captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 8 hours ago:
Yeah I’d love to discuss just the world and life with him.
Curie would be fun too.
Keep Newton away from me. And wasn’t hawking on the epstein island?
- Comment on Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: "Make it exciting an show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus" 1 day ago:
How long before game shows at concentration camps are the new normal?
- Comment on Don't be a sucker (1947) - American educational film about how Nazis got to power 1 day ago:
It’s a known flaw in the national identity. Unfortunately it’s like herpes, you think you got it under control this time until things get too stressful and you start breaking out again.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 1 day ago:
Because healthcare would help you
- Comment on number box o number box 1 day ago:
A number is just a type of vector
- Comment on do what you love 1 day ago:
That could also create a networking situation for even poor ones.
- Comment on monthly challenge 3 days ago:
It should be <500 or what they said. What they said is mathematically better but grammatically wonky, whereas what you said is 500 is less than steps per day.
Big number > small number < big number
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Only the most chaste men among them.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I get what you’re saying, but remember they’re still fighting. Feminist protests break out every few years there.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
It’s why iran has so many educated women and is weirdly technologically powerful for a theocratic regime. Iran in the 70s was modern. Inshallah the people of iran will be freed from the tyranny of theocracy.
But yeah, iran is what should scare you the most because their collapse was fast and unexpected.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 days ago:
Bragging rights
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 days ago:
I didn’t watch the movie, but I can’t imagine an American movie getting away with what the comic did. Yeah, one of the major themes of the comic is the fucked up sexuality displayed by the fascists and the leader gets off on the concentration camps.
Really good comic, but it’s definitely a lot. Moore did a really good job of depicting the fascists as pathetic but dangerous. Though fair warning, if Moore could think of a slur a brit might possibly use it’s in that comic.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
It was a warning against authoritarians. 1984 was inspired by his time conscripted into the propaganda service during world war 2 and his negative experiences with the soviets fighting alongside them in Spain. It was a warning against both fascists and authoritarian communists
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
Honestly, the us is going full vendetta too. Our president is really reminiscent of Adam Susan
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
Well both books were written to describe what british authoritarianism would look like.
Tap for spoiler
How long before we have a leak of the PM masturbating to state violence? Ugh V for Vandetta was so sexual in such an intentionally uncomfortable way
- Comment on advertisement 4 days ago:
Get checked. Celiac is very dangerous if not accommodated for
- Comment on advertisement 4 days ago:
Years and years is an edge case. Within a year or so you’ll notice the changes. Changes I’ve personally experienced include cutting out sugar and substitutes and completely losing my sweet tooth within a few months, and quitting meat and after about a year I could tell whenever I accidentally eat it from the gastrointestinal discomfort.
The thing is you gotta commit to it.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 5 days ago:
Honestly, taking a class in high school on videography was really good for me, and it and drama would be good outlets for these kids. Video editing can be fun and learning how to translate camera work and physical things into what you want to see on screen is fun and creatively satisfying. And as someone who regrets not doing drama in school, I think a lot of them could use the outlet and discipline that come from doing theatrical productions and public speaking.
Hell, if I was a high school teacher I’d possibly even consider doing something as socially irresponsible as teaching a class on podcasting that involves doing research, writing a script, performing/recording it, and doing audio editing to tidy it up and synch two or three voices. Might kill a lot of enthusiasm and also make some kid realize they actually find vocal performance or av or research satisfying.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 5 days ago:
Listen influenza doesn’t need TikTok or insta, though I’m sure they help it spread by reducing vaccination rates
But yeah, kids don’t see that those influencers probably put in a ton of time and a fair bit of money to fake success for a small shot at making it. And that making it isn’t nearly as lucrative as they portray themselves.
And like, I think this is something a lot of parents weren’t prepared to teach their kids. But these jobs are the modern version of being a rockstar, but like with a lot less room at the “filthy rich” part and with less healthy skills than getting really into making music (also without the music tutoring or wedding musician fallbacks). Like, these kids aren’t trying en masse to be high research video essayists like Hbomberguy. But much like with trying to be a rockstar, most will not study while they treat it as a serious hobby thinking that that’ll get them somewhere.
- Comment on Teens as young as 12 see OnlyFans as an appealing alternative to traditional work, study finds 5 days ago:
Sex work is work, but Jesus fuck is it work. I once looked into quitting engineering school to be a dominatrix and while the expected median annual pay was shockingly close at the time, the low ends and the hourly pay for labor done (as opposed to billable hours) made me go back to studying at 4am as I sobbed over what useless fucks I’d been stuck doing a project with.
I think a lot of people have this idea that camming is easy, especially kids who see performance work as just the time on stage. Its why they see youtuber as a great job too. These content creation jobs are mostly high effort sales, where what you’re selling is performances you had to write, perform, and film at a sufficiently professional level as well as doing all the legwork and back of stage work until you can afford to hire someone to do it. Oh and don’t fuck up your taxes, if you manage to actually make money you’re a small business owner. And if the content is sexual you get to have done all that for your job to be understood by most people to be a porn performer. Well, your night job, it’s highly unlikely that you’re making enough for the government to even notice you fucked up your taxes, much less enough to actually live off of
- Comment on 5 days ago:
That’ll just install arch and delete windows
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 5 days ago:
Neither did Washington
- Comment on State names of the US if there were no letters "A" "M" "E" "R" "I" "C" "A" 5 days ago:
Some of these are great, some are terrible, but mostly Zon feels like it should be the state above it
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
Bah, it’s only a mandatory 1439 minutes a day
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 6 days ago:
Yeah, my prescription is + and gas station reading glasses are wearable magnifying glasses, not sufficient for “I need vision correction all day” hyperopia.
I think myopic people sometimes assume all hyperopia is presbyopia. For many farsighted people though, its literally just the inverse of nearsightedness. Like, without my glasses my instinct is to hold something at arms reach to try to read it
- Comment on How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription? 6 days ago:
Because reading glasses are very weak and are meant to account for age related vision loss which is typically mild but degenerative.
As someone with eye shape hyperopia (just the inverse of myopia), I’ve never had a prescription weak enough to get otc glasses. Hell, many of us need special lens materials to prevent distortions (and unfortunately prescription safety glasses don’t have those options and so I get fish eye from them).
Reading glasses are super useful though for when I’m wearing contacts and need to do something small and precise.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 6 days ago:
Wait, there are people who get migraines without the headache‽ I just get the agonizing ocular pressure and occasionally nausea
- Comment on Meta faces backlash over AI policy that lets bots have ‘sensual’ conversations with children 1 week ago:
It tracks with what I’ve been reading in Careless People
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 1 week ago:
I was under the impression that the UK didn’t have a choice in that one
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Yeah my mom was an old school namco head and we’d play together when I was a kid