Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 1 day ago:
I must be, because no matter how many times I read your last paragraph, no matter the charity I afford, I can’t comprehend and alternative interpretation of your last paragraph. Iran is “FORCED” to sell munitions to Russia. The if clause sets the precondition of that as being the sanctions imposed on them.
If you didn’t intend to imply they don’t have a choice (forced) or that the precondition isn’t the sanctions imposed by the USA, you could absolutely take another shot at formulating your thoughts.
I’d say I’d be happy to read them, but based on the aggressiveness of your reply I really am not anticipating I will.
- Comment on meat honey 1 day ago:
What do bees need pollen for? I thought bees just got bukkaked as an co-evolutionary repayment for the nectar they’re jacking?
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 2 days ago:
Ah, so by your measure Iran providing an eye watering amount of munitions to Russia to attack Ukraine is ultimately the fault of the USA?
- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 2 days ago:
Why exactly does Ukraine have so much experience shooting down Shahed drones?
Iran has been producing the munitions that have been raining on them for 4 years.
I’m going to be real with you, I see no difference between the USA sending Israel munitions to fire on Gaza and Iran sending them to Russia to fire at Ukraine. Either you need to tell me with a straight face that the USA respects Palestinian sovereignty or you need to accept that Iran doesn’t respect the sovereignty of Ukraine.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 1 week ago:
After overshooting and dinging the meat cooler, popping my 3 year old out of the cart and me squatting down to have a heart-to-heart:
“Look, buddy, I’m not blaming you. You’re still learning. We learn every day.
But the navigator is a crucial role here. I need you to to call out the distance and sharpness of the turns so that I as the driver can execute the maneuvers”
Him, nodding in agreement “Executing the maneuvers”
“That’s right buddy. We’ll work on it. What’s next on the list?”
“Beers for the boys”
“That’s right, buddy.”
- Comment on How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard - Joel Hawksley 1 week ago:
I like the project, but it seems like as soon as buddy got access to real-time e-ink he just never looked back.
As well, I get the UI appeal of negative space, but my god it costs a fortune in e-ink.
As everyone is noting here, this project shows a pattern of “money is no object” in every decision made.
That doesn’t mean it has to be, though. My gut tells me you could slash the cost in half while retaining like 90% of the utility.
- Comment on Thermostats compatible with selfhosted Home Assistant 1 week ago:
I think you can use home kit ones locally… which really broadens your options
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 1 week ago:
Even with those numbers, it’s still frustrating.
You can see in the data that the country dominates attitude. Using only the global averages against the generational buckets isn’t very useful. I want to see the generational breakdown BY COUNTRY.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op 3 weeks ago:
I can do it for Mega Crit. Very few others. Klei I’d do as well.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The difference between now and 18 months ago is that the shape of the dems had already formed. The groups on the different tracks were already tied down.
Who is the 2028 candidate?
There is time now to pressure the dems to pull Palestine off thier leg of the track.
It isn’t the trolly problem… yet.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 month ago:
I had the opportunity to experience a masterclass in how to handle extreme weather events in Saskatchewan.
-Bundle the fuck up -Check on / help your neighbours -If you see someone stuck in thier vehicle help them for God’s sake.
In terms of unstucking a vehicle, the trick is to “rock it” out. Once you even get a little bit of motion, you’re in a better spot. If you are bring pushed, or are pushing, make sure the driver’s window is open for communication. When pushing, still be thinking about the task as rocking out. You push and they apply (a little) gas, till they hit the limit. Let them roll back after, then coordinate another push.
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 months ago:
On the flip side, imo there are some brilliant people with good ideas, and thier persuasiveness is hamstrung because they just can’t stick to a word count that appeals to thier audience.
If you know that your audience has a 6th grade reading level… avoid a long form essay.
“When did neighborhoods become full of strangers?! We gotta get off our phones and get to know each other in our communities. We should be able to borrow a cup of sugar!”
Check it out, you can pitch socialism in a way that’ll amp people up in like 3 simple sentences.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
It’s incredibly one dimensional to say that people wanting to shop in a place where patrons extend basic human decency to one another would be only be popular because people want to … crush the poor.
If your only cognitive tool is a hammer, ever idea is going to sound like a nail.
I feel like you think I’m not understanding your position. I am. I hear it ad nauseum.
I’m challenging you to consider if your approach is so narrow that you can’t even comprehend the premise. “I don’t want to get mashed up by a cart” necessarily translating to “I want to suppress the poor” should be setting off warning alarms that you’re not engaging in the idea or discussion with a full toolset.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
I could get behind you on this if the post was saying that all grocery stores must have that limitation. In the subway example, it’d be like saying that the only labour that exists is being a subway driver. The calculus changes when, like you said, it’s mandatory.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
Oh my god I’m still stewing over that exact same post. It’s been like a week.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
Fine. The person operating the subway train. Should they be drunk? Should they have needed to demonstrate competency in operating a subway?
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
That’s entirely true.
But that’s still a double-edged sword we’re playing with.
If you want to run towards a an “inevitable conclusion” in the one direction (resegregation… undesirable… are you even alluding to genocide?)
I think it’s fair to do the same in the opposite direction too. Is there no lower bound for human interaction and behavior? Is it wrong to set boundaries for how people treat you?
I like how hyper aware people are for things that could be turned into an avenue for bad things. I think that’s actually more than half the battle. Doesn’t always mean you toss the idea outright, you just know that you gotta watch out.
I, for one, am in favor of a minimal demonstrated set of awareness and capacity to operate a motor vehicle. I also am in favor of not letting people drive drunk. Someone might say this will inevitably turn into a tool of racism. And guess what, THEY’D BE RIGHT! But, the solution probably isn’t to ban cars, or to let anyone drive with no rules of the road and drive drunk.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
You’re right. I edited my post to make the words more accurately capture my intention. Thanks for the vibe check. I was out of line.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
If you don’t feel like you need to move your feet when you accidentally drop it (to avoid actually toe smack) , it’s too small.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 2 months ago:
I think this is a disingenuous assessment of the “only” advantage.
The fact that 3.5" floppies were self-sealing to make handling irrelevant (put your greasy fingers on any surface you fucking want) is a painfully obvious advantage.
Maybe consider for more than 0.2 seconds before making such sweeping assertions.
(This isn’t the only extra advantage, I leave that for an exercise to the reader)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I mean, there was that one guy where the mob cut off his entire body
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s an interesting thought, I hadn’t ever considered that it might become this “wandering” point in space based on context. Maybe having a “fixed” conception at all is just a byproduct of mostly relying on eyes and ears which are pretty fixed. If you’re relying on touch, which is available over a much larger and flexible area, your brain maybe just abandons any notion of you existing at a fixed point in your own body.
We gotta find a deaf and blind person.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I haven’t had the chance to ask someone blind from birth (or blind at all), but I strongly suspect you’re right. I’d guess it’d be right between the ears.
In my bizarre life, I was basically blind in one eye for about a year when I was in my mid 20s. There was a perceptible and jarring difference in my perception of self, towards (but not directly to) my good eye. It didn’t happen right away, happened about a week in. This makes me wonder if even someone blind after birth would actually maintain the same sense of center vs someone blind at birth.
Blind and deaf at birth for me is the real head scratcher. Part of wonders if it would be somewhere on thier dominant hand, or maybe closer to thier center of mass?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I could be wrong, but I don’t think awareness that the brain being “where memories are stored” is innate. I think that’s something we are told. If I’m recalling correctly, a surprising amount of what we perceive as cognition is offloaded to other distributed parts of our nervous system, so it’s maybe not even quite as true as we think it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not exactly related, but I think the typical conception of self being centered around the head at all is maybe just because that’s where our eyes and ears are. Curious how deaf and blind people conceptualize the physical location of thier consciousness
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 months ago:
In university my entire dorm floor was in on insisting to my ex that it wasn’t “Big Bird”, but instead “Big Bert” (as opposed to regular sized bert)
It came up for the 100th time at a party, and I was like “go ahead, look it up” and was able to get in an edit JUST before the page load. “Big Bird (Or “Big Burt” for Canadian rebroadcast)”
It lasted for maybe 20 seconds, but it was all we needed.
- Comment on That boy is all right 2 months ago:
I thought it required energy to process wood into charcoal?
- Comment on That boy is all right 2 months ago:
Carbon neutral?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 months ago:
I think we agree in principle.
I think if one conceptualize “deliciousness” as a “property that induces joy” and “not deliciousness” as a “property that induces suffering” as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don’t value “deliciousness”.
If you conceptualize “deliciousness” as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness.
Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values.
I’m considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that’s where the gap is. I think ultimately we’re in agreement.
