Lucidlethargy
@Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 22 hours ago:
Always have been.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 day 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 week ago:
I hope they are destroyed by citizens.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
All of us voted for this? Every American? The ignorance I see sometimes here on Lemmy is astounding sometimes…
- Comment on Comfy cozy 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
Imagine if this said “How I sleep knowing I don’t live in Palestine, and never will.”
- Comment on Awooo 3 weeks ago:
Here’s a free English lesson: Retard: To delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.
- Comment on Awooo 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 🙃 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve had a soy sauce mimosa.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on Minecraft’s VR support is now gone 4 weeks ago:
To make things worse, Fabric is a thing now, and it’s splitting modders up from the unifying Forge origin.
Minecraft has always been a freaking mess, though. They need a Minecraft 2 with better mod support and physics.
- Comment on Solar panels cleaning solar panels 4 weeks ago:
You’d only need two, if anyone is interested.
- Comment on Mouse 4 weeks ago:
Why did you caption this with mouse? Are you an AI?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
LOL, yeah… Cause shit is going great in America right now.
Deflation bad, fascism good.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
That’s thinking like a corporation. The rest of us just stop buying games.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Lol. I won’t buy them, so I don’t care.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 4 weeks ago:
Lol. They show the Switch here… Those greedy assholes never lower the price of that console. Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on Pope 4 weeks ago:
Guys, only she can understand love since she has been up in a billionaire taxi.
- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
Aw yeah! I imagine it’s like 2 fps. Great for gaming.
- Comment on 8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Whoooooosh
- Comment on Google is shaking up its compensation to incentivize higher performance 5 weeks ago:
Google’s talent pool must be a joke these days. Every single product I can think of that they make is just awful in 2025.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 5 weeks ago:
Recession, have you all not been paying attention?
- Comment on Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry… Why is nobody talking about the explosion?
- Comment on Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis 5 weeks ago:
Worry not, we won’t be alive for long.
