Hades fans furiously hammering out replies on their keyboards rn

Oh true!

They’re the coefficients of a quadratic equation! Y = ax^2 + bx + c

Things I never said:

-The Philly PD are the good guys. -Burning the apartment blocks was just an oopsie.

The buildings that burned down were already evacuated. Nobody not in the MOVE compound died. I am not a lawyer either but I do not think attempting to forcibly evict someone would be considered malice. It is generally a legal thing for police to do if they have a warrant.

As usual I am frustrated by the lack of nuance on Lemmy. If you are not calling for the deaths of police officers you are a bootlicking fascist.

They dropped, in total, 3 pounds of bombs on a roof. Nobody was harmed by the explosions.

I literally said I am not defending the police department. People should absolutely have gone to jail for this, but explain to me how it’s murder for a police officer to shoot and kill someone who shot at them first, while legally trying to serve a warrant.

They dropped two 1.5 pound bombs, which did not hurt anyone directly. The plan was to set the building on fire and flush people out, which was a bad idea, but they didn’t just level the building with explosives or something.

Zero nuance as usual… just because I don’t think something was murder doesn’t mean I am defending them or their actions.

I am not defending the Philadelphia PDs actions here, which were clearly inappropriate, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say they “murdered” 11 people. If the PD kills someone while trying to serve an arrest warrant after being shot at, that is pretty clearly a lawful homicide and not murder. The death of the children could certainly be considered manslaughter but I don’t think it meets the standard for murder either since there was, arguably, no intention to kill them.

It’s just annoying. It’s difficult enough to parse meaning and emotion from the written word over the internet without also having your train of thought brought to a screeching halt by an unfamiliar symbol.

GOTTEM

sharpens machete eagerly

I really like killing invasive plants. I think that’s probably my most niche passion. Like when I have some free time I’ll just go into the woods behind my house and cut down wisteria, ivy, Chinese holly… I just find it extremely satisfying idk. I love the idea that I’m clearing out space for native plants (and in turn native animals) to grow.

Just firefox mobile on Android idk. I kept clicking accept and it would keep popping back up.

FYI- I tried to follow that donate link but the web page doesn’t load correctly on FF mobile. It looks like it tries to load in desktop mode, and I couldn’t get past the acknowledge 18+ popup.

The paradox of tolerance is just one philosophy on free speech (well really, an argument against it). Personally I think it is too easy to abuse to be a useful guide. EVERYONE thinks they are tolerant and EVERYONE thinks their political opposition isn’t, so if everyone subscribes to the idea of the paradox of tolerance you end up with the people with power always trying to suppress the opposition. For example conservatives literally refer to the left as “the intolerant left”.

Good thing we’re all tolerant, and all of our political opposition isnt! We really dodged a bullet there…

Roundup is a weed killer (and carcinogen). The dispenser just happens to look like a deodorant dispenser.

Common misconception, Roundup is only approved for external use as a sunscreen, insect repellent and deodorant.

That’s cool, but I’m sure it broke the relationship between ip addresses. Like it would be hard to tell if 1 IP was 1 higher or lower than another/ in the same /28 subnet, etc