opening up one of those damned things when you were kid usually meant you severely cut yourself (I know from experience).

… in 2015 Alabama

How about farm workers … I’m up in Canada and I know because I’ve seen entire farm communities in southern Ontario base their entire business on immigrant labor that was either legal, illegal and everything in between. Around Norfolk (a region southwest of Toronto), entire towns are filled with Mexican, Haitian, Dominican and more recently, African workers as labor for the planting, management and harvest.

We all have cheap vegetables in North America because of cheap immigrant labor that our governments allow into the country to work (for little to no money) but not to stay.

I spent about ten minutes trying to figure out if this was just an Onion headline … only to realize it is indeed an Onion headline … this is beautiful

I think the relevant question is whether the aliens will fuck us … and whether or not it will be any good.

Definitely unrelated … here let’s pull the trigger together.

You forgot the part where we just kept mashing in the gun, over and over again, into the hole even as it poked through the wall and aimed the barrel at our forehead.

Get to the bottom … “Son! did you take down the garbage for pickup!?”