Ookami38
@Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 3 days ago:
I was talking about the phone lmao.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 3 days ago:
Oh, man. My mother had cats who would just attack tp or paper towels. We had them both hanging the ‘correct’ way, got tired of it and flipped em. Now, though, I stick to dogs lol
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 3 days ago:
Something would get turned off really quick.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 3 days ago:
The proper way to hang it, if you have cats, is the other way so they don’t bat it all off if the get access. This is why I do not have cats.
- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 2 weeks ago:
After the shit show of a release that was starfield, yeah, I’ll avoid playing the game with optional paid content that reeks of greed.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 1 month ago:
Yaaaaaarrrrrr
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 1 month ago:
Children in wombs can’t use Facebook or Instagram. Those are the only children we care about here.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 month ago:
Yeah, I understand the intent. And it is a good intent, one of those “seemingly good ideas” I mentioned. There are still HUGE problems with it, particularly depending on how broad and public the group is.
I can agree to a need for a safe place in order to get past trauma. The issue is one of equal access and quality, I think. Specifically for something like sexual assault, I can easily imagine there being a lot of instances where there are only women-only groups available. In a way, situations like this, where we need a safe space for one group, can deprive the other group of safe spaces.
If we want to keep segregated spaces for things like this, fine, but there has to be some equality of access. If not with your specific group, then having a network with other groups, for instance. This is a huge, complicated topic with a lot of possibilities and nuance, and is a bit past the point of this post. The purpose of my previous comment was to refute the obvious strawman of the last commenter, equating an art installation to safe spaces for sexual assault survivors.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 month ago:
What about a space for rape victims, male or female? Spaces for survivors of things, people dealing with things, etc. are fine, and if those things only touch women, it’ll naturally only be women, or men who are (let’s argue good faith, here) trying to support someone else. Rape isn’t a female only problem, and so segregating it artificially may feel like a good idea at first glance, but creates other issues.
What about a space for black cop abuse survivors? I’d think that’s pretty inappropriate. It’ll already be mostly black, for sure, and a lot of that perspective will come through, but it’s not a black only issue.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 month ago:
Does their gullibility somehow diminish their victimhood? Gullible doesn’t mean they’re malicious, it just means they’re easily misled. If anything, if they’re “just gullible” we should be even less hostile towards them, and more towards the propaganda machine (because it is) that’s feeding them their misinformation.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
Can’t speak for anyone but me on this one. It’s the same reason I don’t hate anyone, really. We’re all unique with completely different perspectives on the world, perspectives that naturally lead us to different conclusions. Me hating someone will only push them into their own world. I’d rather share my perspective, and hope it moves theirs a bit, so that we might reach a better common ground.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
Exactly. So many people write off the impact society makes on our individual decisions. The thing that’s critical to remember is, we’re all doing our best. I believe that thoroughly - no one wants to be less than the best version of themselves. Celebrate the smallest of wins, and eventually we’ll all be there.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
There are legitimate reasons for the devs and Sony to want your own account linked. It’s also reasonable to not want to do so. Why not offer a compromise, like any healthy relationship, and allow, not force, account linking, with a little incentive? Where is the downside to either party?
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
Get back in your hole console peasant and Xbox shill
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
And all of those social norms took time. Took small changes. We didn’t just bring a bunch of slaves over, and one day say “nah this ain’t right.” We had a MASSIVE chain of events that led to, finally, enough people being done with it, and they started a war.
That’s my point. It’s not just a flip of the switch and it’s done. It’s small, incremental steps that win over people slowly.
If it was as simple as you make it out to be, we’d already be in a utopia.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
Societal pressures are real, though. It doesn’t matter that there’s not a physical force making you do a certain thing. Humans are social animals. We’re, from day 1, molded by the world we were born into. To claim that you can just deny all of those drives is, quite simply, arrogant.
Again, I want change. I want to make it as easy as possible for the individual to do the best they can. Beating them about the head, saying “well you can just choose not to eat meat!” Doesn’t help that cause.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I don’t see many people hating veganism. I see a lot of people hating vegans pushing their ideology when it wasn’t asked for. The simple truth is that every person has different ideologies, beliefs, priorities, and ethical systems, and what makes perfect sense to one person sounds over-prohibitive, and any attempt at dialogue to find a middle ground ends with a bunch of moral posturing.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
You’re right. At the end of the day, your lifestyle is your choice. I’m merely pointing out that there are a LOT of pressures keeping people stuck in the lifestyle they’re in. Those pressures are real, and if you want to effect change, it’s better to target them, rather than the individual.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
Right. Part of my point. We have taken great efforts to make beef cheap, and to bolster the supply. With all of this effort, it really isn’t a surprise your average person is going to choose beef.
I’d propose slowly increasing subsidies to beef alternatives, and then once those are to the same level of affordableness and you’ve got some adoption, start cutting beef subsidies. Make the transition slow and painless, more people will stick to it.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 1 month ago:
Right. So maybe go back to the last paragraph, admit you probably missed the potential neurodivergency, and show some humility. Or double down and continue to offer bad advice.
No one here has said just let the kid eat what they want. Not OP, not me, not anyone else. We all want the kid to eat a better diet. That’s literally the purpose of this thread.
The problem is that, for non-typical situations, typical solutions don’t work. And, even for typical situations, starvation isn’t the best option. We’re trying to explore other possibilities, rather than the traditional ones, and being told “force the kid, you’re the parent” is at best tone deaf.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
We use oil and gas because it’s the option that has been made most available to us. This isn’t an individual problem. As long as the alternatives are prohibitively expensive for the average person, in terms of time, money, availability, etc, then we’re going to always have the bulk of people choosing the easiest option.
We all have so much to worry about each day, trying to fit biking to my job a 45 minute drive away just isn’t feasible. The options for changing that are either we go fuckin full on anarchy, burn the system down, and start anew, or slowly, systematically. Set an easily achievable baseline the average person can work to adopt, encourage it via subsidization and education, and give it time.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
It’s a bit of both. We started out just liking beef, for all the reasons above - easy to grow, good bioavailability, tasty, etc. From there, we built our society up, became capitalists, and started really honing in on efficiency, because more efficiency is more money. Now cows are everywhere and beef is cheap.
Right now beef is pretty much the cheapest protein option readily available, and that I actually know how to prepare. Both of those come from the supply being huge, our culture being built around meat eating, it just kinda being the way we are.
This isn’t an individual problem to solve. No amount of vegans voting with their wallet is going to redirect the monumental ship that is our culture. We need subsidization on non-meat options, more ubiquitous supply, and more practice with the style of cuisine if we ever hope to make changes that stick.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
How about we don’t engage in reasonable, healthy discussion and instead throw shit?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
Yup. Each one of us, for some reason or another. Welcome to the club, asshole ❤️
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
I’d advise you proof read future questions then. Your initial question came across as very dismissive and condescending.
- Comment on [Serious] Do you know of any processed snack foods with some vitamins? 1 month ago:
Problem is, withholding food is abuse, period. You’re telling someone who doesn’t have the same neurological capacities you do to either starve or eat something they very likely have a visceral reaction to.
The other poster mentioned they missed the ‘potentially autistic’ part. While withholding food is abusive regardless,this for sure exacerbates the issues. I suspect you may have missed that part as well. It’s okay, just have some humility to step back and say so. Or keep advocating for old school abusive parenting.
- Comment on Brb 2 months ago:
No joke about a month ago I found out about that app, and now I’m obsessing over bird feeders and trying to run away house sparrows. This app is DANGEROUS, it’s probably more addictive than cocaine.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 2 months ago:
Hard to do a sniff test on an unopened item in the store. I know that’s not this exact scenario, and best by dates are iffy at best, but I’d like to have some notion of how long the product I’m about to buy has been around.
- Comment on The real personality test 2 months ago:
That seems to be the way of the world, lately. Kill whole departments and just kinda hope stuff keeps working, and ignore it when it doesn’t.
- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 3 months ago:
This is easy enough to test. Take a tire and fill it. Test the pressure. Let it sit outside overnight on a cold night and test it again. The pressure will be lower.
Consider this, as well: yes, it’s about differential pressure, but it’s also volumes. “Pressure” is the outward force from all of the molecules in the air bouncing around in a space. As temperature increases, those molecules move faster and bounce more. Since pressure is just us measuring that bouncing, increased temperature increases pressure.
Why doesn’t the atmosphere increasing in temp balance it out? Size. The tire is SIGNIFICANTLY smaller. This means each individual molecule only has to go a little bit before it’s hitting another wall. Compared to outside the tire, those same molecules bounce off everything, some ricocheting into the tire, and others in whatever random other direction. The change in movement speed of the particles may be the same, but the change in how frequently they’re smashing into the tire is different, thus different pressures.