Bang bang Vatican’s gilded hammer came down on his head
do do dooo do
Bang bang Vatican’s gilded hammer made sure that he was dead
whoa-o whoa-o whoa-o whoa-o

This joke was inspired by me stealing it from somebody else on the internet. We’re a bunch of Fun Lovin’ Criminals here.

(I know they’re from the 90’s, but I couldn’t help myself.)

I heard it’s an avian virus, being spread by a Flock of Seagulls making a Journey across Asia.

Remember that interviews go both ways. You are trying to see if this company is a place you want to spend half your waking hours. Ask the interviewer where they see themselves in 5 years. Watch their reaction closely. Do they sigh, or hesitate? You might get a telling bit of honesty out of them.

With the mic unmuted.

I always know I’m on Lemmy past my bedtime when I start seeing Dutch posts in the All feed.

Getting an accurate tally of the total number of privately owned guns is hard, but by any measure it’s ridiculously high.

As of 2017, American civilians own 46% (approximately 393.3 million) of the world’s 857 million civilian-use firearms.
https://ammo.com/articles/gun-ownership-by-state

Yes, the more rural and conservative states have more guns per capita. But even little New Jersey, with “only” 1.1 guns per 1,000 residents, has over 102k guns in the state. Nobody in the US is lacking for access to firearms.

Both are hosted in Europe.

The 1st Amendment hasn’t stopped the current administration from deporting hundreds of legal residents for simply voicing their political opinions. Constitutional rights aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

And did you see today’s news? We’re arresting judges now.

Don’t give them ideas.

Careful, that’s how that one evil boyfriend in Scott Pilgrim died.

https://youtu.be/EZ8O6cIk7kY

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I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.

Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.

https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple

You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.

—Eminem

The ending was fire. 🔥

Relevant quote from St. Basil:

"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone. And are not you covetous, are you not a defrauder, when you keep for private use what you were given for distribution? When some one strips a man of his clothes we call him a thief. And one who might clothe the naked and does not—should not he be given the same name?

The bread in your hoard belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked; the shoes you let rot belong to the barefoot; the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute. All you might help and do not—to all these you are doing wrong"

it’s the first I’ve heard of maybe a US citizen being deported.

It’s been happening for years. From the Washington Post:

The U.S. government does not release data on how often ICE wrongfully detains or deports U.S. citizens. But investigations by media outlets, research institutes and oversight agencies have revealed that ICE has arrested, detained, deported and issued detainers — requests to local jails to hold a person in custody — for thousands of citizens since the agency was created in 2003. One 2011 study estimated that roughly 1 to 1.5 percent of deportees are U.S. citizens.

https://archive.is/20250411190043/https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/05/us-citizens-deported-immigration/