LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Those pesky immigrants! 4 days ago:
Ooohhhh Long Donson!
Thanks for your service.
- Comment on Those pesky immigrants! 4 days ago:
This image needs to be all over twitter and truth social. Trump hates images like this. I want him to see dozens of copes of this whilst he shits at 3am. Just flood him with it.
- Comment on my version is better 6 days ago:
‘Carry a laser down the road that I must travel
Carry a laser through the darkness of the night’ - Comment on Might be fun idk 6 days ago:
I’m saying I’d like to watch it if they actually played the game. I enjoy rugby, for instance, and some hockey.
American football just doesn’t have much actual game in it anymore.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 6 days ago:
Is there room for me on that door, Rose?
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
People have been saying that to me for years – often angrily – but honestly, every game I’ve ever seen has been like 5 minutes of game during which a guy touches another guy the wrong way, followed by at least a half hour of back-to-back replays interspersed with a few guys debating every aspect of the way each guy touched another guy, plus at least ten minutes of advertising.
I’m pretty sure even fans wouldn’t disagree with my timing breakdown.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. I forgot about the lawsuit and settlement (for $65m). They’re both frauds.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 weeks ago:
I knew a Karla, but she was from Romania. Fantastic person. I miss her.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 2 weeks ago:
I taught myself programming in the 80s, then worked myself from waitress and line cook to programmer, UXD, and design lead to the point of being in the running for an Apple design award in the 2010s.
But I cared more than anything about making things FOR people. Making like easier. Making people happy. Making software that was a joy to use.
Then I got sick with something that’s neither curable nor easily manageable.
Now I’m destitute and have to choose between money and food, and I’m staring down homelessness.
Fuck these idiots who bought their way into nerd status (like Musk) or had one hot idea that took off and didn’t have to do anything after (this fucking guy). Hundreds or thousands of designers and programmers made these companies, and were tossed out like trash so a couple of people can be rock stars, making more per hour than most of us will see in a lifetime.
Slay the dragons.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been gaming since the late 1970s, and have never considered any sort of cut off date. I just play what interests me (lately that’s been VR games in various genres).
I can’t imagine ever losing interest in new games or platforms, because there’s always a new experience out there and, for me at least, that’s the point. I can’t play everything, obviously, but I can prioritise my time where I think I’ll have the most fun.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 1 month ago:
That’s a really unhealthy colour. You should get that checked.
- Comment on Just trying my best to make you turds smile 1 month ago:
Godammit Kevin.
- Comment on bird flu 1 month ago:
Well then at least have the decency to stay in your home, rather than subject us immunocompromised to another round of dodging a minefield of disease incubators.
- Comment on brains! 2 months ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 2 months ago:
I see several specialists. No solutions so far, unfortunately.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 2 months ago:
Yeah. I move very little now, except for very low-impact PT, because of dysautonomia and autoimmune issues. Something radically changed with my system several years ago, though, so I can’t really eat, yet I don’t lose weight. My body doesn’t tolerate most food now, other than small amounts of rice and meat. I can’t process fruits or vegetables at all.
It’s steadily got worse over the last decade, and yeah, it is slowly killing me, but my doctors haven’t been able to solve it.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 2 months ago:
I always hated sugar, and ate 3 large meals a day. Huge breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks. Never gained at all.
That all changed after my pregnancy at 28. Suddenly I seemed to gain weight through osmosis. I mostly lost interest in food, and only started eating sensible quantities twice a day.
Now I can’t lose weight at all, even with nearly a gallon of water per day and one small cup of food every day or two (to be fair, my body now rejects most food because of an autoimmune disorder), but I can actually gain weight on less than 500 calories a day. It doesn’t make sense by conventional logic, yet here I am. I mostly live on Ensure and Pedialyte, yet I weigh more than I ever have. It’s really weird.
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 2 months ago:
When I was younger, I could eat superhuman amounts of food and not gain an ounce (I was even accused of having anorexia by strangers because I was so thin).
Now, if I even think about one serving of ice cream, I gain ten pounds. Oh shit, I’ve done it. Back to the treadmill, I guess.
- Comment on same as it ever was 2 months ago:
What about caring for the elderly and disabled? We see anthropological evidence of many behaviours that can only be explained by compassion and empathy, some of which would have actually detracted from security.
The notion that the early formation of societies was based on security rather than empathy is outdated. Compassion has clear evolutionary advantages, especially in primate species where offspring are born vulnerable. It’s clearly evident in other primates who live in groups (or ‘societies’), as a driving force of cooperation and cohesion.
Here’s a recent paper (2022) by Penny Spikins, PhD at the University of York, Department of Archaeology, that explores how compassion shaped early human evolution and the formation of societies: The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity.
And here’s another from 2011 by Goetz et al that explores in detail the evolutionary advantages of compassion: Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.
Those papers are both fascinating reads, and I highly recommend them both for a deeper understanding of why and how empathy is crucial to our success as a species.
- Comment on same as it ever was 3 months ago:
Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.
We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.
Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 3 months ago:
Considering evolutionary time scales, this trait may have been a response to something large and dangerous that’s extinct now.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 months ago:
Yeah, that’s what bugs me about this. Dogs deserve for us to treat them better than this. They’ve certainly earned better than this from us.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 3 months ago:
Paying bills is for poor people. Rich people don’t need to do that. How would they stay rich?
- Comment on Dormice 4 months ago:
45 minutes at 350F seems like it will burn these tiny filets to a crisp, but I’ll try. I do love a mayo and garlic sauce.
- Comment on Science Journalism 4 months ago:
I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.
- Comment on Dormice 4 months ago:
It’s so fracking adorable, I could eat it up. Any recipes?
- Comment on Vinegar 4 months ago:
Wait – is this how we prevent our socks committing suicide in the dryer?
Alex Jones screeching
- Comment on Vinegar 4 months ago:
The country with the highest per capita consumption of vinegar in 2018 was the Netherlands, with 3,108 liters per 1,000 people
This checks out. As we all know, the Dutch only inflict depression, they’re never depressed themselves.
- Comment on Science Journalism 4 months ago:
I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute, PLOS One, and the like.
- Comment on Science Journalism 4 months ago:
I’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.