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- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 6 days ago:
I block people who are dishonest or abrasive. I’m here for entertainment, not for any higher purpose. I’m not obligating to give those people any attention and I have nothing to gain by it.
- Comment on If someone from a rich family chooses not to date a poor or middle-class people thats not "wrong" 1 week ago:
What made you decide to share your lightning bolt of inspiration with us?
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 1 week ago:
It’s often good to have a conversation on the topic as well as the basic info.
- Comment on It would have been really funny if a video game ejected the disk if you lost too many times 1 week ago:
I don’t need that kind of disrespect from software.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 1 week ago:
Sure, why not.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 1 week ago:
Because you’re pointing out that the thing which was never intended to be internally consistent… isn’t internally consistent.
- Comment on In order for superman to keep his cover as Clark Kent countless innocents he had the power to save have to die every day. 1 week ago:
Maybe you shouldn’t apply real-world logic to superhero stories.
- Comment on "fridging" is honestly the only good motivation to become a superhero or good person 1 week ago:
An uncle, a child, a best friend, a parent, a teammate getting killed is not tragic
That’s a unique take, to say the least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Either way, you’ve changed how I feel about eating gingerbread men.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 3 weeks ago:
Well, most asteroids are agglomerations - loose rock and dust held together by gravity. Unless the aliens are supporting every part of it, on the inside as well, it’s going to rain gravel on New York. If it’s solid enough and low enough, maybe it would be worth mining?
Gravity would be slightly weaker under it, because of its own gravity, but I think the difference would be small enough that you’d need measuring equipment to see it. No moon hopping.
Weather would be different. I think there’d be more rain on the windward side, because some water-laden air would have to drop its load in order to rise over it. You’d get wind vortices on the other side of it.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 3 weeks ago:
Make him write in pen?
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 3 weeks ago:
Be the rapture you want to see in theno. Don’t do that. - Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 3 weeks ago:
Let’s suppose some fun-loving aliens lower that rock slow enough that touchdown isn’t some cataclysmic event. We now have an asteroid 60 Km across at its widest point sitting on the Earth’s surface. That surface will immediately start to experience the pressure you’d find 60 Km deep in the Earth. There are places on Earth where the solid crust extends lower than that, there are others where that’s inside the mantle.
The weight might crush the crustal plate into the mantle, in which case the effect will be very much like a supervolcano going off. Smoke, toxic gas, exploding rocks tossed hundreds of kilometres. It’ll last decades or possibly centuries. Chances are, you’ve enjoyed your last hot fudge sundae.
But maybe the crust is strong enough to support the weight - until a few hours pass and it starts to melt from pressure and heat. As it melts it compresses, sending stress through neighbouring seismic fault lines and causing earthquakes, regular-size volcanic eruptions and tsunamis across a vast area. It may not be enough to destroy the environment, but it’ll be serious enough make everyone forget about global warming as an issue.
- Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind 3 weeks ago:
religious zealots will start to think they weren’t good enough
Self-doubt requires a capacity for self-reflection, though. None of the zealots I know have it, even to a small degree.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
No. We do hasty, vague and passive-aggressive communication.
- Comment on Did this happen in any of the Addams Family Live action movies? 3 weeks ago:
I remember a scene like that where they were waiting for baby Pubert to wake up, but not Fester.
“He has my father’s eyes.”
“Gomez, take those out of his mouth.”
- Comment on Jesus was Jewish, but Christians aren't 3 weeks ago:
The romans, technically.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a good argument against the intelligent design theory, isn’t it?
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
Those symptoms you’ve described? It’s your immune system doing that to you. On purpose, not a mistake. Nose is stuffed because you’re producing extra mucous to flush infection out of your airways. Dry throat because the tissues are inflamed to directly kill viruses using the body’s transport system. Yeah, it’s bad for you - but it’s worse for the little invaders.
- Comment on If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk" 4 weeks ago:
You could, but if you were a good person, you wouldn’t.
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, you could do the same thing the next life and have no memories of it. Think of all the bad things that happened to you, it can happen OVER AND OVER AGAIN! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe. But I’d also get to watch Firefly again for the first time.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a disturbing thing to read.
- Comment on Many of the younger generations of folks don't know what it's like to watch TV series out of order by virtue of channel surfing on live TV and grabbing random episodes here and there 5 weeks ago:
Well, neither do I. When I was growing up the country only had two channels. The dull BBC-content-that-enriches-minds channel and the everything else channel.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I really can’t see any benefits to the kid in saddling him with a name like that.
- Comment on Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering? 5 weeks ago:
You don’t have to feel bad for people who’ve wronged you. I’d say your only obligation is to uphold your values so you won’t regret your behaviour later on.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Tell 'em guns are loud and obvious, so you’re getting a length of piano wire and two wooden pegs.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 months ago:
Does anyone actually believe that suffering gives life meaning? I’m sceptical.
- Comment on There's now more people that complain about AI then there is AI content on Lemmy 2 months ago:
So it’s working. Good.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 2 months ago:
Only when I’m out on the moors with the gents, hunting our servants for sport. Gad, there’s one now!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If he was playing a character on TV, then sure. If he’s playing a character in real life, where everything he says and does have consequences for other people, no. He has to take responsibility for his character’s actions.