Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanders? Probably.

  Someone else? Depends on their policies and what you mean by “liberals”. If you mean general center-left / Democrat base types, probably they vote for the DNC nominee. If you mean people devoted to Enlightenment Liberalism, it depends on how authoritarian the the candidate is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why not yoghurt? or mai ploy? or a roux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never have mayonnaise in my fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever had to confront a female mob at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Confront? No.

  Serve margaritas to? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of a long-distance friendship?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, not everyone forms connections based on shared activities; and even those who do, some activities can be done long-distance (debating philosophy, sharing music recommendations).

  For a lot of us, we don’t stop caring about someone we don’t see long-term (though I’m told this is a neurodivergent trait to some degree) so even a friend we haven’t seen in years we can talk to and have it feel “fresh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fuck” isn’t profane, it’s vulgar. “Goddamn” is profane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Form factor, mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have fewer male ancestors than females ones. Think about it for a moment… there it is. Yes. Now you know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not all the same people: Roman Catholics, for example, tend to oppose both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no, I’m subbed to many communities on .ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, Satan’s Maggoty Cumfart, I know I can always count on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is space 2 dimensional?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t even have to impact. The gravity of other bodies in orbit will pull out-of-plane objects closer to the plane over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  + butter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you scream?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I scream for icecream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is your favorite video game developer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Today One (aka Tarn Adams) who is making Dwarf Fortress and formerly worked on Liberal Crime Squad is way up there.

  Redigit (of Super Mario Brothers X and Terraria) is another from the current era.

  But if we can go oldschool, Sid Meier is a legend. Civilization and Pirates! are two absolute favorites, especially the remake of Pirates and Civs 2 & 4.

  But the real OG, the man who showed me I wanted to make videogames, is Tim Sweeney. Sure, now he’s rich and famous, but back in the day, even before UnReal, he ran Epic Megagames out of his parents’ basement and sold floppies by mail. His first game, ZZT, came with the tools included to not just edit levels, but to make a whole new game of your own using the ZZT engine. By the time I discovered it there were already hundreds of user-made games being traded on BBS.

  I fell in love. I joined the IRC channels and bulletin boards, I made the games I wanted, I shared them with my friends and over the Internet. It sparked a love in me that still burns today. Sweeney moved on, I moved on, but I will always owe him my regard for releasing ZZT into the world. It changed my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is martial arts really that useful?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It taught me meditation and self-control. It made exercise desirable as an activity.

  But for self-defense, many martial arts do teach techniques for disarming opponents. The range within a gun loses effectiveness against a trained, unarmed opponent is actually larger than you think. Not to mention that muggers tend to avoid “harder” marks like those in good shape or who move like fighters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression it has a web interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you could do that, you could use FindMyPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Meta] Any category of communities we haven't covered in the recent threads?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Five@slrpnk.org is keeping !Chicago@midwest.social alive and active

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did marking corrections with the astrisk originate?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can tell you that it dates at least as far back as IRC and AIM in the 90’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  is everyone in hexbear insane?

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there no Christmas version of Spirit Halloween?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you never been to a Kriskindlemarket? There’s half a dozen in Chicago all of November and December.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there no Christmas version of Spirit Halloween?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But Jesus is sexier!

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  He’s hung like 🫷__🙍__🫸

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not that green in color. Some are almost blue-black.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are collard greens called greens is it the color? And if so how come there is not a rainbow of different colored collards?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Collard greens are in the brassica family, and the coll / caul / cole syllable is often used for those (cauliflower, cole slaw).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only by gov’t-licensed necromancers, otherwise there’s a risk of witness tampering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Found the reddit link now I’m off work. I tried to reread it but I got to the part where someone asserted that antebellum chattal slaves didn’t have human rights and got too angry / frustrated / disgusted to keep going.

  r/AskALiberal question “Do you believe in natural rights?”

  InB4 “that’s natural rights not human rights”: I know the terms aren’t synonyms, but the concepts overlap so heavily, and some of the replies to the question were so vehement, that they read to me as a rejection of the validity of human rights as a concept in part or in total. I’m willing to be corrected on this, but if it gets heated I will (advance warning) probably get emotionally overwhelmed and need a long time to compose a reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this experience a short while back, and it really shook me. Granted, this was on the Internet, where people are more willing to say wild things or generally go mask-off, but I was downright flabbergasted. I’ll try to summarize the various arguments without inserting my own bias:

  • because they view human rights as a social or legal concept, and not inherently more important than other social or legal principles

  • because we as humans haven’t historically respected them, and don’t respect them universally even now, so demanding respect for human rights is a form of privilege

  • because the idea of human rights requires a belief that humans have special dignity above that of other creatures (this one I found especially irksome, because I found the arguments denigrating to animal rights)

  • because various groups advocating for human rights don’t agree on what those rights are, so blanket support for human rights is not something they can do

  I’ll try to find the reddit post where this took place if I can. It was… it was something. If I’ve misrepresented any of the arguments above, it was not intentional but only because I find them so alien that I cannot understand them properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is NOT a Nintendo Switch!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the hell’d they make it look so much like a Switch?