captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 27 minutes ago:
Oh, then these misogynists need to watch their words and actions lest they lose even more. Eunuchs can’t forcibly impregnate anyone.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 8 hours ago:
Oh I suppose they don’t need our money
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 15 hours ago:
Im sure he could. Plenty of prostitutes all over. It’s just in his country he can understand what she’s saying to her friends about him
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Thanks! The trick is to understand the emotions they aim for and the baseline rhetorical tricks.
Conspiracies stem from knowing you’re getting fucked, but that most people are good. It’s an attempt to find explanations when the world feels wrong. Someone did it. You just have to sell the truth in the tone that they’re used to hearing. Especially with vaccines where the truth does sound like a free lunch, until you realize that it’s governments and insurers paying for vaccines and it saves them and the economy money by you not getting sick or needing stronger medicines. These are the two groups that desperately want you to exercise, eat right, and quit smoking
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
Reflective solar is normal at least. But photovoltaics are weird. Even weirder is that they’re LEDs backwards, and the fact that transistors just are like that is why they’re encased in black plastic
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
The vaccine one would probably be better as: “independent thinking researchers developed a means of using your own body’s immune response to prevent diseases with a mere injection. Some of them even refused to patent it. But then the media started lying to you about them, trying to get you to stop accepting these miracles? Why, just so some companies could make more money selling you proprietary snake oil to keep you comfortable while you’re sick.”
- Comment on the lifestyle 2 days ago:
It’s a beautiful graph. And the stats are great. But I’m in industry so I use excel
- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 3 days ago:
That was the era of more horrifying and particularly bad science. The 50s though, that’s the era that brought rules like “you have to provide an honest explanation of what you’re testing to human test subjects” and no they didn’t just think it up as a good rule to have out of the blue.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
In the future nobody reads “the design of everyday things” apparently
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
It hurts seeing a meme that was fun a decade ago get run into the ground by being used so aggressively and so long and so fucking uncoolly.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Also safety features should be accessible to those panicking. It’s why heavy machinery emergency stops tend to be big red buttons/switches
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 5 days ago:
Yeah. I think that’s one of the points of the anti porn people that I don’t necessarily disagree with the point they’re making I just think they’re overly focused on the thing they see as sinful and ignoring that a) there’s porn where the bodies look real, b) porn isn’t the only culprit here, movies, tv, social media, advertisements, etc all depict similarly unrealistic depictions of bodies and it’s in that landscape where a vast majority of entertainment contains such unrealistic depictions that this is able to happen, and c) that’s still not a sufficient argument to ban a form of expression, if it was there’d be a lot more in need of banning see point b
I think point b is really the crux here. It doesn’t matter whether your unrealistic depiction of sexual partners is movie stars, porn stars, anime, or what sitcoms depict the average family as; if you aren’t engaging in real life with real people you’re going to get unrealistic expectations.
And I don’t really have a solution that doesn’t involve pressuring people to touch grass. Like that’s clearly what they need, but especially for incels they’re going to be rejected by communities when they try because they’re behaving terribly and sometimes hurting people in the process.
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 6 days ago:
Sour grapes plus that thing where people who don’t eat fruit for a long time but eat artificial fruit flavoring think real fruit tastes gross. Reality with all its imperfections and subtlety is unappetizing to them, they only desire the artificial which is familiar to them.
- Comment on Jewel Beetles 6 days ago:
Yeah it’s an incel thing
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 week ago:
Not as much as their republic
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 week ago:
Yeah the similarities make sense when you look at sponges and sea lilies and the like, but the difference between a mushroom and a mammal is incredibly vast
- Comment on The Vatican randomly dropped their new anime mascot and it is polarizing the internet 2 weeks ago:
Yeah what next? Sam and Lily?
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 2 weeks ago:
Yeah they were an empire run like and by meth addicts. Terrifying to face, shockingly clever, and headed directly to destruction with the only question being whether they or someone else landed the killing blow on them.
These were not hyper competent tacticians, it was a society that hyped itself into a blood frenzy, convinced of their own superiority and that they’ll be destroyed if they don’t destroy everyone else first. That’s a terrifying threat, but so’s a meth addict with a knife and paranoid delusions.
They were hemorrhaging competence through their Nazi bullshit. Yeah they had some people like von Braun, but they lost people like Einstein (and special shout-out to Fermi who defected from Italy because his wife was Jewish). Additionally their behavior in held territory actively fostered partisan resistance and encouraged fighting to the death.
And that’s ignoring the fact that they broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact while at war with France and England and at war in Africa and while leaving Italy to defend itself. The Soviets were a force unto themselves having been the only army to trounce Russia in centuries.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
Honest flirtatious answer: I’d say nice dress and match the energy and vibe of her response.
Not flirtatious answer: ”it always feels weird how you can notice the acceleration in tall elevators”
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, 1 and i should be the same size. It’s 1 in the real dimension and 1 in the imaginary dimension creating a 0 but anywhere you see this outside pure math it’s probably a sinusoid
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 2 weeks ago:
It’s just dimensionally shifted. This is not only true, its truth is practical for electrical engineering purposes. Real and imaginary cartesians yay!
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Nah more like the dive bar down the street from the brothel that’s open at 6am
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
I hate their refusal to use standardized symbols
- Comment on Max Planck 2 weeks ago:
Because to the limits of our ability to observe physics hits a point at which it becomes more discrete than continuous. Which is really convenient mathematically and really inconvenient philosophically. Personally though, I’m an engineer, I was taught not to worry about anything that makes the math a bit easier or about implications
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 weeks ago:
Not really. You have to be the sort of person who understands that investment works and not how it works or why it works and most importantly why you aren’t going to hit the jackpot on it even though some people do. They’re the standard marks for an investment con. So yeah they’re stupid and self selected, but the mechanism of action is important because it shows us how to help people avoid falling for it not just letting us feel superior to those who do.
- Comment on What's the point of a long-distance friendship? 2 weeks ago:
My best friends are on the other side of the country. We met playing d&d over voice chat over the pandemic but got along so well we had to start having extra calls to just chat or else we wouldn’t be able to get around to playing.
At this point I’ve seen them in person more often than my local pathfinder group with whom I also play over voice chat.
But yeah I agree in general about text only friends
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
Also you need to provide evidence it’s better than training. I imagine there would be a ton of engineering labor involved in making programs to make it work and that’s not cheap
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
Industrial engineer here, it depends on the factory work. The positions described in the article involve stuff I wouldn’t be ok with my workers doing. But also yeah OSHA is weak but sometimes ergonomics are bad enough to get them involved. It’s an important thing that my generation of engineers were taught to take seriously.
Also AR headsets are very much something we want to implement more in factory settings but the Vision Pro isn’t safe for that. Too heavy and no visual pass through when unpowered. Additionally there are some hygiene issues with wearable tech that have become known concerns when it’s used in industrial environments.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 weeks ago:
Ok but neither of you should be experiencing workplace injuries. If wireless is unacceptable sterilized wired headsets should be accessible. I don’t want doctors getting CTE
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 3 weeks ago:
Also if that’s the case they shouldn’t be able to automatically renew at the end of a contract