DauntingFlamingo

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[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is wildly inaccurate and you know it. There are like 6.5 million articles on Wikipedia and the majority (since people are pedantic, we'll say 50.1%) are well cited and accurate

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kia and Hyundai are the most stolen cars in North America due to missing basic security measures like steering wheel locks and the ability to spoof the key fob with a cell phone. You could also take a Hyundai or Kia that is near it's fob and just drive off in it. There was no proximity shut off until a recent OTA update, and it didn't work on every model

They're cheap in NA and they're likely to stay that way until they add proper security measures. In response, both State Farm and Allstate have raised insurance rates on Hyundai and Kia made after 2015. They're cheaper because they cut corners, and the end customer foots the bill on the insurance side

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Yeesh you really don't know how to keep to a side. Thanks for the props, thanks for saying what I already said, thanks for rehashing what you already said, and thanks for not understanding the point and drawing this out. This whole exchange is unnecessary and has been a waste of my time

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The oldest Mayan ruins are from 1000-800BC That's what..~3000 years? Not bad.. Will this glass be as resistant to the elements as carved rocks?

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

That was a lot of words to say what you already said, and I corrected. He didn't lose by a small margin, he lost by electoral votes. Saying he only won or lost by a few thousand votes is wildly inaccurate when it is electoral votes that matter

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Those numbers do matter for clarity. Saying he didn't lose by millions blurs the truth. Saying he lost by a few thousand votes is not at all accurate when electoral college votes are the only ones that matter, and adding "in a few swing states," only fuels those stop the steal Maga idiots

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

That's what an incumbency is

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

While I agree with the sentiment, Trump did lose by millions of votes. There was a 7.61 million vote differential. He also lost the popular vote to Hillary by 2.9 million votes.

Biden won 81,283,098 votes, or 51.3 percent of the votes cast. He is the first U.S. presidential candidate to have won more than 80 million votes. Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than any other losing presidential candidate in US history.

Going back further, incumbency aside, there hasn't been a Republican who has won the popular vote since GHW Bush in 1988..35 years ago

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait how do you download stuff without torrenting?

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not that I support their ideology at all, but the Nazis gave the world some really cool shit. Jets, rockets and the ballistic missile, the modern highway system/overpasses, and advancement in nuclear fission. Just goes to show how much war seems to advance our technology tree.

Also..Fuck Nazis

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not even kind of close. Legal gun owners can be responsible and law abiding citizens, but you know the ones everyone hears about are not that kind of person. Why don't the good and wholesome law abiding gun owners root these people out? Is it because a significant segment of that population shouldn't own guns, even if they say THEY aren't the problem?

To put it simply.. If you had a Gatling gun on your vehicle, would you have used it by now? Most of us would admittedly say yes. Most of us, given unfettered access and anonymity, would have at least thought about doing something really stupid and illegal if everyone had Gatling guns mounted on their vehicles.

Most of us would have killed someone if the likelihood of being caught was minimal.. Which is why unfettered and semi anonymous access to firearms is an awful idea

[–] DauntingFlamingo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You still need science to make the war machine go brrrrrrrrrr or someone else will out-war you. I don't support wat but it does seem that some of humanity's biggest tech breakthroughs have been dude effects of wanting to blow each other up better than the other guys

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