Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- Comment on What if as I get older, like a Mandela effect, everyone's understanding of what the average life span is increases? 2 days ago:
Maybe you’re thinking of something along the lines of Bishop Berkeley’s Theory of Immaterialism.
Essentially, things only exist and continue to exist because we agree that they do and expect them to remain that way.
Also featured in the children’s book Mr. Radagast Makes an Unexpected Journey, which I adored when I was younger.
- Comment on Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this 3 days ago:
It’s gotta be exhausting to work in a workplace, warehouse, or factory, not knowing which it will be day to day! At least they arrive knowing the random workplace is ventilated!
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 4 days ago:
Antitrust? Pff.
How about crimes against humanity?
- Comment on Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business 1 week ago:
That’s more than a bit rude.
He’s saying he likes the people despite their government. He admires parts of their spirit and drive to remember their loved ones.
We can learn even from those we may consider our adversaries.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 week ago:
Yes! Thank you!
Does it hurt that women feel that way? Of course it does, so let’s work to be better so that random people can trust each other!
Angrily lashing out at the women who are pondering the benefits of a bear isn’t gonna help.
Be someone a woman would feel safe to be around. Call it out when those around you fail that test.
Create that safer environment. It isn’t impossible.
- Comment on Telcos keep using “insecure” Chinese gear because of congressional inaction 1 week ago:
So they don’t give a fuck about security. Telcos print money and can afford it. Mandate they do so.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
That isn’t the type of behavior that I think most find annoying but I’m sorry that you get that reaction at all.
I think many people are so annoyed with feeling they are attacked for eating meat (and I do eat meat) that when that button gets pressed the anger just rises up.
For me I get a little true guilt. I know I’m not helping in the best possible ways that I can, all the time. I’m not perfect and won’t ever pretend that I am, and I also haven’t given up on getting better. When I go a day without eating meat, I congratulate myself. With a burger. (No, not really.)
- Comment on Everyone has already died and has died multiple times 2 weeks ago:
Petite mort, translated from French, means “little death”, and is generally used as a euphemism for orgasm.
Some of us have died… a lot.
- Comment on Does Big Ben imply the existence of a Little Ben? 2 weeks ago:
You had what we call a shower epiphany.
- Comment on Catholic AI Priest Stripped Of Priesthood After Some Unfortunate Interactions 2 weeks ago:
Okay, this is hilarious.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 2 weeks ago:
A bit stressful but in a good way. Heading out of work early today to pick up someone who needs a place to stay.
I’ve got a spare bedroom, my wife and I have always talked about letting someone use it if needed… now it’s time.
- Comment on Russian court sentences Meta spokesperson to six years in absentia 3 weeks ago:
“opens new tab”
Heh.
- Comment on US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s terrifying.
Moreso if I were an aircraft but still.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3's Patch 7 Will Add New Endings 4 weeks ago:
I’ve finished the game three times and keep the end savefile, so I can still go back to my Durge and see what’s new.
- Comment on I love the sound of a person's voice when I can hear that they're smiling 4 weeks ago:
I have a phone job and one bad day a caller told me I sounded like I didn’t want to be there that day, which was true.
But it’s made me more aware of how I sound or present myself and, y’know, the whole fake it til you make it thing has worked with me.
Being happier on the phone led to happier outcomes with the members, which led to me not having my head down all the time.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
And it was used to great effect. There’s a ton of good stuff in the D&D mythos that can be made into other solid games.
Hasbro will fuck it up, I agree, but the potential is undoubtedly there.
- Comment on Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Lemmings.world 2 months ago:
Or ‘I can’t shit’ posters.
- Comment on Green anger as ministers promise new gas power plants ‘to avoid blackouts’ 2 months ago:
Sure. I’m an American looking in from the outside and it just… seems like something Sunak would do given his track record.
- Comment on Green anger as ministers promise new gas power plants ‘to avoid blackouts’ 2 months ago:
Or it’s an announcement: Fuck you, we are doing it anyway and we don’t care about telling you where, when, how, much it cost, or who is profiting.
- Comment on Record waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK while King Charles begins treatment within days of diagnosis 3 months ago:
I work for UHC.
I think they’re a decent company, considering the industry.
I’ve made a nice and fairly comfortable career here.
Burn it all down. Give everyone healthcare.
I’ll find another job.
- Comment on Would magically turning all trans people into the gender they want to be be unethical? 3 months ago:
The line is clearly at 50%.
Half live in harmony, half die.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Has Been Completed by 1.3 Million Players, Shadowheart is Most Popular Love Interest 5 months ago:
My first playthrough I slept with the Emperor and then Wyll, and ended up with Wyll. I killed Karlach for Wyll.
Second one I was with Lae’zel but was a durge. I wanted to be with Karlach since I didn’t have her on my first playthrough but then I killed Isobel. That dooms Karlach.
So this time I’m aiming for Karlach. She’s so fun!
- Comment on Your evil deeds may be causing Baldur's Gate 3 bugs 5 months ago:
Well that’s hilarious.
My second run on my PS5 has been so terribly glitchy. And yes, it’s a Dark Urge run.
My response to being caught is to murder some more.
- Comment on EA working on player-voiced characters in games, patent shows 5 months ago:
Imagine doing a Jar Jar impression and having to live with it for an entire game.
- Comment on Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education. 5 months ago:
You’re on to something here.
It’s a sinister plot.
- Comment on What is a worker's union? How does it internally work? How can a union make the affiliated company do stuff to benefit the union(why can"t a company just say: f*ck off to their demands)? 6 months ago:
If the company tells the union to fuck off, all of the workers who belong to thar union walk off the job and the employer has to run short handed or shut down production.
The union is the workers joining together so that they have more bargaining power - all the people who know how the business works are sitting idle. Can the business afford to replace and retrain them all?
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 6 months ago:
When I was using mine in office I used the little bags of pre-ground. But I also enjoyed the routine of making the coffee and explaining it to any curious onlookers.
- Comment on Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore? 6 months ago:
Look into an Aeropress.
It’d work comfortably in camping or office situations. Not as easy as instant coffee but much, much better.
- Comment on Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer 9 months ago:
And just like that, Lucy Luibot was obsolete before she was even made.