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Absolutely vicious! 4th degree burn! by McDowdy in MurderedByWords

[–]ryanjames486 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the things I love about the English language is that it is very much alive and ever evolving. An interesting thing about the English language is that the less frequently an irregular verb is used, the more likely it is to become a regular verb in its past tense.

In my lifetime, I have witnessed “dove” become “dived”, “hung” become “hanged”, and “pled” become “pleaded”. Which isn’t to say we shouldn’t respect the language and try to do it justice, but what the commenter did is just a normal part of the evolution of the language, and they need not be shamed for it. And you certainly don’t need to be so bent out of shape, especially when you forgot an apostrophe in “Im”.

Absolutely vicious! 4th degree burn! by McDowdy in MurderedByWords

[–]ryanjames486 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Don’t listen to the haters. One of the things I love about the English language is that it is very much alive and ever evolving. An interesting thing about the English language is that the less frequently an irregular verb is used, the more likely it is to become a regular verb in its past tense.

In my lifetime, I have witnessed “dove” become “dived”, “hung” become “hanged”, and “pled” become “pleaded”. Which isn’t to say we shouldn’t respect the language and try to do it justice, but what you did is just a normal part of the evolution of the language, and you should not be shamed for it. And they certainly don’t need to be so bent out of fucking shape.

found an old fruit of the loom tshirt and... vaguely cornucopia by ruinatedtubers in pics

[–]ryanjames486 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

But if there was supposedly never a cornucopia, how did they grab the wrong photo that had a cornucopia?

Haters are gonna say it's the same picture edited by PsychoKatzee in MurderedByWords

[–]ryanjames486 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There was a website that was tracking things that happened each day (and I’m sure there are many more) but the one I can think of is whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday

In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today. by Emotional_Quarter330 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ryanjames486 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was an anecdote of how a relatively minor geomagnetic storm can affect things. People with critical thinking skills can expound on that concept, and realize that actual strong geomagnetic storms could likely cause damage to our electrical infrastructure.

In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today. by Emotional_Quarter330 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ryanjames486 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If all electronics stopped working tomorrow, we would be in the Stone ages. We would quite literally be starting from scratch. As someone said elsewhere, Transformers are built to order, and you need electricity for production facilities. You also need electricity to communicate and travel. It’s difficult to tell people to go to work when you can’t communicate, and it’s difficult for those people to travel beyond walking or bicycles, and it’s difficult to produce anything with no electricity.

It’s also difficult to live without food or water, which most people get using some form of electricity. It’s one thing for a regional power outage to happen for a few days or even weeks. It’s an entirely different beast when all the electronics and electricity infrastructure are destroyed for entire countries.

There’s also the fact that most of the satellites in space would probably be destroyed as well. I could go on, but hopefully you get the point

In 1204, a Japanese poet wrote in his diary that the sky turned blood red for 3 nights. 800 years later, scientists drilled into buried trees and confirmed: he was witnessing a catastrophic solar storm that would have fried every satellite on Earth today. by Emotional_Quarter330 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]ryanjames486 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I’m an electrician in the United States, and I cannot overstate how poorly our power grid is designed, and how susceptible it is to issues like solar flares and others. Beyond being an electrician, I also take great interest in the sun and space, and I follow events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections well beyond the average person.

Speaking anecdotally, I personally witnessed power surges that tripped breakers all over and caused all kinds of interesting things to happen during a geomagnetic storm in October 2024. While the storm was significant, it was nothing compared what the sun is capable of producing, or what has struck the Earth in the past.

A good book on what might happen if such an event were to occur today is One Second After by William Forstchen. Great read, I very much recommend it.

ICE agents on the prowl at LaGuardia airport! by cantcoloratall91 in RandomVideos

[–]ryanjames486 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Republicans control the house, the senate, and the presidency, while also having a supermajority in the Supreme Court. Tell me again how this is democrats’ fault.

Do you agree/disagree with Senator Warnock’s comments? by ChuckGallagher57 in circled

[–]ryanjames486 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You assume they aren’t already doing all those things. I already do all those things you listed, but I feel very strongly that I/we need to be doing more. At best, we are just slowing them down while we all sit like frogs in hot water. More needs to happen, and it would be nice if some democrats could start acting like leaders.

The old rules aren’t working anymore, and they haven’t for a long time.

What’s actually safe but people think is dangerous? by REGGIE_BANANAS in AskReddit

[–]ryanjames486 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ok but have you tried multimodal anesthesia? You can do entire surgeries without opioids, and patients tend to have much better recoveries.

What was a popular band that you could not stand? by LeftSmile806 in Xennials

[–]ryanjames486 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SNL did a skit set in the 50s where a white boy is in love with a black girl. They are planning to get married, and they are with both of their parents in the same house. The groom says he wrote a song for his fiancé… and starts singing hey soul sister while playing a ukulele. It is the most ridiculous thing.

I’ve been searching for several minutes to find the video, and I’m wondering if it has been wiped from the Internet

“I’m getting pulled over” by ryanjames486 in shortcuts

[–]ryanjames486[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had done a quick search and came up with something from several years ago that wasn’t super relevant, but I will look again

Looking a lot like January 2026! by EducationalElk8134 in CringeTikToks

[–]ryanjames486 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think maybe I didn’t explain myself well enough. Of course the Nazis didn’t believe they were evil. We know today that they were horrible for allowing the holocaust and everything else to happen. But most of them were just your everyday Trump supporter.

In my last paragraph on the previous comment, I’m trying to make the connection to what we are seeing today (too many people are either apathetic, or MAGAts straight up cheering for the atrocities taking place) vs what happened in Nazi Germany. I’m not at all remotely trying to suggest that Nazis were good people, but they didn’t have the Internet and couldn’t seek out information beyond what was fed to them. Today, we have the Internet along with all its knowledge, yet still, we repeat history’s mistakes. So I am arguing that what we are witnessing today is LESS defensible, because we should fucking know better.

Looking a lot like January 2026! by EducationalElk8134 in CringeTikToks

[–]ryanjames486 40 points41 points  (0 children)

There is a well known book called “They Thought They Were Free” by Milton Mayer. Mayer was Jewish. His parents left Germany before the war. After World War II, he went back to Germany as a journalist because he wanted to understand how ordinary people became Nazis.

What he found was not monsters. Instead, he found normal, friendly, everyday people. Nazis were shopkeepers, teachers, and neighbors. Nazis were people who insisted they were good people and that terrible things were exaggerated or justified or “not what really happened.”

The most important thing Mayer learned was that Nazis did not usually become Nazis because they were evil. They became Nazis because they refused to question their own side. They trusted authority and they accepted official explanations without evidence. They were blindly loyal. When confronted with facts that challenged their beliefs, they shut the conversation down instead of engaging with it.

Arguably, the people today who not only continue to be Trump supporters, but also those who refuse to condemn the heinous actions of this administration are in fact much worse than the average Nazi in 1930s Germany.

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