TheDoozer
@TheDoozer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Clothes too dirty for the closest but too clean for the laundry 1 day ago:
I use command hooks on the wall. It feels more orderly.
- Comment on Don't waste your time debating them just keep away from them 1 week ago:
Back when I was at university, I was in the band, and there was one guy in my section that was super annoying, and who couldn’t talk with a person without squaring up to them (and then talking at them).
One time my best friend (also in the section), in the middle of the guy’s sentence with a bored expression on her face just… turns and walks away as if he had stopped speaking.
The rest of us were thinking “wait… we can do that? I didn’t realize that was an option.”
- Comment on Can’t wait for the head(amame) package to arrive 1 week ago:
I want this product (not the 3d printed parts) with a bluetooth connection to build into my retired flight helmet (I have flown in military helicopters most of my career, but am old and grounded now).
- Comment on Can’t wait for the head(amame) package to arrive 1 week ago:
I want this product (not the 3d printed parts) with a bluetooth connection to build into my retired flight helmet (I have flown in military helicopters most of my career, but am old and grounded now).
- Comment on Follow this advice for a happier 2026 2 weeks ago:
Zeus: Wow. Just… rude.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 3 weeks ago:
Damn, you weren’t kidding. I was expecting a cop car, not six.
To anyone looking, you have to get the corner/mid-intersection shot to get the mess of police. If you’re just going up Pine, it looks pretty benign.
- Comment on genius 3 weeks ago:
Got that Alaskan Airframe and Powerplant license, I see.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 3 weeks ago:
“My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”
-Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.
- Comment on Check mate, atheists. 4 weeks ago:
Short, memorable stories that show people getting punished for misdeeds and others rewarded for positive deeds is much easier to impart onto peasants than the nuances of collectivism.
I would agree if the stories consistently portrayed that. In the Bible and Torah, Job is the most righteous and good and gets fucked because of that. David has a faithful soldier that goes so far as to refuse to go home to his wife while his comrades were still fighting, and David has him killed in a fucked up way (told his general to send him where the fighting was worst and then have everybody pull back from him), all to try to cover up fucking the soldier’s wife. David’s “punishment” was he married the hot widow and the child conceived in the affair was miscarried. And as soon as she miscarried, David shrugged it off and moved on with his life.
Also, the entire Christian religion is based on absolution for whatever evil you do, you just have to be part of the club. If Hitler had “come to Jesus” right before he died, he would be in heaven while an atheist who spent their whole life doing good would be in hell. Deeds are irrelevant for punishment.
And let’s not even get into Greek Mythology, where how good or bad of a human you were was completely irrelevant to what happened to you at the whims of the gods. Same for Norse.
I don’t know how it is for any other religions, as I haven’t studied them, but I don’t think religion was required to establish a moral code and accountability. The Code of Hammurabi didn’t require religion to have a legal code (while recognizing the relief at the top showing the god of justice handing it to Hammurabi, it seems pretty clear that was artistic expression), and it pre-dated the Ten Commandments.
Someone could point to the horrible acts done in the name of religion, but just imagine if those people didn’t have the fear of god in them.
I just… what kind of argument is this? Do you think the people running the Spanish Inquisition would have tortured harder if they didn’t have the “fear of god” in them? That the Crusades would have been bloodier? What reason do you have to think that the horrible acts done in the name of religion would have been worse if it wasn’t for religion?
- Comment on Neither do I, Mr. Raccoon 1 month ago:
I think that it is unfortunate that he got shanked, as he was convicted and appropriately sentenced for the murder he committed. That is as it should be.
Shank the ones that get away with it, not the ones in jail for it.
- Comment on there's actual 🌽 in cornucopia 1 month ago:
It’s the horn of a goat that Zeus broke off when he was a… child? God-child? Whatever. It was magical and provided an endless supply of food.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 2 months ago:
Supernatural’s whole story arc was based on this (and it worked for them). Inevitably, to beat this big bad that the brothers have absolutely no business going toe-to-toe with, they must do something that is bound to catch up with them, but it’s either that or the world is fucked. Then the next thing is even worse, and they have to do something that will bite them even worse in order to stop the world from getting fucked. And it just keeps ramping up, they keep losing more and more of themselves and punching so far above their weight class that they end up… well, no spoilers, in case somebody wants to watch (and I don’t know how to do spoiler tags).
There’s a point when Sam has some injury, like a broken arm or gunshot wound or something, and he’s talking to a nurse or doctor who asks him to rate his pain from 0, which is no pain, to 10, which is the worst pain he could imagine. He gets a thousand-yard stare for a second and says “3.”
- Comment on Over the past 5 years, police in the U.S. have killed over 9,000 people 2 months ago:
Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.
- Comment on Got a little drunk last week gave money to a cult. Again. 2 months ago:
American Civil Liberties Union, and I’m not sure what they’re on about.
- Comment on Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25. 2 months ago:
Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:
YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed
So much easier to keep track.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 2 months ago:
the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins
Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?
- Comment on Bum trumpet 2 months ago:
I’ve heard about deaf people learning with horror that farts make sound.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 2 months ago:
An old buddy of mine commented once on the amount if minor havoc you could wreak with a handful of chain bike locks. Cheap, wrap around some door handles and lock, walk away. Yeah, somebody can bust out a bolt cutter, but for the amount of challenge to remove it, the low cost per use, and the speed of application, it’s pretty impressive for minor mischief.
Relatively harmless, too, as long as you aren’t doing any additional nefarious shit. Might work for some gated community gates.
- Comment on A brain transplant is one of those rare cases where you’d rather be the donor than the recipient. 2 months ago:
The origin and story of Dogman is certainly dark.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Thank you, Boston 2 months ago:
Oh, man, kind and fast. Hands down. Every time.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 months ago:
I don’t? I don’t think?
I’m honestly pretty light on any emotion except anger. But I don’t care enough to be anxious, and I’m pretty confident I’m not depressed. I’m reasonably unhappy about the state of the world (and my country), but I wouldn’t equate that to depression.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 months ago:
So ultimately, the punishment for not believing is being destroyed? Like, oblivion?
Shit, this sounds like a win. I have no interest in eternal existence, even supposedly “blissful” existence. I feel like anyone who thinks of eternity on more than a surface level would feel nothing but existential dread.
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 2 months ago:
- Don’t carry credit card debt. Save money if you can. Get a handle on basic finances
Credit cards are this weird thing. If you need them, you shouldn’t use them (if you can help it). If you make plenty of money and don’t need them, they are a very useful financial tool. I have paid interest on one of my credit cards once in the past 3 years, and it was only to have extra available funds for buying a house. But I have accrued well over 100k airline miles and several hundred (far more than the interest I paid) in cash back. I use credit cards exclusively for everything but my mortgage, and have them set to automatically pay the statement balance prior to the due date. If you aren’t extremely confident you can do that, you should avoid credit cards.
I definitely ran afoul of credit cards in my youth, so the banks have gotten their pound of flesh from me.
- Comment on hurdle 2 months ago:
Also middle schoolers are awful. My wife and I kept telling my daughter through Elementary that Middle School age kids are the worst, because they have gotten smart enough to really hurt you (emotionally and physically), but haven’t developed the restraint or understanding consequences yet.
She just got into 6th grade and came home crying from some fucked up shit some kids were spreading about her, and she was just baffled by it. We were like “yeah, see, this is what we were talking about. It will get better. Let’s have ice cream.”
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 2 months ago:
That fuckin moose, man. I’m a dad, and that shit killed me.
- Comment on Fictional 3 months ago:
That’s true. It should really be referenced by the number before 10 (e.g. Base 9).
- Comment on Tea time, innit? 3 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
…okay.
Maybe… don’t draw attention to it. Let this one slide. Give him a win. Let’s not make fun of him for doing a good thing, even if it’s for a silly reason. Hell, if it ends the Russia/Ukraine war with no loss of land for Ukraine (I would argue, best case scenario), and they want to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, let him have it. Remember, Kissinger got one, it’s not like it’s meant anything for a loooooong time.
Take what you can get.
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 3 months ago:
So, to your first question (about Antifa), MAGA don’t consider what the current administration (or anything they support) to be fascist. Because they tend to put the conclusion before the question: “I am against fascism. I support these policies. Therefore these policies must not be fascist.”
And because they’ve decided these fascist policies are not fascist, the term “Antifa” to them is similar to “pro-life” for pro-choice people. It’s a term that isn’t exactly accurate but makes the group naming themselves look like the good guys. And in the same way that pro-choice people don’t consider themselves “anti-life” just because pro-life people call themselves that, MAGA people don’t consider themselves “pro-fascist” just because Antifa call themsleves that.