Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been very openly talking about this for the last decade, it’s not even sneaky. Technocracy and meritocracy and government-as-a-business have all been buzzwords and all been outed as bad ideas by the experts, but the buzz keeps growing among the money crowd.

  I will confess that I personally thought they were too stupid and rivalrous to pull it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do car share coops work? Have you ever been a member or started a car coop?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve joined a car share coöp that was based in my city, but now I do an as-needed car share service.

  The coöp had a (low) subscription cost, which meant I was penalized for not using it, but the cars were easy to find, reliable, and clean. I had a touchless membership card I swiped to unlock the cars. Insurance was included in membership, I paid gas and milage as well as a per-hour or cheaper per-day rate.

  But I prefer getaround. The idea is people who in cars are letting others use them when they’d otherwise be idle, sorta like AirBnB. But like AirBnB, you’ve got units that are only being used for rentals.

  That aside, there’s occasionally problems with individual vehicles, but it’s much cheaper, you can get a wide variety of vehicle types, and it’s easy to select an electric or hybrid to make gas costs minimal. Insurance can be purchased though the app. Changing a booking is a breeze. I plan to keep using this option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If all a candidate has to do to get elected is be less evil than the other, then there’s no incentive to be good; instead candidates are free to be as evil as they want up to the limit of the opposition. If a candidate had to be less evil than the person they’re succeeding, sure, we’d get less evil over time. But that’s not the case, they’re compared to their opponents not their predecessors. Every time we elect someone shitty we show them they don’t have to be any better than that to get elected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Not every candidate, but a general trend of “lesser evil” candidates. Obama wasn’t a lesser evil candidate, he was a genuinely good one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying it for years and every time I’m told “but if you don’t vote the lesser evil the greater evil wins!”

  Well, as predicted, if you do vote the lesser evil the bar is lowered year after year until both are significantly more evil than before. Standards must be enforced. We need to demand candidates that are better than last year’s, not just better than the opposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, I chose homelessness over living with my parents. I would choose it over slavery every time.

  And further, I can abide a society that tolerates homelessness; I cannot abide a society that tolerates slavery. This is why the draft must be abolished, this is why private prisons must be abolished, this is why we need to uncouple healthcare from employment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarchy doesn’t mean no rules, it means no rulers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  well, I know what I’m eating for breakfast tomorrow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  okay then, take morcilla sausage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those, the GBA port of Zelda ][, and Mario Land 2, but I hadn’t had the cart for ML2 in over a decade by the time I was selling the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were playing on the GBA SP, but the cart was the GameBoy original that came with my (definitely dead but I still have it) grey brick GameBoy.

  I sold all my GB/A carts except that and FFTA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found my old GBA that I thought I’d gotten rid of because the battery was borked. Turns out the battery still works, it’s the charging light that’s borked. My 6yo saw me rocking Tetris and I let him take a crack at it. He played for two hours straight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Mario Kart Double Dash the best one?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Double Dash was the best one. Eight-Deluxe is good but there’s no real reason to pick one racer over another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Winter does not start on the same day everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t? Winter starts weeks before the solstice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, your colon is a poop buffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dino Run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never have mayonnaise in my fridge.

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

  Confront? No.

  Serve margaritas to? Yes.

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

  Form factor, mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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/⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is space 2 dimensional?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.