Lucidlethargy
@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 6 hours ago:
American here, you can absolutely drive at least one more hour than that. Idiots.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 17 hours ago:
Google keeps making everything worse.
- Comment on Family Demands US Probe Into Israeli Settlers' 'Lynching' of American Citizen 2 days ago:
I don’t understand how so many fucking people can see what’s going on in Palestine and think “this is fine.”
I spoke to avrelative about this… A devout Christian. She said they deserve it because of Hamas.
Obviously she’s not a very Christ-like Christian, but she’s definitely the common republican Christian we have here in the States.
It’s just… So fucked up. These people are so fucked up, and broken.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can’t believe…
This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I’d ever live through.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 week ago:
I have one of these, and it’s my least favorite controller I’ve ever owned. The touch sticks feel like the touch controls in my car… They leave me wanting real, tactile controls.
- Comment on Perspective 1 week ago:
You can literally see the rail in the top left. It’s at the bottom.
- Comment on Breaking: Netflix has made another minor change for their subscribers. 1 week ago:
Netflix subscribers: “I just like to watch shows.”
Gosh, if only there were another service, or another way to do that. Shucks.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on science 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, that’s an upside-down cigarette.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
What a well earned drop. They keep forcing their bullshit on us, of course we’re interested in other OS’s as a result.
I do use windows for most things, but my servers will never run anything but Linux at this point.
- Comment on I throw hands (grabbing my soup) 4 weeks ago:
That seems, if anything, better than what the instructions dictate.
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 4 weeks ago:
You love seeing your own picture? Uhh… Okay, then.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 4 weeks ago:
Same. What an asanine thing to assert from the article.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 5 weeks ago:
Fire that CEO, he’s an idiot.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 5 weeks ago:
Always have been.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 month ago:
If you use your face to unlock your phone, you kind of deserve this…
- Comment on NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City 1 month ago:
I hope they are destroyed by citizens.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
To be fair, a lot of Americans are very stupid. Living here is extremely frustrating at times…
The larger issue is that many Americans are selfish and cruel, though. That’s why getting sick once can ruin our lives, and why working in this country can often be inhumane and awful.
The pervasive lie here is that everyone makes it if they work hard. Good people believe this, and it’s a big part of what’s destroying us as a country.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
Are you aware of how difficult/impossible it is for many Americans to vote? The GOP has dedicated decades to disenfranchising voters, and rigging elections via gerrymandering.
That’s why this wasn’t even close… He won by a landslide, despite the popular vote being razor-thin. He also won the last election in 2016 despite the popular vote being lost.
My country is severely fucked up at a governmental level.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
We’re trying to convince them, and so far none of them are listening.
Families all over the US and Canada are being torn apart. I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime, and I’m not a young man…
I fear greatly not just for my own country, but for the damage that will be done to the entire world if we can’t stop this.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
Here’s a free English lesson: Retard: To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
As someone who is clinically mentally disabled, I’ve never been offended by this so long as it’s not targeting a human being (being used in the pejorative to describe a neurotically person.) Why does it offend you? I’m genuinely asking.
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
the R word in relation to humans is considered a no no. This isn’t accepted by everyone, though. In fact, I’d argue that it’s really only accepted by “polite society” at this point. This means that even in left-leaning communities like Lemmy, we’re seeing a majority of individuals speak out and very clearly say “This does not offend me.”
I avoid the use of the word typically because I aim to achieve something when I speak. By using a word that’s being actively burned by part of a community, you risk being selectively censored. This said, I think those who might censor others for the use of this word are doing the people they censor a massive disservice. I think a lot of the people practicing this are younger, and they were taken in strongly by the monied campaigns to push this word over the last 20 years. People paid to change their minds, and it worked.
At the end of the day, however, we’re looking at a word that means the exact same thing as a number of other words nobody cares to censor. This makes the entire ordeal nothing more than a mechanism to divide people who would otherwise get along. The world is becoming too small a place to allow for this sort of division, so I oppose this witch hunt. The word should either be tolerated, or we should see a true approach to protect disabled individuals - not this half-assed, virtue-signaling approach being enacted today.
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
LOL, I do think we can both agree that “conservative” is the best approach to belittling someone’s intelligence. It also carries with it a number of other connotations, though (crazy comes to mind.)
As for the “r-word” being “flagged” by “that community”. That’s quite the overreaching statement. There is no single community to speak of here, and there was absolutely never a true consensus on this word by our society as a whole.
The reality is that the “r-word” campaign was a heavily monied thing pushed on billboards, tv ads, and online ads over the last 20 or so years. If you ask me, someone who is literally part of “that community”, I think it was a bunch of Karen’s behind the entire thing.
The word “retard” was clinical when I was growing up. People quite literally referred to mentally challenged individuals as “mentally retarded”, and it was not an insult in any way. There is the core definition to this word, and it has a lot of other scientific and industry-based definitions. The fact it was separated from “mental” and then ostracized as a “bad word” by certain groups of people is downright ludicrous.
You could say “this process has been retarded to the point of complete failure”, and it would (should) have no negative connotation targeting individuals who were born with “deficiencies” in the area of intellect. Instead, it uses the definition of the word: “To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.”
This crusade against this single word in 2025 is simply asinine. We have huge problems to tackle in this world, and I really don’t believe anyone of substance should care about this. I’ve never met an actual, neurodivergent individual that takes offense to it being used in a way that doesn’t directly target them, or someone like them. That is to say, we’re talking about the Michael Scott usage.
You don’t call a paraplegic person “lame” because “oops”, that’s pretty messed up even if you didn’t mean it that way. This said, I doubt that person would take offense in a situation like this. This is where we should be with the “r-word”. There is simply no justification for making this word synonymous with a word like the n-word. It does not have that power, and I reject the monied campaigns trying to spread a narrative that it should.
- Comment on Awooo 1 month ago:
The upvotes tell a different story than your manufactured narrative, which was pushed with a lot of money around ten to fifteen years ago to villlify a word.
Think about this: Why is it alright to call someone a moron, or an idiot, or an imbecile? Nobody ever goes after these, and they are more often used to denegrate people based on their intellect.
This entire “r-word” campaign is very stupid. By the way, there’s another one I just used. I bet you use that one, too, don’t you?
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 1 month ago:
I recently switched to cast iron, and I have no fucking idea why I wasted so much time and money on nonstick over the last many years. They are better than nonstick, easier to maintain, and make good taste better as well.
- Comment on quick health tip 2 months ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a soy sauce mimosa.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 2 months ago:
Fuck Nintendo.
