Soggy

@Soggy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.

  Forget it, there’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So your position is literally “impoverish yourself by donating all property you aren’t currently, personally using.” I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s nuanced, dude. Part of class war is the optics and unless you want every empty-nester up against the wall with the BlackRock executives it’s not useful to paint with such a wide brush.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just think your point is too black-and-white. In the current system there exists people who want temporary housing and people who own more housing than they require and are willing to let others use it for a mutually agreeable payment. Your claim that this is inherently oppressive requires that the renter would not choose ownership if they had the means. Is it often an unfair, coercive dynamic? Yes. Do rent-seekers ruin everything? Yes. Do we need to villainize every single person who doesn’t donate their spare mother-in-law or inherited property to the homeless? No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting the cart before the horse here. We live in a capitalist society and people need temporary dwellings now, they can’t wait for a proletarian revolution and total restructuring of society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they key counter-argument comes from your position “leeches off of those of the working class who must rent”. I agree with this! But it ignores people that want to rent for whatever reason, like living somewhere for a few years to attend university.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Settle down Mitch Hedberg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t give the military ideas like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rescue dogs and bomb dogs are cool, traffic stop K-9 units are an affront to civil rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the same reason police dogs shouldn’t be used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI behavioral analysis on factory workers, every step is monitored including attention detection from facial expressions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seize the means etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The explanation I heard was that “ghost” stuck around because “Holy Ghost” was in the printed bibles and people didn’t question that authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least use thorn AND eth to distinguish the unvoiced and voiced (respectively) if you’re going to bother at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many Native American cultures did not know about alcohol before it was introduced by Europeans, same in Australia and New Zealand. The many deleterious effects of colonization are certainly “a significant element in their cultural development” but maybe not in the way you intended.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know two women who have gone through an ectopic. First very nearly died, second got lucky and caught it while it was merely urgent. They’d both be dead if we lived in a state with worse medical rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I think lane-assist probably makes people worse at driving. Anything that lets people pay less attention on the road does, it trains drivers to be less alert. Adaptive cruise and automatic braking are probably a net benefit but “car safety” is not trending in the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hating Communists has always been an acceptable form of bigotry. You don’t have to listen to what they say, just dismiss them (and insult them!) for wanting a world that doesn’t run on money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop this ecofascist shit.

  We can support the current population, it’s just not profitable or popular to do so.

  Birthrates naturally level off as societies develop. Many are already seeing negative growth.

  Our current standard of living is mostly predicated on offshoring the suffering and waste to the global South, but even that could be comfortably leveled off if we weren’t living under Capitalism.

  We don’t need large AI farms, we need empathy. The techbros will not save us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “keikaku means plan”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to abandon the patent system entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think “agendered” is the best description for me as well and I share your perspective. AMAB and kinda lazy so dude stuff is the default but I can’t internalize the idea of gender dys/euphoria. (Body dysphoria makes sense to me, it seems to me like an entirely different thing than gender presentation which has a huge spectrum and varies wildly across cultures)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Education existed before capitalism. Or are you going to tell me that Socrates was an industrial shill?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t just put it in there for fun, you can bet that milk powder affects the eating experience in a way most people enjoy. Snack companies invest a ton of money refining every nuance of their recipes.

  Very nice supervisor though, the everyday compassion makes big impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about 15 bean soup.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How are patents not intellectual property?