MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 1 day ago:
That’s the joke.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
Not sure why the perpetrator being trans was important enough to put in the title, considering it didn’t seem to have anything to do with the crime…
- Comment on Avocado 1 day ago:
This is gold. Thank you.
- Comment on Avocado 1 day ago:
Fair enough. This one is debunked.
Let’s move along people, nothing to see here.
- Comment on The solution to many problems 1 day ago:
Yes, smoking takes years off your life.
But they’re the years at the end…
- Comment on The solution to many problems 1 day ago:
This reads like a Pharma advert.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 4 days ago:
As a fellow old person, former millennial, I agree.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 4 days ago:
Long term occupancy of the ISS started in November 2nd, 2000. Since then there has always been at least one person Manning the ISS.
So at least one human has not been on earth for every day since then, thus, all of humanity was last on earth on November 1st 2000. The statement is factually correct.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 4 days ago:
Well, someone needs to keep the lights on in the ISS…
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 4 days ago:
I get it, you’re an optimist about it.
Nothing wrong with that. I try to take a note practical/grounded view.
In my experience, most people actively avoid thinking. If it involves any measure of mental effort, they would just rather not.
I see it every day.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
I’ll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 week ago:
Kek
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Shit.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
As long as they’re paying me for the time, I see this as a win.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Oh… Oh no.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Oh, that was the cognitive decline I mentioned. That and not feeling tired (without needing to take meth) is the super power…
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Not having to sleep. You can just be awake 24/7 without the usual cognitive decline or feelings of being tired.
- Comment on they come 1 week ago:
One time, I was walking down the street with my brother and a junebug flew right into the side of my neck. My instinctual reaction to this was to freak the fuck out, flail my arms and jump about a meter to the side away from where I was hit.
… That all happened in about 0.087 seconds.
Yes, I jumped sideways.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
You don’t have to. It’s socially accepted and preferred if you do, but I have, and have had done to me, simply ignoring the question and moving the conversation forward to the point.
I live in Canada, we follow a lot of the same here, I try to be more genuine than the average and give a nonspecific but truthful response. Anything from “I’m having a day”, to “it could be worse”, or “not the worst” kind of deal. Basically setting a low bar for how I’m doing and saying I’m somewhere above that.
You don’t have to reply with “fine”, but it’s one of the fastest ways to end the greeting part of the conversation and move on to more important topics.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
More or Less.
Personally I blame the absentee voters. People who could have voted, but didn’t, and by not voting, indirectly supported Trump in winning the election.
Unless there’s a serious shake up of how things work in the USA, there’s shit all that can be done about it now, since getting him out of office requires that the people near the top (senators/Congress/whatever) need to take action in indict him and start the process of ejecting him from office, but then they’ll be left with the current VP, and I’m not sure that’s better.
Either way, nobody at the top is taking action against Trump, so the whole thing is moot. They have grounds, but they are not willing to do it.
GG. RIP the USA.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
Either people voted against him, for him, or abstained from voting (implicitly agreeing with whatever decision the majority made).
The last two groups there, vastly outweighed the first one in this election.
You’re right, not everyone wanted this… But that’s how democracy is. You vote and, at least in theory, the person that the most people vote for (believe in/agree with), is then made president.
By definition, democracy will always have people who didn’t vote for the current government.
All I’m saying is that either by action (voting for Trump) or inaction (not voting), a majority decided that he should become president.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
I think you mean “over”. (Thanks, I make many typos, just returning the favor)
And… Didn’t Trump get the popular vote this time around? So more there were more voters for Trump than anyone else?
Idk. I don’t live there but I know your voting system well enough… Since everyone wants to talk about it, apparently.
The fact that he won, even by a small amount, which… In this case, he won by more than a small amount, is the point. You and your fellow Americans knew what you were signing up for, and you knew what he was saying he will do this time around. None of this was a surprise. He’s been talking deportation and tariffs for over a year. Now that they’re here, suddenly a lot of people are regretting their decisions… Again, this was not a surprise. They voted for this and yet take issue when this exact thing happens.
There may be many people who didn’t vote that could have, who would have voted against Trump, but the fact is, by not voting, you are implicitly agreeing with whatever decision is made by your fellow citizens. Putting the decision in their hands. As someone once said “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.”
Either you voted for it, you were okay with letting others decide and you’re complicit, or, you were part of the minority of people who voted against Trump. One of these three things is true for each and every American.
I’m sorry, but this is what the majority of the people in your country wanted.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
Real fan?
Bitch please. We’ve put up with your crap for so long and we still play it…
Get out of here with that house shit. Get fucked. Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on. At best, I’ll wait for a sale, at worst, I’m never playing your goddamned franchise again because you’ve run it into the ground with enshittification.
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
Rip.
Good luck buying a new one with all of * gestures at everything * this going on.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
Nobody is except one person. It’s Mr Rogers in a blood stained sweater.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
You see, “how are you?” Isn’t a genuine quotation, it’s just a way of saying “hello” and feigning interest in someone’s well-being. In all actual fact, nobody gives a shit.
Just say “fine” and move on.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
No. You and your fellow citizens bored for this.
- Comment on fake keepass repo on github 1 week ago:
I’m not sure who they were trying to fool? Bluntly, if you’re keeping your passwords in a local repo using strong encryption via something like keepass, you’re generally not the kind of person to see “KeePassXE Pro ultra mega best edition” and blindly download it without vetting the source…
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you, either lawful or chaotic neutral is the way. Everyone else is trying to hard or not trying hard enough.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 weeks ago:
Does it really matter? It’s a shit looking vehicle that can’t drive in the rain if you don’t switch to carwash? Mode? I think?
The vehicle has so many design oddities, so many manufacturing problems, and it’s associated to one of the least liked billionaires in recent memory, so much so that people in the general public go out of their way too vandalize the vehicle whenever the opportunity presents itself.
What’s to like about it? Even if you don’t hate Elon, and don’t hate the look/design, the"truck" is a meme at best and a gigantic waste of resources.