Dieterlan
@Dieterlan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion 6 months ago:
I’ve been thinking it’s just a rebranding of the idea of karma, which is old as dirt. “The Law of Attraction” is just the way I’ve seen it discussed online in its most recent manifestation (pun intended)
- Comment on Law of Attraction is just a modern-day religion 6 months ago:
To all the people downvoting: “Law of Attraction” is not a lay person’s way of saying “Law of Gravity”.
It’s the belief online that “if I give off good vibes, good vibes will be attracted back to me. You know, because everything is, like, made up of vibrating strings, and stuff” (that last bit is just the connection to String theory OP mentioned)
OP is not endorsing these beliefs, just observing them.
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 6 months ago:
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, for mining, by doing what the meme says (I don’t know what “fossilized algae” refers to, but it makes the nitro not go boom, when it really wants to boom). After seeing what it was eventually used for (bombs. Lots and lots of bombs) he regretted ever making it. He set up the Nobel Peace Prize as a result, to try and even the scales a bit, so to speak
- Comment on good morning 8 months ago:
Maybe they mean L2, the Lagrange point on the far side of the earth from the sun? It’ll never see any days, new or otherwise.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
We’d probably end up with a situation where wild deer don’t have the gene and city deer do, excepting any cross-breeding.
- Comment on The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump apparently wants to go 3 for 3. 9 months ago:
Ah, missed that. Yeah, I see where you’re coming from.
- Comment on The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump apparently wants to go 3 for 3. 9 months ago:
I feel a little bad for such a short response, but fair enough. Good points all around.
- Comment on The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump apparently wants to go 3 for 3. 9 months ago:
Sorry, American here. Did WW3 start and I missed it? Is it Ukraine/Russia? Israel/Palestine? Horrible though they are, they seem pretty contained this far, unless something new happened I haven’t seen anything about.
- Comment on The word Unicorn is uni-corn, as in one corn(horn). That means we could also use bicorn, tricorn, etc. 10 months ago:
Napoleon wears a bicorn hat. Pirates wear tricorns. Dunces wear unicorns.
- Comment on Mass murder requires forethought 11 months ago:
I think you’re right, but also I think OP was more thinking mass shooters, or maybe serial killers.
- Comment on Humanities be like 11 months ago:
That’s why it’s in the Evil row
- Comment on "Belief in Science" Oxymoronic Explainer for SecOps/Mathematicians/Programmers 11 months ago:
In Unix shell scripts 1 is false, so there’s that
- Comment on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are no longer the same 11 months ago:
That’s Bebop, my dude, not Donotello :P
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Update: Just tried with my Nintendo Switch Pro controller. It works, so the support is there, but it was a little janky. Button mapping didn’t show the button names, just “?”, but an Xbox or Playstation controller may work better. Movement was also janky, but that’s probably because I was using Bluetooth.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No idea. I’ve never used a controller on mobile for anything, sorry :(
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Honestly, I’ve been enjoying playing Dead Cells. I’ll probably also play Hades when it gets here.
- Comment on A photo of two guys who ran for political office. Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) ran for the Green Party. Scary resemblance. 1 year ago:
What weird is that my first thought was “Huh, they do kinda look similar”, and my second was “Huh, every individual part of their faces looks pretty different”
- Comment on Since the invention of the printing press and mass-produced books in the 15th century, silent letters/syllables in written texts have unnecessarily hastened deforestation 1 year ago:
Is this loss? /s
- Comment on Political Compass Fetishes 1 year ago:
Congratulations, you’re a cherrypicking centrist my dude
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X removes New York Times’ verification badge 1 year ago:
Did they change their profile picture? That was the cause the last time I saw an article like this
- Comment on Love at first sight 1 year ago:
Honestly, I had the same reaction, but apparently not?
- Comment on Nothing to see here, right? 1 year ago:
Dang, that’s hilarious. Thanks for sharing, I needed that this morning
- Comment on Nothing to see here, right? 1 year ago:
I don’t get it?
- Comment on Loyalty should never demand a reward. 1 year ago:
Not looking to debate about the situation. Just trying to explain the connection between your post and golf
- Comment on Loyalty should never demand a reward. 1 year ago:
I think is referring to how a certain golf entity (league, tournament, company, I don’t remember exactly) asked golfers associated with them to not also play in a certain Saudi Arabia sponsored league, for which they would have been pretty well paid. Their reasoning was that their golfers should be “loyal” to who they were playing for, and their golfers agreed. This year that league decided “You know what we should do? We should partner with that Saudi Arabia league, and get paid handsomely for it”. Their golfers have rightly pointed out the hypocrisy.