TheDoozer
@TheDoozer@lemmy.world
- Comment on No phones, no emails, just living in the moment 2 days ago:
Isn’t this a large part of the premise of the newer Disney Princess and the Frog movie?
- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
but it also made me extremely nervous when I hadn’t been moments before.
I imagine that’s the point of the hiss…
- Comment on No idea at all... 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that asshole went from bad to worse. Every villain has some level of redemption, even if it’s just understanding them enough to jive with them (cough Zenos yae Galvus cough).
- Comment on U.S. Air Force Airman Develops 3D-Printed Insert to Solve Perennial 20 mm Ammunition Jams While Loading 1 month ago:
Should have had his wife “design and print” them, get a patent, and sell them to the air force instead.
- Comment on it's just that simple. Don't forget to exercise out of depression... 2 months ago:
Also, telling a depressed person their answer is to exercise is like telling a homeless person that they just need to get a job. The not having a home prevents the getting a job. If they had the ability to find a job, they wouldn’t be homeless (except obviously the people who don’t make enough from their job to support themselves, but that’s a whole different issue that shouldn’t exist).
So even if someone does have the time, getting the depression under control may be necessary before the exercise seems like a reasonable possibility.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Stage Musical Being Explored – Comic-Con 3 months ago:
I’ll be honest, with the exception of “Keep Us Connected” I absolutely hated the musical episode… except the first time they mentioned that it had affected a Klingon vessel. And then I powered through in the hopes of seeing Klingon musical time, and when it happened, it redeemed the whole thing for me. Better than I could have hoped.
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 4 months ago:
I’m a man, and that’s how I feel about boxers and being nude. I don’t like that dangle feel of uncontrolled swaying on a sensitive part.
- Comment on How transwomen/transmen dream 4 months ago:
Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. The main example is J.K. Rowling, who thinks shitting on trans women is in service to feminism, instead of harming some women in order to pretend to protect others.
Basically feminist but only for cis women.
- Comment on every company right now 4 months ago:
“It has a smooth finish, virtually indestructible, and it writes upside-down.” [None of these will be true] “Also, with our Ink Anytime subscription service, you’ll never run out of ink! It’s free…” [for the first six months] “for our lowest tier…” [three lines of text per day] “with an option to upgrade to a higher tier anytime.” [Puts pen in pocket] “We’re offering pre-orders with a $5 non-refundable deposit, with delivery expected sometime in the next six months depending on how soon you get on the waitlist.” [Two years until you give up and just let us keep your deposit] “So sign up now!”
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
The amount of people with no kids that have strong opinions about how children should be raised is like the people with no uteruses that have strong feelings about abortion and pregnancy, or white college kids who have strong opinions about what words and phrases should be offensive to minorities. There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion, but the arrogance to think they have something to contribute to that conversation is exhausting.
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
Like… tables?
- Comment on Make it stop. 4 months ago:
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
- Comment on What if Tyrannosaurus Rexes moved and walked like chicken do? 4 months ago:
I had thought the recent understanding was they were likely small wings, like emus or ostriches, to help with balance. Angled back instead of forward.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 4 months ago:
I bet Simone Giertz’s Truckla had working windshield wipers…
- Comment on Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. 4 months ago:
Okay, but pop-tarts are raviolis, not sandwiches. That doesn’t even make sense. What kind of sandwich is enclosed on all sides?
- Comment on YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead 4 months ago:
I got pepper sprayed in the military. In order to be allowed to wear pepper spray on our belts (for law enforcement), we had to be pepper sprayed and fight someone off.
I found it strange, because it’s not like we had to know what it was like to be shot and fight back. It was also one of the worst experiences of my life. Getting accidentally splashed across the eyes with hot sauce ended up not so bad simply by comparison, so I had that going for me.
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
Please don’t misunderstand. I was not saying that that was the be-all-end-all of religion. I wasn’t speaking against religion in general, just in regards to the irony of suggesting that religion makes people more good. At all.
- Comment on Tacos. 5 months ago:
Religion doesn’t stop a bad person from being evil. It can convince a bad person they’re still good (better!) when they do evil.
And good people don’t need religion to do good. But it can make them overlook the evil of other religious people and protect them, making them bad.
The best-case scenario is that religion can have no effect on how good or bad someone is. Good people stay good despite religion, not because of it.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 6 months ago:
This is the type of thing that could be answered if people followed banal statistical data the way sports people follow sports data.
“This is the first time since 2017 they’ve scored over 30 points in the third quarter in a home game during the pre-season.”
- Comment on NYPD’s Raid on Columbia Cost Hundreds of Thousands in Overtime Alone. The Crackdown Will End Up Costing Millions. 6 months ago:
For some perspective, the entire United States Coast Guard, which employs 43k active duty and 8k reservists, operates 210 aircraft, 245 cutters (ships), 1500+ small boats, spread out over the whole world, completing missions from environmental mishap response, captain of the port in warzones, aids to navigation, drug interdiction, border patrol, law enforcement, disaster response, and, of course, search and rescue, has a budget only around 2 billion more than that.
Makes you wonder where all that funding for one police department is going.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Oops, missed the name, my fault. It sounded like MilitantVegan responding, so I didn’t check.
- Comment on I learned so much 6 months ago:
I disagree and offer Old Man and the Sea.
I get it, there’s a bunch of symbolism and blah blah blah… I could sum the book up in a sentence and not miss much.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Well that answers that, doesn’t it.
Then there’s your answer. Your memes get deleted and your comments get down voted because you aren’t trying to do any good, you’re just trying to flaunt how Right and morally superior you are.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but the reality is if you are trying to do good, it doesn’t matter how “right” you are if you are a dick about it.
Take Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, for example. He worked hard and found a way to dramatically reduce deaths of women in childbirth (and tons of others besides) by washing hands after autopsies. Instead of trying to convince other doctors and influence the medical culture, he confronted and shamed other doctors, even to the point the doctors who he had gotten to start washing their hands stopped. Could he have caught more flies with honey than vinegar? Probably. But he was right, so what did it matter the method he used?
What mattered is hand-washing didn’t get adopted. But I’m sure being right offered him some comfort when he was dying of sepsis in a mental asylum. Not to mention the women who died of infection.
The point is, do you want to Be Right, or do you want to do good? Because all this makes it sound like you want to Be Right.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
They threaded the needle on it, but they came back around to a point about the subject in the end.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I imagine that 90% aren’t getting their memes deleted.
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
One of the benefits of my job (military) is my upward movement is almost entirely based on my motivation. A huge portion is of the competition (as it is a competition) is a test on both the service at the level you’re moving into and your particular specialty. But there’s also time in rate (the pay grade you are currently at) and time in service, both of which get capped at a certain point (we call those “dinosaur points”) so your chances improve the longer you’re in. It also includes award points (medals, basically) and some other things, and finally employee review (the next largest chunk after the test).
So work hard to get a good review and study for a test, and you move up. But that’s not always a good thing. I sat at E-5 for a long time because I loved the job I was doing, and I was making decent money (about 60k after taxes), but then I was such a “senior” E-5 that I got to do the job I loved less (being a helicopter flight mechanic, maintaining and fixing aircraft) and the next level up stuff more (managing people, mentoring, supervising), so I just decided I would make the effort and get paid for it (which I did).
As much as people in my service complain about how advancement (promotion) works, every story I hear about how absolutely arbitrary and shitty it is in the civilian world I’m reminded how good I have it.
- Comment on New best friend for life! 6 months ago:
go in and make friends
These are some “draw the rest of the owl” instructions right here.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 7 months ago:
Say it out loud.
“Do you like fish sticks?”
'Yeah
“Then you’re a gay fish.”
Kanye in the show didn’t get it and thought people were calling him a gay fish. So if real Kanye didn’t get the joke, and got mad because he thought South Park was calling him a gay fish… that’s just incredible.
- Comment on Probably shouldn't be talking to The rapist 7 months ago:
Therapist: And what do we say to people who want to get to know us?
Me: Not today.